Snowflake Contract Job Trends in England

Snowflake
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Snowflake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 213 182
Rank change year-on-year +2 -31 +156
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 602 349 454
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 1.25% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.75% 3.30% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 270 369
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £475 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £735 £875
90th Percentile £753 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £575 £538 £800
% change year-on-year +6.98% -32.81% +36.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% - -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +25.35% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Snowflake falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,046 10,572 11,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.48% 37.96% 34.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,693 7,158 7,642
10th Percentile £319 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 254 166
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +20.75% -19.70% -5.44%

Snowflake
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Snowflake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Snowflake job vacancy trend in England

Snowflake
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Snowflake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Snowflake

Snowflake
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake in England over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake in England

Snowflake
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Snowflake.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Snowflake

Snowflake
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snowflake within the England region over the 6 months to 25 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +8 445 £575 -6.12% 629
North of England -41 38 £500 +17.65% 118
South East -56 32 £616 +18.75% 81
Midlands -34 29 £510 +20.00% 31
North West -37 26 £513 +25.00% 80
West Midlands -27 25 £550 +10.00% 17
South West -34 23 £650 +36.84% 60
East of England -34 17 £380 -24.00% 18
Yorkshire -34 9 £400 -15.79% 26
East Midlands -11 4 £466 +11.83% 14
North East -43 3 - - 12
Snowflake
UK

Snowflake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 130 (21.59%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (8.64%) Apache Spark
3 39 (6.48%) Apache
4 15 (2.49%) Confluence
5 11 (1.83%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.66%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (2.82%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.83%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.66%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.33%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 328 (54.49%) AWS
2 257 (42.69%) Azure
3 186 (30.90%) dbt
4 140 (23.26%) Power Platform
5 134 (22.26%) GCP
6 78 (12.96%) GitHub
7 75 (12.46%) Amazon S3
8 58 (9.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 58 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (9.47%) Serverless
10 49 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (4.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 26 (4.32%) Fivetran
14 22 (3.65%) Dagster
14 22 (3.65%) SaaS
15 19 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (2.82%) Amazon EventBridge
16 17 (2.82%) Matillion
17 16 (2.66%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) Broadband
2 2 (0.33%) DSL
2 2 (0.33%) Firewall
2 2 (0.33%) Internet
2 2 (0.33%) Network Security
2 2 (0.33%) VPN
3 1 (0.17%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.17%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.17%) SSH
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (34.05%) Data Warehouse
2 137 (22.76%) Power BI
3 83 (13.79%) Data Lake
4 73 (12.13%) BigQuery
5 65 (10.80%) Tableau
6 62 (10.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 61 (10.13%) Snowflake Schema
8 41 (6.81%) Metadata
9 39 (6.48%) SQL Server
10 34 (5.65%) Big Data
11 30 (4.98%) NoSQL
11 30 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
12 28 (4.65%) Data Vault
13 24 (3.99%) Relational Database
14 19 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (2.99%) Delta Lake
16 17 (2.82%) Looker
17 15 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (2.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 14 (2.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 62 (10.30%) Git
2 30 (4.98%) JIRA
3 26 (4.32%) GitLab
4 20 (3.32%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.16%) Terragrunt
6 6 (1.00%) Snyk
7 4 (0.66%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.66%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.66%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.33%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.33%) ERwin
8 2 (0.33%) MLflow
8 2 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 196 (32.56%) Finance
2 175 (29.07%) Social Skills
3 100 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (11.96%) Banking
5 55 (9.14%) Retail
6 28 (4.65%) Marketing
7 22 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.16%) Financial Institution
9 18 (2.99%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.82%) Front Office
11 16 (2.66%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.16%) Legal
13 12 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.66%) Billing
14 10 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.16%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.00%) Back Office
16 6 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (35.38%) Data Engineer
2 125 (20.76%) Senior
3 112 (18.60%) Architect
4 102 (16.94%) Snowflake Engineer
5 80 (13.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 74 (12.29%) Senior Data Engineer
7 71 (11.79%) Data Architect
8 67 (11.13%) Analyst
9 43 (7.14%) Lead
10 40 (6.64%) Data Analyst
11 36 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
12 31 (5.15%) AWS Data Engineer
13 29 (4.82%) Developer
14 22 (3.65%) Snowflake Architect
15 21 (3.49%) Business Analyst
16 20 (3.32%) Consultant
17 18 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
18 16 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
18 16 (2.66%) Python Engineer
19 13 (2.16%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (15.95%) Terraform
2 58 (9.63%) Kafka
3 31 (5.15%) PySpark
4 28 (4.65%) REST
5 16 (2.66%) .NET
6 9 (1.50%) OAuth
7 8 (1.33%) React
7 8 (1.33%) Spring
7 8 (1.33%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.16%) AWS CDK
8 7 (1.16%) YAML
9 6 (1.00%) OpenID
10 5 (0.83%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.83%) Langfuse
10 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.83%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (0.83%) pytest
11 4 (0.66%) Plotly
11 4 (0.66%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.66%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 83 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.81%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.32%) Data Structures
4 22 (3.65%) AI Agents
5 19 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.49%) Reinsurance
8 13 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.83%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
11 10 (1.66%) Life Science
12 9 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.50%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.33%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.33%) Reference Data
13 8 (1.33%) Taxonomies
14 6 (1.00%) Clustering
14 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.50%) Linux
2 6 (1.00%) Unix
3 2 (0.33%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Android
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (44.19%) Analytics
2 236 (39.20%) Data Engineering
3 233 (38.70%) Data Modelling
4 215 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
5 207 (34.39%) CI/CD
5 207 (34.39%) ETL
6 182 (30.23%) AI
7 155 (25.75%) Business Intelligence
8 149 (24.75%) Agile
9 147 (24.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 122 (20.27%) DevOps
11 121 (20.10%) Data Architecture
12 117 (19.44%) Data Governance
13 105 (17.44%) Migration
14 97 (16.11%) Data Transformation
14 97 (16.11%) Validation
15 89 (14.78%) Decision-Making
16 82 (13.62%) Machine Learning
17 79 (13.12%) Infrastructure as Code
18 72 (11.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 362 (60.13%) SQL
2 287 (47.67%) Python
3 53 (8.80%) Java
4 15 (2.49%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.16%) Bash
5 13 (2.16%) R
5 13 (2.16%) Scala
6 11 (1.83%) C#
7 8 (1.33%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.00%) Bicep
9 5 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.66%) C++
10 4 (0.66%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.50%) Cypher
11 3 (0.50%) SHACL
11 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.33%) Korn
12 2 (0.33%) LookML
12 2 (0.33%) SOQL
12 2 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 44 (7.31%) Security Cleared
2 35 (5.81%) Degree
3 26 (4.32%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.83%) Azure Certification
5 11 (1.83%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.66%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.66%) SnowPro
7 8 (1.33%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.66%) SAS Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.33%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.17%) CBAP
11 1 (0.17%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.17%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (28.24%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.32%) GDPR
3 23 (3.82%) QA
4 6 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.66%) PMO
6 4 (0.66%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.50%) EMIR
7 3 (0.50%) MiFID
7 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.50%) SLA
8 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.33%) GRC
8 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 44 (7.31%) Docker
2 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.83%) Grafana
3 6 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.66%) Control-M
5 2 (0.33%) Ansible
5 2 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 192 (31.89%) Databricks
2 76 (12.62%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.82%) Salesforce
4 28 (4.65%) Google
5 27 (4.49%) Informatica
6 19 (3.16%) Oracle
7 18 (2.99%) SAP
8 10 (1.66%) MicroStrategy
8 10 (1.66%) Teradata
8 10 (1.66%) Workday
9 8 (1.33%) Denodo
9 8 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.16%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.16%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.16%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.16%) Talend
11 6 (1.00%) Foundry
12 5 (0.83%) Amplitude
12 5 (0.83%) Sage