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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 203 268
Rank change year-on-year -53 +65 +141
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 393 315 307
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.29% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.75% 3.47% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 245 249
10th Percentile £380 £411 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £610 £800 £850
90th Percentile £738 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £54.95 - -
25th Percentile £62.38 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - £52.50

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 14,314 9,067 11,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.50% 37.27% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,862 6,351 8,548
10th Percentile £318 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £740 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 194 323
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.11 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £45.25 £25.98 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +74.21% +25.06% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.75 £41.85 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.38 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.78 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.70% +30.60% -40.00%

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 30 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Snowflake in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Snowflake in England

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 30 April 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 -4 289 £525 -19.23% 82
Midlands -60 28 £518 +6.15% 17
West Midlands -49 25 £510 -7.27% 13
North of England -77 22 £563 +15.38% 20
South East -53 17 £575 +49.84% 32
South West -34 15 £475 -9.52% 11
North West -39 15 £563 +9.22% 15
East of England -40 7 £400 -31.03% 2
Yorkshire -55 6 £550 +15.79% 3
East Midlands -29 3 £575 +36.90% 4
North East -19 1 £575 +6.98% 2
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 77 (19.59%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (8.65%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.56%) Apache
4 7 (1.78%) Confluence
5 2 (0.51%) CMS
5 2 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.04%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (5.60%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.27%) BambooHR
3 4 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.76%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.76%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.51%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.25%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 204 (51.91%) AWS
2 167 (42.49%) Azure
3 102 (25.95%) Power Platform
4 90 (22.90%) dbt
5 81 (20.61%) GCP
6 60 (15.27%) Amazon S3
7 43 (10.94%) Serverless
8 40 (10.18%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (8.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (7.63%) Matillion
11 29 (7.38%) GitHub
12 21 (5.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (5.34%) Dagster
13 17 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (4.07%) Prefect
15 15 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (2.54%) Amazon Kinesis
16 10 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
17 9 (2.29%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (29.26%) Data Warehouse
2 94 (23.92%) Power BI
3 51 (12.98%) Snowflake Schema
4 50 (12.72%) Tableau
5 37 (9.41%) BigQuery
6 33 (8.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (8.14%) Data Lake
8 26 (6.62%) SQL Server
9 24 (6.11%) Data Vault
10 22 (5.60%) Big Data
11 20 (5.09%) Metadata
12 17 (4.33%) Relational Database
13 16 (4.07%) NoSQL
14 15 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (3.56%) Looker
15 14 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
16 8 (2.04%) DynamoDB
16 8 (2.04%) Star Schema
17 7 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
17 7 (1.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (6.11%) Git
2 21 (5.34%) JIRA
3 17 (4.33%) GitLab
4 13 (3.31%) SpecFlow
5 8 (2.04%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.53%) MLflow
7 3 (0.76%) Selenium
7 3 (0.76%) Snyk
7 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.76%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.76%) Toad
8 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.51%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.51%) ERwin
9 1 (0.25%) GCC
9 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 123 (31.30%) Finance
2 93 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 46 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.12%) Banking
5 23 (5.85%) Retail
6 18 (4.58%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.56%) Marketing
8 9 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.27%) Front Office
9 5 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.27%) Legal
9 5 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.02%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.76%) Back Office
11 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.51%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 150 (38.17%) Data Engineer
2 77 (19.59%) Snowflake Engineer
3 68 (17.30%) Architect
4 64 (16.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 62 (15.78%) Senior
6 44 (11.20%) Analyst
7 42 (10.69%) Lead
8 37 (9.41%) Data Architect
9 36 (9.16%) Senior Data Engineer
10 28 (7.12%) Data Analyst
11 26 (6.62%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (5.60%) Developer
13 21 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (4.83%) AWS Data Engineer
15 18 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (4.58%) Lead Data Engineer
16 17 (4.33%) Snowflake Architect
17 16 (4.07%) Business Analyst
18 12 (3.05%) Azure Data Engineer
18 12 (3.05%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.67%) Kafka
2 16 (4.07%) PySpark
3 14 (3.56%) Playwright
4 11 (2.80%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.54%) Spring
6 8 (2.04%) React
7 7 (1.78%) .NET
8 6 (1.53%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.53%) Vue
9 5 (1.27%) OAuth
9 5 (1.27%) OpenID
9 5 (1.27%) Pandas
9 5 (1.27%) scikit-learn
10 4 (1.02%) REST
10 4 (1.02%) TensorFlow
11 3 (0.76%) ARM Templates
11 3 (0.76%) Node.js
11 3 (0.76%) NumPy
11 3 (0.76%) Spark Streaming
12 2 (0.51%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.47%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.09%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.80%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.54%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.54%) Equities
5 10 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.54%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.29%) Clustering
6 9 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.53%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.27%) Replication
9 4 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.76%) Derivative
10 3 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.76%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.27%) Unix
2 1 (0.25%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) VMS
2 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (46.06%) Analytics
2 150 (38.17%) Data Modelling
3 135 (34.35%) Data Engineering
4 130 (33.08%) ETL
5 126 (32.06%) Data Pipeline
6 119 (30.28%) Business Intelligence
7 114 (29.01%) CI/CD
8 88 (22.39%) AI
9 85 (21.63%) Agile
10 82 (20.87%) DevOps
11 71 (18.07%) Migration
12 68 (17.30%) Data Governance
13 63 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
14 57 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
15 52 (13.23%) Data Architecture
16 51 (12.98%) Machine Learning
17 49 (12.47%) Decision-Making
17 49 (12.47%) Validation
18 43 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
19 41 (10.43%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 228 (58.02%) SQL
2 194 (49.36%) Python
3 43 (10.94%) Java
4 18 (4.58%) C#
5 16 (4.07%) JavaScript
6 13 (3.31%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.04%) R
8 7 (1.78%) Bash
8 7 (1.78%) Scala
9 5 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.02%) Bicep
10 4 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.02%) Korn
10 4 (1.02%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.25%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.25%) C
12 1 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (8.40%) Security Cleared
2 23 (5.85%) Degree
3 18 (4.58%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.54%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.53%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.27%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.27%) SnowPro
7 4 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.76%) PhD
8 3 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.25%) ACCA
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.25%) CFA
10 1 (0.25%) CIMA
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (25.19%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.62%) GDPR
3 13 (3.31%) QA
4 4 (1.02%) SLA
5 3 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.51%) EMIR
6 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.51%) MiFID
6 2 (0.51%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) FATCA
7 1 (0.25%) GAAP
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (6.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (13.74%) Terraform
2 24 (6.11%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.78%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.53%) Grafana
5 4 (1.02%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 109 (27.74%) Databricks
2 43 (10.94%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.58%) Informatica
3 18 (4.58%) Oracle
4 14 (3.56%) Google
5 12 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.05%) SAP
6 9 (2.29%) Talend
7 8 (2.04%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.78%) Ab Initio
8 7 (1.78%) Charles River
8 7 (1.78%) Denodo
8 7 (1.78%) Teradata
9 5 (1.27%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.27%) SimCorp
9 5 (1.27%) Splunk
9 5 (1.27%) Workday
10 4 (1.02%) Foundry
10 4 (1.02%) Guidewire