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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 243 305
Rank change year-on-year -1 +62 +128
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 376 275 263
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.14% 1.03% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.01% 2.79% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 176 205
10th Percentile £330 £383 £427
25th Percentile £413 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +7.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £738 £675
90th Percentile £750 £888 £738
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.20 - -
25th Percentile £34.25 - -
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.38 - -
90th Percentile £62.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £43.00 - -

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 12,495 9,848 12,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.83% 37.06% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 6,536 9,169
10th Percentile £304 £313 £272
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 139 293
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.65 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.67
Median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% +19.57% -6.12%
75th Percentile £58.75 £46.84 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.28 £69.75 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 +31 287 £550 -15.38% 96
North of England -58 20 £375 -15.49% 38
South East -14 19 £500 +8.11% 100
North West -17 17 £347 -20.80% 22
South West -12 15 £488 +9.86% 19
Midlands -61 15 £550 - 21
West Midlands -43 11 £525 - 13
East of England -15 9 £550 +10.00% 29
East Midlands -31 4 £575 -7.93% 8
North East -12 2 £575 -11.54% 7
Yorkshire -55 1 £488 +8.33% 9
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 76 (20.21%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (6.91%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.85%) Apache
4 6 (1.60%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (0.80%) Confluence
5 3 (0.80%) SAS
6 2 (0.53%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.27%) Luigi
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.33%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (5.85%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.53%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.53%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.53%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.53%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.53%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 196 (52.13%) AWS
2 168 (44.68%) Azure
3 100 (26.60%) dbt
4 93 (24.73%) Power Platform
5 69 (18.35%) GCP
6 41 (10.90%) Amazon S3
6 41 (10.90%) Serverless
7 36 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (7.18%) Matillion
10 26 (6.91%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (5.85%) GitHub
12 19 (5.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (3.72%) Fivetran
13 14 (3.72%) SaaS
14 13 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.19%) Amazon EMR
16 10 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (2.66%) Prefect
17 7 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (29.26%) Data Warehouse
2 88 (23.40%) Power BI
3 45 (11.97%) Snowflake Schema
4 42 (11.17%) Tableau
5 40 (10.64%) Data Lake
6 25 (6.65%) Data Vault
7 24 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (5.59%) Big Data
9 21 (5.59%) BigQuery
10 20 (5.32%) Metadata
10 20 (5.32%) Relational Database
10 20 (5.32%) SQL Server
11 16 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (3.72%) Star Schema
13 12 (3.19%) Apache Iceberg
13 12 (3.19%) NoSQL
13 12 (3.19%) RDBMS
14 11 (2.93%) Apache Arrow
14 11 (2.93%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 31 (8.24%) Git
2 19 (5.05%) JIRA
3 18 (4.79%) GitLab
4 13 (3.46%) SpecFlow
5 11 (2.93%) ERwin
6 10 (2.66%) ER Studio
7 9 (2.39%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (2.13%) DBeaver
9 5 (1.33%) Jenkins
9 5 (1.33%) MLflow
10 3 (0.80%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.80%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.53%) Selenium
11 2 (0.53%) TestRail
11 2 (0.53%) Toad
11 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.27%) Deequ
General
1 104 (27.66%) Finance
2 92 (24.47%) Social Skills
3 54 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.91%) Banking
5 18 (4.79%) Front Office
5 18 (4.79%) Investment Banking
6 16 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.99%) Retail
8 13 (3.46%) Marketing
9 10 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.06%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.80%) Law
13 3 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.53%) iGaming
14 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.53%) Publishing
15 1 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
15 1 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (33.78%) Data Engineer
2 69 (18.35%) Snowflake Engineer
3 54 (14.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 48 (12.77%) Analyst
4 48 (12.77%) Architect
5 40 (10.64%) Senior
6 36 (9.57%) Data Analyst
7 34 (9.04%) Lead
8 32 (8.51%) Developer
9 24 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (6.12%) Data Architect
11 21 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (5.59%) Python Engineer
12 16 (4.26%) Business Analyst
12 16 (4.26%) Snowflake Architect
13 15 (3.99%) Data Modeller
13 15 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (3.99%) Tester
14 14 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.46%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.85%) Kafka
2 21 (5.59%) Pandas
3 15 (3.99%) NumPy
3 15 (3.99%) Playwright
4 13 (3.46%) PySpark
5 11 (2.93%) gRPC
5 11 (2.93%) Protocol Buffers
5 11 (2.93%) SciPy
6 9 (2.39%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.13%) Node.js
7 8 (2.13%) React
7 8 (2.13%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 7 (1.86%) Spring
9 6 (1.60%) JSON
10 5 (1.33%) .NET
10 5 (1.33%) REST
10 5 (1.33%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.06%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.06%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.78%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
2 23 (6.12%) Data Structures
3 18 (4.79%) Equities
3 18 (4.79%) Fixed Income
4 14 (3.72%) Derivative
5 13 (3.46%) Hedge funds
6 12 (3.19%) Clustering
7 11 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (2.93%) Pricing Data
7 11 (2.93%) Replication
8 9 (2.39%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.86%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.60%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.06%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.06%) Unix
2 2 (0.53%) Linux
2 2 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (42.82%) Analytics
2 141 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 132 (35.11%) ETL
4 106 (28.19%) Data Engineering
5 103 (27.39%) Agile
6 102 (27.13%) Business Intelligence
7 94 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 91 (24.20%) Data Pipeline
9 76 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
10 74 (19.68%) Data Governance
11 64 (17.02%) AI
12 62 (16.49%) DevOps
13 53 (14.10%) Migration
14 51 (13.56%) Data Transformation
15 47 (12.50%) Asset Management
16 46 (12.23%) Data Architecture
17 45 (11.97%) Machine Learning
18 44 (11.70%) Data Science
19 43 (11.44%) Performance Tuning
20 36 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 239 (63.56%) SQL
2 196 (52.13%) Python
3 47 (12.50%) Java
4 32 (8.51%) TypeScript
5 30 (7.98%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.26%) C#
7 10 (2.66%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.13%) R
8 8 (2.13%) Scala
9 7 (1.86%) Korn
10 6 (1.60%) Bash
11 4 (1.06%) Bicep
11 4 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.27%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (5.32%) Security Cleared
2 18 (4.79%) Degree
3 13 (3.46%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.19%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.86%) SnowPro
8 4 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.80%) PhD
10 2 (0.53%) ACCA
10 2 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.53%) CIMA
10 2 (0.53%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (23.40%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.72%) GDPR
2 14 (3.72%) QA
3 7 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.27%) FATCA
5 1 (0.27%) GAAP
5 1 (0.27%) GRC
5 1 (0.27%) MiFID
5 1 (0.27%) PMO
5 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (7.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (11.70%) Terraform
2 30 (7.98%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.33%) Grafana
3 5 (1.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.80%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 87 (23.14%) Databricks
2 39 (10.37%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.12%) Oracle
4 13 (3.46%) Talend
5 10 (2.66%) MuleSoft
6 9 (2.39%) Informatica
6 9 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.13%) OpenAI
7 8 (2.13%) SAP
8 7 (1.86%) Charles River
9 6 (1.60%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.60%) Sparx
10 5 (1.33%) Google
10 5 (1.33%) Virgin Media
11 4 (1.06%) Ab Initio
11 4 (1.06%) Guidewire
11 4 (1.06%) Murex
11 4 (1.06%) SimCorp
11 4 (1.06%) Teradata
12 3 (0.80%) Bloomberg