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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 203 202
Rank change year-on-year -20 -1 +162
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 538 361 416
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.18% 1.31% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.37% 3.51% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 287 361
10th Percentile £411 £408 £419
25th Percentile £470 £475 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £580 £800
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -27.50% +39.13%
75th Percentile £671 £825 £888
90th Percentile £751 £875 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £800
% change year-on-year -4.35% -28.13% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £56.60 - -
25th Percentile £66.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.25 - £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 15,958 10,279 11,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.07% 37.24% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,654 6,968 8,061
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 267 246
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.10
Median hourly rate £37.37 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.73% +18.18% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £51.43
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +29.09% +15.55% -32.00%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +12 389 £575 -8.00% 241
North of England -49 43 £525 +7.69% 34
Midlands -39 34 £518 +15.00% 22
North West -34 30 £525 -5.41% 17
West Midlands -47 30 £563 +12.50% 18
South East -57 25 £575 +19.48% 51
South West -46 20 £574 +14.75% 28
East of England -26 10 £380 -34.48% 4
Yorkshire -36 10 £550 +15.79% 14
East Midlands -16 4 £466 +10.83% 4
North East -38 3 - - 3
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
1 106 (19.70%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (6.88%) Apache Spark
3 27 (5.02%) Apache
4 14 (2.60%) Confluence
5 9 (1.67%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.74%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.09%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.93%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.93%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.93%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.37%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 285 (52.97%) AWS
2 216 (40.15%) Azure
3 142 (26.39%) dbt
4 136 (25.28%) Power Platform
5 122 (22.68%) GCP
6 73 (13.57%) Amazon S3
7 60 (11.15%) GitHub
8 50 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (8.74%) Serverless
10 45 (8.36%) Azure Data Factory
11 43 (7.99%) AWS Lambda
12 38 (7.06%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (5.20%) Fivetran
14 25 (4.65%) Matillion
15 24 (4.46%) Dagster
16 18 (3.35%) Prefect
17 17 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 17 (3.16%) SaaS
18 15 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.56%) Broadband
2 2 (0.37%) DSL
2 2 (0.37%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.19%) DNS
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) Network Security
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
3 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (32.71%) Data Warehouse
2 132 (24.54%) Power BI
3 75 (13.94%) BigQuery
4 69 (12.83%) Data Lake
5 66 (12.27%) Tableau
6 60 (11.15%) Snowflake Schema
7 51 (9.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 38 (7.06%) SQL Server
9 32 (5.95%) Big Data
10 30 (5.58%) Metadata
11 26 (4.83%) Data Vault
11 26 (4.83%) NoSQL
12 22 (4.09%) Relational Database
12 22 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 20 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
14 18 (3.35%) Looker
15 16 (2.97%) Semantic Layer
16 12 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (2.23%) Delta Lake
17 11 (2.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (8.92%) Git
2 30 (5.58%) JIRA
3 26 (4.83%) GitLab
4 21 (3.90%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.12%) MLflow
6 4 (0.74%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.74%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.56%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.56%) Snyk
7 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.37%) Selenium
8 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.19%) GCC
9 1 (0.19%) LSMW
9 1 (0.19%) Toad
General
1 192 (35.69%) Finance
2 147 (27.32%) Social Skills
3 80 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (13.20%) Banking
5 46 (8.55%) Retail
6 26 (4.83%) Marketing
7 24 (4.46%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.53%) Financial Institution
8 19 (3.53%) Front Office
8 19 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.60%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.42%) Legal
11 10 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.49%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.30%) Back Office
15 6 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.93%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 188 (34.94%) Data Engineer
2 98 (18.22%) Architect
3 95 (17.66%) Senior
4 93 (17.29%) Snowflake Engineer
5 73 (13.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 64 (11.90%) Analyst
7 56 (10.41%) Data Architect
8 52 (9.67%) Senior Data Engineer
9 46 (8.55%) Lead
10 39 (7.25%) Data Analyst
11 32 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (5.20%) Developer
13 26 (4.83%) AWS Data Engineer
14 22 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (3.90%) Business Analyst
16 18 (3.35%) Snowflake Architect
17 16 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
18 14 (2.60%) Consultant
18 14 (2.60%) Python Engineer
19 13 (2.42%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.81%) Kafka
2 24 (4.46%) REST
3 17 (3.16%) PySpark
4 10 (1.86%) .NET
5 9 (1.67%) Spring
5 9 (1.67%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.49%) React
7 7 (1.30%) OAuth
8 6 (1.12%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (1.12%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.12%) YAML
9 5 (0.93%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.93%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.93%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.93%) OpenID
9 5 (0.93%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.93%) Vue
10 4 (0.74%) Node.js
10 4 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.01%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.46%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.72%) Data Structures
4 16 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (2.60%) Fixed Income
5 14 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.42%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
8 10 (1.86%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.86%) Equities
9 9 (1.67%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.49%) Clustering
11 7 (1.30%) Reference Data
12 5 (0.93%) Derivative
12 5 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.93%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.49%) Unix
2 5 (0.93%) Linux
3 2 (0.37%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (44.42%) Analytics
2 213 (39.59%) Data Engineering
3 197 (36.62%) Data Modelling
4 192 (35.69%) Data Pipeline
5 180 (33.46%) ETL
6 178 (33.09%) CI/CD
7 156 (29.00%) Business Intelligence
8 141 (26.21%) AI
9 124 (23.05%) Agile
10 112 (20.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 107 (19.89%) DevOps
12 103 (19.14%) Data Governance
13 99 (18.40%) Data Architecture
13 99 (18.40%) Migration
14 86 (15.99%) Validation
15 79 (14.68%) Data Transformation
16 75 (13.94%) Decision-Making
17 67 (12.45%) Machine Learning
18 61 (11.34%) Data Science
19 59 (10.97%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 302 (56.13%) SQL
2 254 (47.21%) Python
3 53 (9.85%) Java
4 14 (2.60%) R
5 11 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.67%) Bash
6 9 (1.67%) C#
7 7 (1.30%) Scala
8 6 (1.12%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.74%) Bicep
9 4 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.56%) Cypher
10 3 (0.56%) SHACL
10 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.37%) C++
11 2 (0.37%) Delphi
11 2 (0.37%) Korn
11 2 (0.37%) SOQL
11 2 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (9.29%) Security Cleared
2 40 (7.43%) Degree
3 31 (5.76%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.67%) SnowPro
7 8 (1.49%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.74%) SAS Certification
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.19%) CISSP
13 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (27.14%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.88%) GDPR
3 18 (3.35%) QA
4 7 (1.30%) SLA
5 5 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.74%) PMO
7 3 (0.56%) EMIR
7 3 (0.56%) MiFID
8 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.37%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (7.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (13.75%) Terraform
2 37 (6.88%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.60%) Grafana
4 8 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.74%) Control-M
6 2 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.19%) Ansible
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 156 (29.00%) Databricks
2 56 (10.41%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.39%) Informatica
4 28 (5.20%) Google
5 26 (4.83%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.90%) SAP
7 19 (3.53%) Oracle
8 10 (1.86%) Workday
9 9 (1.67%) Charles River
9 9 (1.67%) Denodo
9 9 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.49%) Teradata
11 7 (1.30%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.30%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.30%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.30%) Splunk
12 6 (1.12%) FactSet
13 5 (0.93%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.93%) Foundry
13 5 (0.93%) MicroStrategy