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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 209 210
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +165
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 516 361 422
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 1.32% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.29% 3.54% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 286 361
10th Percentile £411 £407 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -28.13% +39.13%
75th Percentile £671 £800 £875
90th Percentile £751 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £783
% change year-on-year - -29.71% +36.09%
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 15,661 10,188 11,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.38% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,470 6,885 8,378
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
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 £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 268 287
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £47.47
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.49% +25.00% -37.14%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +7 371 £575 -8.00% 137
North of England -55 41 £538 +7.50% 24
Midlands -35 36 £518 +6.15% 9
West Midlands -38 33 £550 +10.00% 7
North West -32 27 £525 -5.41% 15
South East -64 25 £575 +15.00% 37
South West -48 18 £574 +11.95% 10
Yorkshire -51 10 £550 +15.79% 7
East of England -30 9 £390 -32.76% 5
North East -41 4 £575 +35.29% 2
East Midlands -14 3 £481 +14.52% 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 94 (18.22%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (7.56%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.46%) Apache
4 12 (2.33%) Confluence
5 9 (1.74%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.97%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.16%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (4.46%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.97%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.97%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.97%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.58%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.39%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 266 (51.55%) AWS
2 204 (39.53%) Azure
3 135 (26.16%) Power Platform
4 130 (25.19%) dbt
5 123 (23.84%) GCP
6 74 (14.34%) Amazon S3
7 53 (10.27%) GitHub
8 47 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (8.91%) Serverless
10 45 (8.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 42 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
12 34 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (5.81%) Matillion
14 26 (5.04%) Fivetran
15 23 (4.46%) Dagster
16 18 (3.49%) SaaS
17 17 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
18 16 (3.10%) Prefect
19 15 (2.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 14 (2.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.58%) Broadband
2 2 (0.39%) DSL
2 2 (0.39%) 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
1 163 (31.59%) Data Warehouse
2 131 (25.39%) Power BI
3 70 (13.57%) BigQuery
4 68 (13.18%) Tableau
5 62 (12.02%) Snowflake Schema
6 61 (11.82%) Data Lake
7 46 (8.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 37 (7.17%) SQL Server
9 34 (6.59%) Big Data
10 30 (5.81%) Metadata
11 25 (4.84%) NoSQL
12 23 (4.46%) Data Vault
12 23 (4.46%) Relational Database
13 21 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (3.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (3.49%) Looker
16 12 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
17 11 (2.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 11 (2.13%) Semantic Layer
18 10 (1.94%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 44 (8.53%) Git
2 28 (5.43%) JIRA
3 23 (4.46%) GitLab
4 17 (3.29%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.16%) MLflow
6 5 (0.97%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.58%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.58%) Snyk
7 3 (0.58%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.39%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.39%) Toad
9 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.19%) ERwin
9 1 (0.19%) GCC
9 1 (0.19%) LSMW
9 1 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
General
1 178 (34.50%) Finance
2 136 (26.36%) Social Skills
3 68 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (12.21%) Banking
5 45 (8.72%) Retail
6 24 (4.65%) Marketing
7 21 (4.07%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (3.49%) Financial Institution
10 16 (3.10%) Front Office
11 13 (2.52%) Legal
12 11 (2.13%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.94%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.74%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.55%) Back Office
15 8 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.16%) Retail Banking
17 5 (0.97%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 183 (35.47%) Data Engineer
2 97 (18.80%) Architect
3 95 (18.41%) Snowflake Engineer
4 87 (16.86%) Senior
5 76 (14.73%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 59 (11.43%) Analyst
7 55 (10.66%) Data Architect
8 47 (9.11%) Senior Data Engineer
9 39 (7.56%) Lead
10 37 (7.17%) Data Analyst
11 29 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
11 29 (5.62%) Developer
12 27 (5.23%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (4.46%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (3.68%) Business Analyst
15 18 (3.49%) Snowflake Architect
16 16 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
17 14 (2.71%) Consultant
18 13 (2.52%) Azure Data Engineer
19 12 (2.33%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.53%) Kafka
2 23 (4.46%) REST
3 16 (3.10%) PySpark
4 11 (2.13%) Spring
4 11 (2.13%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.94%) .NET
6 9 (1.74%) React
7 7 (1.36%) OAuth
8 6 (1.16%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (1.16%) Vue
8 6 (1.16%) YAML
9 5 (0.97%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.97%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.97%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.97%) OpenID
9 5 (0.97%) Playwright
9 5 (0.97%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.97%) Snowpark
10 4 (0.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.79%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.68%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.71%) Fixed Income
6 13 (2.52%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.94%) Equities
10 9 (1.74%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.74%) Clustering
10 9 (1.74%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.16%) Data Fabric
11 6 (1.16%) Reference Data
12 5 (0.97%) Derivative
12 5 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.97%) Unix
2 4 (0.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (44.77%) Analytics
2 198 (38.37%) Data Engineering
3 187 (36.24%) Data Modelling
4 184 (35.66%) Data Pipeline
5 175 (33.91%) ETL
6 162 (31.40%) CI/CD
7 155 (30.04%) Business Intelligence
8 134 (25.97%) AI
9 114 (22.09%) Agile
10 99 (19.19%) DevOps
10 99 (19.19%) Migration
11 98 (18.99%) Data Governance
12 95 (18.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 92 (17.83%) Data Architecture
14 82 (15.89%) Validation
15 68 (13.18%) Data Transformation
16 66 (12.79%) Machine Learning
17 61 (11.82%) Decision-Making
18 57 (11.05%) Data Science
18 57 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 289 (56.01%) SQL
2 245 (47.48%) Python
3 56 (10.85%) Java
4 15 (2.91%) R
5 10 (1.94%) C#
5 10 (1.94%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.55%) Bash
6 8 (1.55%) Scala
7 7 (1.36%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.36%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.78%) Bicep
9 3 (0.58%) Cypher
9 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.58%) SHACL
9 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.39%) Delphi
10 2 (0.39%) Korn
10 2 (0.39%) SOQL
10 2 (0.39%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (8.91%) Security Cleared
2 37 (7.17%) Degree
3 29 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.13%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.55%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.78%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.19%) ACCA
13 1 (0.19%) CIMA
13 1 (0.19%) CISM
13 1 (0.19%) CISSP
13 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (26.36%) Data Quality
2 37 (7.17%) GDPR
3 17 (3.29%) QA
4 7 (1.36%) SLA
5 6 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.58%) EMIR
7 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.58%) MiFID
8 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.39%) PMO
8 2 (0.39%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.19%) CDISC
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (6.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (13.57%) Terraform
2 36 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.71%) Grafana
4 11 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.39%) Ansible
5 2 (0.39%) Argo
5 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 141 (27.33%) Databricks
2 51 (9.88%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.23%) Informatica
4 24 (4.65%) Google
4 24 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 21 (4.07%) SAP
6 17 (3.29%) Oracle
7 10 (1.94%) Charles River
8 9 (1.74%) Denodo
8 9 (1.74%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.55%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.55%) Teradata
9 8 (1.55%) Workday
10 7 (1.36%) FactSet
10 7 (1.36%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.36%) Splunk
10 7 (1.36%) Talend
11 6 (1.16%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.97%) Amplitude
12 5 (0.97%) Foundry