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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 228 178
Rank change year-on-year +18 -50 +165
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 602 342 450
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 1.23% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.75% 3.24% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 264 367
10th Percentile £400 £404 £425
25th Percentile £463 £480 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £875
90th Percentile £753 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +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 16,062 10,549 11,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.48% 37.91% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,699 7,136 7,593
10th Percentile £320 £305 £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 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 252 166
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.58 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +32.90% -25.79% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.45 £33.00
% change year-on-year +18.40% -16.82% -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 24 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 24 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 +18 445 £575 -8.00% 656
North of England -47 37 £500 +17.65% 122
South East -46 32 £616 +17.33% 84
Midlands -35 29 £510 +20.00% 40
West Midlands -32 25 £550 +10.00% 26
North West -36 25 £513 +25.00% 83
South West -35 23 £650 +36.84% 62
East of England -31 17 £380 -24.00% 16
Yorkshire -31 9 £400 -15.79% 27
East Midlands -18 4 £466 +11.83% 14
North East -44 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
1 128 (21.26%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (8.47%) Apache Spark
3 38 (6.31%) 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
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 328 (54.49%) AWS
2 257 (42.69%) Azure
3 184 (30.56%) dbt
4 139 (23.09%) Power Platform
5 137 (22.76%) 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%) Amazon EKS
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
1 204 (33.89%) Data Warehouse
2 137 (22.76%) Power BI
3 83 (13.79%) Data Lake
4 75 (12.46%) BigQuery
5 65 (10.80%) Tableau
6 62 (10.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 62 (10.30%) Snowflake Schema
7 40 (6.64%) Metadata
8 39 (6.48%) SQL Server
9 33 (5.48%) Big Data
10 30 (4.98%) NoSQL
10 30 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
11 28 (4.65%) Data Vault
12 24 (3.99%) Relational Database
13 19 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (2.99%) Delta Lake
15 17 (2.82%) Looker
16 15 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (2.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 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
1 198 (32.89%) Finance
2 173 (28.74%) Social Skills
3 99 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (11.96%) Banking
5 57 (9.47%) 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%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.16%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 211 (35.05%) Data Engineer
2 124 (20.60%) Senior
3 115 (19.10%) Architect
4 102 (16.94%) Snowflake Engineer
5 80 (13.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 74 (12.29%) Data Architect
7 73 (12.13%) Senior Data Engineer
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 25 (4.15%) 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 30 (4.98%) 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%) Pandas
11 4 (0.66%) Snowpark
11 4 (0.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 82 (13.62%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.32%) Data Structures
4 22 (3.65%) AI Agents
5 18 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.49%) Reinsurance
7 13 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.83%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.66%) Life Science
11 9 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.50%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.33%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.33%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.33%) Taxonomies
13 6 (1.00%) Clustering
13 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.00%) Equities
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
1 267 (44.35%) Analytics
2 237 (39.37%) Data Engineering
3 230 (38.21%) Data Modelling
4 215 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
5 206 (34.22%) CI/CD
5 206 (34.22%) ETL
6 183 (30.40%) AI
7 158 (26.25%) Business Intelligence
8 148 (24.58%) Agile
9 146 (24.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 122 (20.27%) DevOps
11 120 (19.93%) Data Architecture
12 117 (19.44%) Data Governance
13 108 (17.94%) Migration
14 97 (16.11%) Validation
15 96 (15.95%) Data Transformation
16 89 (14.78%) Decision-Making
17 83 (13.79%) Machine Learning
18 79 (13.12%) Infrastructure as Code
19 71 (11.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 360 (59.80%) SQL
2 286 (47.51%) 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%) Delphi
12 2 (0.33%) LookML
12 2 (0.33%) SOQL
12 2 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (7.97%) Security Cleared
2 34 (5.65%) Degree
3 28 (4.65%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.66%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.66%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.66%) SnowPro
7 8 (1.33%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.00%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.66%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.33%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.17%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.17%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (27.74%) 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%) ISO 22301
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
1 196 (32.56%) Databricks
2 75 (12.46%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.82%) Salesforce
4 27 (4.49%) Google
4 27 (4.49%) Informatica
5 19 (3.16%) Oracle
6 18 (2.99%) SAP
7 10 (1.66%) MicroStrategy
7 10 (1.66%) Teradata
8 9 (1.50%) 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