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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 217 193
Rank change year-on-year -2 -24 +150
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 562 340 428
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.23% 1.23% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.54% 3.31% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 269 379
10th Percentile £407 £407 £425
25th Percentile £470 £475 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +37.51%
75th Percentile £674 £750 £888
90th Percentile £753 £825 -
UK median daily rate £570 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +3.64% -31.25% +34.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £67.20 £32.85 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% - -
75th Percentile £80.75 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £86.30 £37.35 -
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 15,873 10,277 11,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.31% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 6,951 7,884
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 274 198
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -3.15% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.13 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +12 409 £575 -6.12% 132
North of England -46 42 £525 +10.53% 22
Midlands -48 35 £525 +25.00% 11
West Midlands -29 31 £575 +24.32% 8
South East -49 31 £606 +15.48% 56
North West -22 29 £525 +5.00% 13
South West -51 16 £575 +21.05% 48
East of England -28 10 £380 -34.48% 6
Yorkshire -35 10 £525 +10.53% 7
East Midlands -19 4 £466 +10.83% 3
North East -39 3 - - 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
1 122 (21.71%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (6.94%) Apache Spark
3 28 (4.98%) Apache
4 11 (1.96%) Confluence
5 10 (1.78%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.71%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.18%) JBoss
7 1 (0.18%) Luigi
7 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (3.20%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.89%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.89%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.89%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.36%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.36%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 303 (53.91%) AWS
2 230 (40.93%) Azure
3 151 (26.87%) dbt
4 142 (25.27%) Power Platform
5 135 (24.02%) GCP
6 73 (12.99%) Amazon S3
7 62 (11.03%) GitHub
8 53 (9.43%) Serverless
9 49 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (8.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 38 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (4.80%) Fivetran
14 24 (4.27%) Dagster
14 24 (4.27%) Matillion
15 22 (3.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 20 (3.56%) SaaS
17 19 (3.38%) Prefect
18 18 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
19 17 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.53%) Broadband
2 2 (0.36%) DSL
2 2 (0.36%) Firewall
2 2 (0.36%) Internet
2 2 (0.36%) VPN
3 1 (0.18%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.18%) DNS
3 1 (0.18%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.18%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.18%) SSH
3 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (34.70%) Data Warehouse
2 140 (24.91%) Power BI
3 78 (13.88%) BigQuery
4 73 (12.99%) Data Lake
5 68 (12.10%) Tableau
6 63 (11.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 57 (10.14%) Snowflake Schema
8 37 (6.58%) SQL Server
9 35 (6.23%) Metadata
10 30 (5.34%) Big Data
11 28 (4.98%) NoSQL
12 25 (4.45%) Data Vault
13 24 (4.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 23 (4.09%) Relational Database
15 21 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
16 18 (3.20%) Looker
17 17 (3.02%) Semantic Layer
18 14 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
19 12 (2.14%) Delta Lake
19 12 (2.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 52 (9.25%) Git
2 27 (4.80%) GitLab
2 27 (4.80%) JIRA
3 24 (4.27%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.07%) Terragrunt
5 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.71%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.53%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.53%) Snyk
6 3 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.36%) MLflow
7 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.36%) Selenium
7 2 (0.36%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.18%) GCC
8 1 (0.18%) LSMW
8 1 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
General
1 194 (34.52%) Finance
2 160 (28.47%) Social Skills
3 88 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (13.17%) Banking
5 49 (8.72%) Retail
6 27 (4.80%) Marketing
7 21 (3.74%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.56%) Financial Institution
8 20 (3.56%) Front Office
8 20 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.85%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.49%) Legal
11 11 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.78%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.42%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.25%) Billing
14 7 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.89%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 194 (34.52%) Data Engineer
2 108 (19.22%) Architect
3 107 (19.04%) Senior
4 93 (16.55%) Snowflake Engineer
5 73 (12.99%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 63 (11.21%) Senior Data Engineer
7 62 (11.03%) Analyst
7 62 (11.03%) Data Architect
8 48 (8.54%) Lead
9 38 (6.76%) Data Analyst
10 28 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (4.80%) Developer
12 24 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (3.91%) AWS Data Engineer
13 22 (3.91%) Snowflake Architect
14 21 (3.74%) Business Analyst
15 16 (2.85%) Python Engineer
16 15 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
17 14 (2.49%) Consultant
18 13 (2.31%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.06%) Terraform
2 51 (9.07%) Kafka
3 25 (4.45%) REST
4 23 (4.09%) PySpark
5 13 (2.31%) .NET
6 8 (1.42%) OAuth
6 8 (1.42%) React
6 8 (1.42%) Spring
6 8 (1.42%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.25%) YAML
8 6 (1.07%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.89%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.89%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.89%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.89%) OpenID
9 5 (0.89%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.89%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.89%) Vue
10 4 (0.71%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.88%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 22 (3.91%) Data Structures
4 16 (2.85%) AI Agents
4 16 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.31%) Fixed Income
7 12 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (2.14%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.96%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.42%) Clustering
9 8 (1.42%) Data Fabric
9 8 (1.42%) Equities
9 8 (1.42%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.25%) Life Science
11 6 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.25%) Linux
1 7 (1.25%) Unix
2 2 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (42.70%) Analytics
2 216 (38.43%) Data Engineering
3 200 (35.59%) Data Modelling
4 199 (35.41%) ETL
5 198 (35.23%) CI/CD
6 197 (35.05%) Data Pipeline
7 161 (28.65%) Business Intelligence
8 149 (26.51%) AI
9 137 (24.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 133 (23.67%) Agile
11 117 (20.82%) DevOps
12 109 (19.40%) Data Governance
13 108 (19.22%) Data Architecture
14 103 (18.33%) Migration
15 87 (15.48%) Validation
16 84 (14.95%) Data Transformation
17 75 (13.35%) Decision-Making
18 69 (12.28%) Machine Learning
19 66 (11.74%) Infrastructure as Code
20 60 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 315 (56.05%) SQL
2 266 (47.33%) Python
3 54 (9.61%) Java
4 12 (2.14%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.14%) R
5 8 (1.42%) Bash
5 8 (1.42%) Scala
6 7 (1.25%) C#
7 5 (0.89%) Bicep
8 4 (0.71%) C++
8 4 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.71%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.71%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.53%) Cypher
9 3 (0.53%) SHACL
9 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.36%) Delphi
10 2 (0.36%) Korn
10 2 (0.36%) SOQL
10 2 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (8.90%) Security Cleared
2 38 (6.76%) Degree
3 29 (5.16%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.96%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.42%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.07%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.71%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (27.22%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.23%) GDPR
3 24 (4.27%) QA
4 7 (1.25%) SLA
5 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.71%) PMO
8 3 (0.53%) EMIR
8 3 (0.53%) MiFID
8 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.36%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) IFRS
10 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (7.47%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (8.19%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.49%) Grafana
3 8 (1.42%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.71%) Control-M
5 2 (0.36%) Ansible
5 2 (0.36%) Argo
5 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 166 (29.54%) Databricks
2 60 (10.68%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.52%) Google
3 31 (5.52%) Informatica
4 29 (5.16%) Salesforce
5 23 (4.09%) SAP
6 17 (3.02%) Oracle
7 10 (1.78%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.78%) Teradata
7 10 (1.78%) Workday
8 8 (1.42%) Denodo
8 8 (1.42%) MicroStrategy
8 8 (1.42%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.25%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.25%) Splunk
10 6 (1.07%) Charles River
10 6 (1.07%) Foundry
11 5 (0.89%) Sage
11 5 (0.89%) Talend