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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 206 210
Rank change year-on-year -24 +4 +174
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 509 355 437
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.14% 1.30% 1.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.25% 3.49% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 282 376
10th Percentile £407 £401 £425
25th Percentile £470 £473 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £558 £800
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -30.31% +39.13%
75th Percentile £675 £797 £875
90th Percentile £752 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £750
% change year-on-year - -26.67% +30.43%
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 15,658 10,159 11,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 37.34% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,495 6,871 8,501
10th Percentile £325 £313 £311
25th Percentile £421 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -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 +3.60% -4.67% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 267 303
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.96 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.68 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.86% +25.59% -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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +6 367 £575 -8.00% 86
North of England -56 41 £538 +7.50% 19
Midlands -46 35 £525 +7.69% 7
West Midlands -44 33 £550 +10.00% 6
North West -33 27 £525 -5.41% 14
South East -58 25 £550 +15.79% 31
South West -55 16 £574 +11.95% 11
Yorkshire -41 10 £550 +15.79% 5
East of England -29 9 £390 -32.76% 5
North East -36 4 £575 +35.29%
East Midlands -17 2 £423 +0.60% 1
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 92 (18.07%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (7.66%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.52%) Apache
4 12 (2.36%) Confluence
5 9 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.98%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) Luigi
7 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.18%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.32%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.98%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.98%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.98%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.59%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.39%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.39%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 261 (51.28%) AWS
2 198 (38.90%) Azure
3 133 (26.13%) Power Platform
4 128 (25.15%) dbt
5 119 (23.38%) GCP
6 74 (14.54%) Amazon S3
7 52 (10.22%) GitHub
8 48 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (8.84%) Serverless
10 44 (8.64%) Azure Data Factory
11 42 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (6.48%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (6.09%) Matillion
14 26 (5.11%) Fivetran
15 23 (4.52%) Dagster
16 18 (3.54%) SaaS
17 17 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
18 16 (3.14%) Prefect
19 15 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 14 (2.75%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.59%) Broadband
2 2 (0.39%) DSL
2 2 (0.39%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) DNS
3 1 (0.20%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) SSL
3 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (31.24%) Data Warehouse
2 128 (25.15%) Power BI
3 70 (13.75%) BigQuery
4 65 (12.77%) Tableau
5 62 (12.18%) Snowflake Schema
6 59 (11.59%) Data Lake
7 45 (8.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 37 (7.27%) SQL Server
9 34 (6.68%) Big Data
10 30 (5.89%) Metadata
11 24 (4.72%) Relational Database
12 23 (4.52%) Data Vault
12 23 (4.52%) NoSQL
13 20 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (3.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (3.34%) Looker
15 12 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (2.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 10 (1.96%) Delta Lake
17 10 (1.96%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 41 (8.06%) Git
2 27 (5.30%) JIRA
3 23 (4.52%) GitLab
4 17 (3.34%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.18%) MLflow
6 5 (0.98%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.59%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.59%) Snyk
7 3 (0.59%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) Toad
9 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.20%) ERwin
9 1 (0.20%) GCC
9 1 (0.20%) LSMW
9 1 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 177 (34.77%) Finance
2 133 (26.13%) Social Skills
3 67 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.98%) Banking
5 45 (8.84%) Retail
6 24 (4.72%) Marketing
7 22 (4.32%) Public Sector
8 18 (3.54%) Financial Institution
8 18 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.14%) Front Office
10 11 (2.16%) Legal
10 11 (2.16%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.96%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.77%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.57%) Back Office
13 8 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.18%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.98%) Billing
Job Titles
1 183 (35.95%) Data Engineer
2 95 (18.66%) Architect
2 95 (18.66%) Snowflake Engineer
3 87 (17.09%) Senior
4 75 (14.73%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 57 (11.20%) Analyst
6 53 (10.41%) Data Architect
7 48 (9.43%) Senior Data Engineer
8 38 (7.47%) Lead
9 34 (6.68%) Data Analyst
10 29 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (5.50%) Developer
12 27 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (4.52%) AWS Data Engineer
14 20 (3.93%) Business Analyst
15 17 (3.34%) Snowflake Architect
16 16 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
17 14 (2.75%) Consultant
18 13 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
19 12 (2.36%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.64%) Kafka
2 23 (4.52%) REST
3 16 (3.14%) PySpark
4 11 (2.16%) Spring
4 11 (2.16%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.96%) .NET
6 9 (1.77%) React
7 7 (1.38%) OAuth
8 6 (1.18%) Vue
8 6 (1.18%) YAML
9 5 (0.98%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.98%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.98%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.98%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.98%) OpenID
9 5 (0.98%) Playwright
9 5 (0.98%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.98%) Snowpark
10 4 (0.79%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.97%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.73%) Data Structures
3 17 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.34%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (2.75%) Fixed Income
5 13 (2.55%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.96%) Equities
8 10 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.77%) Clustering
9 9 (1.77%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.18%) Data Fabric
10 6 (1.18%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.98%) Derivative
11 5 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.98%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.79%) Unix
2 2 (0.39%) Linux
2 2 (0.39%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (44.40%) Analytics
2 195 (38.31%) Data Engineering
3 185 (36.35%) Data Modelling
4 180 (35.36%) Data Pipeline
5 172 (33.79%) ETL
6 158 (31.04%) CI/CD
7 153 (30.06%) Business Intelligence
8 134 (26.33%) AI
9 112 (22.00%) Agile
10 100 (19.65%) Migration
11 97 (19.06%) DevOps
12 93 (18.27%) Data Governance
13 90 (17.68%) Stakeholder Management
14 89 (17.49%) Data Architecture
15 80 (15.72%) Validation
16 67 (13.16%) Data Transformation
16 67 (13.16%) Machine Learning
17 62 (12.18%) Decision-Making
18 57 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
19 55 (10.81%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 283 (55.60%) SQL
2 241 (47.35%) Python
3 56 (11.00%) Java
4 15 (2.95%) R
5 10 (1.96%) C#
5 10 (1.96%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.57%) Bash
6 8 (1.57%) Scala
7 7 (1.38%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.38%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.79%) Bicep
9 3 (0.59%) Cypher
9 3 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.59%) SHACL
10 2 (0.39%) Korn
10 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.39%) SOQL
10 2 (0.39%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.39%) VBScript
11 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (9.23%) Security Cleared
2 35 (6.88%) Degree
3 29 (5.70%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.16%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.57%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.57%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.79%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.79%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.20%) ACCA
11 1 (0.20%) CBAP
11 1 (0.20%) CFA
11 1 (0.20%) CIMA
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (25.74%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.88%) GDPR
3 15 (2.95%) QA
4 7 (1.38%) SLA
5 6 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.59%) EMIR
7 3 (0.59%) MiFID
8 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.39%) PMO
8 2 (0.39%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.20%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.20%) CDISC
9 1 (0.20%) FATCA
9 1 (0.20%) GAAP
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 33 (6.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (13.36%) Terraform
2 36 (7.07%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.55%) Grafana
4 10 (1.96%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.39%) Ansible
5 2 (0.39%) Argo
5 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.20%) Control-M
Vendors
1 140 (27.50%) Databricks
2 51 (10.02%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.30%) Informatica
4 24 (4.72%) Google
5 23 (4.52%) Salesforce
6 20 (3.93%) SAP
7 18 (3.54%) Oracle
8 9 (1.77%) Charles River
8 9 (1.77%) Denodo
8 9 (1.77%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.38%) FactSet
9 7 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.38%) Splunk
9 7 (1.38%) Talend
9 7 (1.38%) Teradata
9 7 (1.38%) Workday
10 6 (1.18%) Murex
10 6 (1.18%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.98%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.98%) Sage