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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 208 195
Rank change year-on-year -15 -13 +153
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 558 350 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.22% 1.27% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.50% 3.41% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 275 379
10th Percentile £407 £406 £425
25th Percentile £471 £468 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £888
90th Percentile £753 £825 -
UK median daily rate £573 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.20% -31.25% +36.75%
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 15,947 10,270 11,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.92% 37.27% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,653 6,955 7,908
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 £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 276 214
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.17 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.15%

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 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 21 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 21 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 +15 407 £575 -6.12% 95
North of England -59 41 £525 +10.53% 21
Midlands -36 34 £518 +23.21% 10
South East -52 31 £606 +19.75% 52
West Midlands -37 30 £563 +32.35% 6
North West -27 29 £525 +1.94% 12
South West -56 16 £575 +21.05% 12
East of England -23 10 £380 -34.48% 4
Yorkshire -39 9 £550 +15.79% 7
East Midlands -18 4 £466 +10.83% 4
North East -36 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
1 120 (21.51%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (6.81%) Apache Spark
3 28 (5.02%) Apache
4 12 (2.15%) Confluence
5 10 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.72%) 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 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (3.23%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.90%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.90%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.90%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.36%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.36%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 302 (54.12%) AWS
2 227 (40.68%) Azure
3 148 (26.52%) dbt
4 140 (25.09%) Power Platform
5 134 (24.01%) GCP
6 73 (13.08%) Amazon S3
7 62 (11.11%) GitHub
8 53 (9.50%) Serverless
9 49 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 38 (6.81%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (4.84%) Fivetran
13 24 (4.30%) Dagster
13 24 (4.30%) Matillion
14 20 (3.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 19 (3.41%) Prefect
15 19 (3.41%) SaaS
16 18 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.54%) 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%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.18%) SSH
3 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (34.23%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (24.73%) Power BI
3 78 (13.98%) BigQuery
4 71 (12.72%) Data Lake
5 68 (12.19%) Tableau
6 62 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 56 (10.04%) Snowflake Schema
8 37 (6.63%) SQL Server
9 35 (6.27%) Metadata
10 30 (5.38%) Big Data
11 28 (5.02%) NoSQL
12 25 (4.48%) Data Vault
13 24 (4.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 23 (4.12%) Relational Database
15 21 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
16 18 (3.23%) Looker
17 17 (3.05%) Semantic Layer
18 14 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
19 12 (2.15%) Delta Lake
20 10 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 54 (9.68%) Git
2 28 (5.02%) JIRA
3 27 (4.84%) GitLab
4 24 (4.30%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.08%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.72%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.72%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.54%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.54%) Snyk
7 3 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.54%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.36%) MLflow
8 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.36%) Selenium
9 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.18%) ERwin
9 1 (0.18%) GCC
9 1 (0.18%) LSMW
General
1 192 (34.41%) Finance
2 158 (28.32%) Social Skills
3 86 (15.41%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (13.62%) Banking
5 47 (8.42%) Retail
6 27 (4.84%) Marketing
7 22 (3.94%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.58%) Financial Institution
8 20 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (3.41%) Front Office
10 16 (2.87%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.51%) Legal
12 11 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.79%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.43%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.25%) Billing
15 7 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.90%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 192 (34.41%) Data Engineer
2 107 (19.18%) Architect
3 103 (18.46%) Senior
4 93 (16.67%) Snowflake Engineer
5 73 (13.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 62 (11.11%) Data Architect
7 61 (10.93%) Analyst
8 59 (10.57%) Senior Data Engineer
9 48 (8.60%) Lead
10 37 (6.63%) Data Analyst
11 29 (5.20%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (4.84%) Developer
13 23 (4.12%) AWS Data Engineer
13 23 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (3.94%) Snowflake Architect
15 21 (3.76%) Business Analyst
16 17 (3.05%) Python Engineer
17 15 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
18 13 (2.33%) Lead Data Engineer
18 13 (2.33%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (13.98%) Terraform
2 50 (8.96%) Kafka
3 25 (4.48%) REST
4 23 (4.12%) PySpark
5 13 (2.33%) .NET
6 8 (1.43%) OAuth
6 8 (1.43%) React
6 8 (1.43%) Spring
6 8 (1.43%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.25%) YAML
8 6 (1.08%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.90%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.90%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.90%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.90%) OpenID
9 5 (0.90%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.90%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.90%) Vue
10 4 (0.72%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 76 (13.62%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.76%) Data Structures
4 16 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.69%) AI Agents
5 15 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.51%) Fixed Income
6 14 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.15%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.97%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.61%) Equities
11 8 (1.43%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.25%) Clustering
12 7 (1.25%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.25%) Life Science
13 5 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.90%) 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
1 238 (42.65%) Analytics
2 215 (38.53%) Data Engineering
3 197 (35.30%) Data Modelling
4 196 (35.13%) Data Pipeline
5 195 (34.95%) CI/CD
5 195 (34.95%) ETL
6 159 (28.49%) Business Intelligence
7 149 (26.70%) AI
8 134 (24.01%) Agile
9 133 (23.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 115 (20.61%) DevOps
11 109 (19.53%) Data Governance
12 107 (19.18%) Data Architecture
13 100 (17.92%) Migration
14 86 (15.41%) Validation
15 84 (15.05%) Data Transformation
16 74 (13.26%) Decision-Making
17 70 (12.54%) Machine Learning
18 65 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
19 58 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 314 (56.27%) SQL
2 267 (47.85%) Python
3 54 (9.68%) Java
4 12 (2.15%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.15%) R
5 8 (1.43%) Bash
5 8 (1.43%) C#
5 8 (1.43%) Scala
6 5 (0.90%) Bicep
6 5 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.90%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.72%) C++
7 4 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.54%) Cypher
8 3 (0.54%) SHACL
8 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.36%) Delphi
9 2 (0.36%) Korn
9 2 (0.36%) SOQL
9 2 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (9.14%) Security Cleared
2 38 (6.81%) Degree
3 29 (5.20%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.97%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.43%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.72%) 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
1 151 (27.06%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.27%) GDPR
3 24 (4.30%) QA
4 7 (1.25%) SLA
5 6 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.72%) PMO
8 3 (0.54%) EMIR
8 3 (0.54%) MiFID
8 3 (0.54%) 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 (7.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.51%) Grafana
3 8 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.72%) 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
1 165 (29.57%) Databricks
2 59 (10.57%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.56%) Google
3 31 (5.56%) Informatica
4 28 (5.02%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.94%) SAP
6 18 (3.23%) Oracle
7 10 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.79%) Teradata
7 10 (1.79%) Workday
8 9 (1.61%) Denodo
9 8 (1.43%) MicroStrategy
9 8 (1.43%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.43%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.25%) Charles River
10 7 (1.25%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.25%) Splunk
11 6 (1.08%) Foundry
12 5 (0.90%) FactSet
12 5 (0.90%) Talend