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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 214 195
Rank change year-on-year -9 -19 +154
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 605 371 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 1.32% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 3.41% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 277 334
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £575 £530 £725
% change year-on-year +8.49% -26.90% +25.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £32.85 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.56% - -
75th Percentile - £37.13 -
90th Percentile £64.80 £37.35 -
UK median hourly rate £45.20 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +27.32% - -

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 16,178 10,882 11,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.54% 38.66% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,769 7,357 7,545
10th Percentile £322 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 264 160
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.07 £16.27
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.18 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +12 446 £575 -4.17% 492
North of England -50 41 £475 +15.15% 95
Midlands -32 31 £500 +8.11% 36
South East -56 31 £616 +20.20% 39
North West -31 30 £500 +23.46% 49
West Midlands -28 27 £510 +2.00% 25
South West -34 24 £650 +36.84% 17
East of England -30 16 £365 -27.00% 19
Yorkshire -38 8 £400 -15.79% 26
East Midlands -10 4 £466 +12.85% 11
North East -35 3 - - 20
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
1 125 (20.66%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (8.93%) Apache Spark
3 43 (7.11%) Apache
4 16 (2.64%) Confluence
5 11 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.16%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.64%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.83%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.66%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.50%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.17%) Shopify
6 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 324 (53.55%) AWS
2 264 (43.64%) Azure
3 182 (30.08%) dbt
4 142 (23.47%) Power Platform
5 134 (22.15%) GCP
6 82 (13.55%) GitHub
7 70 (11.57%) Amazon S3
8 58 (9.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 57 (9.42%) Serverless
10 49 (8.10%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (8.10%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (4.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 25 (4.13%) Fivetran
13 25 (4.13%) SaaS
14 20 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
15 19 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (2.98%) Amazon EventBridge
17 17 (2.81%) AWS Step Functions
18 16 (2.64%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) Broadband
1 3 (0.50%) Network Security
2 2 (0.33%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.33%) DSL
2 2 (0.33%) Firewall
2 2 (0.33%) Internet
2 2 (0.33%) VPN
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 (33.72%) Data Warehouse
2 137 (22.64%) Power BI
3 83 (13.72%) Data Lake
4 70 (11.57%) BigQuery
5 68 (11.24%) Tableau
6 66 (10.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 56 (9.26%) Snowflake Schema
8 47 (7.77%) Metadata
9 36 (5.95%) SQL Server
10 32 (5.29%) Big Data
11 28 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (4.46%) NoSQL
13 26 (4.30%) Data Vault
14 19 (3.14%) Delta Lake
14 19 (3.14%) Relational Database
15 17 (2.81%) MongoDB
15 17 (2.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (2.48%) Semantic Layer
17 14 (2.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 14 (2.31%) Looker
Development Applications
1 68 (11.24%) Git
2 33 (5.45%) JIRA
3 28 (4.63%) GitLab
4 18 (2.98%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.16%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.83%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.83%) Snyk
6 5 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.33%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.33%) ERwin
7 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) MLflow
8 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 201 (33.22%) Finance
2 185 (30.58%) Social Skills
3 114 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (12.56%) Banking
5 49 (8.10%) Retail
6 33 (5.45%) Marketing
7 19 (3.14%) Financial Institution
7 19 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.14%) Public Sector
8 18 (2.98%) Legal
9 16 (2.64%) Front Office
10 14 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.15%) Billing
12 12 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.99%) Automotive
14 6 (0.99%) Back Office
14 6 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.99%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 207 (34.21%) Data Engineer
2 121 (20.00%) Senior
3 107 (17.69%) Architect
4 94 (15.54%) Snowflake Engineer
5 74 (12.23%) Analyst
5 74 (12.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 73 (12.07%) Senior Data Engineer
7 68 (11.24%) Data Architect
8 43 (7.11%) Data Analyst
9 41 (6.78%) Lead
10 34 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (4.96%) Developer
12 29 (4.79%) AWS Data Engineer
13 23 (3.80%) Business Analyst
13 23 (3.80%) Consultant
14 22 (3.64%) Snowflake Architect
15 19 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (2.81%) Python Engineer
17 14 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
18 13 (2.15%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (16.36%) Terraform
2 60 (9.92%) Kafka
3 34 (5.62%) PySpark
4 32 (5.29%) REST
5 15 (2.48%) .NET
6 10 (1.65%) AWS CDK
7 8 (1.32%) OAuth
7 8 (1.32%) pytest
8 7 (1.16%) FastAPI
8 7 (1.16%) OpenID
8 7 (1.16%) Pandas
8 7 (1.16%) YAML
9 6 (0.99%) React
9 6 (0.99%) Snowpark
10 5 (0.83%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.83%) Langfuse
10 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.83%) Spring
10 5 (0.83%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 82 (13.55%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.79%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.13%) AI Agents
5 21 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.81%) Reinsurance
7 15 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.98%) Life Science
9 11 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.65%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.65%) Taxonomies
11 9 (1.49%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.32%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (0.99%) Equities
14 6 (0.99%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.98%) Linux
2 5 (0.83%) 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
1 275 (45.45%) Analytics
2 243 (40.17%) Data Engineering
3 241 (39.83%) Data Modelling
4 224 (37.02%) Data Pipeline
5 211 (34.88%) CI/CD
6 207 (34.21%) ETL
7 200 (33.06%) AI
8 157 (25.95%) Business Intelligence
9 154 (25.45%) Agile
10 152 (25.12%) Stakeholder Management
11 125 (20.66%) Data Architecture
12 123 (20.33%) Data Governance
13 120 (19.83%) DevOps
14 102 (16.86%) Data Transformation
15 100 (16.53%) Migration
15 100 (16.53%) Validation
16 92 (15.21%) Decision-Making
17 83 (13.72%) Machine Learning
18 82 (13.55%) Infrastructure as Code
19 75 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 364 (60.17%) SQL
2 294 (48.60%) Python
3 45 (7.44%) Java
4 17 (2.81%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.64%) Scala
6 13 (2.15%) R
7 12 (1.98%) Bash
8 10 (1.65%) C#
9 8 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (1.32%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.16%) Bicep
11 5 (0.83%) JavaScript
12 4 (0.66%) C++
12 4 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.50%) Cypher
13 3 (0.50%) LookML
13 3 (0.50%) SHACL
14 2 (0.33%) Delphi
14 2 (0.33%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.33%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 42 (6.94%) Security Cleared
2 36 (5.95%) Degree
3 25 (4.13%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.31%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.82%) SnowPro
8 7 (1.16%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.66%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.33%) ACCA
11 2 (0.33%) CIMA
11 2 (0.33%) CISM
11 2 (0.33%) CISSP
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.33%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (31.07%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.29%) GDPR
3 23 (3.80%) QA
4 8 (1.32%) SOC 2
5 6 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.50%) EMIR
7 3 (0.50%) MiFID
7 3 (0.50%) PMO
7 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.50%) SLA
8 2 (0.33%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) CDISC
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 46 (7.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (8.76%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.15%) Grafana
3 8 (1.32%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.83%) Control-M
5 4 (0.66%) Ansible
6 2 (0.33%) Argo
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 196 (32.40%) Databricks
2 96 (15.87%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.62%) Google
3 34 (5.62%) Salesforce
4 28 (4.63%) Informatica
5 21 (3.47%) Oracle
6 15 (2.48%) SAP
7 9 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
7 9 (1.49%) Talend
7 9 (1.49%) Workday
8 8 (1.32%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.32%) Teradata
9 7 (1.16%) Bloomberg
9 7 (1.16%) Denodo
9 7 (1.16%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.16%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.99%) Confluent
11 5 (0.83%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.83%) Sage