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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 226 300
Rank change year-on-year -27 +74 +119
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 396 279 268
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 1.15% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.84% 3.04% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 212 208
10th Percentile £360 £381 £425
25th Percentile £424 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £788 £738
90th Percentile £731 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £520 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -11.11% +1.74% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £53.90 - -
25th Percentile £59.75 - -
Median hourly rate £69.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £69.00 - £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 13,949 9,173 12,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.54% 37.84% 32.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 6,471 8,724
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 180 328
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.64 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.13% +26.19% -18.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.23 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.14 £75.05 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +8 298 £525 -19.23% 99
North of England -65 25 £500 -0.50% 27
Midlands -67 22 £550 +22.91% 11
West Midlands -52 19 £530 -3.64% 8
North West -39 18 £400 -27.93% 13
South West -27 17 £475 -15.56% 14
South East -57 13 £525 +43.84% 37
East of England -32 6 £500 -13.79% 10
Yorkshire -51 6 £500 +5.26% 8
East Midlands -34 3 £575 +36.90% 3
North East -13 1 £575 -11.54% 6
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 82 (20.71%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (7.32%) Apache Spark
3 16 (4.04%) Apache
4 7 (1.77%) Confluence
5 3 (0.76%) SAS
6 2 (0.51%) CMS
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (5.81%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.76%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.76%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.76%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.51%) Loan IQ
3 2 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.25%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 200 (50.51%) AWS
2 175 (44.19%) Azure
3 108 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 100 (25.25%) dbt
5 73 (18.43%) GCP
6 51 (12.88%) Amazon S3
7 42 (10.61%) Serverless
8 36 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (8.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (7.83%) Matillion
12 27 (6.82%) GitHub
13 20 (5.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (4.29%) Prefect
15 16 (4.04%) Dagster
16 14 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (3.28%) SaaS
18 9 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
18 9 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.51%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (31.31%) Data Warehouse
2 101 (25.51%) Power BI
3 50 (12.63%) Tableau
4 45 (11.36%) Snowflake Schema
5 32 (8.08%) Data Lake
6 30 (7.58%) BigQuery
7 29 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (6.06%) SQL Server
9 23 (5.81%) Data Vault
10 20 (5.05%) Metadata
11 18 (4.55%) Big Data
11 18 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (4.29%) NoSQL
13 14 (3.54%) Relational Database
14 11 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (2.53%) Looker
16 9 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (2.27%) Star Schema
17 7 (1.77%) Delta Lake
17 7 (1.77%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 29 (7.32%) Git
2 19 (4.80%) GitLab
3 18 (4.55%) JIRA
4 15 (3.79%) SpecFlow
5 9 (2.27%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.02%) MLflow
7 4 (1.01%) DBeaver
8 3 (0.76%) ERwin
8 3 (0.76%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.76%) Toad
9 2 (0.51%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.51%) Selenium
9 2 (0.51%) Snyk
9 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.25%) Deequ
10 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 111 (28.03%) Finance
2 102 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 51 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.06%) Banking
5 23 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.05%) Retail
7 13 (3.28%) Marketing
8 12 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.27%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.52%) Front Office
12 5 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.76%) Back Office
13 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.76%) Law
13 3 (0.76%) Legal
13 3 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.76%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 156 (39.39%) Data Engineer
2 76 (19.19%) Snowflake Engineer
3 62 (15.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 60 (15.15%) Architect
5 52 (13.13%) Senior
6 47 (11.87%) Analyst
7 39 (9.85%) Lead
8 37 (9.34%) Data Architect
9 33 (8.33%) Data Analyst
10 26 (6.57%) Developer
11 25 (6.31%) Senior Data Engineer
12 23 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
12 23 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (5.05%) Lead Data Engineer
14 17 (4.29%) Business Analyst
14 17 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (4.04%) Azure Data Engineer
15 16 (4.04%) Snowflake Architect
16 15 (3.79%) Tester
17 14 (3.54%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.09%) Kafka
2 16 (4.04%) Playwright
3 15 (3.79%) PySpark
4 11 (2.78%) Pandas
5 10 (2.53%) PyTorch
6 7 (1.77%) NumPy
6 7 (1.77%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.77%) Spring Boot
7 6 (1.52%) React
7 6 (1.52%) Spring
7 6 (1.52%) TensorFlow
8 4 (1.01%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (1.01%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.01%) FastAPI
8 4 (1.01%) OAuth
8 4 (1.01%) Vue
9 3 (0.76%) .NET
9 3 (0.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 3 (0.76%) Spark Streaming
9 3 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.86%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.81%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.03%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.78%) Clustering
5 11 (2.78%) Equities
5 11 (2.78%) Fixed Income
6 9 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.02%) Replication
8 6 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.26%) Derivative
9 5 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.01%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.01%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.52%) Unix
2 2 (0.51%) Linux
2 2 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (45.96%) Analytics
2 153 (38.64%) Data Modelling
3 140 (35.35%) Data Engineering
4 135 (34.09%) ETL
5 128 (32.32%) Business Intelligence
6 119 (30.05%) Data Pipeline
7 112 (28.28%) CI/CD
8 88 (22.22%) AI
9 86 (21.72%) Agile
10 74 (18.69%) DevOps
11 66 (16.67%) Data Governance
12 65 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (16.16%) Migration
14 59 (14.90%) Machine Learning
15 54 (13.64%) Data Architecture
16 50 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
17 48 (12.12%) Decision-Making
18 47 (11.87%) Data Science
18 47 (11.87%) Performance Tuning
19 45 (11.36%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 245 (61.87%) SQL
2 206 (52.02%) Python
3 34 (8.59%) Java
4 20 (5.05%) C#
4 20 (5.05%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.53%) Bash
7 8 (2.02%) PL/SQL
7 8 (2.02%) Scala
8 7 (1.77%) R
9 5 (1.26%) Korn
9 5 (1.26%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.01%) Bicep
11 3 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.25%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.25%) C
12 1 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 23 (5.81%) Degree
3 22 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.52%) SnowPro
8 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.76%) PhD
8 3 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.51%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.25%) ACCA
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.25%) CFA
10 1 (0.25%) CIMA
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (27.02%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.56%) GDPR
3 14 (3.54%) QA
4 4 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.01%) SLA
5 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.25%) FATCA
6 1 (0.25%) GAAP
6 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.25%) IFRS
6 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.25%) PMO
6 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (6.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (14.14%) Terraform
2 26 (6.57%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.27%) Grafana
4 8 (2.02%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.01%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 112 (28.28%) Databricks
2 47 (11.87%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.55%) Oracle
4 17 (4.29%) Informatica
5 14 (3.54%) Google
6 13 (3.28%) Talend
7 9 (2.27%) Charles River
7 9 (2.27%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.02%) SAP
9 7 (1.77%) MicroStrategy
9 7 (1.77%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.52%) Denodo
11 5 (1.26%) Ab Initio
11 5 (1.26%) SimCorp
11 5 (1.26%) Splunk
11 5 (1.26%) Teradata
11 5 (1.26%) Virgin Media
12 4 (1.01%) Guidewire
12 4 (1.01%) ServiceNow