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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 222 189
Rank change year-on-year +1 -33 +156
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 580 338 444
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.25% 1.21% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.62% 3.24% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 263 374
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £888
90th Percentile £753 £825 -
UK median daily rate £570 £530 £800
% change year-on-year +7.55% -33.75% +37.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% - -
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 16,038 10,427 11,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.60% 37.48% 34.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,714 7,046 7,779
10th Percentile £320 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £640
90th Percentile £718 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 260 183
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £19.97
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.38 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -14.57% -6.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.61 £61.78
90th Percentile £82.75 £71.51 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%

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 12 September 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
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 12 September 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 +19 434 £574 -6.22% 461
North of England -53 39 £500 +14.29% 59
South East -40 31 £616 +17.33% 67
Midlands -42 28 £525 +25.00% 23
North West -31 25 £513 +25.00% 33
West Midlands -39 24 £600 +29.73% 16
South West -47 16 £600 +26.32% 55
East of England -25 13 £380 -24.00% 12
Yorkshire -40 11 £450 -5.26% 10
East Midlands -18 4 £466 +10.83% 7
North East -45 3 - - 16
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
1 128 (22.07%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (8.28%) Apache Spark
3 35 (6.03%) Apache
4 12 (2.07%) Confluence
5 10 (1.72%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.69%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.59%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.86%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.86%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.34%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.34%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 314 (54.14%) AWS
2 251 (43.28%) Azure
3 166 (28.62%) dbt
4 141 (24.31%) Power Platform
5 137 (23.62%) GCP
6 75 (12.93%) GitHub
7 71 (12.24%) Amazon S3
8 57 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (9.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 52 (8.97%) Serverless
11 46 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (7.93%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (4.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 27 (4.66%) Fivetran
14 22 (3.79%) Dagster
14 22 (3.79%) SaaS
15 18 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (3.10%) Matillion
16 17 (2.93%) Amazon EventBridge
17 16 (2.76%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.52%) Broadband
2 2 (0.34%) DSL
2 2 (0.34%) Firewall
2 2 (0.34%) Internet
2 2 (0.34%) VPN
3 1 (0.17%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.17%) Network Security
3 1 (0.17%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.17%) SSH
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (34.14%) Data Warehouse
2 139 (23.97%) Power BI
3 80 (13.79%) Data Lake
4 75 (12.93%) BigQuery
5 63 (10.86%) Snowflake Schema
5 63 (10.86%) Tableau
6 61 (10.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 39 (6.72%) SQL Server
8 37 (6.38%) Metadata
9 34 (5.86%) Big Data
10 29 (5.00%) NoSQL
11 28 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
12 24 (4.14%) Data Vault
12 24 (4.14%) Relational Database
13 20 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (2.93%) Delta Lake
14 17 (2.93%) Looker
15 15 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (2.59%) Semantic Layer
16 12 (2.07%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 58 (10.00%) Git
2 25 (4.31%) GitLab
3 24 (4.14%) JIRA
4 21 (3.62%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.21%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.86%) Snyk
7 4 (0.69%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.69%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.34%) MLflow
9 2 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.34%) Selenium
9 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.17%) LSMW
10 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 193 (33.28%) Finance
2 165 (28.45%) Social Skills
3 94 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (12.24%) Banking
5 54 (9.31%) Retail
6 29 (5.00%) Marketing
7 22 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (3.45%) Financial Institution
9 18 (3.10%) Front Office
10 16 (2.76%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.76%) Public Sector
11 13 (2.24%) Legal
12 12 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.72%) Billing
14 9 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.21%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.21%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.86%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 203 (35.00%) Data Engineer
2 117 (20.17%) Senior
3 108 (18.62%) Architect
4 96 (16.55%) Snowflake Engineer
5 74 (12.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 69 (11.90%) Senior Data Engineer
7 66 (11.38%) Data Architect
8 64 (11.03%) Analyst
9 49 (8.45%) Lead
10 41 (7.07%) Data Analyst
11 30 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (5.17%) Developer
12 25 (4.31%) AWS Data Engineer
13 22 (3.79%) Snowflake Architect
14 19 (3.28%) Business Analyst
14 19 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (2.93%) Consultant
16 16 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
16 16 (2.76%) Python Engineer
17 14 (2.41%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (15.69%) Terraform
2 54 (9.31%) Kafka
3 30 (5.17%) PySpark
4 27 (4.66%) REST
5 16 (2.76%) .NET
6 9 (1.55%) React
7 8 (1.38%) OAuth
7 8 (1.38%) Spring
7 8 (1.38%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.21%) YAML
9 6 (1.03%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (0.86%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.86%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.86%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.86%) Langfuse
10 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.86%) OpenID
11 4 (0.69%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.69%) TensorFlow
11 4 (0.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.97%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.66%) Data Structures
4 23 (3.97%) AI Agents
5 17 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.41%) Reinsurance
8 13 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
10 11 (1.90%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.72%) Life Science
11 10 (1.72%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.38%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.21%) Clustering
13 7 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.21%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.21%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.38%) Linux
2 6 (1.03%) Unix
3 2 (0.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (44.66%) Analytics
2 224 (38.62%) Data Engineering
3 213 (36.72%) Data Modelling
4 206 (35.52%) ETL
5 205 (35.34%) CI/CD
5 205 (35.34%) Data Pipeline
6 177 (30.52%) AI
7 161 (27.76%) Business Intelligence
8 143 (24.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 140 (24.14%) Agile
10 123 (21.21%) DevOps
11 115 (19.83%) Data Architecture
12 112 (19.31%) Data Governance
13 104 (17.93%) Migration
14 96 (16.55%) Validation
15 90 (15.52%) Data Transformation
16 80 (13.79%) Machine Learning
17 78 (13.45%) Decision-Making
18 73 (12.59%) Infrastructure as Code
19 68 (11.72%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 336 (57.93%) SQL
2 277 (47.76%) Python
3 55 (9.48%) Java
4 15 (2.59%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.24%) Bash
5 13 (2.24%) R
6 10 (1.72%) C#
6 10 (1.72%) Scala
7 7 (1.21%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.86%) Bicep
8 5 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.86%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.69%) C++
10 3 (0.52%) Cypher
10 3 (0.52%) SHACL
10 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.34%) Delphi
11 2 (0.34%) LookML
11 2 (0.34%) SOQL
11 2 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (8.10%) Security Cleared
2 34 (5.86%) Degree
3 27 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.07%) SnowPro
6 10 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.55%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.38%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.03%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.69%) SAS Certification
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.17%) PMP
13 1 (0.17%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (27.41%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.17%) GDPR
3 23 (3.97%) QA
4 6 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.69%) PMO
7 3 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.52%) EMIR
7 3 (0.52%) MiFID
7 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.52%) SLA
7 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.34%) GRC
8 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 41 (7.07%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.90%) Grafana
3 6 (1.03%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.69%) Control-M
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 181 (31.21%) Databricks
2 72 (12.41%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.17%) Google
3 30 (5.17%) Informatica
3 30 (5.17%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.45%) SAP
5 18 (3.10%) Oracle
6 10 (1.72%) Teradata
7 9 (1.55%) MicroStrategy
7 9 (1.55%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.38%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.38%) Talend
9 7 (1.21%) Denodo
9 7 (1.21%) Foundry
9 7 (1.21%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.21%) Workday
10 6 (1.03%) Bloomberg
10 6 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.86%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.86%) Sage