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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 228 314
Rank change year-on-year -8 +86 +118
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 401 292 245
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 1.14% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.96% 3.02% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 198 186
10th Percentile £344 £371 £413
25th Percentile £414 £486 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £725 £684
90th Percentile £725 £875 £738
UK median daily rate £520 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -11.49% +6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £52.93 - -
25th Percentile £57.31 - -
Median hourly rate £66.75 - -
75th Percentile £76.13 - -
90th Percentile £84.45 - -
UK median hourly rate £64.50 - £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 13,553 9,661 12,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.24% 37.81% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,318 6,593 8,883
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £409 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £638
90th Percentile £712 £738 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 148 327
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.20
25th Percentile £20.41 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.58 £27.38 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +37.28% +28.10% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.06 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +38.25% +26.93% -14.52%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +25 301 £525 -19.23% 86
North of England -64 23 £400 -24.53% 31
Midlands -59 20 £550 +10.00% 20
North West -25 19 £347 -37.57% 18
South East -41 19 £500 +37.93% 36
South West -25 17 £475 -15.56% 12
West Midlands -52 17 £525 - 15
East of England -27 8 £525 -9.48% 2
East Midlands -24 3 £575 +33.72% 5
Yorkshire -58 3 £544 +17.57% 7
North East -14 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 84 (20.95%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (6.73%) Apache Spark
3 18 (4.49%) Apache
4 6 (1.50%) Confluence
5 4 (1.00%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (0.75%) SAS
7 2 (0.50%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.25%) Luigi
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (6.23%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.75%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.75%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.75%) SimCorp Dimension
2 3 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.50%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.50%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
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 S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 212 (52.87%) AWS
2 181 (45.14%) Azure
3 103 (25.69%) Power Platform
4 102 (25.44%) dbt
5 76 (18.95%) GCP
6 48 (11.97%) Amazon S3
6 48 (11.97%) Serverless
7 42 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
8 34 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (8.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (7.73%) Matillion
11 27 (6.73%) GitHub
12 21 (5.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (3.99%) Prefect
14 15 (3.74%) SaaS
15 12 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (2.74%) Amazon EMR
16 11 (2.74%) Fivetran
17 9 (2.24%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (32.17%) Data Warehouse
2 96 (23.94%) Power BI
3 51 (12.72%) Snowflake Schema
4 48 (11.97%) Tableau
5 36 (8.98%) Data Lake
6 29 (7.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 28 (6.98%) BigQuery
7 28 (6.98%) SQL Server
8 26 (6.48%) Metadata
9 25 (6.23%) Data Vault
10 23 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
11 22 (5.49%) Big Data
11 22 (5.49%) Relational Database
12 17 (4.24%) NoSQL
13 12 (2.99%) Looker
13 12 (2.99%) RDBMS
13 12 (2.99%) Star Schema
14 11 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (2.00%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 33 (8.23%) Git
2 21 (5.24%) GitLab
3 19 (4.74%) JIRA
4 15 (3.74%) SpecFlow
5 9 (2.24%) ERwin
5 9 (2.24%) MLflow
6 8 (2.00%) ER Studio
6 8 (2.00%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.75%) PowerDesigner
8 6 (1.50%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.75%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.75%) Toad
10 2 (0.50%) Selenium
10 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.25%) Deequ
General
1 110 (27.43%) Finance
2 101 (25.19%) Social Skills
3 56 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.99%) Banking
5 22 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 16 (3.99%) Retail
7 14 (3.49%) Marketing
8 11 (2.74%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.24%) Front Office
11 5 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Back Office
12 3 (0.75%) Law
12 3 (0.75%) Legal
12 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.50%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 143 (35.66%) Data Engineer
2 73 (18.20%) Snowflake Engineer
3 58 (14.46%) Architect
3 58 (14.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 47 (11.72%) Analyst
5 42 (10.47%) Senior
6 39 (9.73%) Lead
7 32 (7.98%) Data Analyst
7 32 (7.98%) Developer
8 29 (7.23%) Data Architect
9 24 (5.99%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (5.24%) Solutions Architect
12 18 (4.49%) Lead Data Engineer
12 18 (4.49%) Python Engineer
12 18 (4.49%) Senior Data Engineer
13 17 (4.24%) Snowflake Architect
13 17 (4.24%) Tester
14 16 (3.99%) Business Analyst
15 15 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.73%) Kafka
2 17 (4.24%) Playwright
3 15 (3.74%) Pandas
4 14 (3.49%) PySpark
5 12 (2.99%) PyTorch
6 9 (2.24%) NumPy
6 9 (2.24%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.00%) Spring
8 7 (1.75%) React
8 7 (1.75%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.50%) Node.js
9 6 (1.50%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.25%) JSON
10 5 (1.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 5 (1.25%) REST
11 4 (1.00%) .NET
11 4 (1.00%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.00%) gRPC
11 4 (1.00%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (1.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.73%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.23%) Data Protection Act
3 19 (4.74%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.24%) Clustering
4 13 (3.24%) Equities
4 13 (3.24%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.49%) Replication
7 8 (2.00%) Derivative
7 8 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.00%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.75%) Hedge funds
9 6 (1.50%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.00%) Pricing Data
11 4 (1.00%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.25%) Unix
2 2 (0.50%) Linux
2 2 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (45.14%) Analytics
2 162 (40.40%) Data Modelling
3 144 (35.91%) ETL
4 128 (31.92%) Data Engineering
5 120 (29.93%) Business Intelligence
6 113 (28.18%) Data Pipeline
7 106 (26.43%) CI/CD
8 95 (23.69%) Agile
9 78 (19.45%) AI
10 73 (18.20%) Data Governance
11 72 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
12 71 (17.71%) DevOps
13 62 (15.46%) Migration
14 55 (13.72%) Data Architecture
14 55 (13.72%) Data Transformation
15 52 (12.97%) Machine Learning
16 48 (11.97%) Data Science
17 47 (11.72%) Performance Tuning
18 46 (11.47%) Stakeholder Management
19 43 (10.72%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 264 (65.84%) SQL
2 215 (53.62%) Python
3 38 (9.48%) Java
4 24 (5.99%) JavaScript
4 24 (5.99%) TypeScript
5 19 (4.74%) C#
6 11 (2.74%) PL/SQL
7 9 (2.24%) Bash
7 9 (2.24%) R
7 9 (2.24%) Scala
8 6 (1.50%) Korn
9 4 (1.00%) Bicep
9 4 (1.00%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.75%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.25%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.25%) C
12 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (7.73%) Security Cleared
2 20 (4.99%) Degree
3 19 (4.74%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.74%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.00%) SnowPro
7 4 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.75%) PhD
9 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.25%) ACCA
10 1 (0.25%) CFA
10 1 (0.25%) CIMA
10 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (27.43%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.49%) GDPR
3 16 (3.99%) QA
4 6 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.00%) SLA
6 3 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) FATCA
8 1 (0.25%) GAAP
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.25%) MiFID
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 34 (8.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (12.97%) Terraform
2 33 (8.23%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.00%) Grafana
3 8 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.00%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 104 (25.94%) Databricks
2 46 (11.47%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.23%) Oracle
4 13 (3.24%) Informatica
5 12 (2.99%) Talend
6 10 (2.49%) Charles River
6 10 (2.49%) Google
6 10 (2.49%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.00%) OpenAI
7 8 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.75%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.50%) SAP
10 5 (1.25%) Ab Initio
10 5 (1.25%) Murex
10 5 (1.25%) SimCorp
10 5 (1.25%) Teradata
10 5 (1.25%) Virgin Media
11 4 (1.00%) Guidewire
11 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.00%) Workday