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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 243 314
Rank change year-on-year +8 +71 +120
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 358 276 253
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 1.04% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.95% 2.84% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 180 198
10th Percentile £332 £375 £425
25th Percentile £413 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £650 £750 £675
90th Percentile £750 £888 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £603 £575
% change year-on-year -12.94% +4.87% +2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.20 - -
25th Percentile £34.25 - -
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.38 - -
90th Percentile £62.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £43.00 - -

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 12,123 9,735 12,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.95% 36.77% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,418 6,470 9,057
10th Percentile £302 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 135 261
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.85 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.41 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% +22.38% +0.61%
75th Percentile £57.25 £46.84 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.79 £68.75 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.02
% change year-on-year +9.09% +14.49% +6.68%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 20 January 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 +23 272 £550 -15.38% 85
North of England -49 20 £375 -14.29% 35
South East -13 17 £500 +21.21% 99
North West -20 17 £347 -20.80% 19
South West +2 15 £488 +21.88% 21
East of England -10 12 £565 +13.00% 31
Midlands -51 11 £550 +10.00% 20
West Midlands -38 7 £550 +10.00% 12
East Midlands -31 4 £575 -7.93% 8
Yorkshire -49 2 £469 - 9
North East -11 1 - - 7
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 76 (21.23%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.70%) Apache
3 22 (6.15%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.68%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (0.84%) Confluence
6 2 (0.56%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Luigi
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (5.59%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.56%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.56%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.56%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.56%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.56%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.28%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 189 (52.79%) AWS
2 159 (44.41%) Azure
3 97 (27.09%) dbt
4 84 (23.46%) Power Platform
5 61 (17.04%) GCP
6 40 (11.17%) Serverless
7 39 (10.89%) Amazon S3
8 35 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (6.42%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (6.42%) GitHub
11 21 (5.87%) Matillion
12 20 (5.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (3.63%) Fivetran
13 13 (3.63%) SaaS
14 12 (3.35%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (2.79%) Prefect
17 8 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.56%) Firewall
2 1 (0.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (29.61%) Data Warehouse
2 81 (22.63%) Power BI
3 47 (13.13%) Data Lake
4 40 (11.17%) Snowflake Schema
5 35 (9.78%) Tableau
6 25 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (6.42%) Data Vault
8 21 (5.87%) BigQuery
8 21 (5.87%) SQL Server
9 20 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (5.59%) Relational Database
10 19 (5.31%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (5.03%) Big Data
11 18 (5.03%) Metadata
12 15 (4.19%) Apache Iceberg
13 14 (3.91%) Apache Arrow
13 14 (3.91%) Apache Ignite
13 14 (3.91%) Dremio
13 14 (3.91%) Star Schema
14 13 (3.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (7.82%) Git
2 18 (5.03%) GitLab
2 18 (5.03%) JIRA
3 12 (3.35%) ERwin
3 12 (3.35%) SpecFlow
4 10 (2.79%) ER Studio
4 10 (2.79%) PowerDesigner
5 8 (2.23%) DBeaver
6 5 (1.40%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.40%) MLflow
7 3 (0.84%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.84%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.56%) Selenium
8 2 (0.56%) TestRail
8 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.28%) Deequ
9 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 105 (29.33%) Finance
2 88 (24.58%) Social Skills
3 54 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.82%) Banking
5 21 (5.87%) Front Office
6 20 (5.59%) Investment Banking
7 17 (4.75%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.63%) Marketing
9 12 (3.35%) Retail
10 10 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.68%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.84%) Law
15 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.56%) iGaming
16 1 (0.28%) Games
16 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (32.96%) Data Engineer
2 61 (17.04%) Snowflake Engineer
3 47 (13.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 45 (12.57%) Analyst
5 43 (12.01%) Senior
6 39 (10.89%) Architect
7 34 (9.50%) Data Analyst
8 32 (8.94%) Lead
9 30 (8.38%) Developer
10 28 (7.82%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (6.70%) Python Engineer
12 20 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
13 19 (5.31%) Data Architect
14 16 (4.47%) Data Modeller
14 16 (4.47%) Software Engineer
15 15 (4.19%) Business Analyst
15 15 (4.19%) Java Engineer
16 14 (3.91%) AWS Software Engineer
16 14 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
16 14 (3.91%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.98%) Pandas
2 19 (5.31%) Kafka
3 18 (5.03%) NumPy
4 14 (3.91%) gRPC
4 14 (3.91%) Playwright
4 14 (3.91%) Protocol Buffers
4 14 (3.91%) SciPy
5 13 (3.63%) PySpark
6 9 (2.51%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.23%) Node.js
8 7 (1.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 7 (1.96%) React
9 6 (1.68%) JSON
9 6 (1.68%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.40%) .NET
10 5 (1.40%) REST
10 5 (1.40%) scikit-learn
10 5 (1.40%) Spring
10 5 (1.40%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.12%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.42%) Data Structures
3 21 (5.87%) Data Protection Act
3 21 (5.87%) Equities
3 21 (5.87%) Fixed Income
4 17 (4.75%) Derivative
5 16 (4.47%) Hedge funds
6 14 (3.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (3.91%) Pricing Data
7 11 (3.07%) Replication
8 10 (2.79%) Clustering
9 9 (2.51%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.96%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.68%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.84%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.12%) Unix
2 2 (0.56%) Linux
2 2 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (41.90%) Analytics
2 132 (36.87%) Data Modelling
3 121 (33.80%) ETL
4 100 (27.93%) Data Engineering
5 98 (27.37%) Agile
6 91 (25.42%) Business Intelligence
7 87 (24.30%) CI/CD
8 82 (22.91%) Data Pipeline
9 73 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
10 71 (19.83%) Data Governance
11 59 (16.48%) DevOps
12 54 (15.08%) AI
13 52 (14.53%) Migration
14 51 (14.25%) Data Transformation
15 49 (13.69%) Asset Management
16 45 (12.57%) Data Science
17 44 (12.29%) Machine Learning
18 41 (11.45%) Data Architecture
19 38 (10.61%) Performance Tuning
20 37 (10.34%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 227 (63.41%) SQL
2 189 (52.79%) Python
3 45 (12.57%) Java
4 34 (9.50%) TypeScript
5 32 (8.94%) JavaScript
6 15 (4.19%) C#
7 10 (2.79%) PL/SQL
8 7 (1.96%) Bash
8 7 (1.96%) Korn
8 7 (1.96%) R
8 7 (1.96%) Scala
9 5 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.12%) Bicep
11 3 (0.84%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.84%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.28%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (5.59%) Security Cleared
2 18 (5.03%) Degree
3 12 (3.35%) AWS Certification
3 12 (3.35%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.51%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.40%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.40%) SnowPro
7 4 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.84%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.84%) PhD
8 3 (0.84%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.56%) ACCA
9 2 (0.56%) CIMA
9 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.56%) PMP
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (22.63%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.19%) GDPR
3 12 (3.35%) QA
4 7 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.56%) MiFID
6 1 (0.28%) GRC
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.28%) PMO
6 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (7.54%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (11.45%) Terraform
2 28 (7.82%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.68%) Grafana
4 3 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.56%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.28%) Ansible
6 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 83 (23.18%) Databricks
2 34 (9.50%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.42%) Oracle
4 10 (2.79%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.79%) SAP
5 9 (2.51%) Talend
6 8 (2.23%) Informatica
6 8 (2.23%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.23%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.96%) Sparx
8 6 (1.68%) Charles River
8 6 (1.68%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.40%) Virgin Media
10 4 (1.12%) Google
10 4 (1.12%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.12%) StreamSets
11 3 (0.84%) Ab Initio
11 3 (0.84%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.84%) Murex
11 3 (0.84%) SimCorp