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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 205 210
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 +150
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 533 362 412
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.18% 1.32% 1.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.36% 3.53% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 288 360
10th Percentile £410 £407 £424
25th Percentile £470 £475 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £580 £800
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -27.50% +39.13%
75th Percentile £669 £825 £888
90th Percentile £750 £875 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £800
% change year-on-year -4.35% -28.13% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £56.60 - -
25th Percentile £66.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.25 - £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 15,864 10,262 11,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.29% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,589 6,956 8,088
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 267 250
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.24 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.23% +18.18% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £51.43
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.15
% change year-on-year +29.09% +18.79% -33.86%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +8 385 £575 -8.00% 186
North of England -51 43 £525 +7.69% 32
Midlands -38 34 £518 +21.76% 13
North West -36 30 £525 -5.41% 16
West Midlands -45 30 £563 +21.62% 10
South East -58 24 £575 +19.48% 43
South West -50 20 £574 +11.95% 17
East of England -28 10 £380 -34.48% 3
Yorkshire -50 10 £550 +15.79% 13
East Midlands -13 4 £466 +10.83% 3
North East -42 3 - - 3
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
1 104 (19.51%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (6.75%) Apache Spark
3 26 (4.88%) Apache
4 14 (2.63%) Confluence
5 9 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.75%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.94%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.13%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.94%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.94%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.94%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.38%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 281 (52.72%) AWS
2 213 (39.96%) Azure
3 141 (26.45%) dbt
4 134 (25.14%) Power Platform
5 120 (22.51%) GCP
6 73 (13.70%) Amazon S3
7 60 (11.26%) GitHub
8 50 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (8.82%) Serverless
10 45 (8.44%) Azure Data Factory
11 43 (8.07%) AWS Lambda
12 38 (7.13%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (5.25%) Fivetran
14 25 (4.69%) Matillion
15 24 (4.50%) Dagster
16 18 (3.38%) Prefect
17 17 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 17 (3.19%) SaaS
18 15 (2.81%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.56%) Broadband
2 2 (0.38%) DSL
2 2 (0.38%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.19%) DNS
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) Network Security
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
3 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (32.65%) Data Warehouse
2 131 (24.58%) Power BI
3 74 (13.88%) BigQuery
4 69 (12.95%) Data Lake
5 66 (12.38%) Tableau
6 60 (11.26%) Snowflake Schema
7 50 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 38 (7.13%) SQL Server
9 32 (6.00%) Big Data
10 29 (5.44%) Metadata
11 26 (4.88%) Data Vault
12 25 (4.69%) NoSQL
13 22 (4.13%) Relational Database
13 22 (4.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
15 18 (3.38%) Looker
16 16 (3.00%) Semantic Layer
17 12 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
18 11 (2.06%) Delta Lake
18 11 (2.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (9.01%) Git
2 30 (5.63%) JIRA
3 26 (4.88%) GitLab
4 21 (3.94%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.13%) MLflow
6 4 (0.75%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.75%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.56%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.56%) Snyk
7 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.38%) Selenium
8 2 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.19%) GCC
9 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.19%) Toad
General
1 188 (35.27%) Finance
2 143 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 78 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (12.95%) Banking
5 46 (8.63%) Retail
6 26 (4.88%) Marketing
7 24 (4.50%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.56%) Financial Institution
8 19 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (3.38%) Front Office
10 13 (2.44%) Legal
10 13 (2.44%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (1.88%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.50%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.31%) Back Office
15 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 186 (34.90%) Data Engineer
2 97 (18.20%) Architect
3 93 (17.45%) Senior
3 93 (17.45%) Snowflake Engineer
4 73 (13.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 63 (11.82%) Analyst
6 56 (10.51%) Data Architect
7 51 (9.57%) Senior Data Engineer
8 45 (8.44%) Lead
9 38 (7.13%) Data Analyst
10 32 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (5.07%) Developer
12 26 (4.88%) AWS Data Engineer
13 22 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (3.94%) Business Analyst
15 18 (3.38%) Snowflake Architect
16 16 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
17 14 (2.63%) Consultant
18 13 (2.44%) Azure Data Engineer
18 13 (2.44%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.69%) Kafka
2 23 (4.32%) REST
3 16 (3.00%) PySpark
4 10 (1.88%) .NET
5 9 (1.69%) Spring
5 9 (1.69%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.50%) React
7 7 (1.31%) OAuth
8 6 (1.13%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (1.13%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.13%) YAML
9 5 (0.94%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.94%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.94%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.94%) OpenID
9 5 (0.94%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.94%) Vue
10 4 (0.75%) Node.js
10 4 (0.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 69 (12.95%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.13%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.75%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (2.63%) Fixed Income
5 14 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
8 10 (1.88%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.88%) Equities
9 9 (1.69%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.50%) Clustering
11 7 (1.31%) Reference Data
12 5 (0.94%) Data Fabric
12 5 (0.94%) Derivative
12 5 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.94%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.50%) Unix
2 5 (0.94%) Linux
3 2 (0.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (44.84%) Analytics
2 211 (39.59%) Data Engineering
3 194 (36.40%) Data Modelling
4 190 (35.65%) Data Pipeline
5 177 (33.21%) ETL
6 174 (32.65%) CI/CD
7 155 (29.08%) Business Intelligence
8 141 (26.45%) AI
9 121 (22.70%) Agile
10 108 (20.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 104 (19.51%) DevOps
12 101 (18.95%) Data Governance
13 98 (18.39%) Data Architecture
13 98 (18.39%) Migration
14 85 (15.95%) Validation
15 77 (14.45%) Data Transformation
16 73 (13.70%) Decision-Making
17 66 (12.38%) Machine Learning
18 62 (11.63%) Data Science
19 58 (10.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 299 (56.10%) SQL
2 250 (46.90%) Python
3 53 (9.94%) Java
4 14 (2.63%) R
5 10 (1.88%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.69%) Bash
6 9 (1.69%) C#
7 7 (1.31%) Scala
8 6 (1.13%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.13%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.75%) Bicep
10 3 (0.56%) Cypher
10 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.56%) SHACL
10 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.38%) C++
11 2 (0.38%) Delphi
11 2 (0.38%) Korn
11 2 (0.38%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (9.19%) Security Cleared
2 39 (7.32%) Degree
3 30 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.69%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.50%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.94%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.75%) SAS Certification
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.19%) CFA
11 1 (0.19%) CISM
11 1 (0.19%) CISSP
11 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (27.02%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.94%) GDPR
3 18 (3.38%) QA
4 7 (1.31%) SLA
5 5 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.56%) EMIR
7 3 (0.56%) MiFID
7 3 (0.56%) PMO
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.19%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.19%) CDISC
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (6.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (13.88%) Terraform
2 36 (6.75%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.63%) Grafana
4 8 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.56%) Control-M
6 2 (0.38%) Argo
7 1 (0.19%) Ansible
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 155 (29.08%) Databricks
2 53 (9.94%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.44%) Informatica
4 27 (5.07%) Google
5 26 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.94%) SAP
7 19 (3.56%) Oracle
8 9 (1.69%) Charles River
8 9 (1.69%) Denodo
8 9 (1.69%) Workday
9 8 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.50%) Teradata
10 7 (1.31%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.31%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.31%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.31%) Splunk
11 6 (1.13%) FactSet
12 5 (0.94%) Amplitude
12 5 (0.94%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.94%) Foundry