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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 209 215
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +178
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 492 338 416
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 1.33% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.21% 3.52% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 269 348
10th Percentile £402 £407 £425
25th Percentile £463 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -28.13% +39.13%
75th Percentile £669 £775 £875
90th Percentile £750 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £725
% change year-on-year - -24.14% +26.09%
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 15,331 9,600 12,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.64% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,333 6,486 8,597
10th Percentile £325 £311 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 247 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.21 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.35 £69.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +4 357 £550 -12.00% 85
North of England -61 35 £550 +15.79% 21
Midlands -50 33 £550 +10.00% 12
West Midlands -41 31 £550 +10.00% 8
North West -32 25 £525 -5.41% 17
South East -60 25 £550 +15.79% 28
South West -41 17 £550 +7.32% 5
East of England -33 9 £390 -32.76% 4
Yorkshire -52 6 £550 +18.92% 3
North East -33 4 £575 +35.29% 1
East Midlands -19 2 £654 +55.65% 4
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 89 (18.09%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (8.54%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.86%) Apache
4 11 (2.24%) Confluence
5 8 (1.63%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.02%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Luigi
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (4.27%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.02%) BambooHR
2 5 (1.02%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.02%) Sage X3
2 5 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.81%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.61%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.41%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 261 (53.05%) AWS
2 202 (41.06%) Azure
3 125 (25.41%) Power Platform
4 119 (24.19%) dbt
5 115 (23.37%) GCP
6 74 (15.04%) Amazon S3
7 49 (9.96%) GitHub
8 47 (9.55%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (8.74%) Serverless
10 41 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
11 40 (8.13%) Azure Data Factory
12 33 (6.71%) Matillion
13 28 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (4.67%) Fivetran
15 22 (4.47%) Dagster
16 19 (3.86%) SaaS
17 16 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (3.25%) Prefect
18 14 (2.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 13 (2.64%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) DNS
2 1 (0.20%) DSL
2 1 (0.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.20%) SSL
2 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (30.28%) Data Warehouse
2 118 (23.98%) Power BI
3 63 (12.80%) BigQuery
4 62 (12.60%) Snowflake Schema
4 62 (12.60%) Tableau
5 52 (10.57%) Data Lake
6 43 (8.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 33 (6.71%) SQL Server
8 32 (6.50%) Big Data
9 26 (5.28%) Data Vault
9 26 (5.28%) Metadata
9 26 (5.28%) Relational Database
10 24 (4.88%) NoSQL
11 22 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (3.25%) Looker
14 10 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (2.03%) Delta Lake
14 10 (2.03%) MongoDB
15 9 (1.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 36 (7.32%) Git
2 26 (5.28%) JIRA
3 24 (4.88%) GitLab
4 14 (2.85%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.42%) MLflow
6 6 (1.22%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.61%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.61%) Snyk
7 3 (0.61%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.61%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.61%) Toad
8 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.41%) Selenium
9 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.20%) ERwin
9 1 (0.20%) GCC
9 1 (0.20%) LSMW
9 1 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
General
1 173 (35.16%) Finance
2 123 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 57 (11.59%) Banking
4 56 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (9.15%) Retail
6 24 (4.88%) Marketing
6 24 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.25%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.24%) Front Office
9 11 (2.24%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.03%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.83%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.83%) Legal
12 8 (1.63%) Back Office
12 8 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.22%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.02%) Billing
Job Titles
1 183 (37.20%) Data Engineer
2 94 (19.11%) Snowflake Engineer
3 90 (18.29%) Architect
4 86 (17.48%) Senior
5 75 (15.24%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 50 (10.16%) Analyst
6 50 (10.16%) Senior Data Engineer
7 49 (9.96%) Data Architect
8 42 (8.54%) Lead
9 31 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
10 28 (5.69%) Data Analyst
10 28 (5.69%) Developer
11 26 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
12 24 (4.88%) AWS Data Engineer
13 21 (4.27%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.66%) Snowflake Architect
15 16 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
16 14 (2.85%) Consultant
16 14 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
16 14 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (8.54%) Kafka
2 19 (3.86%) REST
3 17 (3.46%) PySpark
4 13 (2.64%) Spring
4 13 (2.64%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.03%) .NET
6 8 (1.63%) React
7 6 (1.22%) OAuth
7 6 (1.22%) Playwright
7 6 (1.22%) Vue
8 5 (1.02%) GraphQL
8 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (1.02%) OpenID
8 5 (1.02%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.02%) Snowpark
8 5 (1.02%) YAML
9 4 (0.81%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.81%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.61%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 65 (13.21%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.46%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.85%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.64%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (2.44%) Fixed Income
7 12 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (2.03%) Clustering
8 10 (2.03%) Equities
9 9 (1.83%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.63%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.02%) Data Fabric
11 5 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.02%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.02%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.02%) Unix
2 2 (0.41%) Linux
2 2 (0.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (45.12%) Analytics
2 184 (37.40%) Data Engineering
3 176 (35.77%) Data Modelling
4 166 (33.74%) Data Pipeline
5 159 (32.32%) ETL
6 153 (31.10%) CI/CD
7 145 (29.47%) Business Intelligence
8 136 (27.64%) AI
9 106 (21.54%) Agile
10 97 (19.72%) Migration
11 96 (19.51%) DevOps
12 89 (18.09%) Data Governance
13 83 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 80 (16.26%) Data Architecture
15 75 (15.24%) Validation
16 65 (13.21%) Machine Learning
17 62 (12.60%) Data Transformation
18 59 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
19 58 (11.79%) Decision-Making
19 58 (11.79%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 262 (53.25%) SQL
2 227 (46.14%) Python
3 61 (12.40%) Java
4 13 (2.64%) R
5 10 (2.03%) C#
6 8 (1.63%) Bash
6 8 (1.63%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.63%) Scala
7 7 (1.42%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.42%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.22%) Bicep
9 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.41%) Cypher
10 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.41%) Korn
10 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.41%) SHACL
10 2 (0.41%) SOQL
10 2 (0.41%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (9.15%) Security Cleared
2 36 (7.32%) Degree
3 27 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.24%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.63%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.81%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.20%) ACCA
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.20%) CIMA
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 35 (7.11%) GDPR
3 14 (2.85%) QA
4 6 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.81%) SLA
6 3 (0.61%) EMIR
6 3 (0.61%) MiFID
7 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.41%) PMO
7 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.20%) CDISC
8 1 (0.20%) FATCA
8 1 (0.20%) GAAP
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 37 (7.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (14.63%) Terraform
2 39 (7.93%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.24%) Grafana
4 9 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.41%) Ansible
5 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.20%) Argo
6 1 (0.20%) Control-M
Vendors
1 134 (27.24%) Databricks
2 50 (10.16%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.88%) Informatica
3 24 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.86%) Google
4 19 (3.86%) SAP
5 18 (3.66%) Oracle
6 8 (1.63%) Denodo
6 8 (1.63%) MuleSoft
6 8 (1.63%) Talend
7 7 (1.42%) Charles River
7 7 (1.42%) FactSet
7 7 (1.42%) Splunk
7 7 (1.42%) Teradata
8 6 (1.22%) MicroStrategy
8 6 (1.22%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.22%) SimCorp
8 6 (1.22%) Workday
9 5 (1.02%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.02%) PagerDuty