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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 201 206
Rank change year-on-year -24 +5 +169
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 514 361 427
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 1.32% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.28% 3.52% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 286 365
10th Percentile £407 £407 £425
25th Percentile £471 £475 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -28.13% +39.13%
75th Percentile £674 £800 £875
90th Percentile £751 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £750
% change year-on-year - -26.67% +30.43%
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 15,657 10,260 11,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.88% 37.41% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,474 6,938 8,456
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.64% -4.62% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 269 297
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.15
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +34.98% +25.00% -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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +4 370 £575 -8.00% 142
North of England -58 41 £538 +7.50% 21
Midlands -32 35 £525 +7.69% 8
West Midlands -46 33 £550 +10.00% 6
North West -34 27 £525 -5.41% 12
South East -63 25 £575 +15.00% 39
South West -47 18 £574 +11.95% 11
Yorkshire -50 10 £550 +15.79% 7
East of England -23 9 £390 -32.76% 5
North East -35 4 £575 +35.29% 2
East Midlands -16 2 £423 +0.60% 2
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 93 (18.09%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (7.59%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.47%) Apache
4 12 (2.33%) Confluence
5 9 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.97%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (4.47%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.97%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.97%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.97%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.58%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.39%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.39%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 263 (51.17%) AWS
2 204 (39.69%) Azure
3 136 (26.46%) Power Platform
4 129 (25.10%) dbt
5 122 (23.74%) GCP
6 73 (14.20%) Amazon S3
7 53 (10.31%) GitHub
8 48 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (8.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 45 (8.75%) Serverless
10 41 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (5.84%) Matillion
13 26 (5.06%) Fivetran
14 23 (4.47%) Dagster
15 18 (3.50%) SaaS
16 17 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (3.11%) Prefect
18 15 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 13 (2.53%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.58%) Broadband
2 2 (0.39%) DSL
2 2 (0.39%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) DNS
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
3 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (31.52%) Data Warehouse
2 131 (25.49%) Power BI
3 70 (13.62%) BigQuery
4 67 (13.04%) Tableau
5 62 (12.06%) Snowflake Schema
6 60 (11.67%) Data Lake
7 45 (8.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 37 (7.20%) SQL Server
9 34 (6.61%) Big Data
10 30 (5.84%) Metadata
11 25 (4.86%) NoSQL
12 23 (4.47%) Data Vault
12 23 (4.47%) Relational Database
13 21 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (3.50%) Looker
16 12 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
17 11 (2.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 11 (2.14%) Semantic Layer
18 10 (1.95%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 43 (8.37%) Git
2 28 (5.45%) JIRA
3 23 (4.47%) GitLab
4 17 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.17%) MLflow
6 5 (0.97%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.58%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.58%) Snyk
7 3 (0.58%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.39%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) Toad
9 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.19%) ERwin
9 1 (0.19%) GCC
9 1 (0.19%) LSMW
9 1 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
General
1 178 (34.63%) Finance
2 136 (26.46%) Social Skills
3 68 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (12.06%) Banking
5 45 (8.75%) Retail
6 24 (4.67%) Marketing
7 21 (4.09%) Public Sector
8 18 (3.50%) Financial Institution
8 18 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.11%) Front Office
10 12 (2.33%) Legal
11 11 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.95%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.75%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.56%) Back Office
14 8 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.17%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.97%) Billing
Job Titles
1 183 (35.60%) Data Engineer
2 96 (18.68%) Architect
2 96 (18.68%) Snowflake Engineer
3 86 (16.73%) Senior
4 76 (14.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 58 (11.28%) Analyst
6 54 (10.51%) Data Architect
7 47 (9.14%) Senior Data Engineer
8 39 (7.59%) Lead
9 35 (6.81%) Data Analyst
10 29 (5.64%) AWS Engineer
10 29 (5.64%) Developer
11 27 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
12 23 (4.47%) AWS Data Engineer
13 20 (3.89%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.50%) Snowflake Architect
15 17 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
16 14 (2.72%) Consultant
17 13 (2.53%) Azure Data Engineer
18 12 (2.33%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.56%) Kafka
2 23 (4.47%) REST
3 16 (3.11%) PySpark
4 11 (2.14%) Spring
4 11 (2.14%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.95%) .NET
6 9 (1.75%) React
7 7 (1.36%) OAuth
8 6 (1.17%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (1.17%) Vue
8 6 (1.17%) YAML
9 5 (0.97%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.97%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.97%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.97%) OpenID
9 5 (0.97%) Playwright
9 5 (0.97%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.97%) Snowpark
10 4 (0.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.84%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.72%) Fixed Income
6 13 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.95%) Equities
10 9 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.75%) Clustering
10 9 (1.75%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.17%) Data Fabric
11 6 (1.17%) Reference Data
12 5 (0.97%) Derivative
12 5 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.78%) Unix
2 3 (0.58%) Linux
3 2 (0.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (44.55%) Analytics
2 197 (38.33%) Data Engineering
3 186 (36.19%) Data Modelling
4 182 (35.41%) Data Pipeline
5 174 (33.85%) ETL
6 161 (31.32%) CI/CD
7 156 (30.35%) Business Intelligence
8 135 (26.26%) AI
9 114 (22.18%) Agile
10 99 (19.26%) DevOps
10 99 (19.26%) Migration
11 98 (19.07%) Data Governance
12 95 (18.48%) Stakeholder Management
13 91 (17.70%) Data Architecture
14 82 (15.95%) Validation
15 68 (13.23%) Data Transformation
16 66 (12.84%) Machine Learning
17 61 (11.87%) Decision-Making
18 57 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
19 56 (10.89%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 287 (55.84%) SQL
2 243 (47.28%) Python
3 56 (10.89%) Java
4 15 (2.92%) R
5 10 (1.95%) C#
5 10 (1.95%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.56%) Bash
6 8 (1.56%) Scala
7 7 (1.36%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.36%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.78%) Bicep
9 3 (0.58%) Cypher
9 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.58%) SHACL
10 2 (0.39%) Delphi
10 2 (0.39%) Korn
10 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.39%) SOQL
10 2 (0.39%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (8.95%) Security Cleared
2 36 (7.00%) Degree
3 29 (5.64%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.14%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.56%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.78%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.19%) ACCA
11 1 (0.19%) CBAP
11 1 (0.19%) CFA
11 1 (0.19%) CIMA
11 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (26.46%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.81%) GDPR
3 17 (3.31%) QA
4 7 (1.36%) SLA
5 6 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.58%) EMIR
7 3 (0.58%) MiFID
8 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.39%) PMO
8 2 (0.39%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.19%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.19%) CDISC
9 1 (0.19%) FATCA
9 1 (0.19%) GAAP
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 33 (6.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (13.62%) Terraform
2 36 (7.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.72%) Grafana
4 11 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.39%) Ansible
5 2 (0.39%) Argo
5 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 140 (27.24%) Databricks
2 52 (10.12%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.25%) Informatica
4 24 (4.67%) Google
4 24 (4.67%) Salesforce
5 21 (4.09%) SAP
6 18 (3.50%) Oracle
7 10 (1.95%) Charles River
8 9 (1.75%) Denodo
8 9 (1.75%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.56%) Workday
10 7 (1.36%) FactSet
10 7 (1.36%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.36%) Splunk
10 7 (1.36%) Talend
10 7 (1.36%) Teradata
11 6 (1.17%) Murex
11 6 (1.17%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.97%) Amplitude