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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 233 314
Rank change year-on-year 0 +81 +120
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 355 280 241
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.13% 1.03% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.97% 2.82% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 182 192
10th Percentile £344 £375 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £650 £775 £675
90th Percentile £825 £888 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £603 £575
% change year-on-year -12.94% +4.87% +0.88%
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 11,944 9,927 12,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.06% 36.65% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,265 6,625 8,967
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £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 273 134 233
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.41 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -0.07%
75th Percentile £56.00 £46.18 £51.58
90th Percentile £78.45 £67.63 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +32 272 £550 -15.38% 81
North of England -44 20 £375 -14.29% 43
North West -28 17 £347 -20.80% 20
South East -8 16 £500 +21.21% 104
South West -6 14 £500 +25.00% 34
East of England -16 12 £565 +13.00% 48
Midlands -50 10 £550 +10.00% 29
West Midlands -40 7 £550 +10.00% 9
East Midlands -27 3 £575 -7.93% 18
Yorkshire -44 2 £469 - 16
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 82 (23.10%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (8.45%) Apache
3 20 (5.63%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.69%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (1.13%) Confluence
6 2 (0.56%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (5.35%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (1.41%) 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
Cloud Services
1 185 (52.11%) AWS
2 157 (44.23%) Azure
3 101 (28.45%) dbt
4 83 (23.38%) Power Platform
5 64 (18.03%) GCP
6 39 (10.99%) Serverless
7 35 (9.86%) Amazon S3
8 33 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (6.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (6.48%) GitHub
11 21 (5.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (5.07%) Matillion
13 13 (3.66%) Fivetran
13 13 (3.66%) SaaS
14 12 (3.38%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (2.82%) Prefect
17 8 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.56%) Firewall
2 1 (0.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (29.86%) Data Warehouse
2 81 (22.82%) Power BI
3 52 (14.65%) Data Lake
4 40 (11.27%) Snowflake Schema
5 36 (10.14%) Tableau
6 26 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (6.48%) Amazon Athena
8 22 (6.20%) BigQuery
9 21 (5.92%) Data Vault
9 21 (5.92%) SQL Server
10 20 (5.63%) Apache Iceberg
11 18 (5.07%) Apache Arrow
11 18 (5.07%) Apache Ignite
11 18 (5.07%) Dremio
12 17 (4.79%) Big Data
12 17 (4.79%) Metadata
12 17 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (4.79%) Relational Database
13 14 (3.94%) Star Schema
14 11 (3.10%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (7.89%) Git
2 18 (5.07%) JIRA
3 16 (4.51%) GitLab
4 12 (3.38%) ERwin
5 11 (3.10%) SpecFlow
6 10 (2.82%) ER Studio
6 10 (2.82%) PowerDesigner
7 8 (2.25%) DBeaver
8 6 (1.69%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.13%) MLflow
10 3 (0.85%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.56%) Selenium
11 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.56%) TestRail
11 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.28%) Deequ
General
1 105 (29.58%) Finance
2 88 (24.79%) Social Skills
3 53 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.01%) Banking
5 25 (7.04%) Front Office
6 24 (6.76%) Investment Banking
7 14 (3.94%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.38%) Marketing
9 11 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.82%) Retail
11 7 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.85%) Law
16 2 (0.56%) Digital Health
16 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.56%) iGaming
16 2 (0.56%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 109 (30.70%) Data Engineer
2 57 (16.06%) Snowflake Engineer
3 46 (12.96%) Senior
4 45 (12.68%) Analyst
5 43 (12.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 40 (11.27%) Architect
7 34 (9.58%) Data Analyst
8 31 (8.73%) AWS Engineer
8 31 (8.73%) Developer
9 29 (8.17%) Lead
10 28 (7.89%) Python Engineer
11 20 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
11 20 (5.63%) Software Engineer
12 19 (5.35%) Data Architect
12 19 (5.35%) Java Engineer
13 18 (5.07%) AWS Software Engineer
13 18 (5.07%) Java Software Engineer
13 18 (5.07%) Python Software Engineer
14 17 (4.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 17 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.17%) Pandas
2 22 (6.20%) NumPy
3 18 (5.07%) gRPC
3 18 (5.07%) Protocol Buffers
3 18 (5.07%) SciPy
4 17 (4.79%) Kafka
5 13 (3.66%) Playwright
6 12 (3.38%) PySpark
7 8 (2.25%) Node.js
7 8 (2.25%) PyTorch
8 7 (1.97%) React
9 6 (1.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 5 (1.41%) .NET
10 5 (1.41%) JSON
10 5 (1.41%) REST
10 5 (1.41%) scikit-learn
11 4 (1.13%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.13%) OAuth
11 4 (1.13%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.76%) Cloud Native
1 24 (6.76%) Equities
1 24 (6.76%) Fixed Income
2 23 (6.48%) Data Structures
3 21 (5.92%) Derivative
4 20 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
4 20 (5.63%) Hedge funds
5 18 (5.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (5.07%) Pricing Data
6 10 (2.82%) Clustering
6 10 (2.82%) Replication
7 8 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.97%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.69%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.13%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.85%) Unix
2 2 (0.56%) Linux
2 2 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (40.28%) Analytics
2 131 (36.90%) Data Modelling
3 120 (33.80%) ETL
4 100 (28.17%) Agile
5 98 (27.61%) Data Engineering
6 89 (25.07%) Business Intelligence
7 81 (22.82%) CI/CD
7 81 (22.82%) Data Pipeline
8 73 (20.56%) Data Governance
9 64 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (15.49%) DevOps
11 52 (14.65%) Asset Management
12 51 (14.37%) AI
13 49 (13.80%) Data Transformation
13 49 (13.80%) Migration
14 46 (12.96%) Data Science
15 42 (11.83%) Machine Learning
16 41 (11.55%) Data Architecture
17 40 (11.27%) Software Engineering
18 39 (10.99%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 225 (63.38%) SQL
2 189 (53.24%) Python
3 44 (12.39%) Java
4 37 (10.42%) TypeScript
5 35 (9.86%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.94%) C#
7 10 (2.82%) PL/SQL
8 9 (2.54%) R
9 7 (1.97%) Bash
9 7 (1.97%) Korn
10 6 (1.69%) Scala
11 5 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.13%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.85%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.56%) Bicep
15 1 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
15 1 (0.28%) HiveQL
15 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (4.79%) Security Cleared
2 16 (4.51%) Degree
3 12 (3.38%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.10%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.54%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.69%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.85%) PhD
10 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.56%) ACCA
11 2 (0.56%) CIMA
11 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.56%) PMP
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (22.25%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.23%) GDPR
3 13 (3.66%) QA
4 7 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.56%) DICOM
5 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.56%) MiFID
6 1 (0.28%) GRC
6 1 (0.28%) HL7
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.28%) LOINC
6 1 (0.28%) PMO
6 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (6.20%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (10.14%) Terraform
2 24 (6.76%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.69%) Grafana
4 3 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.56%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.28%) Ansible
6 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 80 (22.54%) Databricks
2 34 (9.58%) Microsoft
3 22 (6.20%) Oracle
4 10 (2.82%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.82%) SAP
5 9 (2.54%) Informatica
6 8 (2.25%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.25%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.97%) Google
7 7 (1.97%) Sparx
7 7 (1.97%) Talend
8 6 (1.69%) Charles River
9 5 (1.41%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.41%) Virgin Media
10 4 (1.13%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.85%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.85%) IBM
11 3 (0.85%) Murex
11 3 (0.85%) StreamSets
12 2 (0.56%) Denodo