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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 208 207
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 +143
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 528 362 414
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 1.32% 1.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.34% 3.53% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 286 360
10th Percentile £413 £407 £418
25th Percentile £475 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -28.13% +39.13%
75th Percentile £673 £822 £888
90th Percentile £751 £875 -
UK median daily rate £550 £553 £800
% change year-on-year -0.45% -30.94% +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 15,795 10,260 11,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.39% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,541 6,939 8,158
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
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 £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 270 261
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.27 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £84.88 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +7 381 £575 -9.80% 160
North of England -53 42 £525 +7.69% 32
Midlands -41 33 £518 +8.95% 14
North West -30 29 £525 -5.41% 16
West Midlands -40 29 £563 +12.50% 10
South East -63 25 £575 +15.00% 38
South West -44 20 £574 +11.95% 14
East of England -27 10 £380 -29.63% 2
Yorkshire -39 10 £550 +15.79% 13
East Midlands -13 4 £466 +10.83% 4
North East -40 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 97 (18.37%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (7.01%) Apache Spark
3 25 (4.73%) Apache
4 12 (2.27%) Confluence
5 9 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.76%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.14%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (4.36%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.95%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.95%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.95%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.57%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.38%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 278 (52.65%) AWS
2 210 (39.77%) Azure
3 134 (25.38%) Power Platform
4 133 (25.19%) dbt
5 123 (23.30%) GCP
6 74 (14.02%) Amazon S3
7 54 (10.23%) GitHub
8 48 (9.09%) Serverless
9 46 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (8.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 34 (6.44%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (4.73%) Fivetran
14 24 (4.55%) Dagster
14 24 (4.55%) Matillion
15 18 (3.41%) Prefect
16 17 (3.22%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (3.22%) SaaS
17 15 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.57%) 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
1 169 (32.01%) Data Warehouse
2 131 (24.81%) Power BI
3 73 (13.83%) BigQuery
4 69 (13.07%) Tableau
5 66 (12.50%) Data Lake
6 59 (11.17%) Snowflake Schema
7 48 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 38 (7.20%) SQL Server
9 33 (6.25%) Big Data
10 29 (5.49%) Metadata
11 27 (5.11%) NoSQL
12 24 (4.55%) Relational Database
13 22 (4.17%) Data Vault
14 21 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
15 20 (3.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (3.41%) Looker
17 14 (2.65%) Semantic Layer
18 12 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
19 11 (2.08%) Delta Lake
19 11 (2.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 45 (8.52%) Git
2 29 (5.49%) JIRA
3 23 (4.36%) GitLab
4 17 (3.22%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.14%) MLflow
6 4 (0.76%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.57%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.57%) Snyk
7 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.57%) 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%) Toad
9 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.19%) ERwin
9 1 (0.19%) LSMW
9 1 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 187 (35.42%) Finance
2 138 (26.14%) Social Skills
3 75 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (12.69%) Banking
5 45 (8.52%) Retail
6 26 (4.92%) Marketing
7 24 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.60%) Financial Institution
8 19 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (3.41%) Front Office
10 13 (2.46%) Legal
11 11 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.89%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.52%) Back Office
14 8 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.52%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.95%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 185 (35.04%) Data Engineer
2 98 (18.56%) Architect
3 94 (17.80%) Snowflake Engineer
4 90 (17.05%) Senior
5 75 (14.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 61 (11.55%) Analyst
7 56 (10.61%) Data Architect
8 49 (9.28%) Senior Data Engineer
9 43 (8.14%) Lead
10 39 (7.39%) Data Analyst
11 32 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (5.11%) Developer
13 26 (4.92%) AWS Data Engineer
14 25 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (3.60%) Business Analyst
16 18 (3.41%) Snowflake Architect
17 16 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
18 14 (2.65%) Consultant
19 13 (2.46%) Azure Data Engineer
20 12 (2.27%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (8.14%) Kafka
2 23 (4.36%) REST
3 16 (3.03%) PySpark
4 10 (1.89%) .NET
4 10 (1.89%) Spring
4 10 (1.89%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.70%) React
6 7 (1.33%) OAuth
7 6 (1.14%) Model Context Protocol
7 6 (1.14%) PyTorch
7 6 (1.14%) Vue
7 6 (1.14%) YAML
8 5 (0.95%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.95%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.95%) Langfuse
8 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (0.95%) OpenID
8 5 (0.95%) scikit-learn
9 4 (0.76%) Node.js
9 4 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 65 (12.31%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.79%) Data Structures
2 20 (3.79%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (2.65%) Fixed Income
4 14 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.89%) Equities
8 9 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.70%) Reinsurance
9 7 (1.33%) Clustering
9 7 (1.33%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.95%) Data Fabric
10 5 (0.95%) Derivative
10 5 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.95%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.14%) Unix
2 5 (0.95%) Linux
3 2 (0.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (44.32%) Analytics
2 203 (38.45%) Data Engineering
3 188 (35.61%) Data Modelling
4 185 (35.04%) Data Pipeline
5 173 (32.77%) ETL
6 164 (31.06%) CI/CD
7 154 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
8 138 (26.14%) AI
9 116 (21.97%) Agile
10 100 (18.94%) Migration
10 100 (18.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 99 (18.75%) Data Governance
12 98 (18.56%) DevOps
13 96 (18.18%) Data Architecture
14 85 (16.10%) Validation
15 74 (14.02%) Data Transformation
16 67 (12.69%) Decision-Making
16 67 (12.69%) Machine Learning
17 60 (11.36%) Data Science
18 56 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 292 (55.30%) SQL
2 245 (46.40%) Python
3 54 (10.23%) Java
4 14 (2.65%) R
5 10 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.70%) C#
7 8 (1.52%) Bash
8 7 (1.33%) Scala
9 6 (1.14%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.14%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.76%) Bicep
10 4 (0.76%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.57%) Cypher
11 3 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.57%) SHACL
12 2 (0.38%) Delphi
12 2 (0.38%) Korn
12 2 (0.38%) SOQL
12 2 (0.38%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 38 (7.20%) Degree
3 30 (5.68%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.70%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.70%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.52%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.76%) SAS Certification
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
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%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (26.52%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.82%) GDPR
3 18 (3.41%) QA
4 7 (1.33%) SLA
5 5 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.57%) EMIR
7 3 (0.57%) MiFID
7 3 (0.57%) 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%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (6.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (13.64%) Terraform
2 35 (6.63%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.65%) Grafana
4 8 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.38%) Argo
6 1 (0.19%) Ansible
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
6 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 152 (28.79%) Databricks
2 52 (9.85%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.11%) Informatica
4 26 (4.92%) Google
4 26 (4.92%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.98%) SAP
6 18 (3.41%) Oracle
7 10 (1.89%) Charles River
8 9 (1.70%) Denodo
8 9 (1.70%) Workday
9 8 (1.52%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.33%) FactSet
10 7 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.33%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.33%) Splunk
11 6 (1.14%) Bloomberg
11 6 (1.14%) Talend
11 6 (1.14%) Teradata
12 5 (0.95%) Sage