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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 209 200
Rank change year-on-year -11 -9 +157
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 548 356 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.20% 1.29% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.44% 3.47% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 281 367
10th Percentile £407 £408 £425
25th Percentile £473 £475 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -28.13% +38.77%
75th Percentile £670 £825 £888
90th Percentile £755 £875 -
UK median daily rate £550 £558 £800
% change year-on-year -1.35% -30.31% +38.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £56.60 £32.85 -
25th Percentile £66.50 £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% - -
75th Percentile £90.00 £37.13 -
90th Percentile - £37.35 -
UK median hourly rate £47.25 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +33.10% - -

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 15,927 10,265 11,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.15% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,624 6,963 7,943
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 268 232
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.08 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.72 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.76 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.08% +11.76% -29.03%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +3 396 £575 -8.00% 283
North of England -57 43 £525 +10.53% 43
Midlands -38 36 £518 +22.49% 32
West Midlands -38 32 £563 +21.62% 26
North West -22 30 £525 +1.94% 24
South East -61 30 £606 +16.87% 52
South West -44 17 £575 +21.05% 20
East of England -29 10 £380 -34.48% 3
Yorkshire -43 10 £550 +15.79% 16
East Midlands -10 4 £466 +10.83% 6
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
1 115 (20.99%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (7.12%) Apache Spark
3 30 (5.47%) Apache
4 14 (2.55%) Confluence
5 10 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.73%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.18%) JBoss
7 1 (0.18%) Luigi
7 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.73%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (3.65%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.91%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.91%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.91%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.36%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.36%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 297 (54.20%) AWS
2 222 (40.51%) Azure
3 146 (26.64%) dbt
4 136 (24.82%) Power Platform
5 125 (22.81%) GCP
6 75 (13.69%) Amazon S3
7 61 (11.13%) GitHub
8 53 (9.67%) Serverless
9 50 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (8.76%) Azure Data Factory
12 38 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (5.11%) Fivetran
14 26 (4.74%) Matillion
15 24 (4.38%) Dagster
16 19 (3.47%) Prefect
17 18 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 17 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
18 17 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (3.10%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.55%) Broadband
2 2 (0.36%) DSL
2 2 (0.36%) Firewall
2 2 (0.36%) Internet
2 2 (0.36%) VPN
3 1 (0.18%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.18%) DNS
3 1 (0.18%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) SSH
3 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (33.21%) Data Warehouse
2 133 (24.27%) Power BI
3 76 (13.87%) BigQuery
4 71 (12.96%) Data Lake
5 65 (11.86%) Tableau
6 59 (10.77%) Snowflake Schema
7 52 (9.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 37 (6.75%) SQL Server
9 32 (5.84%) Big Data
9 32 (5.84%) Metadata
10 28 (5.11%) Data Vault
10 28 (5.11%) NoSQL
11 23 (4.20%) Relational Database
12 22 (4.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 20 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
14 17 (3.10%) Looker
14 17 (3.10%) Semantic Layer
15 15 (2.74%) Delta Lake
16 12 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
17 11 (2.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 53 (9.67%) Git
2 30 (5.47%) JIRA
3 26 (4.74%) GitLab
4 22 (4.01%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.09%) MLflow
6 5 (0.91%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.73%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.73%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.55%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.55%) Snyk
8 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.36%) Selenium
10 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.18%) GCC
10 1 (0.18%) LSMW
10 1 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
General
1 191 (34.85%) Finance
2 156 (28.47%) Social Skills
3 85 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (13.32%) Banking
5 47 (8.58%) Retail
6 27 (4.93%) Marketing
7 24 (4.38%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.47%) Financial Institution
8 19 (3.47%) Front Office
8 19 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.55%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.37%) Legal
11 11 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.82%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.46%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.09%) Back Office
14 6 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.91%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 191 (34.85%) Data Engineer
2 100 (18.25%) Senior
3 99 (18.07%) Architect
4 92 (16.79%) Snowflake Engineer
5 73 (13.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 61 (11.13%) Analyst
7 57 (10.40%) Data Architect
8 55 (10.04%) Senior Data Engineer
9 50 (9.12%) Lead
10 36 (6.57%) Data Analyst
11 32 (5.84%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (5.11%) Developer
13 26 (4.74%) AWS Data Engineer
14 21 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (3.65%) Business Analyst
16 19 (3.47%) Snowflake Architect
17 15 (2.74%) Lead Data Engineer
17 15 (2.74%) Python Engineer
18 14 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
19 12 (2.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.39%) Kafka
2 25 (4.56%) REST
3 20 (3.65%) PySpark
4 12 (2.19%) .NET
5 9 (1.64%) Spring
5 9 (1.64%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.46%) OAuth
6 8 (1.46%) React
7 6 (1.09%) Model Context Protocol
7 6 (1.09%) PyTorch
7 6 (1.09%) YAML
8 5 (0.91%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.91%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.91%) Langfuse
8 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (0.91%) OpenID
8 5 (0.91%) scikit-learn
8 5 (0.91%) Vue
9 4 (0.73%) Node.js
9 4 (0.73%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 73 (13.32%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.93%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.65%) Data Structures
4 16 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.74%) AI Agents
5 15 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.55%) Fixed Income
6 14 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.19%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.82%) Equities
10 9 (1.64%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.46%) Clustering
12 7 (1.28%) Life Science
12 7 (1.28%) Reference Data
13 5 (0.91%) Derivative
13 5 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.91%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.46%) Unix
2 7 (1.28%) Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (43.61%) Analytics
2 215 (39.23%) Data Engineering
3 197 (35.95%) Data Pipeline
4 195 (35.58%) Data Modelling
5 188 (34.31%) CI/CD
6 187 (34.12%) ETL
7 153 (27.92%) Business Intelligence
8 148 (27.01%) AI
9 128 (23.36%) Agile
10 122 (22.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 113 (20.62%) DevOps
12 104 (18.98%) Data Governance
13 101 (18.43%) Data Architecture
14 96 (17.52%) Migration
15 84 (15.33%) Validation
16 82 (14.96%) Data Transformation
17 73 (13.32%) Decision-Making
18 71 (12.96%) Machine Learning
19 62 (11.31%) Infrastructure as Code
20 59 (10.77%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 306 (55.84%) SQL
2 264 (48.18%) Python
3 56 (10.22%) Java
4 14 (2.55%) R
5 11 (2.01%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.64%) Bash
7 8 (1.46%) C#
8 7 (1.28%) Scala
9 6 (1.09%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.73%) Bicep
10 4 (0.73%) C++
10 4 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.55%) Cypher
11 3 (0.55%) SHACL
11 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.36%) Delphi
12 2 (0.36%) Korn
12 2 (0.36%) SOQL
12 2 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (9.67%) Security Cleared
2 40 (7.30%) Degree
3 30 (5.47%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 10 (1.82%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.46%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.09%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.73%) SAS Certification
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (27.19%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.57%) GDPR
3 23 (4.20%) QA
4 7 (1.28%) SLA
5 5 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.73%) PMO
6 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.55%) EMIR
7 3 (0.55%) MiFID
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.36%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (7.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (14.42%) Terraform
2 41 (7.48%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.55%) Grafana
4 8 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.73%) Control-M
6 2 (0.36%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Ansible
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 157 (28.65%) Databricks
2 58 (10.58%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.29%) Google
3 29 (5.29%) Informatica
4 27 (4.93%) Salesforce
5 22 (4.01%) SAP
6 18 (3.28%) Oracle
7 10 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.82%) Workday
8 9 (1.64%) Denodo
9 8 (1.46%) Charles River
9 8 (1.46%) MicroStrategy
9 8 (1.46%) Teradata
10 7 (1.28%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.28%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.28%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.28%) Splunk
11 6 (1.09%) Foundry
12 5 (0.91%) FactSet
12 5 (0.91%) Sage