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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 223 187
Rank change year-on-year +13 -36 +157
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 603 354 439
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.30% 1.27% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.75% 3.32% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 271 353
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £475 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £724 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £575 £544 £800
% change year-on-year +5.75% -32.03% +38.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% - -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +25.35% - -

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 16,066 10,672 11,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.19% 34.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,700 7,228 7,489
10th Percentile £320 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.59%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 249 162
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.53
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.67% -24.86% +6.06%

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 1 October 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
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 1 October 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 +17 439 £575 -6.12% 700
North of England -52 40 £500 +17.65% 128
South East -43 35 £616 +20.20% 86
Midlands -33 32 £500 +8.11% 47
West Midlands -22 28 £520 +4.00% 35
North West -31 27 £525 +28.05% 83
South West -32 24 £650 +36.84% 41
East of England -28 16 £380 -24.00% 16
Yorkshire -36 10 £400 -15.79% 30
East Midlands -14 4 £466 +12.85% 12
North East -37 3 - - 15
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
1 131 (21.72%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (8.96%) Apache Spark
3 41 (6.80%) Apache
4 15 (2.49%) Confluence
5 11 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.66%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (2.82%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.83%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.66%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.33%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 328 (54.39%) AWS
2 258 (42.79%) Azure
3 191 (31.67%) dbt
4 143 (23.71%) Power Platform
5 134 (22.22%) GCP
6 79 (13.10%) GitHub
7 74 (12.27%) Amazon S3
8 60 (9.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 57 (9.45%) Serverless
10 55 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (8.29%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (4.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 26 (4.31%) Fivetran
15 24 (3.98%) SaaS
16 19 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (3.15%) Dagster
17 18 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
18 17 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (2.82%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) Broadband
2 2 (0.33%) DSL
2 2 (0.33%) Firewall
2 2 (0.33%) Internet
2 2 (0.33%) Network Security
2 2 (0.33%) VPN
3 1 (0.17%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.17%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.17%) SSH
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (34.16%) Data Warehouse
2 140 (23.22%) Power BI
3 84 (13.93%) Data Lake
4 73 (12.11%) BigQuery
5 65 (10.78%) Tableau
6 64 (10.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 62 (10.28%) Snowflake Schema
8 44 (7.30%) Metadata
9 39 (6.47%) SQL Server
10 34 (5.64%) Big Data
11 30 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (4.81%) NoSQL
13 27 (4.48%) Data Vault
14 24 (3.98%) Relational Database
15 19 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (2.99%) Delta Lake
17 17 (2.82%) Looker
18 14 (2.32%) Apache Iceberg
18 14 (2.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 14 (2.32%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 66 (10.95%) Git
2 29 (4.81%) JIRA
3 26 (4.31%) GitLab
4 20 (3.32%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.16%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.83%) Snyk
6 5 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.66%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.33%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.33%) ERwin
8 2 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.33%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.17%) MLflow
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 195 (32.34%) Finance
2 178 (29.52%) Social Skills
3 104 (17.25%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (11.94%) Banking
5 54 (8.96%) Retail
6 26 (4.31%) Marketing
7 20 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.15%) Financial Institution
9 18 (2.99%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.82%) Front Office
11 16 (2.65%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.32%) Legal
13 13 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.82%) Billing
15 10 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.16%) Investment Banking
17 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
18 6 (1.00%) Automotive
18 6 (1.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 215 (35.66%) Data Engineer
2 126 (20.90%) Senior
3 109 (18.08%) Architect
4 101 (16.75%) Snowflake Engineer
5 80 (13.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 76 (12.60%) Senior Data Engineer
7 69 (11.44%) Analyst
8 68 (11.28%) Data Architect
9 43 (7.13%) Lead
10 40 (6.63%) Data Analyst
11 38 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
12 33 (5.47%) AWS Data Engineer
13 29 (4.81%) Developer
14 23 (3.81%) Business Analyst
15 22 (3.65%) Snowflake Architect
16 20 (3.32%) Consultant
17 18 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
18 16 (2.65%) Python Engineer
19 15 (2.49%) Azure Engineer
20 13 (2.16%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (15.75%) Terraform
2 60 (9.95%) Kafka
3 32 (5.31%) PySpark
4 28 (4.64%) REST
5 16 (2.65%) .NET
6 9 (1.49%) OAuth
7 8 (1.33%) React
7 8 (1.33%) Spring
7 8 (1.33%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.16%) AWS CDK
8 7 (1.16%) YAML
9 6 (1.00%) OpenID
10 5 (0.83%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.83%) Langfuse
10 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.83%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (0.83%) Pandas
10 5 (0.83%) pytest
10 5 (0.83%) Snowpark
11 4 (0.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 36 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.48%) Data Structures
4 24 (3.98%) AI Agents
5 19 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.49%) Reinsurance
7 13 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.99%) Life Science
9 11 (1.82%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.49%) Taxonomies
11 9 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.33%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.33%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.00%) Clustering
13 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.49%) Linux
2 6 (1.00%) Unix
3 2 (0.33%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Android
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (44.61%) Analytics
2 240 (39.80%) Data Engineering
3 238 (39.47%) Data Modelling
4 221 (36.65%) Data Pipeline
5 211 (34.99%) ETL
6 210 (34.83%) CI/CD
7 185 (30.68%) AI
8 158 (26.20%) Business Intelligence
9 152 (25.21%) Agile
10 147 (24.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 121 (20.07%) Data Architecture
12 120 (19.90%) DevOps
13 118 (19.57%) Data Governance
14 105 (17.41%) Migration
15 100 (16.58%) Data Transformation
16 99 (16.42%) Validation
17 90 (14.93%) Decision-Making
18 81 (13.43%) Machine Learning
19 79 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
20 73 (12.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 367 (60.86%) SQL
2 289 (47.93%) Python
3 52 (8.62%) Java
4 15 (2.49%) PowerShell
4 15 (2.49%) Scala
5 13 (2.16%) R
6 12 (1.99%) Bash
7 10 (1.66%) C#
8 8 (1.33%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.00%) Bicep
9 6 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.66%) C++
10 4 (0.66%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.50%) Cypher
11 3 (0.50%) LookML
11 3 (0.50%) SHACL
11 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.33%) Korn
12 2 (0.33%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (7.13%) Security Cleared
2 35 (5.80%) Degree
3 25 (4.15%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 11 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.66%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.66%) SnowPro
7 8 (1.33%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.66%) SAS Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.33%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.17%) ACCA
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.17%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.17%) SSCP
11 1 (0.17%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (29.02%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.14%) GDPR
3 23 (3.81%) QA
4 5 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.83%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.66%) PMO
6 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.50%) EMIR
6 3 (0.50%) MiFID
6 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.50%) SLA
7 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.33%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.17%) CDISC
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (7.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (8.46%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.82%) Grafana
3 6 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.66%) Control-M
5 2 (0.33%) Ansible
5 2 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 191 (31.67%) Databricks
2 78 (12.94%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.81%) Salesforce
4 28 (4.64%) Google
5 27 (4.48%) Informatica
6 19 (3.15%) Oracle
6 19 (3.15%) SAP
7 10 (1.66%) MicroStrategy
7 10 (1.66%) Teradata
7 10 (1.66%) Workday
8 8 (1.33%) Denodo
8 8 (1.33%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.16%) Bloomberg
9 7 (1.16%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.16%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.16%) Talend
10 5 (0.83%) Amplitude
10 5 (0.83%) Foundry
10 5 (0.83%) Sage