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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 238 314
Rank change year-on-year +4 +76 +122
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 380 271 254
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.05% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.92% 2.79% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 176 191
10th Percentile £332 £375 £425
25th Percentile £413 £490 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £757 £700
90th Percentile £729 £875 £744
UK median daily rate £515 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.17% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £51.95 - -
25th Percentile £54.88 - -
Median hourly rate £64.50 - -
75th Percentile £79.63 - -
90th Percentile £85.85 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.25 - £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 13,018 9,725 12,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.42% 37.62% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,985 6,546 9,062
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 148 309
10th Percentile £14.95 £15.38 £14.10
25th Percentile £19.14 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.54 £27.63 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.49% +28.51% -14.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £79.55 £74.28 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +34 289 £525 -19.23% 80
North of England -58 21 £400 -11.11% 24
North West -22 18 £347 -20.80% 17
South West -20 17 £475 -20.83% 7
South East -23 17 £525 +37.70% 41
Midlands -59 14 £550 +10.00% 17
West Midlands -68 11 £500 -4.76% 15
East of England -18 9 £550 - 3
East Midlands -28 3 £575 +33.72% 2
Yorkshire -60 2 £488 +5.41% 5
North East -21 1 £575 -11.54% 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 74 (19.47%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (7.37%) Apache Spark
3 19 (5.00%) Apache
4 5 (1.32%) Confluence
5 4 (1.05%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (0.79%) SAS
7 2 (0.53%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.26%) Luigi
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (6.32%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.79%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.79%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.53%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 199 (52.37%) AWS
2 178 (46.84%) Azure
3 95 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 94 (24.74%) dbt
5 69 (18.16%) GCP
6 44 (11.58%) Amazon S3
6 44 (11.58%) Serverless
7 38 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (8.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 33 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (7.11%) GitHub
9 27 (7.11%) Matillion
10 21 (5.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 16 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (3.68%) SaaS
13 12 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.16%) Fivetran
14 11 (2.89%) Amazon EMR
15 10 (2.63%) Prefect
16 9 (2.37%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (29.47%) Data Warehouse
2 88 (23.16%) Power BI
3 51 (13.42%) Snowflake Schema
4 40 (10.53%) Tableau
5 37 (9.74%) Data Lake
6 26 (6.84%) Data Vault
7 23 (6.05%) BigQuery
7 23 (6.05%) SQL Server
8 22 (5.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (5.79%) Big Data
8 22 (5.79%) Metadata
8 22 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (5.53%) Relational Database
10 15 (3.95%) NoSQL
11 12 (3.16%) RDBMS
12 11 (2.89%) Star Schema
13 10 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (2.63%) Looker
14 8 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (2.11%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 30 (7.89%) Git
2 18 (4.74%) GitLab
3 17 (4.47%) JIRA
4 14 (3.68%) SpecFlow
5 10 (2.63%) ERwin
6 9 (2.37%) ER Studio
6 9 (2.37%) MLflow
7 8 (2.11%) PowerDesigner
8 6 (1.58%) DBeaver
9 5 (1.32%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.79%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.79%) Toad
11 2 (0.53%) Selenium
11 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.26%) Deequ
General
1 103 (27.11%) Finance
2 93 (24.47%) Social Skills
3 54 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.53%) Banking
5 18 (4.74%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.47%) Retail
7 12 (3.16%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.16%) Marketing
8 10 (2.63%) Front Office
8 10 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.79%) Back Office
11 3 (0.79%) Law
11 3 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.53%) iGaming
12 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 134 (35.26%) Data Engineer
2 72 (18.95%) Snowflake Engineer
3 56 (14.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 51 (13.42%) Architect
5 47 (12.37%) Analyst
6 38 (10.00%) Lead
7 37 (9.74%) Senior
8 33 (8.68%) Data Analyst
9 32 (8.42%) Developer
10 27 (7.11%) Data Architect
11 22 (5.79%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (4.47%) Lead Data Engineer
13 17 (4.47%) Python Engineer
13 17 (4.47%) Snowflake Architect
14 16 (4.21%) Tester
15 15 (3.95%) Business Analyst
16 14 (3.68%) Data Modeller
16 14 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
16 14 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.58%) Kafka
2 16 (4.21%) Playwright
3 15 (3.95%) Pandas
4 13 (3.42%) PySpark
5 11 (2.89%) PyTorch
6 9 (2.37%) NumPy
6 9 (2.37%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.11%) Spring
8 7 (1.84%) React
9 6 (1.58%) Node.js
9 6 (1.58%) scikit-learn
10 5 (1.32%) gRPC
10 5 (1.32%) JSON
10 5 (1.32%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 5 (1.32%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (1.32%) REST
10 5 (1.32%) SciPy
10 5 (1.32%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.05%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.79%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.74%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.05%) Data Protection Act
3 21 (5.53%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.42%) Clustering
4 13 (3.42%) Equities
4 13 (3.42%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.89%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.37%) Derivative
6 9 (2.37%) Replication
7 7 (1.84%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.58%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.58%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.32%) Pricing Data
9 5 (1.32%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.32%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.32%) Unix
2 2 (0.53%) Linux
2 2 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (45.00%) Analytics
2 154 (40.53%) Data Modelling
3 130 (34.21%) ETL
4 120 (31.58%) Data Engineering
5 108 (28.42%) Business Intelligence
6 103 (27.11%) Data Pipeline
7 99 (26.05%) CI/CD
8 94 (24.74%) Agile
9 76 (20.00%) AI
10 73 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
11 69 (18.16%) Data Governance
12 66 (17.37%) DevOps
13 54 (14.21%) Migration
14 51 (13.42%) Machine Learning
15 50 (13.16%) Data Science
15 50 (13.16%) Data Transformation
16 49 (12.89%) Data Architecture
17 44 (11.58%) Performance Tuning
18 41 (10.79%) Asset Management
18 41 (10.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 245 (64.47%) SQL
2 201 (52.89%) Python
3 39 (10.26%) Java
4 24 (6.32%) JavaScript
4 24 (6.32%) TypeScript
5 18 (4.74%) C#
6 10 (2.63%) PL/SQL
7 9 (2.37%) Bash
7 9 (2.37%) R
8 7 (1.84%) Korn
8 7 (1.84%) Scala
9 4 (1.05%) Bicep
10 3 (0.79%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (6.58%) Security Cleared
2 20 (5.26%) Degree
3 17 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.16%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.84%) SnowPro
7 6 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.79%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.79%) PhD
10 2 (0.53%) ACCA
10 2 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.53%) CIMA
11 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (25.26%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.42%) GDPR
2 13 (3.42%) QA
3 6 (1.58%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.26%) FATCA
6 1 (0.26%) GAAP
6 1 (0.26%) GRC
6 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.26%) MiFID
6 1 (0.26%) PMO
6 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (7.63%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (12.89%) Terraform
2 32 (8.42%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.32%) Grafana
3 5 (1.32%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.79%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 94 (24.74%) Databricks
2 41 (10.79%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.79%) Oracle
4 13 (3.42%) Talend
5 10 (2.63%) MuleSoft
6 9 (2.37%) Charles River
6 9 (2.37%) Informatica
7 8 (2.11%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.84%) Google
8 7 (1.84%) MicroStrategy
8 7 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.84%) SAP
9 5 (1.32%) Ab Initio
9 5 (1.32%) Murex
9 5 (1.32%) SimCorp
9 5 (1.32%) Sparx
9 5 (1.32%) Teradata
9 5 (1.32%) Virgin Media
10 4 (1.05%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.79%) FactSet