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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 221 184
Rank change year-on-year +5 -37 +163
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 592 354 446
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.28% 1.28% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.73% 3.35% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 272 360
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 £725 £888
90th Percentile £750 £825 -
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +37.34%
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 15,857 10,575 11,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.37% 38.12% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,574 7,170 7,575
10th Percentile £319 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £532
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.92% -3.27%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 246 162
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.38 £15.98
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £69.75 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
% change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% -3.61%

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 September 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 28 September 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 +12 436 £575 -6.12% 511
North of England -49 38 £500 +17.65% 96
South East -46 32 £616 +20.20% 55
Midlands -30 29 £510 +10.27% 30
North West -39 26 £513 +25.00% 64
West Midlands -32 25 £550 +10.00% 17
South West -35 23 £650 +36.84% 40
East of England -23 16 £380 -24.00% 16
Yorkshire -37 9 £400 -15.79% 22
East Midlands -14 4 £466 +12.85% 13
North East -38 3 - - 10
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
1 127 (21.45%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (8.78%) Apache Spark
3 38 (6.42%) Apache
4 15 (2.53%) Confluence
5 11 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.68%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
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 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (2.87%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.84%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.84%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.68%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.34%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 323 (54.56%) AWS
2 254 (42.91%) Azure
3 183 (30.91%) dbt
4 138 (23.31%) Power Platform
5 132 (22.30%) GCP
6 77 (13.01%) GitHub
7 72 (12.16%) Amazon S3
8 57 (9.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 56 (9.46%) Serverless
10 55 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
11 49 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 26 (4.39%) Fivetran
15 22 (3.72%) SaaS
16 19 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
17 18 (3.04%) Dagster
18 17 (2.87%) Amazon EventBridge
18 17 (2.87%) Matillion
19 16 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.51%) Broadband
2 2 (0.34%) DSL
2 2 (0.34%) Firewall
2 2 (0.34%) Internet
2 2 (0.34%) Network Security
2 2 (0.34%) 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
1 204 (34.46%) Data Warehouse
2 135 (22.80%) Power BI
3 83 (14.02%) Data Lake
4 72 (12.16%) BigQuery
5 65 (10.98%) Tableau
6 61 (10.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 60 (10.14%) Snowflake Schema
8 42 (7.09%) Metadata
9 38 (6.42%) SQL Server
10 34 (5.74%) Big Data
11 29 (4.90%) NoSQL
11 29 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (4.39%) Data Vault
13 24 (4.05%) Relational Database
14 19 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (3.04%) Delta Lake
16 17 (2.87%) Looker
17 14 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (2.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 13 (2.20%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 62 (10.47%) Git
2 29 (4.90%) JIRA
3 26 (4.39%) GitLab
4 20 (3.38%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.18%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.68%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.68%) Snyk
6 4 (0.68%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.34%) ERwin
7 2 (0.34%) MLflow
7 2 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 191 (32.26%) Finance
2 173 (29.22%) Social Skills
3 101 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (12.16%) Banking
5 53 (8.95%) Retail
6 26 (4.39%) Marketing
7 20 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.21%) Financial Institution
8 19 (3.21%) Public Sector
9 17 (2.87%) Front Office
10 16 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.36%) Legal
12 12 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.69%) Billing
13 10 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.18%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.18%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.01%) Back Office
16 6 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 208 (35.14%) Data Engineer
2 123 (20.78%) Senior
3 110 (18.58%) Architect
4 99 (16.72%) Snowflake Engineer
5 78 (13.18%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 72 (12.16%) Senior Data Engineer
7 69 (11.66%) Data Architect
8 67 (11.32%) Analyst
9 43 (7.26%) Lead
10 39 (6.59%) Data Analyst
11 36 (6.08%) AWS Engineer
12 31 (5.24%) AWS Data Engineer
13 29 (4.90%) Developer
14 22 (3.72%) Business Analyst
14 22 (3.72%) Snowflake Architect
15 20 (3.38%) Consultant
16 18 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (2.70%) Python Engineer
18 15 (2.53%) Azure Engineer
19 13 (2.20%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (15.54%) Terraform
2 57 (9.63%) Kafka
3 30 (5.07%) PySpark
4 28 (4.73%) REST
5 16 (2.70%) .NET
6 8 (1.35%) OAuth
6 8 (1.35%) React
6 8 (1.35%) Spring
6 8 (1.35%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.18%) YAML
8 6 (1.01%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.84%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.84%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.84%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.84%) OpenID
9 5 (0.84%) pytest
10 4 (0.68%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.68%) Pandas
10 4 (0.68%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.68%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.91%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.22%) Data Structures
4 22 (3.72%) AI Agents
5 19 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.53%) Reinsurance
8 13 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.86%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
11 10 (1.69%) Life Science
12 9 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.52%) Taxonomies
12 9 (1.52%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.35%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.35%) Reference Data
14 6 (1.01%) Clustering
14 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.52%) Linux
2 6 (1.01%) Unix
3 2 (0.34%) 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
1 261 (44.09%) Analytics
2 230 (38.85%) Data Engineering
2 230 (38.85%) Data Modelling
3 211 (35.64%) Data Pipeline
4 204 (34.46%) ETL
5 202 (34.12%) CI/CD
6 179 (30.24%) AI
7 152 (25.68%) Business Intelligence
8 148 (25.00%) Agile
9 147 (24.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 121 (20.44%) Data Architecture
11 118 (19.93%) DevOps
12 117 (19.76%) Data Governance
13 103 (17.40%) Migration
14 98 (16.55%) Data Transformation
15 96 (16.22%) Validation
16 87 (14.70%) Decision-Making
17 79 (13.34%) Machine Learning
18 75 (12.67%) Infrastructure as Code
19 73 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 354 (59.80%) SQL
2 280 (47.30%) Python
3 51 (8.61%) Java
4 14 (2.36%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.20%) R
5 13 (2.20%) Scala
6 12 (2.03%) Bash
7 10 (1.69%) C#
8 8 (1.35%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.01%) Bicep
10 5 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.68%) C++
11 4 (0.68%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.51%) Cypher
12 3 (0.51%) SHACL
12 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.34%) Korn
13 2 (0.34%) LookML
13 2 (0.34%) SOQL
13 2 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 43 (7.26%) Security Cleared
2 35 (5.91%) Degree
3 25 (4.22%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.86%) Azure Certification
5 11 (1.86%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.69%) SnowPro
7 9 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.35%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.68%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.17%) CBAP
12 1 (0.17%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.17%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (28.38%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.24%) GDPR
3 23 (3.89%) QA
4 5 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.68%) PMO
5 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.51%) EMIR
6 3 (0.51%) MiFID
6 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.51%) SLA
7 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.34%) 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 44 (7.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (8.61%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.86%) Grafana
3 6 (1.01%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.68%) Control-M
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 189 (31.93%) Databricks
2 76 (12.84%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.90%) Salesforce
4 28 (4.73%) Google
5 27 (4.56%) Informatica
6 18 (3.04%) Oracle
6 18 (3.04%) SAP
7 10 (1.69%) MicroStrategy
7 10 (1.69%) Teradata
7 10 (1.69%) Workday
8 8 (1.35%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.18%) Bloomberg
9 7 (1.18%) Denodo
9 7 (1.18%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.18%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.18%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.18%) Talend
10 6 (1.01%) Foundry
11 5 (0.84%) Confluent
11 5 (0.84%) Sage