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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 213 242
Rank change year-on-year -32 +29 +167
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 439 309 354
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 1.27% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.99% 3.39% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 245 294
10th Percentile £393 £413 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £706
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -17.11% +22.74%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £850
90th Percentile £734 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £580 £650
% change year-on-year -9.48% -10.77% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £54.95 - -
25th Percentile £62.38 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 - £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 14,682 9,122 11,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.10% 37.63% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,999 6,249 8,504
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £509 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.34% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 217 324
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +58.00% +16.99% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.50 £39.13
90th Percentile £81.15 £68.00 £69.85
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.76 £21.46
% change year-on-year +29.36% +29.36% -43.15%

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 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +8 324 £525 -19.23% 131
Midlands -37 33 £550 +12.82% 7
West Midlands -36 31 £550 - 4
North of England -67 26 £575 +17.95% 30
South East -59 20 £575 +24.32% 35
North West -37 19 £575 +3.60% 18
South West -36 15 £475 -9.52% 7
East of England -39 7 £544 -6.25% 4
Yorkshire -58 6 £550 +15.79% 8
East Midlands -29 2 £654 +55.65% 3
North East -28 1 £575 +35.29% 4
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 80 (18.22%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (8.66%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.42%) Apache
4 6 (1.37%) Confluence
5 4 (0.91%) SAS
6 2 (0.46%) CMS
6 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (4.78%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.14%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.68%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.68%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.46%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.23%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 231 (52.62%) AWS
2 181 (41.23%) Azure
3 116 (26.42%) Power Platform
4 108 (24.60%) dbt
5 96 (21.87%) GCP
6 65 (14.81%) Amazon S3
7 50 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (9.79%) GitHub
9 40 (9.11%) Serverless
10 39 (8.88%) Azure Data Factory
11 38 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (7.29%) Matillion
13 24 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (5.01%) Dagster
15 18 (4.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 18 (4.10%) SaaS
16 17 (3.87%) Fivetran
17 16 (3.64%) Prefect
18 10 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
18 10 (2.28%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.23%) DNS
1 1 (0.23%) Firewall
1 1 (0.23%) Internet
1 1 (0.23%) SSL
1 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (28.47%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (24.60%) Power BI
3 60 (13.67%) Snowflake Schema
3 60 (13.67%) Tableau
4 47 (10.71%) BigQuery
5 38 (8.66%) Data Lake
6 32 (7.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 31 (7.06%) SQL Server
8 27 (6.15%) Big Data
9 24 (5.47%) Data Vault
10 22 (5.01%) Metadata
11 20 (4.56%) NoSQL
11 20 (4.56%) Relational Database
12 17 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (3.64%) Looker
14 14 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (2.05%) Delta Lake
15 9 (2.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 9 (2.05%) Star Schema
16 8 (1.82%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (7.29%) Git
2 22 (5.01%) GitLab
3 21 (4.78%) JIRA
4 14 (3.19%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.05%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.37%) MLflow
7 3 (0.68%) Selenium
7 3 (0.68%) Snyk
7 3 (0.68%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.68%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.68%) Toad
8 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.46%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.46%) ERwin
9 1 (0.23%) GCC
9 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 153 (34.85%) Finance
2 101 (23.01%) Social Skills
3 51 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.66%) Banking
5 32 (7.29%) Retail
6 23 (5.24%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.56%) Marketing
8 13 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.28%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.82%) Front Office
10 8 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.82%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.59%) Back Office
12 6 (1.37%) Legal
12 6 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.14%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.91%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (35.76%) Data Engineer
2 87 (19.82%) Snowflake Engineer
3 79 (18.00%) Architect
4 78 (17.77%) Senior
5 72 (16.40%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 47 (10.71%) Analyst
7 45 (10.25%) Senior Data Engineer
8 44 (10.02%) Data Architect
9 38 (8.66%) Lead
10 32 (7.29%) Data Analyst
11 28 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (6.15%) Developer
13 24 (5.47%) AWS Data Engineer
14 23 (5.24%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (4.10%) Snowflake Architect
16 14 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
16 14 (3.19%) Business Analyst
17 12 (2.73%) Lead Data Engineer
18 11 (2.51%) DevOps Engineer
19 10 (2.28%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.74%) Kafka
2 16 (3.64%) PySpark
3 13 (2.96%) REST
4 10 (2.28%) Playwright
4 10 (2.28%) Spring
4 10 (2.28%) Spring Boot
5 9 (2.05%) .NET
6 7 (1.59%) React
7 6 (1.37%) Vue
8 5 (1.14%) OAuth
8 5 (1.14%) OpenID
9 4 (0.91%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.91%) PyTorch
9 4 (0.91%) YAML
10 3 (0.68%) ADO
10 3 (0.68%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.68%) scikit-learn
10 3 (0.68%) Snowpark
11 2 (0.46%) Pandas
11 2 (0.46%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (12.98%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (2.73%) Data Structures
3 12 (2.73%) Fixed Income
4 11 (2.51%) Enterprise Cloud
5 10 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.28%) Clustering
5 10 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.28%) Equities
5 10 (2.28%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.82%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.59%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.59%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.14%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.91%) Data Fabric
10 4 (0.91%) Replication
11 3 (0.68%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.14%) Unix
2 2 (0.46%) Linux
2 2 (0.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (44.42%) Analytics
2 160 (36.45%) Data Engineering
3 154 (35.08%) Data Modelling
4 140 (31.89%) ETL
5 138 (31.44%) Data Pipeline
6 133 (30.30%) CI/CD
7 132 (30.07%) Business Intelligence
8 107 (24.37%) AI
9 92 (20.96%) DevOps
10 90 (20.50%) Agile
10 90 (20.50%) Migration
11 77 (17.54%) Data Governance
12 68 (15.49%) Data Architecture
13 66 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
14 65 (14.81%) Validation
15 63 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
16 52 (11.85%) Machine Learning
17 48 (10.93%) Data Transformation
17 48 (10.93%) Decision-Making
18 46 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 249 (56.72%) SQL
2 205 (46.70%) Python
3 55 (12.53%) Java
4 14 (3.19%) C#
5 12 (2.73%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.73%) R
6 9 (2.05%) Bash
6 9 (2.05%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.37%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.37%) Scala
8 5 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.91%) Bicep
9 4 (0.91%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.46%) Korn
12 1 (0.23%) C
12 1 (0.23%) Ruby
12 1 (0.23%) SOQL
12 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (9.11%) Security Cleared
2 28 (6.38%) Degree
3 23 (5.24%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.28%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.59%) SnowPro
7 5 (1.14%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.68%) SAS Certification
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.23%) ACCA
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.23%) CFA
10 1 (0.23%) CIMA
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PhD
10 1 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (24.37%) Data Quality
2 27 (6.15%) GDPR
3 16 (3.64%) QA
4 4 (0.91%) SLA
5 3 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.68%) PMO
5 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.46%) EMIR
6 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.46%) MiFID
7 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.23%) CDISC
7 1 (0.23%) FATCA
7 1 (0.23%) GAAP
7 1 (0.23%) IFRS
7 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 27 (6.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (12.98%) Terraform
2 28 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.82%) Grafana
3 8 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.46%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 116 (26.42%) Databricks
2 43 (9.79%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.01%) Informatica
4 18 (4.10%) Oracle
5 15 (3.42%) Google
5 15 (3.42%) SAP
6 12 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.51%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.82%) Denodo
9 7 (1.59%) Ab Initio
9 7 (1.59%) Talend
9 7 (1.59%) Teradata
10 6 (1.37%) Charles River
10 6 (1.37%) Splunk
11 5 (1.14%) FactSet
11 5 (1.14%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.14%) SimCorp
11 5 (1.14%) Workday
12 4 (0.91%) Murex