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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 239 321
Rank change year-on-year +4 +82 +106
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 360 285 245
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.14% 1.04% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 2.85% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 187 197
10th Percentile £344 £375 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £655 £781 £675
90th Percentile £825 £888 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £607 £575
% change year-on-year -13.51% +5.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.20 - -
25th Percentile £34.25 - -
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.38 - -
90th Percentile £62.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £43.00 - -

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 11,989 9,992 12,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.09% 36.58% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 6,676 9,078
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 134 236
10th Percentile £14.46 £16.41 £14.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -1.38%
75th Percentile £57.31 £46.18 £50.40
90th Percentile £78.00 £67.63 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -1.05% +19.57% +2.22%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +32 277 £550 -15.38% 120
North of England -45 21 £375 -14.29% 55
North West -23 18 £347 -20.80% 31
South East -11 16 £500 +21.21% 92
South West -3 13 £500 +25.00% 32
East of England -8 12 £565 +13.00% 41
Midlands -48 10 £550 +10.00% 48
West Midlands -46 7 £550 +10.00% 27
East Midlands -29 3 £575 -7.93% 18
Yorkshire -44 2 £469 - 21
North East -11 1 - - 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 85 (23.61%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (9.17%) Apache
3 21 (5.83%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.67%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (1.11%) Confluence
6 2 (0.56%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (5.28%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.56%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.56%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.56%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.56%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.56%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 187 (51.94%) AWS
2 159 (44.17%) Azure
3 104 (28.89%) dbt
4 85 (23.61%) Power Platform
5 65 (18.06%) GCP
6 39 (10.83%) Serverless
7 35 (9.72%) Amazon S3
8 33 (9.17%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (6.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (6.39%) GitHub
11 21 (5.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 17 (4.72%) Matillion
13 13 (3.61%) Fivetran
14 12 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
14 12 (3.33%) SaaS
15 11 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (2.78%) Prefect
17 8 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.56%) Firewall
2 1 (0.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (29.72%) Data Warehouse
2 83 (23.06%) Power BI
3 54 (15.00%) Data Lake
4 41 (11.39%) Snowflake Schema
5 38 (10.56%) Tableau
6 27 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (6.94%) Amazon Athena
8 23 (6.39%) BigQuery
9 22 (6.11%) Apache Iceberg
10 21 (5.83%) Data Vault
10 21 (5.83%) SQL Server
11 20 (5.56%) Apache Arrow
11 20 (5.56%) Apache Ignite
11 20 (5.56%) Dremio
12 17 (4.72%) Big Data
12 17 (4.72%) Metadata
12 17 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (4.72%) Relational Database
13 14 (3.89%) Star Schema
14 11 (3.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (8.33%) Git
2 18 (5.00%) JIRA
3 16 (4.44%) GitLab
4 12 (3.33%) ERwin
5 11 (3.06%) SpecFlow
6 10 (2.78%) ER Studio
6 10 (2.78%) PowerDesigner
7 8 (2.22%) DBeaver
8 6 (1.67%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.11%) MLflow
10 3 (0.83%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.56%) Selenium
11 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.56%) TestRail
11 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.28%) Deequ
General
1 106 (29.44%) Finance
2 91 (25.28%) Social Skills
3 53 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.44%) Banking
5 27 (7.50%) Front Office
6 26 (7.22%) Investment Banking
7 14 (3.89%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.06%) Marketing
9 10 (2.78%) Retail
10 7 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.67%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Law
15 2 (0.56%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.56%) iGaming
15 2 (0.56%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 108 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 56 (15.56%) Snowflake Engineer
3 50 (13.89%) Senior
4 45 (12.50%) Analyst
5 42 (11.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 40 (11.11%) Architect
7 34 (9.44%) Data Analyst
8 33 (9.17%) AWS Engineer
9 32 (8.89%) Developer
10 30 (8.33%) Python Engineer
11 28 (7.78%) Lead
12 22 (6.11%) Software Engineer
13 21 (5.83%) Java Engineer
14 20 (5.56%) AWS Software Engineer
14 20 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
14 20 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
15 19 (5.28%) Data Architect
15 19 (5.28%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 19 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.17%) Pandas
2 24 (6.67%) NumPy
3 20 (5.56%) gRPC
3 20 (5.56%) Protocol Buffers
3 20 (5.56%) SciPy
4 17 (4.72%) Kafka
5 13 (3.61%) Playwright
6 12 (3.33%) PySpark
7 8 (2.22%) Node.js
7 8 (2.22%) PyTorch
8 7 (1.94%) React
9 6 (1.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 5 (1.39%) .NET
10 5 (1.39%) JSON
10 5 (1.39%) REST
10 5 (1.39%) scikit-learn
11 4 (1.11%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.11%) OAuth
11 4 (1.11%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.94%) Equities
1 25 (6.94%) Fixed Income
2 23 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.39%) Data Structures
2 23 (6.39%) Derivative
3 22 (6.11%) Hedge funds
4 21 (5.83%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (5.56%) Pricing Data
6 10 (2.78%) Clustering
6 10 (2.78%) Replication
7 8 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.94%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.67%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.83%) Unix
2 2 (0.56%) Linux
2 2 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (39.44%) Analytics
2 133 (36.94%) Data Modelling
3 121 (33.61%) ETL
4 104 (28.89%) Agile
5 97 (26.94%) Data Engineering
6 91 (25.28%) Business Intelligence
7 83 (23.06%) Data Pipeline
8 81 (22.50%) CI/CD
9 73 (20.28%) Data Governance
10 65 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (15.56%) DevOps
12 55 (15.28%) Asset Management
13 52 (14.44%) AI
14 51 (14.17%) Data Transformation
14 51 (14.17%) Migration
15 48 (13.33%) Data Science
16 42 (11.67%) Software Engineering
17 41 (11.39%) Data Architecture
17 41 (11.39%) Machine Learning
18 39 (10.83%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 229 (63.61%) SQL
2 194 (53.89%) Python
3 46 (12.78%) Java
4 39 (10.83%) JavaScript
4 39 (10.83%) TypeScript
5 14 (3.89%) C#
6 10 (2.78%) PL/SQL
7 9 (2.50%) R
8 7 (1.94%) Bash
8 7 (1.94%) Korn
9 6 (1.67%) Scala
10 5 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.56%) Bicep
14 1 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.28%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (4.72%) Security Cleared
2 16 (4.44%) Degree
3 12 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.06%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.67%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.83%) PhD
11 2 (0.56%) ACCA
11 2 (0.56%) CIMA
11 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.56%) PMP
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (22.78%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.89%) GDPR
2 14 (3.89%) QA
3 7 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.56%) DICOM
4 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.56%) MiFID
5 1 (0.28%) GRC
5 1 (0.28%) HL7
5 1 (0.28%) IFRS
5 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.28%) LOINC
5 1 (0.28%) PMO
5 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (6.67%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (9.72%) Terraform
2 24 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.67%) Grafana
4 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.56%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.28%) Ansible
6 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 81 (22.50%) Databricks
2 34 (9.44%) Microsoft
3 22 (6.11%) Oracle
4 10 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.78%) SAP
5 9 (2.50%) Informatica
6 8 (2.22%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.22%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.94%) Google
7 7 (1.94%) Sparx
7 7 (1.94%) Talend
8 6 (1.67%) Charles River
9 5 (1.39%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.39%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.39%) Virgin Media
10 4 (1.11%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.83%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.83%) IBM
11 3 (0.83%) Murex
11 3 (0.83%) StreamSets