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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 249 314
Rank change year-on-year +10 +65 +120
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 386 264 259
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 1.02% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.97% 2.73% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 171 194
10th Percentile £330 £375 £425
25th Percentile £413 £496 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £706
90th Percentile £725 £875 £744
UK median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £50.98 - -
25th Percentile £52.44 - -
Median hourly rate £57.25 - -
75th Percentile £64.44 - -
90th Percentile £67.33 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £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 13,018 9,667 12,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.64% 37.45% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,988 6,472 9,007
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £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 357 143 308
10th Percentile £14.80 £15.60 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +25.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.15 £67.17
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%

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 18 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
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 18 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 +31 295 £525 -19.23% 68
North of England -54 19 £373 -17.06% 26
South West -15 18 £475 -13.64% 8
South East -24 17 £525 +31.25% 37
North West -25 16 £345 -21.09% 17
Midlands -62 15 £550 +10.00% 14
West Midlands -55 11 £500 -9.09% 12
East of England -19 9 £550 - 2
East Midlands -23 4 £575 +33.72% 2
Yorkshire -52 2 £488 +5.41% 7
North East -13 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 72 (18.65%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (7.25%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.92%) Apache
4 5 (1.30%) Confluence
4 5 (1.30%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (0.78%) SAS
6 2 (0.52%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.26%) Luigi
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.55%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (6.22%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.78%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.78%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.52%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.26%) Eagle PACE
5 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.26%) Markit EDM
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
1 200 (51.81%) AWS
2 179 (46.37%) Azure
3 96 (24.87%) dbt
3 96 (24.87%) Power Platform
4 71 (18.39%) GCP
5 45 (11.66%) Serverless
6 44 (11.40%) Amazon S3
7 39 (10.10%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (8.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 31 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (6.99%) Matillion
11 26 (6.74%) GitHub
12 21 (5.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 15 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (3.89%) SaaS
14 13 (3.37%) Fivetran
15 12 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (2.85%) Amazon EMR
17 10 (2.59%) Prefect
18 7 (1.81%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (29.53%) Data Warehouse
2 90 (23.32%) Power BI
3 52 (13.47%) Snowflake Schema
4 40 (10.36%) Tableau
5 36 (9.33%) Data Lake
6 26 (6.74%) Data Vault
7 23 (5.96%) BigQuery
7 23 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (5.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (5.70%) Metadata
9 21 (5.44%) Big Data
9 21 (5.44%) Relational Database
9 21 (5.44%) SQL Server
10 15 (3.89%) NoSQL
11 12 (3.11%) RDBMS
11 12 (3.11%) Star Schema
12 11 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (2.59%) Looker
14 8 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (2.07%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 30 (7.77%) Git
2 20 (5.18%) JIRA
3 18 (4.66%) GitLab
4 14 (3.63%) SpecFlow
5 11 (2.85%) ERwin
6 10 (2.59%) ER Studio
7 9 (2.33%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (1.81%) DBeaver
8 7 (1.81%) MLflow
9 5 (1.30%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.78%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.78%) Toad
11 2 (0.52%) Selenium
11 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.26%) Deequ
12 1 (0.26%) TestRail
General
1 105 (27.20%) Finance
2 93 (24.09%) Social Skills
3 55 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.70%) Banking
5 19 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.89%) Retail
7 13 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 12 (3.11%) Front Office
8 12 (3.11%) Marketing
9 10 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.78%) Back Office
12 3 (0.78%) Law
12 3 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 134 (34.72%) Data Engineer
2 71 (18.39%) Snowflake Engineer
3 55 (14.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 51 (13.21%) Architect
5 48 (12.44%) Analyst
6 38 (9.84%) Lead
7 37 (9.59%) Senior
8 34 (8.81%) Data Analyst
8 34 (8.81%) Developer
9 27 (6.99%) Data Architect
10 22 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.70%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (4.66%) Python Engineer
12 17 (4.40%) Data Modeller
12 17 (4.40%) Lead Data Engineer
12 17 (4.40%) Snowflake Architect
13 16 (4.15%) Tester
14 15 (3.89%) Business Analyst
14 15 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.96%) Kafka
2 16 (4.15%) Pandas
2 16 (4.15%) Playwright
3 13 (3.37%) PySpark
4 10 (2.59%) NumPy
5 9 (2.33%) PyTorch
5 9 (2.33%) Spring Boot
6 8 (2.07%) Node.js
6 8 (2.07%) React
6 8 (2.07%) Spring
7 6 (1.55%) gRPC
7 6 (1.55%) JSON
7 6 (1.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 6 (1.55%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (1.55%) SciPy
8 5 (1.30%) REST
8 5 (1.30%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.04%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.04%) OAuth
9 4 (1.04%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.55%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.96%) Data Protection Act
2 23 (5.96%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.37%) Equities
3 13 (3.37%) Fixed Income
4 12 (3.11%) Clustering
5 11 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.59%) Replication
7 9 (2.33%) Derivative
8 8 (2.07%) Hedge funds
9 6 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.55%) Pricing Data
9 6 (1.55%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.55%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.30%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.30%) Unix
2 2 (0.52%) Linux
2 2 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (45.08%) Analytics
2 155 (40.16%) Data Modelling
3 133 (34.46%) ETL
4 119 (30.83%) Data Engineering
5 109 (28.24%) Business Intelligence
6 104 (26.94%) Data Pipeline
7 98 (25.39%) Agile
7 98 (25.39%) CI/CD
8 77 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (18.91%) AI
10 70 (18.13%) Data Governance
11 64 (16.58%) DevOps
12 56 (14.51%) Migration
13 52 (13.47%) Data Transformation
14 50 (12.95%) Data Architecture
15 48 (12.44%) Machine Learning
16 47 (12.18%) Data Science
17 45 (11.66%) Performance Tuning
18 43 (11.14%) Asset Management
19 40 (10.36%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 250 (64.77%) SQL
2 202 (52.33%) Python
3 43 (11.14%) Java
4 27 (6.99%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.74%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.66%) C#
7 10 (2.59%) PL/SQL
8 9 (2.33%) Bash
8 9 (2.33%) R
9 7 (1.81%) Korn
9 7 (1.81%) Scala
10 4 (1.04%) Bicep
11 3 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.78%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (6.74%) Security Cleared
2 22 (5.70%) Degree
3 17 (4.40%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.85%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.07%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.81%) SnowPro
7 4 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.78%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.78%) PhD
9 2 (0.52%) ACCA
9 2 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.52%) CIMA
10 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (25.65%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.37%) GDPR
2 13 (3.37%) QA
3 6 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.52%) 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 28 (7.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (12.18%) Terraform
2 31 (8.03%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.30%) Grafana
3 5 (1.30%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.78%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 99 (25.65%) Databricks
2 42 (10.88%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.96%) Oracle
4 13 (3.37%) Talend
5 10 (2.59%) MuleSoft
6 9 (2.33%) Informatica
7 8 (2.07%) Charles River
7 8 (2.07%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.81%) MicroStrategy
8 7 (1.81%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.81%) SAP
9 6 (1.55%) Google
9 6 (1.55%) Sparx
10 5 (1.30%) Ab Initio
10 5 (1.30%) SimCorp
10 5 (1.30%) Teradata
10 5 (1.30%) Virgin Media
11 4 (1.04%) Guidewire
11 4 (1.04%) Murex
12 3 (0.78%) FactSet