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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 204 187
Rank change year-on-year -19 -17 +157
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 556 357 422
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.22% 1.29% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.49% 3.47% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 281 376
10th Percentile £407 £406 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £555 £800
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -30.63% +38.27%
75th Percentile £674 £813 £888
90th Percentile £753 £825 -
UK median daily rate £574 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.32% -31.25% +38.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £67.20 £32.85 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% - -
75th Percentile £80.75 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £86.30 £37.35 -
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 15,947 10,275 11,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.94% 37.23% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,657 6,963 7,911
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 273 216
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.23 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +11 404 £575 -8.00% 357
North of England -38 42 £525 +10.53% 116
Midlands -42 34 £518 +23.21% 58
South East -44 31 £606 +19.75% 62
North West -20 30 £525 +1.94% 65
West Midlands -40 30 £563 +32.35% 52
South West -46 16 £575 +21.05% 16
East of England -28 10 £380 -34.48% 4
Yorkshire -38 9 £550 +15.79% 13
East Midlands -17 4 £466 +10.83% 6
North East -38 3 - - 38
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
1 119 (21.40%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (6.83%) Apache Spark
3 29 (5.22%) Apache
4 12 (2.16%) Confluence
5 10 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.72%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.18%) JBoss
7 1 (0.18%) Luigi
7 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (3.24%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.90%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.90%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.90%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.36%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.36%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 301 (54.14%) AWS
2 225 (40.47%) Azure
3 147 (26.44%) dbt
4 141 (25.36%) Power Platform
5 133 (23.92%) GCP
6 74 (13.31%) Amazon S3
7 61 (10.97%) GitHub
8 53 (9.53%) Serverless
9 49 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (8.27%) Azure Data Factory
11 38 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (4.86%) Fivetran
13 24 (4.32%) Dagster
13 24 (4.32%) Matillion
14 19 (3.42%) Prefect
15 18 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 18 (3.24%) SaaS
16 17 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.54%) Broadband
2 2 (0.36%) DSL
2 2 (0.36%) Firewall
2 2 (0.36%) Internet
2 2 (0.36%) VPN
3 1 (0.18%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.18%) DNS
3 1 (0.18%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.18%) SSH
3 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (34.17%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (24.82%) Power BI
3 78 (14.03%) BigQuery
4 69 (12.41%) Data Lake
5 68 (12.23%) Tableau
6 60 (10.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 57 (10.25%) Snowflake Schema
8 36 (6.47%) SQL Server
9 33 (5.94%) Metadata
10 30 (5.40%) Big Data
11 28 (5.04%) NoSQL
12 26 (4.68%) Data Vault
13 22 (3.96%) Relational Database
13 22 (3.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
15 18 (3.24%) Looker
16 17 (3.06%) Semantic Layer
17 12 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (2.16%) Delta Lake
18 10 (1.80%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 55 (9.89%) Git
2 28 (5.04%) JIRA
3 27 (4.86%) GitLab
4 24 (4.32%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.08%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.72%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.72%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.54%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.54%) Snyk
7 3 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.54%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.36%) MLflow
8 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.36%) Selenium
9 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.18%) ERwin
9 1 (0.18%) GCC
9 1 (0.18%) LSMW
General
1 192 (34.53%) Finance
2 156 (28.06%) Social Skills
3 84 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (13.67%) Banking
5 47 (8.45%) Retail
6 27 (4.86%) Marketing
7 22 (3.96%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.60%) Financial Institution
8 20 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (3.42%) Front Office
10 16 (2.88%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.34%) Legal
12 11 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.44%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.90%) Private Banking
16 5 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 194 (34.89%) Data Engineer
2 103 (18.53%) Architect
3 102 (18.35%) Senior
4 94 (16.91%) Snowflake Engineer
5 74 (13.31%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 61 (10.97%) Analyst
7 59 (10.61%) Data Architect
7 59 (10.61%) Senior Data Engineer
8 48 (8.63%) Lead
9 37 (6.65%) Data Analyst
10 29 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (4.86%) Developer
12 23 (4.14%) AWS Data Engineer
13 22 (3.96%) Snowflake Architect
13 22 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (3.78%) Business Analyst
15 17 (3.06%) Python Engineer
16 15 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
17 13 (2.34%) Lead Data Engineer
17 13 (2.34%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (14.03%) Terraform
2 51 (9.17%) Kafka
3 25 (4.50%) REST
4 23 (4.14%) PySpark
5 13 (2.34%) .NET
6 8 (1.44%) OAuth
6 8 (1.44%) React
6 8 (1.44%) Spring
6 8 (1.44%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.26%) YAML
8 6 (1.08%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.90%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.90%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.90%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.90%) OpenID
9 5 (0.90%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.90%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.90%) Vue
10 4 (0.72%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 76 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.60%) Data Structures
4 16 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 15 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.52%) Fixed Income
6 14 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.62%) Equities
10 9 (1.62%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.44%) Clustering
12 7 (1.26%) Life Science
13 6 (1.08%) Data Fabric
13 6 (1.08%) Reference Data
14 5 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.26%) Linux
1 7 (1.26%) Unix
2 2 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (42.81%) Analytics
2 216 (38.85%) Data Engineering
3 197 (35.43%) Data Pipeline
4 196 (35.25%) Data Modelling
5 193 (34.71%) CI/CD
5 193 (34.71%) ETL
6 160 (28.78%) Business Intelligence
7 149 (26.80%) AI
8 133 (23.92%) Agile
9 130 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 112 (20.14%) DevOps
11 107 (19.24%) Data Governance
12 104 (18.71%) Data Architecture
13 97 (17.45%) Migration
14 87 (15.65%) Validation
15 83 (14.93%) Data Transformation
16 73 (13.13%) Decision-Making
17 70 (12.59%) Machine Learning
18 66 (11.87%) Infrastructure as Code
19 59 (10.61%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 313 (56.29%) SQL
2 267 (48.02%) Python
3 54 (9.71%) Java
4 12 (2.16%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.16%) R
5 8 (1.44%) Bash
5 8 (1.44%) C#
5 8 (1.44%) Scala
6 5 (0.90%) Bicep
6 5 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.90%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.72%) C++
7 4 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.54%) Cypher
8 3 (0.54%) SHACL
8 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.36%) Delphi
9 2 (0.36%) Korn
9 2 (0.36%) SOQL
9 2 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (9.17%) Security Cleared
2 38 (6.83%) Degree
3 29 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.98%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.62%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.62%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.44%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.44%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.72%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (26.98%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.29%) GDPR
3 24 (4.32%) QA
4 7 (1.26%) SLA
5 6 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.72%) PMO
8 3 (0.54%) EMIR
8 3 (0.54%) MiFID
8 3 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.36%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) IFRS
10 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (7.55%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (8.09%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.70%) Grafana
3 8 (1.44%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.72%) Control-M
5 2 (0.36%) Ansible
5 2 (0.36%) Argo
5 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 161 (28.96%) Databricks
2 59 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.58%) Google
4 29 (5.22%) Informatica
5 28 (5.04%) Salesforce
6 22 (3.96%) SAP
7 18 (3.24%) Oracle
8 10 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.80%) Teradata
8 10 (1.80%) Workday
9 9 (1.62%) Denodo
10 8 (1.44%) MicroStrategy
10 8 (1.44%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.44%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.26%) Charles River
11 7 (1.26%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.26%) Splunk
12 6 (1.08%) Foundry
13 5 (0.90%) FactSet
13 5 (0.90%) Sage