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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 202 201
Rank change year-on-year -25 -1 +185
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 508 356 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.14% 1.31% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.25% 3.51% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 283 371
10th Percentile £407 £407 £425
25th Percentile £463 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £800
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -30.00% +39.13%
75th Percentile £670 £794 £875
90th Percentile £750 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £750
% change year-on-year - -26.67% +30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £56.60 - -
25th Percentile £66.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.25 - £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 15,626 10,136 12,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.36% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,489 6,852 8,592
10th Percentile £325 £311 £311
25th Percentile £419 £409 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £516 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.20% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 266 324
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.84 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -36.29%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +10 366 £575 -8.00% 126
North of England -55 41 £538 +7.50% 40
Midlands -44 35 £525 +7.69% 26
West Midlands -49 33 £550 +10.00% 19
North West -29 27 £525 -5.41% 25
South East -58 25 £550 +15.79% 47
South West -45 16 £561 +9.51% 18
Yorkshire -52 10 £550 +15.79% 12
East of England -28 9 £390 -32.76% 15
North East -38 4 £575 +35.29% 3
East Midlands -15 2 £423 +0.60% 7
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 91 (17.91%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (7.48%) Apache Spark
3 21 (4.13%) Apache
4 12 (2.36%) Confluence
5 9 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.98%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Luigi
7 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.18%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.33%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.98%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.98%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.98%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.59%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.39%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.39%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 262 (51.57%) AWS
2 198 (38.98%) Azure
3 131 (25.79%) Power Platform
4 128 (25.20%) dbt
5 118 (23.23%) GCP
6 74 (14.57%) Amazon S3
7 52 (10.24%) GitHub
8 47 (9.25%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (8.86%) Serverless
10 42 (8.27%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (8.27%) Azure Data Factory
11 32 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
11 32 (6.30%) Matillion
12 26 (5.12%) Fivetran
13 22 (4.33%) Dagster
14 18 (3.54%) SaaS
15 17 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 15 (2.95%) Prefect
17 13 (2.56%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Broadband
1 2 (0.39%) DSL
1 2 (0.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) DNS
2 1 (0.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.20%) SSL
2 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (31.30%) Data Warehouse
2 126 (24.80%) Power BI
3 70 (13.78%) BigQuery
4 65 (12.80%) Tableau
5 62 (12.20%) Snowflake Schema
6 57 (11.22%) Data Lake
7 45 (8.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 37 (7.28%) SQL Server
9 33 (6.50%) Big Data
10 29 (5.71%) Metadata
11 25 (4.92%) Data Vault
12 24 (4.72%) Relational Database
13 21 (4.13%) NoSQL
14 20 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (3.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (3.35%) Looker
16 12 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
17 10 (1.97%) Delta Lake
17 10 (1.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 10 (1.97%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 40 (7.87%) Git
2 27 (5.31%) JIRA
3 25 (4.92%) GitLab
4 16 (3.15%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.18%) MLflow
6 5 (0.98%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.59%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.59%) Snyk
7 3 (0.59%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.39%) Toad
9 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.20%) ERwin
9 1 (0.20%) GCC
9 1 (0.20%) LSMW
9 1 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 174 (34.25%) Finance
2 131 (25.79%) Social Skills
3 65 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (11.81%) Banking
5 47 (9.25%) Retail
6 24 (4.72%) Marketing
7 22 (4.33%) Public Sector
8 18 (3.54%) Financial Institution
8 18 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.76%) Front Office
10 11 (2.17%) Legal
10 11 (2.17%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.97%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.77%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.57%) Back Office
13 8 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.18%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.98%) Billing
Job Titles
1 187 (36.81%) Data Engineer
2 100 (19.69%) Snowflake Engineer
3 95 (18.70%) Architect
4 88 (17.32%) Senior
5 80 (15.75%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 55 (10.83%) Analyst
7 53 (10.43%) Data Architect
8 49 (9.65%) Senior Data Engineer
9 38 (7.48%) Lead
10 32 (6.30%) Data Analyst
11 29 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (5.51%) Developer
13 27 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
14 23 (4.53%) AWS Data Engineer
15 19 (3.74%) Business Analyst
16 18 (3.54%) Snowflake Architect
17 16 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
18 14 (2.76%) Consultant
19 13 (2.56%) Platform Engineer
20 12 (2.36%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (8.27%) Kafka
2 22 (4.33%) REST
3 16 (3.15%) PySpark
4 11 (2.17%) Spring
4 11 (2.17%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.97%) .NET
6 9 (1.77%) React
7 7 (1.38%) OAuth
7 7 (1.38%) YAML
8 6 (1.18%) Vue
9 5 (0.98%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.98%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.98%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.98%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.98%) OpenID
9 5 (0.98%) Playwright
9 5 (0.98%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.98%) Snowpark
10 4 (0.79%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 67 (13.19%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.54%) Data Structures
3 17 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.95%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (2.56%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (2.36%) Fixed Income
8 11 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.97%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.97%) Equities
9 10 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.77%) Clustering
10 9 (1.77%) Reinsurance
11 5 (0.98%) Data Fabric
11 5 (0.98%) Derivative
11 5 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.98%) Mainframe
11 5 (0.98%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.79%) Unix
2 2 (0.39%) Linux
2 2 (0.39%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (44.88%) Analytics
2 194 (38.19%) Data Engineering
3 184 (36.22%) Data Modelling
4 181 (35.63%) Data Pipeline
5 170 (33.46%) ETL
6 156 (30.71%) CI/CD
7 150 (29.53%) Business Intelligence
8 134 (26.38%) AI
9 109 (21.46%) Agile
10 102 (20.08%) Migration
11 96 (18.90%) DevOps
12 90 (17.72%) Data Governance
12 90 (17.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 87 (17.13%) Data Architecture
14 76 (14.96%) Validation
15 66 (12.99%) Data Transformation
15 66 (12.99%) Machine Learning
16 60 (11.81%) Decision-Making
17 58 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
18 55 (10.83%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 281 (55.31%) SQL
2 241 (47.44%) Python
3 58 (11.42%) Java
4 15 (2.95%) R
5 10 (1.97%) C#
6 9 (1.77%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.57%) Bash
7 8 (1.57%) Scala
8 7 (1.38%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.38%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.79%) Bicep
9 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.59%) Cypher
10 3 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.59%) SHACL
11 2 (0.39%) Korn
11 2 (0.39%) SOQL
11 2 (0.39%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.39%) VBScript
12 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 46 (9.06%) Security Cleared
2 35 (6.89%) Degree
3 29 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.17%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.57%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.57%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.79%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.79%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.20%) ACCA
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.20%) CFA
11 1 (0.20%) CIMA
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (25.20%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.89%) GDPR
3 15 (2.95%) QA
4 6 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (1.18%) SLA
5 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.59%) EMIR
6 3 (0.59%) MiFID
7 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.39%) PMO
7 2 (0.39%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.20%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.20%) CDISC
8 1 (0.20%) FATCA
8 1 (0.20%) GAAP
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 31 (6.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (13.58%) Terraform
2 35 (6.89%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.56%) Grafana
4 10 (1.97%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.39%) Ansible
5 2 (0.39%) Argo
5 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.20%) Control-M
Vendors
1 137 (26.97%) Databricks
2 50 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.12%) Informatica
4 23 (4.53%) Google
4 23 (4.53%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.94%) SAP
6 18 (3.54%) Oracle
7 9 (1.77%) Charles River
7 9 (1.77%) MuleSoft
7 9 (1.77%) Talend
8 8 (1.57%) Denodo
9 7 (1.38%) FactSet
9 7 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.38%) Splunk
9 7 (1.38%) Teradata
9 7 (1.38%) Workday
10 6 (1.18%) Murex
10 6 (1.18%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.98%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.98%) OpenAI