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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 226 188
Rank change year-on-year +18 -38 +158
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 596 338 446
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.28% 1.22% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.72% 3.23% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 262 366
10th Percentile £400 £404 £425
25th Percentile £463 £477 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £875
90th Percentile £753 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +36.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% - -
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 16,039 10,456 11,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 37.88% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,685 7,075 7,552
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 245 165
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.35 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.73% -25.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £33.27
% change year-on-year +16.07% -15.84% -4.94%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +22 442 £575 -8.00% 561
North of England -60 37 £500 +17.65% 106
South East -45 32 £616 +17.33% 89
Midlands -40 27 £513 +20.59% 32
North West -34 25 £513 +25.00% 71
West Midlands -30 23 £588 +17.50% 18
South West -33 23 £650 +36.84% 63
East of England -32 15 £380 -24.00% 15
Yorkshire -42 9 £400 -15.79% 23
East Midlands -19 4 £466 +11.83% 14
North East -38 3 - - 12
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
1 126 (21.14%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (8.56%) Apache Spark
3 37 (6.21%) Apache
4 13 (2.18%) Confluence
5 10 (1.68%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.67%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (2.85%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.84%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.84%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.67%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.34%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 323 (54.19%) AWS
2 258 (43.29%) Azure
3 179 (30.03%) dbt
4 137 (22.99%) Power Platform
5 135 (22.65%) GCP
6 76 (12.75%) GitHub
7 72 (12.08%) Amazon S3
8 58 (9.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 58 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (9.40%) Serverless
10 48 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (7.72%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (5.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 26 (4.36%) Fivetran
14 22 (3.69%) Dagster
15 21 (3.52%) SaaS
16 18 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.85%) Amazon EventBridge
17 17 (2.85%) Matillion
18 16 (2.68%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) Broadband
2 2 (0.34%) DSL
2 2 (0.34%) Firewall
2 2 (0.34%) Internet
2 2 (0.34%) Network Security
2 2 (0.34%) VPN
3 1 (0.17%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.17%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.17%) SSH
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (33.72%) Data Warehouse
2 135 (22.65%) Power BI
3 82 (13.76%) Data Lake
4 74 (12.42%) BigQuery
5 64 (10.74%) Tableau
6 62 (10.40%) Snowflake Schema
7 61 (10.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 40 (6.71%) Metadata
9 39 (6.54%) SQL Server
10 34 (5.70%) Big Data
11 30 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (4.87%) NoSQL
13 27 (4.53%) Data Vault
14 24 (4.03%) Relational Database
15 19 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (3.02%) Delta Lake
17 17 (2.85%) Looker
18 15 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
19 14 (2.35%) Semantic Layer
20 13 (2.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 61 (10.23%) Git
2 28 (4.70%) JIRA
3 26 (4.36%) GitLab
4 20 (3.36%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.17%) Terragrunt
6 6 (1.01%) Snyk
7 4 (0.67%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.67%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.34%) ERwin
8 2 (0.34%) MLflow
8 2 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.34%) Selenium
8 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 195 (32.72%) Finance
2 171 (28.69%) Social Skills
3 98 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (12.08%) Banking
5 55 (9.23%) Retail
6 28 (4.70%) Marketing
7 22 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.19%) Financial Institution
9 18 (3.02%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.85%) Front Office
11 16 (2.68%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.18%) Legal
13 12 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.68%) Billing
14 10 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (1.17%) Investment Banking
17 7 (1.17%) Telecoms
18 6 (1.01%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 208 (34.90%) Data Engineer
2 123 (20.64%) Senior
3 114 (19.13%) Architect
4 100 (16.78%) Snowflake Engineer
5 78 (13.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 73 (12.25%) Data Architect
7 72 (12.08%) Senior Data Engineer
8 66 (11.07%) Analyst
9 42 (7.05%) Lead
10 40 (6.71%) Data Analyst
11 34 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.87%) AWS Data Engineer
12 29 (4.87%) Developer
13 24 (4.03%) Snowflake Architect
14 20 (3.36%) Business Analyst
14 20 (3.36%) Consultant
15 18 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
16 16 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
16 16 (2.68%) Python Engineer
17 13 (2.18%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (15.77%) Terraform
2 57 (9.56%) Kafka
3 30 (5.03%) PySpark
4 29 (4.87%) REST
5 15 (2.52%) .NET
6 8 (1.34%) OAuth
6 8 (1.34%) React
6 8 (1.34%) Spring
6 8 (1.34%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.17%) AWS CDK
7 7 (1.17%) YAML
8 5 (0.84%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.84%) Langfuse
8 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (0.84%) Model Context Protocol
8 5 (0.84%) OpenID
8 5 (0.84%) Pandas
8 5 (0.84%) pytest
9 4 (0.67%) NumPy
9 4 (0.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 82 (13.76%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.37%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.36%) Data Structures
4 22 (3.69%) AI Agents
5 18 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.52%) Reinsurance
8 13 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.85%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.68%) Life Science
12 9 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.51%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.34%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.34%) Reference Data
13 8 (1.34%) Taxonomies
14 6 (1.01%) Clustering
14 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.01%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.34%) Linux
2 6 (1.01%) Unix
3 2 (0.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Android
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (44.46%) Analytics
2 232 (38.93%) Data Engineering
3 225 (37.75%) Data Modelling
4 213 (35.74%) Data Pipeline
5 206 (34.56%) CI/CD
6 203 (34.06%) ETL
7 179 (30.03%) AI
8 156 (26.17%) Business Intelligence
9 147 (24.66%) Agile
10 145 (24.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 121 (20.30%) DevOps
12 119 (19.97%) Data Architecture
13 117 (19.63%) Data Governance
14 108 (18.12%) Migration
15 98 (16.44%) Validation
16 96 (16.11%) Data Transformation
17 88 (14.77%) Decision-Making
18 82 (13.76%) Machine Learning
19 78 (13.09%) Infrastructure as Code
20 71 (11.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 353 (59.23%) SQL
2 284 (47.65%) Python
3 52 (8.72%) Java
4 15 (2.52%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.18%) Bash
5 13 (2.18%) R
6 11 (1.85%) C#
6 11 (1.85%) Scala
7 8 (1.34%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.01%) Bicep
9 5 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.67%) C++
10 4 (0.67%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.50%) Cypher
11 3 (0.50%) SHACL
11 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.34%) Korn
12 2 (0.34%) LookML
12 2 (0.34%) SOQL
12 2 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 48 (8.05%) Security Cleared
2 33 (5.54%) Degree
3 28 (4.70%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.68%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.68%) SnowPro
7 8 (1.34%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.67%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.17%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.17%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (27.35%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.20%) GDPR
3 23 (3.86%) QA
4 6 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.67%) PMO
6 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.50%) EMIR
7 3 (0.50%) MiFID
7 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.50%) SLA
8 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.34%) GRC
8 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 44 (7.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (8.72%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.85%) Grafana
3 6 (1.01%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.67%) Control-M
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 193 (32.38%) Databricks
2 74 (12.42%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.03%) Salesforce
4 28 (4.70%) Google
5 27 (4.53%) Informatica
6 19 (3.19%) Oracle
7 18 (3.02%) SAP
8 10 (1.68%) MicroStrategy
8 10 (1.68%) Teradata
9 9 (1.51%) Workday
10 8 (1.34%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.17%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.17%) Denodo
11 7 (1.17%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.17%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.17%) Talend
12 6 (1.01%) Foundry
12 6 (1.01%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.84%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.84%) Sage