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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 221 193
Rank change year-on-year +4 -28 +157
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 566 332 432
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.24% 1.21% 1.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.56% 3.23% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 262 383
10th Percentile £407 £406 £425
25th Percentile £470 £473 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £888
90th Percentile £756 £825 -
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +34.68%
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 15,895 10,274 11,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.73% 37.29% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,618 6,952 7,901
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £718 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 269 198
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.07 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.70% -6.90% -14.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.62 £67.30 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +19.26% +1.79% -20.28%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +6 416 £575 -6.12% 516
North of England -45 42 £525 +10.53% 114
Midlands -36 32 £525 +25.00% 55
South East -42 30 £616 +17.33% 79
North West -28 29 £525 +7.69% 63
West Midlands -40 28 £575 +24.32% 45
South West -37 16 £575 +21.05% 57
East of England -26 10 £380 -34.48% 9
Yorkshire -41 10 £500 +5.26% 16
East Midlands -18 4 £466 +10.83% 10
North East -39 3 - - 35
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 (22.26%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (6.89%) Apache Spark
3 29 (5.12%) Apache
4 11 (1.94%) Confluence
5 10 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.71%) 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 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (3.18%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.88%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.88%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.88%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.35%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.35%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 307 (54.24%) AWS
2 232 (40.99%) Azure
3 159 (28.09%) dbt
4 142 (25.09%) Power Platform
5 133 (23.50%) GCP
6 74 (13.07%) Amazon S3
7 67 (11.84%) GitHub
8 56 (9.89%) Serverless
9 52 (9.19%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (8.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 41 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (4.77%) Fivetran
14 24 (4.24%) Dagster
15 21 (3.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 21 (3.71%) Matillion
16 19 (3.36%) Prefect
16 19 (3.36%) SaaS
17 18 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.53%) Broadband
2 2 (0.35%) DSL
2 2 (0.35%) Firewall
2 2 (0.35%) Internet
2 2 (0.35%) VPN
3 1 (0.18%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.18%) DNS
3 1 (0.18%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.18%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.18%) SSH
3 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (34.28%) Data Warehouse
2 140 (24.73%) Power BI
3 77 (13.60%) BigQuery
4 74 (13.07%) Data Lake
5 68 (12.01%) Tableau
6 61 (10.78%) Snowflake Schema
7 60 (10.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 34 (6.01%) Metadata
9 33 (5.83%) SQL Server
10 30 (5.30%) Big Data
11 28 (4.95%) NoSQL
12 26 (4.59%) Data Vault
13 23 (4.06%) Relational Database
14 21 (3.71%) Looker
15 20 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 17 (3.00%) Semantic Layer
18 14 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (2.47%) Delta Lake
19 12 (2.12%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 52 (9.19%) Git
2 27 (4.77%) GitLab
3 25 (4.42%) JIRA
4 24 (4.24%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.06%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.71%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.53%) Snyk
7 3 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.35%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.35%) MLflow
8 2 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.35%) Selenium
8 2 (0.35%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.18%) GCC
9 1 (0.18%) LSMW
9 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
General
1 193 (34.10%) Finance
2 162 (28.62%) Social Skills
3 89 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (12.90%) Banking
5 51 (9.01%) Retail
6 26 (4.59%) Marketing
7 20 (3.53%) Financial Institution
7 20 (3.53%) Front Office
7 20 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (3.18%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.83%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.47%) Legal
11 12 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.77%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.41%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.24%) Billing
14 7 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 199 (35.16%) Data Engineer
2 111 (19.61%) Senior
3 102 (18.02%) Architect
4 95 (16.78%) Snowflake Engineer
5 73 (12.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 64 (11.31%) Senior Data Engineer
7 62 (10.95%) Analyst
8 60 (10.60%) Data Architect
9 48 (8.48%) Lead
10 38 (6.71%) Data Analyst
11 29 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (4.77%) Developer
13 22 (3.89%) AWS Data Engineer
14 21 (3.71%) Business Analyst
14 21 (3.71%) Snowflake Architect
15 19 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (2.65%) Azure Engineer
16 15 (2.65%) Consultant
16 15 (2.65%) Python Engineer
17 13 (2.30%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (14.66%) Terraform
2 51 (9.01%) Kafka
3 25 (4.42%) REST
4 24 (4.24%) PySpark
5 14 (2.47%) .NET
6 8 (1.41%) OAuth
6 8 (1.41%) React
6 8 (1.41%) Spring
6 8 (1.41%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.24%) YAML
8 6 (1.06%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.88%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.88%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.88%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.88%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.88%) OpenID
10 4 (0.71%) Node.js
10 4 (0.71%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 76 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.12%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.71%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.18%) AI Agents
5 16 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.30%) Fixed Income
8 12 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.94%) Reinsurance
9 11 (1.94%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.41%) Clustering
10 8 (1.41%) Data Fabric
10 8 (1.41%) Equities
10 8 (1.41%) Life Science
11 7 (1.24%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.41%) Linux
2 7 (1.24%) Unix
3 2 (0.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (42.93%) Analytics
2 225 (39.75%) Data Engineering
3 207 (36.57%) Data Modelling
4 199 (35.16%) CI/CD
4 199 (35.16%) Data Pipeline
5 196 (34.63%) ETL
6 162 (28.62%) Business Intelligence
7 157 (27.74%) AI
8 140 (24.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 138 (24.38%) Agile
10 119 (21.02%) DevOps
11 106 (18.73%) Data Governance
12 104 (18.37%) Data Architecture
13 102 (18.02%) Migration
14 88 (15.55%) Validation
15 82 (14.49%) Data Transformation
16 76 (13.43%) Decision-Making
17 71 (12.54%) Machine Learning
18 65 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
19 62 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 320 (56.54%) SQL
2 273 (48.23%) Python
3 53 (9.36%) Java
4 12 (2.12%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.12%) R
5 11 (1.94%) Bash
6 8 (1.41%) C#
7 7 (1.24%) Scala
8 5 (0.88%) Bicep
8 5 (0.88%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.71%) C++
9 4 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.71%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.53%) Cypher
10 3 (0.53%) SHACL
10 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.35%) Delphi
11 2 (0.35%) LookML
11 2 (0.35%) SOQL
11 2 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (8.30%) Security Cleared
2 38 (6.71%) Degree
3 28 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.94%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.41%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.71%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.35%) 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%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (27.03%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.83%) GDPR
3 23 (4.06%) QA
4 7 (1.24%) SLA
5 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.71%) PMO
8 3 (0.53%) EMIR
8 3 (0.53%) MiFID
8 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.35%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.18%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (7.24%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.47%) Grafana
3 8 (1.41%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.71%) Control-M
5 2 (0.35%) Ansible
5 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 165 (29.15%) Databricks
2 62 (10.95%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.12%) Informatica
3 29 (5.12%) Salesforce
4 28 (4.95%) Google
5 22 (3.89%) SAP
6 15 (2.65%) Oracle
7 10 (1.77%) Teradata
7 10 (1.77%) Workday
8 8 (1.41%) MicroStrategy
8 8 (1.41%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.41%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.41%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.24%) Denodo
9 7 (1.24%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.24%) Splunk
10 6 (1.06%) Bloomberg
10 6 (1.06%) Charles River
10 6 (1.06%) Foundry
11 5 (0.88%) Sage