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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 227 192
Rank change year-on-year +10 -35 +144
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 567 329 433
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.24% 1.21% 1.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.58% 3.23% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 260 375
10th Percentile £406 £406 £425
25th Percentile £470 £463 £575
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 £753 £825 -
UK median daily rate £573 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.09% -31.25% +34.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £72.00 £32.85 -
25th Percentile £75.00 £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +125.35% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £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 15,845 10,186 11,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.72% 37.42% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,613 6,888 7,730
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £639
90th Percentile £719 £733 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 261 189
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.38 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £34.18 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -11.83% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.09 £59.95
90th Percentile £82.43 £71.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £29.16 £30.00
% change year-on-year +16.56% -2.80% -14.29%

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 4 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Snowflake in England over the 6 months to 4 September 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 4 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 +7 419 £575 -6.12% 590
North of England -50 42 £513 +7.89% 130
South East -55 30 £616 +17.33% 79
Midlands -39 29 £518 +23.21% 71
North West -25 28 £525 +10.53% 78
West Midlands -36 25 £588 +27.03% 57
South West -51 16 £575 +21.05% 53
East of England -19 12 £380 -24.00% 14
Yorkshire -37 11 £450 -5.26% 15
East Midlands -22 4 £466 +10.83% 14
North East -37 3 - - 37
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 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 34 (6.00%) Apache
4 11 (1.94%) Confluence
5 9 (1.59%) 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 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.65%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.88%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.88%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) BambooHR
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
1 309 (54.50%) AWS
2 246 (43.39%) Azure
3 161 (28.40%) dbt
4 136 (23.99%) GCP
4 136 (23.99%) Power Platform
5 70 (12.35%) Amazon S3
5 70 (12.35%) GitHub
6 56 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (9.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 53 (9.35%) Serverless
9 47 (8.29%) AWS Lambda
10 43 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (4.94%) Fivetran
12 25 (4.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 22 (3.88%) SaaS
14 21 (3.70%) Dagster
15 19 (3.35%) Matillion
16 18 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (3.00%) Amazon EventBridge
17 17 (3.00%) AWS Step Functions
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
1 200 (35.27%) Data Warehouse
2 134 (23.63%) Power BI
3 78 (13.76%) Data Lake
4 75 (13.23%) BigQuery
5 61 (10.76%) Snowflake Schema
6 60 (10.58%) Tableau
7 58 (10.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 38 (6.70%) SQL Server
9 34 (6.00%) Metadata
10 33 (5.82%) Big Data
11 29 (5.11%) NoSQL
12 26 (4.59%) Data Vault
13 24 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
13 24 (4.23%) Relational Database
14 18 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (3.00%) Delta Lake
15 17 (3.00%) Looker
16 15 (2.65%) Semantic Layer
17 14 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
18 13 (2.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 57 (10.05%) Git
2 26 (4.59%) GitLab
3 24 (4.23%) JIRA
4 22 (3.88%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.23%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.71%) Snyk
6 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.71%) TeamCity
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%) LSMW
9 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
General
1 189 (33.33%) Finance
2 160 (28.22%) Social Skills
3 96 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (12.35%) Banking
5 53 (9.35%) Retail
6 28 (4.94%) Marketing
7 21 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (3.53%) Financial Institution
9 18 (3.17%) Front Office
9 18 (3.17%) Public Sector
10 16 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.29%) Legal
12 11 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.41%) Billing
14 8 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.23%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 204 (35.98%) Data Engineer
2 111 (19.58%) Senior
3 103 (18.17%) Architect
4 95 (16.75%) Snowflake Engineer
5 73 (12.87%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 65 (11.46%) Senior Data Engineer
7 62 (10.93%) Data Architect
8 60 (10.58%) Analyst
9 48 (8.47%) Lead
10 39 (6.88%) Data Analyst
11 30 (5.29%) Developer
12 27 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
13 22 (3.88%) AWS Data Engineer
13 22 (3.88%) Snowflake Architect
14 18 (3.17%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (2.82%) Python Engineer
16 15 (2.65%) Consultant
17 13 (2.29%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (15.17%) Terraform
2 55 (9.70%) Kafka
3 27 (4.76%) REST
4 25 (4.41%) PySpark
5 16 (2.82%) .NET
6 9 (1.59%) React
7 8 (1.41%) OAuth
7 8 (1.41%) Spring
7 8 (1.41%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.23%) YAML
9 6 (1.06%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (0.88%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.88%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.88%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.88%) Langfuse
10 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.88%) OpenID
11 4 (0.71%) Node.js
11 4 (0.71%) TensorFlow
11 4 (0.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 81 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.41%) Data Structures
4 21 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 17 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (1.94%) Fixed Income
9 11 (1.94%) Reinsurance
9 11 (1.94%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.59%) Life Science
12 8 (1.41%) Clustering
12 8 (1.41%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.23%) Reference Data
14 6 (1.06%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.41%) Linux
2 7 (1.23%) Unix
3 2 (0.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (44.09%) Analytics
2 225 (39.68%) Data Engineering
3 208 (36.68%) Data Modelling
4 205 (36.16%) Data Pipeline
5 204 (35.98%) CI/CD
6 201 (35.45%) ETL
7 168 (29.63%) AI
8 156 (27.51%) Business Intelligence
9 140 (24.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 138 (24.34%) Agile
11 120 (21.16%) DevOps
12 110 (19.40%) Data Architecture
12 110 (19.40%) Data Governance
13 101 (17.81%) Migration
14 89 (15.70%) Validation
15 85 (14.99%) Data Transformation
16 76 (13.40%) Machine Learning
17 75 (13.23%) Decision-Making
18 68 (11.99%) Infrastructure as Code
19 64 (11.29%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 323 (56.97%) SQL
2 274 (48.32%) Python
3 54 (9.52%) Java
4 14 (2.47%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.29%) Bash
6 12 (2.12%) R
7 10 (1.76%) C#
8 9 (1.59%) Scala
9 6 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.88%) Bicep
10 5 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.71%) C++
11 4 (0.71%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.53%) Cypher
12 3 (0.53%) SHACL
12 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.35%) Delphi
13 2 (0.35%) LookML
13 2 (0.35%) SOQL
13 2 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 34 (6.00%) Degree
3 27 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.12%) SnowPro
6 10 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.41%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.71%) SAS Certification
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.18%) PMP
13 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (27.34%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.64%) GDPR
3 23 (4.06%) QA
4 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.71%) PMO
7 3 (0.53%) EMIR
7 3 (0.53%) MiFID
7 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.53%) SLA
8 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.35%) GRC
8 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.18%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 40 (7.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.94%) Grafana
3 5 (0.88%) 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
1 170 (29.98%) Databricks
2 66 (11.64%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.47%) Google
4 30 (5.29%) Salesforce
5 28 (4.94%) Informatica
6 20 (3.53%) SAP
7 16 (2.82%) Oracle
8 10 (1.76%) Teradata
9 9 (1.59%) MicroStrategy
9 9 (1.59%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.41%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.23%) Denodo
11 7 (1.23%) Foundry
11 7 (1.23%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.23%) Workday
12 6 (1.06%) Bloomberg
12 6 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.06%) Talend
13 5 (0.88%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.88%) Sage