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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 206 191
Rank change year-on-year -9 -15 +153
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 595 365 425
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 1.30% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.73% 3.38% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 276 336
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +37.51%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £750
% change year-on-year +9.52% -30.00% +28.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £32.85 -
25th Percentile - £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.56% - -
75th Percentile £63.50 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £67.40 £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 15,937 10,784 11,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.44% 35.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 7,280 7,554
10th Percentile £323 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.49%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 256 162
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.12 £16.03
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +3 438 £575 -4.17% 649
North of England -57 38 £488 +16.42% 106
South East -58 31 £616 +18.75% 41
Midlands -28 30 £500 +8.11% 26
North West -35 27 £500 +23.46% 57
West Midlands -31 26 £520 +4.00% 16
South West -24 24 £650 +36.84% 21
East of England -36 17 £365 -27.00% 21
Yorkshire -27 8 £400 -15.79% 28
East Midlands -12 4 £466 +12.85% 10
North East -42 3 - - 21
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
1 127 (21.34%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (8.91%) Apache Spark
3 42 (7.06%) Apache
4 15 (2.52%) Confluence
5 11 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.84%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (2.69%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.84%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.84%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.67%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.50%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 316 (53.11%) AWS
2 261 (43.87%) Azure
3 185 (31.09%) dbt
4 142 (23.87%) Power Platform
5 135 (22.69%) GCP
6 80 (13.45%) GitHub
7 67 (11.26%) Amazon S3
8 60 (10.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 54 (9.08%) Serverless
10 49 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
12 29 (4.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 27 (4.54%) Fivetran
14 26 (4.37%) SaaS
15 20 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
16 18 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
17 17 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
17 17 (2.86%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) Broadband
2 2 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
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%) 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
1 202 (33.95%) Data Warehouse
2 137 (23.03%) Power BI
3 85 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 72 (12.10%) BigQuery
5 67 (11.26%) Tableau
6 64 (10.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 57 (9.58%) Snowflake Schema
8 47 (7.90%) Metadata
9 37 (6.22%) SQL Server
10 32 (5.38%) Big Data
11 27 (4.54%) NoSQL
11 27 (4.54%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (4.37%) Data Vault
13 19 (3.19%) Delta Lake
13 19 (3.19%) Relational Database
14 17 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (2.52%) Looker
15 15 (2.52%) Semantic Layer
16 14 (2.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 14 (2.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 65 (10.92%) Git
2 29 (4.87%) JIRA
3 26 (4.37%) GitLab
4 18 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.18%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.84%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.84%) Snyk
6 5 (0.84%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.34%) ERwin
7 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) MLflow
8 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 195 (32.77%) Finance
2 181 (30.42%) Social Skills
3 110 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (12.27%) Banking
5 51 (8.57%) Retail
6 31 (5.21%) Marketing
7 19 (3.19%) Financial Institution
7 19 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.19%) Public Sector
8 17 (2.86%) Legal
9 16 (2.69%) Front Office
9 16 (2.69%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.18%) Billing
10 13 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.01%) Back Office
13 6 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 208 (34.96%) Data Engineer
2 122 (20.50%) Senior
3 105 (17.65%) Architect
4 94 (15.80%) Snowflake Engineer
5 74 (12.44%) Senior Data Engineer
5 74 (12.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 71 (11.93%) Analyst
7 68 (11.43%) Data Architect
8 40 (6.72%) Data Analyst
9 39 (6.55%) Lead
10 34 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
11 29 (4.87%) AWS Data Engineer
11 29 (4.87%) Developer
12 23 (3.87%) Business Analyst
12 23 (3.87%) Consultant
13 22 (3.70%) Snowflake Architect
14 17 (2.86%) Python Engineer
14 17 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (2.18%) Data Business Analyst
15 13 (2.18%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (16.13%) Terraform
2 59 (9.92%) Kafka
3 34 (5.71%) PySpark
4 30 (5.04%) REST
5 15 (2.52%) .NET
6 8 (1.34%) AWS CDK
6 8 (1.34%) OAuth
7 7 (1.18%) Pandas
7 7 (1.18%) YAML
8 6 (1.01%) OpenID
8 6 (1.01%) pytest
8 6 (1.01%) React
8 6 (1.01%) Snowpark
9 5 (0.84%) FastAPI
9 5 (0.84%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.84%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.84%) Spring
9 5 (0.84%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 80 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.05%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.87%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.20%) AI Agents
5 21 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.52%) Reinsurance
8 14 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.02%) Life Science
10 10 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.68%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.68%) Taxonomies
11 9 (1.51%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.34%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.01%) Equities
14 6 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.85%) Linux
2 5 (0.84%) 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
1 271 (45.55%) Analytics
2 241 (40.50%) Data Modelling
3 240 (40.34%) Data Engineering
4 226 (37.98%) Data Pipeline
5 210 (35.29%) CI/CD
6 205 (34.45%) ETL
7 195 (32.77%) AI
8 157 (26.39%) Business Intelligence
9 150 (25.21%) Agile
10 149 (25.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 123 (20.67%) Data Architecture
11 123 (20.67%) Data Governance
12 116 (19.50%) DevOps
13 100 (16.81%) Data Transformation
14 99 (16.64%) Migration
15 97 (16.30%) Validation
16 90 (15.13%) Decision-Making
17 82 (13.78%) Machine Learning
18 80 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
19 73 (12.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 361 (60.67%) SQL
2 286 (48.07%) Python
3 44 (7.39%) Java
4 17 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.52%) Scala
6 13 (2.18%) R
7 12 (2.02%) Bash
8 10 (1.68%) C#
9 8 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (1.34%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.18%) Bicep
11 4 (0.67%) C++
11 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.50%) Cypher
12 3 (0.50%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.50%) LookML
12 3 (0.50%) SHACL
13 2 (0.34%) Delphi
13 2 (0.34%) SOQL
13 2 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (7.06%) Security Cleared
2 36 (6.05%) Degree
3 25 (4.20%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.85%) SnowPro
7 7 (1.18%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.84%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.67%) SAS Certification
10 2 (0.34%) ACCA
10 2 (0.34%) CIMA
10 2 (0.34%) CISM
10 2 (0.34%) CISSP
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (30.92%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.38%) GDPR
3 23 (3.87%) QA
4 8 (1.34%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.84%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.50%) EMIR
7 3 (0.50%) MiFID
7 3 (0.50%) PMO
7 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.50%) SLA
8 2 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.17%) CDISC
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (7.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.02%) Grafana
3 7 (1.18%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.84%) Control-M
5 3 (0.50%) Ansible
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 192 (32.27%) Databricks
2 91 (15.29%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.55%) Salesforce
4 32 (5.38%) Google
5 28 (4.71%) Informatica
6 23 (3.87%) Oracle
7 17 (2.86%) SAP
8 9 (1.51%) MicroStrategy
8 9 (1.51%) Talend
8 9 (1.51%) Workday
9 8 (1.34%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.34%) Teradata
10 7 (1.18%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.18%) Denodo
10 7 (1.18%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.18%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.84%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.84%) Confluent
11 5 (0.84%) Sage
880 Snowflake jobs in England