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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 221 191
Rank change year-on-year +2 -30 +148
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 561 334 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.23% 1.20% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.53% 3.22% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 263 379
10th Percentile £406 £406 £425
25th Percentile £469 £468 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +37.51%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £888
90th Percentile £758 £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 15,874 10,360 11,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.69% 37.33% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,597 7,015 7,852
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 268 195
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.33
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.76
90th Percentile £82.49 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.12 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.20% -4.17% -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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +22 413 £575 -6.12% 282
North of England -50 41 £525 +10.53% 32
Midlands -38 31 £525 +25.00% 18
South East -51 30 £616 +17.33% 77
North West -32 28 £525 +7.69% 18
West Midlands -31 27 £575 +24.32% 11
South West -48 16 £575 +21.05% 50
East of England -23 10 £380 -34.48% 8
Yorkshire -41 10 £500 +5.26% 11
East Midlands -14 4 £466 +10.83% 7
North East -36 3 - - 3
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
1 122 (21.75%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (6.95%) Apache Spark
3 28 (4.99%) Apache
4 11 (1.96%) Confluence
5 10 (1.78%) 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 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (3.21%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.89%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.89%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.89%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.36%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.36%) 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
1 303 (54.01%) AWS
2 232 (41.35%) Azure
3 155 (27.63%) dbt
4 141 (25.13%) Power Platform
5 129 (22.99%) GCP
6 70 (12.48%) Amazon S3
7 67 (11.94%) GitHub
8 52 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (9.27%) Serverless
9 47 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (8.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 41 (7.31%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (4.81%) Fivetran
12 24 (4.28%) Dagster
13 21 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 20 (3.57%) Matillion
14 20 (3.57%) SaaS
15 18 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
17 16 (2.85%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.53%) Broadband
2 2 (0.36%) DSL
2 2 (0.36%) Firewall
2 2 (0.36%) Internet
2 2 (0.36%) 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
1 193 (34.40%) Data Warehouse
2 139 (24.78%) Power BI
3 76 (13.55%) BigQuery
4 74 (13.19%) Data Lake
5 66 (11.76%) Tableau
6 61 (10.87%) Snowflake Schema
7 58 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 33 (5.88%) Metadata
8 33 (5.88%) SQL Server
9 30 (5.35%) Big Data
10 27 (4.81%) NoSQL
11 25 (4.46%) Data Vault
12 24 (4.28%) Relational Database
13 21 (3.74%) Looker
14 20 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
15 18 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (3.03%) Semantic Layer
17 14 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (2.50%) Delta Lake
18 12 (2.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 52 (9.27%) Git
2 25 (4.46%) JIRA
3 24 (4.28%) GitLab
4 21 (3.74%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.07%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.71%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.53%) Snyk
7 3 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.36%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.36%) MLflow
8 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.36%) Selenium
8 2 (0.36%) 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 (34.40%) Finance
2 162 (28.88%) Social Skills
3 90 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (13.01%) Banking
5 51 (9.09%) Retail
6 26 (4.63%) Marketing
7 20 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 20 (3.57%) Front Office
7 20 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (3.21%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.85%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.50%) Legal
11 12 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.78%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.43%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.25%) Billing
14 7 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 197 (35.12%) Data Engineer
2 109 (19.43%) Senior
3 102 (18.18%) Architect
4 94 (16.76%) Snowflake Engineer
5 72 (12.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 65 (11.59%) Senior Data Engineer
7 62 (11.05%) Analyst
8 60 (10.70%) Data Architect
9 48 (8.56%) Lead
10 38 (6.77%) Data Analyst
11 27 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (4.81%) Developer
12 22 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
13 21 (3.74%) Business Analyst
13 21 (3.74%) Snowflake Architect
14 19 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (2.67%) Consultant
15 15 (2.67%) Python Engineer
16 13 (2.32%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (14.26%) Terraform
2 50 (8.91%) Kafka
3 25 (4.46%) REST
4 23 (4.10%) PySpark
5 14 (2.50%) .NET
6 8 (1.43%) OAuth
6 8 (1.43%) React
6 8 (1.43%) Spring
6 8 (1.43%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.25%) YAML
8 6 (1.07%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.89%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.89%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.89%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.89%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.89%) OpenID
10 4 (0.71%) Node.js
10 4 (0.71%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 76 (13.55%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 22 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 16 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.32%) Fixed Income
8 12 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (1.96%) Reinsurance
9 11 (1.96%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.43%) Clustering
11 8 (1.43%) Data Fabric
11 8 (1.43%) Equities
11 8 (1.43%) Life Science
12 7 (1.25%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.43%) Linux
2 7 (1.25%) Unix
3 2 (0.36%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (43.32%) Analytics
2 225 (40.11%) Data Engineering
3 206 (36.72%) Data Modelling
4 197 (35.12%) Data Pipeline
5 195 (34.76%) CI/CD
5 195 (34.76%) ETL
6 161 (28.70%) Business Intelligence
7 158 (28.16%) AI
8 140 (24.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 139 (24.78%) Agile
10 118 (21.03%) DevOps
11 106 (18.89%) Data Governance
12 104 (18.54%) Data Architecture
13 98 (17.47%) Migration
14 89 (15.86%) Validation
15 82 (14.62%) Data Transformation
16 76 (13.55%) Decision-Making
17 71 (12.66%) Machine Learning
18 65 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
19 62 (11.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 318 (56.68%) SQL
2 270 (48.13%) Python
3 53 (9.45%) Java
4 13 (2.32%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.14%) R
6 11 (1.96%) Bash
7 8 (1.43%) C#
8 7 (1.25%) Scala
9 5 (0.89%) Bicep
9 5 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.89%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.71%) C++
10 4 (0.71%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.53%) Cypher
11 3 (0.53%) SHACL
11 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.36%) Korn
12 2 (0.36%) LookML
12 2 (0.36%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 38 (6.77%) Degree
3 27 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.96%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.43%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.07%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.71%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) CBAP
12 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.88%) GDPR
3 23 (4.10%) QA
4 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.71%) PMO
6 4 (0.71%) SLA
7 3 (0.53%) EMIR
7 3 (0.53%) MiFID
7 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.36%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.18%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (6.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (8.02%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.96%) Grafana
3 5 (0.89%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.71%) Control-M
5 2 (0.36%) Ansible
5 2 (0.36%) Argo
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 165 (29.41%) Databricks
2 60 (10.70%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.17%) Salesforce
4 28 (4.99%) Google
4 28 (4.99%) Informatica
5 21 (3.74%) SAP
6 15 (2.67%) Oracle
7 10 (1.78%) Teradata
7 10 (1.78%) Workday
8 8 (1.43%) MicroStrategy
8 8 (1.43%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.43%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.25%) Denodo
9 7 (1.25%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.07%) Bloomberg
10 6 (1.07%) Charles River
10 6 (1.07%) Foundry
11 5 (0.89%) Sage
11 5 (0.89%) Talend