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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 245 308
Rank change year-on-year +2 +63 +133
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 372 266 266
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 1.02% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.96% 2.71% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 170 207
10th Percentile £331 £380 £425
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +1.55%
75th Percentile £631 £693 £675
90th Percentile £735 £888 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £588 £558
% change year-on-year -13.19% +5.38% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £38.38 - -
25th Percentile £41.94 - -
Median hourly rate £50.25 - -
75th Percentile £60.94 - -
90th Percentile £65.93 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £52.50

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 12,556 9,803 12,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.70% 37.43% 33.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,684 6,519 9,245
10th Percentile £305 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 140 303
10th Percentile £14.43 £15.44 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £16.28
Median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.63 £47.47
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.25 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.18% +22.22% -6.25%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +42 285 £525 -19.23% 94
South West -11 18 £475 -11.63% 7
North of England -60 18 £347 -21.92% 32
South East -18 17 £513 +28.13% 48
North West -27 15 £344 -21.37% 19
Midlands -56 14 £550 +4.76% 16
West Midlands -50 10 £500 -9.09% 16
East of England -17 9 £550 +4.76% 4
East Midlands -27 4 £575 +49.35%
North East -14 2 £575 -11.54% 4
Yorkshire -54 1 £488 +8.33% 9
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 72 (19.35%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (6.72%) Apache Spark
3 19 (5.11%) Apache
4 6 (1.61%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (0.81%) Confluence
5 3 (0.81%) SAS
6 2 (0.54%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.27%) Luigi
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.34%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (5.91%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.54%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.54%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.54%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.54%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 191 (51.34%) AWS
2 169 (45.43%) Azure
3 95 (25.54%) dbt
4 92 (24.73%) Power Platform
5 69 (18.55%) GCP
6 41 (11.02%) Amazon S3
6 41 (11.02%) Serverless
7 36 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (7.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 28 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (6.99%) Matillion
11 24 (6.45%) GitHub
12 19 (5.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (3.76%) SaaS
14 13 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
15 12 (3.23%) Fivetran
15 12 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (2.69%) Prefect
17 7 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (29.57%) Data Warehouse
2 86 (23.12%) Power BI
3 48 (12.90%) Snowflake Schema
4 40 (10.75%) Tableau
5 36 (9.68%) Data Lake
6 25 (6.72%) Data Vault
7 23 (6.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (5.65%) BigQuery
10 20 (5.38%) Big Data
10 20 (5.38%) Metadata
11 19 (5.11%) Relational Database
12 18 (4.84%) SQL Server
13 13 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (3.23%) NoSQL
14 12 (3.23%) RDBMS
14 12 (3.23%) Star Schema
15 10 (2.69%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (2.42%) Looker
17 8 (2.15%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 31 (8.33%) Git
2 18 (4.84%) GitLab
2 18 (4.84%) JIRA
3 13 (3.49%) SpecFlow
4 11 (2.96%) ERwin
5 10 (2.69%) ER Studio
6 9 (2.42%) PowerDesigner
7 8 (2.15%) DBeaver
8 5 (1.34%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.34%) MLflow
9 3 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.81%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.54%) Selenium
10 2 (0.54%) TestRail
10 2 (0.54%) Toad
10 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.27%) Deequ
General
1 99 (26.61%) Finance
2 88 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 52 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.45%) Banking
5 16 (4.30%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.03%) Front Office
6 15 (4.03%) Investment Banking
6 15 (4.03%) Retail
7 12 (3.23%) Marketing
8 10 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.81%) Law
11 3 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.54%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.54%) iGaming
12 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.54%) Publishing
13 1 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 129 (34.68%) Data Engineer
2 71 (19.09%) Snowflake Engineer
3 55 (14.78%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 47 (12.63%) Architect
5 46 (12.37%) Analyst
6 36 (9.68%) Senior
7 34 (9.14%) Data Analyst
7 34 (9.14%) Lead
8 32 (8.60%) Developer
9 23 (6.18%) Azure Engineer
9 23 (6.18%) Data Architect
10 21 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (5.11%) Python Engineer
12 17 (4.57%) Data Modeller
13 16 (4.30%) Snowflake Architect
14 15 (4.03%) Azure Data Engineer
14 15 (4.03%) Tester
15 14 (3.76%) Business Analyst
15 14 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
15 14 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.18%) Kafka
2 18 (4.84%) Pandas
3 15 (4.03%) Playwright
4 13 (3.49%) PySpark
5 12 (3.23%) NumPy
6 9 (2.42%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.15%) gRPC
7 8 (2.15%) Node.js
7 8 (2.15%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (2.15%) React
7 8 (2.15%) SciPy
7 8 (2.15%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 7 (1.88%) Spring
9 6 (1.61%) JSON
10 5 (1.34%) REST
10 5 (1.34%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.08%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.08%) OAuth
11 4 (1.08%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.18%) Data Structures
3 22 (5.91%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (4.03%) Equities
4 15 (4.03%) Fixed Income
5 12 (3.23%) Clustering
6 11 (2.96%) Derivative
6 11 (2.96%) Replication
7 10 (2.69%) Hedge funds
7 10 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.15%) Pricing Data
9 6 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.61%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.61%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.08%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.08%) Unix
2 2 (0.54%) Linux
2 2 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (45.16%) Analytics
2 146 (39.25%) Data Modelling
3 131 (35.22%) ETL
4 112 (30.11%) Data Engineering
5 106 (28.49%) Business Intelligence
6 99 (26.61%) Agile
7 95 (25.54%) CI/CD
8 93 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
9 75 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
10 68 (18.28%) AI
10 68 (18.28%) Data Governance
11 61 (16.40%) DevOps
12 48 (12.90%) Data Science
12 48 (12.90%) Migration
13 47 (12.63%) Data Architecture
13 47 (12.63%) Data Transformation
14 45 (12.10%) Machine Learning
15 43 (11.56%) Asset Management
16 42 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
17 37 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 239 (64.25%) SQL
2 197 (52.96%) Python
3 43 (11.56%) Java
4 29 (7.80%) TypeScript
5 27 (7.26%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.30%) C#
7 10 (2.69%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.15%) R
8 8 (2.15%) Scala
9 7 (1.88%) Bash
9 7 (1.88%) Korn
10 4 (1.08%) Bicep
10 4 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.27%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (5.65%) Security Cleared
2 19 (5.11%) Degree
3 14 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.88%) SnowPro
8 4 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.81%) PhD
10 2 (0.54%) ACCA
10 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.54%) CIMA
10 2 (0.54%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.76%) QA
3 13 (3.49%) GDPR
4 6 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.27%) FATCA
6 1 (0.27%) GAAP
6 1 (0.27%) GRC
6 1 (0.27%) MiFID
6 1 (0.27%) PMO
6 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (7.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (12.10%) Terraform
2 30 (8.06%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.34%) Grafana
3 5 (1.34%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.81%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 90 (24.19%) Databricks
2 39 (10.48%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.18%) Oracle
4 13 (3.49%) Talend
5 10 (2.69%) MuleSoft
6 9 (2.42%) Informatica
7 8 (2.15%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.88%) Charles River
8 7 (1.88%) MicroStrategy
8 7 (1.88%) SAP
9 6 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.61%) Sparx
10 5 (1.34%) Google
10 5 (1.34%) Virgin Media
11 4 (1.08%) Ab Initio
11 4 (1.08%) Guidewire
11 4 (1.08%) Murex
11 4 (1.08%) SimCorp
11 4 (1.08%) Teradata
12 3 (0.81%) Cloudera