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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 227 330
Rank change year-on-year -14 +103 +91
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 398 281 249
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 1.14% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.92% 3.01% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 201 190
10th Percentile £344 £375 £424
25th Percentile £414 £484 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £775 £714
90th Percentile £725 £875 £744
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £53.90 - -
25th Percentile £59.75 - -
Median hourly rate £69.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.75 - £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 13,647 9,338 12,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.07% 37.79% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,387 6,476 8,847
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 163 330
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.57 £42.06
90th Percentile £79.80 £76.10 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +21 299 £525 -19.23% 98
North of England -67 23 £525 -0.94% 32
Midlands -55 22 £550 +10.00% 14
North West -34 19 £463 -16.67% 20
South East -48 19 £500 +36.99% 42
West Midlands -62 19 £530 +6.00% 11
South West -25 18 £475 -20.83% 11
East of England -32 4 £525 -9.48% 5
East Midlands -30 3 £575 +21.05% 3
Yorkshire -55 3 £544 +17.57% 9
North East -14 1 £575 -11.54% 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 79 (19.85%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (7.04%) Apache Spark
3 17 (4.27%) Apache
4 7 (1.76%) Confluence
5 4 (1.01%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (0.75%) SAS
7 2 (0.50%) CMS
7 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.25%) Luigi
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.01%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 27 (6.78%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.75%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.75%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.75%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.50%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.50%) Loan IQ
3 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 209 (52.51%) AWS
2 178 (44.72%) Azure
3 106 (26.63%) Power Platform
4 98 (24.62%) dbt
5 75 (18.84%) GCP
6 48 (12.06%) Amazon S3
7 45 (11.31%) Serverless
8 40 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (8.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 33 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (8.04%) Matillion
11 27 (6.78%) GitHub
12 21 (5.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (3.52%) Prefect
15 13 (3.27%) SaaS
16 12 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (2.51%) Fivetran
18 9 (2.26%) Azure Machine Learning
18 9 (2.26%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (32.41%) Data Warehouse
2 99 (24.87%) Power BI
3 49 (12.31%) Tableau
4 44 (11.06%) Snowflake Schema
5 33 (8.29%) Data Lake
6 30 (7.54%) SQL Server
7 28 (7.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 27 (6.78%) BigQuery
9 25 (6.28%) Data Vault
9 25 (6.28%) Metadata
10 23 (5.78%) Big Data
10 23 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (5.28%) Relational Database
12 17 (4.27%) NoSQL
13 11 (2.76%) Looker
13 11 (2.76%) RDBMS
13 11 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (2.76%) Star Schema
14 10 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (2.01%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 30 (7.54%) Git
2 22 (5.53%) GitLab
3 19 (4.77%) JIRA
4 15 (3.77%) SpecFlow
5 10 (2.51%) Jenkins
6 9 (2.26%) MLflow
7 7 (1.76%) ERwin
8 6 (1.51%) DBeaver
8 6 (1.51%) ER Studio
9 5 (1.26%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.75%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.75%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.75%) Toad
11 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.25%) Deequ
12 1 (0.25%) GCC
12 1 (0.25%) Selenium
12 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 110 (27.64%) Finance
2 103 (25.88%) Social Skills
3 58 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.28%) Banking
5 24 (6.03%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.02%) Retail
7 13 (3.27%) Marketing
8 12 (3.02%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.51%) Front Office
9 10 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Back Office
12 3 (0.75%) Law
12 3 (0.75%) Legal
12 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.50%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 146 (36.68%) Data Engineer
2 73 (18.34%) Snowflake Engineer
3 58 (14.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 55 (13.82%) Architect
5 48 (12.06%) Analyst
6 41 (10.30%) Lead
6 41 (10.30%) Senior
7 32 (8.04%) Data Analyst
8 31 (7.79%) Developer
9 30 (7.54%) Data Architect
10 23 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (5.78%) Azure Engineer
11 19 (4.77%) Lead Data Engineer
12 18 (4.52%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (4.27%) Business Analyst
13 17 (4.27%) Tester
14 16 (4.02%) Python Engineer
15 15 (3.77%) Azure Data Engineer
16 14 (3.52%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.54%) Kafka
2 16 (4.02%) Playwright
3 15 (3.77%) PySpark
4 14 (3.52%) Pandas
5 12 (3.02%) PyTorch
6 9 (2.26%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.01%) NumPy
7 8 (2.01%) Spring
8 7 (1.76%) React
8 7 (1.76%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.51%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.26%) Node.js
10 5 (1.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 5 (1.26%) REST
11 4 (1.01%) .NET
11 4 (1.01%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (1.01%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.75%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.75%) gRPC
12 3 (0.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.30%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.03%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (4.27%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.77%) Equities
4 15 (3.77%) Fixed Income
5 12 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.51%) Clustering
6 10 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.51%) Replication
7 9 (2.26%) Derivative
7 9 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.01%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.76%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.51%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.26%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.51%) Unix
2 2 (0.50%) Linux
2 2 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (44.97%) Analytics
2 158 (39.70%) Data Modelling
3 139 (34.92%) ETL
4 132 (33.17%) Data Engineering
5 122 (30.65%) Business Intelligence
6 115 (28.89%) Data Pipeline
7 110 (27.64%) CI/CD
8 99 (24.87%) Agile
9 80 (20.10%) AI
10 74 (18.59%) Data Governance
10 74 (18.59%) DevOps
11 73 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
12 59 (14.82%) Migration
13 54 (13.57%) Machine Learning
14 53 (13.32%) Data Architecture
15 48 (12.06%) Data Transformation
15 48 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
16 46 (11.56%) Data Science
17 44 (11.06%) Decision-Making
17 44 (11.06%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 259 (65.08%) SQL
2 214 (53.77%) Python
3 34 (8.54%) Java
4 22 (5.53%) JavaScript
5 20 (5.03%) TypeScript
6 19 (4.77%) C#
7 9 (2.26%) Bash
7 9 (2.26%) R
7 9 (2.26%) Scala
8 8 (2.01%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.51%) Korn
10 4 (1.01%) Bicep
11 3 (0.75%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.25%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.25%) C
13 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (7.79%) Security Cleared
2 23 (5.78%) Degree
3 19 (4.77%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.76%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.01%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.01%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.75%) PhD
8 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.25%) ACCA
9 1 (0.25%) CFA
9 1 (0.25%) CIMA
9 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (27.64%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.77%) GDPR
3 15 (3.77%) QA
4 6 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.01%) SLA
6 3 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) FATCA
8 1 (0.25%) GAAP
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.25%) MiFID
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (8.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (12.81%) Terraform
2 32 (8.04%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.26%) Grafana
4 8 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.01%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 106 (26.63%) Databricks
2 45 (11.31%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.03%) Oracle
4 14 (3.52%) Informatica
5 12 (3.02%) Charles River
5 12 (3.02%) Talend
6 11 (2.76%) Google
7 10 (2.51%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.26%) OpenAI
9 8 (2.01%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.76%) MicroStrategy
10 7 (1.76%) Murex
10 7 (1.76%) SAP
11 5 (1.26%) Ab Initio
11 5 (1.26%) SimCorp
11 5 (1.26%) Teradata
11 5 (1.26%) Virgin Media
12 4 (1.01%) Denodo
12 4 (1.01%) FactSet
12 4 (1.01%) ServiceNow