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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 210 200
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 +156
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 603 377 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 1.34% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.73% 3.46% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 282 332
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £466 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £875
90th Percentile £751 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £575 £537 £725
% change year-on-year +7.08% -25.93% +25.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £32.85 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.56% - -
75th Percentile - £37.13 -
90th Percentile £64.80 £37.35 -
UK median hourly rate £45.20 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +27.32% - -

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 16,172 10,900 11,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.54% 38.64% 35.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,776 7,365 7,541
10th Percentile £321 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.78%
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 588 267 160
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.60 £68.75
90th Percentile £79.30 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +7.99%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -1 447 £575 -4.17% 59
North of England -46 40 £473 +14.89% 11
Midlands -32 31 £500 +8.11% 5
South East -48 30 £616 +20.20% 13
North West -29 29 £500 +25.00% 6
West Midlands -29 27 £510 +2.00% 1
South West -32 24 £650 +36.84% 13
East of England -31 15 £350 -30.00% 1
Yorkshire -31 8 £400 -15.79% 2
East Midlands -5 4 £466 +12.85% 4
North East -37 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
1 124 (20.56%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (8.96%) Apache Spark
3 42 (6.97%) Apache
4 16 (2.65%) Confluence
5 11 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.16%) 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 13 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.65%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.83%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.66%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.50%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.17%) Shopify
6 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 319 (52.90%) AWS
2 266 (44.11%) Azure
3 180 (29.85%) dbt
4 142 (23.55%) Power Platform
5 133 (22.06%) GCP
6 82 (13.60%) GitHub
7 67 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 58 (9.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 54 (8.96%) Serverless
10 50 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
11 49 (8.13%) GitHub Actions
12 43 (7.13%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 25 (4.15%) Fivetran
14 25 (4.15%) SaaS
15 19 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (2.82%) Amazon EventBridge
17 16 (2.65%) AWS Step Functions
17 16 (2.65%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) Broadband
1 3 (0.50%) Network Security
2 2 (0.33%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.33%) DSL
2 2 (0.33%) Firewall
2 2 (0.33%) Internet
2 2 (0.33%) 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
1 204 (33.83%) Data Warehouse
2 137 (22.72%) Power BI
3 83 (13.76%) Data Lake
4 70 (11.61%) BigQuery
5 67 (11.11%) Tableau
6 65 (10.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 54 (8.96%) Snowflake Schema
8 46 (7.63%) Metadata
9 39 (6.47%) SQL Server
10 32 (5.31%) Big Data
11 28 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (4.48%) NoSQL
13 25 (4.15%) Data Vault
14 19 (3.15%) Delta Lake
14 19 (3.15%) Relational Database
15 18 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (2.82%) MongoDB
17 15 (2.49%) Semantic Layer
18 14 (2.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 14 (2.32%) Looker
Development Applications
1 67 (11.11%) Git
2 33 (5.47%) JIRA
3 28 (4.64%) GitLab
4 18 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.16%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.83%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.83%) Snyk
6 5 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.33%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.33%) ERwin
7 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) MLflow
8 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 201 (33.33%) Finance
2 184 (30.51%) Social Skills
3 113 (18.74%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (12.94%) Banking
5 49 (8.13%) Retail
6 33 (5.47%) Marketing
7 19 (3.15%) Financial Institution
7 19 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.15%) Public Sector
8 18 (2.99%) Legal
9 16 (2.65%) Front Office
10 14 (2.32%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.16%) Billing
12 12 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.00%) Back Office
14 6 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.00%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 206 (34.16%) Data Engineer
2 121 (20.07%) Senior
3 105 (17.41%) Architect
4 93 (15.42%) Snowflake Engineer
5 74 (12.27%) Analyst
6 73 (12.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 72 (11.94%) Senior Data Engineer
8 66 (10.95%) Data Architect
9 43 (7.13%) Data Analyst
10 41 (6.80%) Lead
11 34 (5.64%) AWS Engineer
12 31 (5.14%) Developer
13 29 (4.81%) AWS Data Engineer
14 23 (3.81%) Business Analyst
14 23 (3.81%) Consultant
15 20 (3.32%) Snowflake Architect
15 20 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (2.82%) Python Engineer
17 14 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
18 13 (2.16%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (16.42%) Terraform
2 60 (9.95%) Kafka
3 34 (5.64%) PySpark
3 34 (5.64%) REST
4 15 (2.49%) .NET
5 10 (1.66%) AWS CDK
6 8 (1.33%) OAuth
6 8 (1.33%) pytest
7 7 (1.16%) FastAPI
7 7 (1.16%) OpenID
7 7 (1.16%) Pandas
7 7 (1.16%) YAML
8 6 (1.00%) React
8 6 (1.00%) Snowpark
9 5 (0.83%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.83%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.83%) Spring
9 5 (0.83%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.66%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 83 (13.76%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.14%) Product Ownership
3 28 (4.64%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.15%) AI Agents
5 21 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (3.48%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.15%) Reinsurance
7 15 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.99%) Life Science
9 11 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.66%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.66%) Taxonomies
11 9 (1.49%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.33%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.00%) Equities
15 5 (0.83%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.99%) Linux
2 5 (0.83%) Unix
3 2 (0.33%) 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
1 275 (45.61%) Analytics
2 241 (39.97%) Data Engineering
3 237 (39.30%) Data Modelling
4 221 (36.65%) Data Pipeline
5 213 (35.32%) CI/CD
6 206 (34.16%) ETL
7 199 (33.00%) AI
8 157 (26.04%) Business Intelligence
9 152 (25.21%) Agile
10 150 (24.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 123 (20.40%) Data Architecture
12 121 (20.07%) DevOps
13 120 (19.90%) Data Governance
14 102 (16.92%) Migration
15 100 (16.58%) Data Transformation
15 100 (16.58%) Validation
16 91 (15.09%) Decision-Making
17 82 (13.60%) Infrastructure as Code
17 82 (13.60%) Machine Learning
18 75 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 361 (59.87%) SQL
2 293 (48.59%) Python
3 45 (7.46%) Java
4 17 (2.82%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.65%) Scala
6 13 (2.16%) R
7 12 (1.99%) Bash
8 10 (1.66%) C#
9 8 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (1.33%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.16%) Bicep
11 5 (0.83%) JavaScript
12 4 (0.66%) C++
12 4 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.50%) Cypher
13 3 (0.50%) LookML
13 3 (0.50%) SHACL
14 2 (0.33%) Delphi
14 2 (0.33%) SOQL
14 2 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (6.97%) Security Cleared
2 35 (5.80%) Degree
3 25 (4.15%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.32%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.82%) SnowPro
8 10 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.16%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.83%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.66%) SAS Certification
12 2 (0.33%) ACCA
12 2 (0.33%) CIMA
12 2 (0.33%) CISM
12 2 (0.33%) CISSP
12 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.33%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (31.01%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.31%) GDPR
3 23 (3.81%) QA
4 8 (1.33%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.66%) 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 (0.33%) 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 48 (7.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (8.79%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.16%) Grafana
3 8 (1.33%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.00%) Control-M
5 4 (0.66%) Ansible
6 2 (0.33%) Argo
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 196 (32.50%) Databricks
2 98 (16.25%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.64%) Google
3 34 (5.64%) Salesforce
4 28 (4.64%) Informatica
5 19 (3.15%) Oracle
6 15 (2.49%) SAP
7 9 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
7 9 (1.49%) Talend
7 9 (1.49%) Workday
8 8 (1.33%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.33%) Teradata
9 7 (1.16%) Bloomberg
9 7 (1.16%) Denodo
9 7 (1.16%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.16%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.00%) Confluent
11 5 (0.83%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.83%) Sage