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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 221 179
Rank change year-on-year +9 -42 +155
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 577 336 445
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.25% 1.22% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.64% 3.24% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 261 373
10th Percentile £400 £404 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £888
90th Percentile £753 £825 -
UK median daily rate £570 £534 £800
% change year-on-year +6.84% -33.31% +36.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% - -
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 15,846 10,363 11,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 37.60% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,572 7,003 7,768
10th Percentile £320 £307 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 252 180
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £82.94 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.16 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.45% -5.55% -11.79%

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 September 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
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 September 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 +19 430 £575 -6.12% 777
North of England -56 39 £500 +14.29% 153
South East -36 31 £616 +17.33% 86
Midlands -39 27 £513 +21.30% 70
North West -37 25 £513 +25.00% 97
West Midlands -36 23 £588 +17.50% 54
South West -50 17 £625 +31.58% 64
East of England -33 14 £380 -24.00% 23
Yorkshire -30 11 £450 -5.26% 18
East Midlands -17 4 £466 +10.83% 16
North East -39 3 - - 38
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 (22.01%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (8.32%) Apache Spark
3 35 (6.07%) Apache
4 12 (2.08%) Confluence
5 10 (1.73%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.69%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.60%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.87%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.87%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.35%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.35%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 313 (54.25%) AWS
2 248 (42.98%) Azure
3 168 (29.12%) dbt
4 140 (24.26%) Power Platform
5 135 (23.40%) GCP
6 74 (12.82%) GitHub
7 71 (12.31%) Amazon S3
8 57 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
9 55 (9.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 52 (9.01%) Serverless
11 46 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (7.80%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (4.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 27 (4.68%) Fivetran
15 22 (3.81%) Dagster
15 22 (3.81%) SaaS
16 18 (3.12%) Amazon SQS
16 18 (3.12%) Matillion
17 17 (2.95%) Amazon EventBridge
18 16 (2.77%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.52%) Broadband
2 2 (0.35%) DSL
2 2 (0.35%) Firewall
2 2 (0.35%) Internet
2 2 (0.35%) VPN
3 1 (0.17%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.17%) Network Security
3 1 (0.17%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.17%) SSH
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (34.14%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (23.92%) Power BI
3 80 (13.86%) Data Lake
4 75 (13.00%) BigQuery
5 63 (10.92%) Tableau
6 62 (10.75%) Snowflake Schema
7 61 (10.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 39 (6.76%) SQL Server
9 37 (6.41%) Metadata
10 34 (5.89%) Big Data
11 29 (5.03%) NoSQL
12 28 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
13 24 (4.16%) Data Vault
13 24 (4.16%) Relational Database
14 20 (3.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (2.95%) Delta Lake
15 17 (2.95%) Looker
16 15 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (2.60%) Semantic Layer
17 13 (2.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 58 (10.05%) Git
2 25 (4.33%) GitLab
3 24 (4.16%) JIRA
4 20 (3.47%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.21%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.87%) Snyk
7 4 (0.69%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.69%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.35%) MLflow
9 2 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.35%) Selenium
9 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.35%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.17%) LSMW
10 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 191 (33.10%) Finance
2 165 (28.60%) Social Skills
3 94 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (12.13%) Banking
5 54 (9.36%) Retail
6 28 (4.85%) Marketing
7 22 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (3.47%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.95%) Front Office
10 16 (2.77%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.77%) Public Sector
11 13 (2.25%) Legal
12 12 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.73%) Billing
14 9 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.21%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.04%) Investment Banking
18 5 (0.87%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 203 (35.18%) Data Engineer
2 117 (20.28%) Senior
3 107 (18.54%) Architect
4 96 (16.64%) Snowflake Engineer
5 74 (12.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 70 (12.13%) Senior Data Engineer
7 66 (11.44%) Data Architect
8 64 (11.09%) Analyst
9 47 (8.15%) Lead
10 41 (7.11%) Data Analyst
11 31 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (5.03%) Developer
13 26 (4.51%) AWS Data Engineer
14 23 (3.99%) Snowflake Architect
15 19 (3.29%) Business Analyst
15 19 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (2.95%) Consultant
17 16 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
17 16 (2.77%) Python Engineer
18 13 (2.25%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (15.60%) Terraform
2 53 (9.19%) Kafka
3 30 (5.20%) PySpark
4 27 (4.68%) REST
5 15 (2.60%) .NET
6 8 (1.39%) OAuth
6 8 (1.39%) React
6 8 (1.39%) Spring
6 8 (1.39%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.21%) YAML
8 6 (1.04%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.87%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.87%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.87%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.87%) OpenID
10 4 (0.69%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.69%) Pandas
10 4 (0.69%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 79 (13.69%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.37%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.68%) Data Structures
4 22 (3.81%) AI Agents
5 17 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.77%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.43%) Reinsurance
8 13 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
10 10 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.73%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.73%) Life Science
10 10 (1.73%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.39%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.21%) Clustering
12 7 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.21%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.21%) Taxonomies
13 6 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.39%) Linux
2 6 (1.04%) Unix
3 2 (0.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (44.54%) Analytics
2 224 (38.82%) Data Engineering
3 212 (36.74%) Data Modelling
4 205 (35.53%) Data Pipeline
4 205 (35.53%) ETL
5 203 (35.18%) CI/CD
6 176 (30.50%) AI
7 159 (27.56%) Business Intelligence
8 143 (24.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 140 (24.26%) Agile
10 121 (20.97%) DevOps
11 115 (19.93%) Data Architecture
12 111 (19.24%) Data Governance
13 104 (18.02%) Migration
14 96 (16.64%) Validation
15 90 (15.60%) Data Transformation
16 79 (13.69%) Machine Learning
17 78 (13.52%) Decision-Making
18 73 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
19 68 (11.79%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 335 (58.06%) SQL
2 276 (47.83%) Python
3 54 (9.36%) Java
4 15 (2.60%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.25%) Bash
5 13 (2.25%) R
6 10 (1.73%) C#
6 10 (1.73%) Scala
7 7 (1.21%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.87%) Bicep
8 5 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.69%) C++
9 4 (0.69%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.52%) Cypher
10 3 (0.52%) SHACL
10 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.35%) Delphi
11 2 (0.35%) LookML
11 2 (0.35%) SOQL
11 2 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (8.15%) Security Cleared
2 33 (5.72%) Degree
3 27 (4.68%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.08%) SnowPro
6 10 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.39%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.69%) SAS Certification
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.17%) PMP
13 1 (0.17%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (27.38%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.03%) GDPR
3 23 (3.99%) QA
4 6 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.69%) PMO
7 3 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.52%) EMIR
7 3 (0.52%) MiFID
7 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.52%) SLA
7 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.35%) GRC
8 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 41 (7.11%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (8.49%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.91%) Grafana
3 6 (1.04%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.69%) Control-M
5 2 (0.35%) Ansible
5 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 180 (31.20%) Databricks
2 72 (12.48%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.20%) Google
3 30 (5.20%) Informatica
3 30 (5.20%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.47%) SAP
5 18 (3.12%) Oracle
6 10 (1.73%) Teradata
7 9 (1.56%) MicroStrategy
8 8 (1.39%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.39%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.39%) Talend
9 7 (1.21%) Denodo
9 7 (1.21%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.21%) Workday
10 6 (1.04%) Bloomberg
10 6 (1.04%) Foundry
10 6 (1.04%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.87%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.87%) Sage