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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 227 188
Rank change year-on-year +12 -39 +147
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 568 327 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.25% 1.19% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.58% 3.20% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 258 379
10th Percentile £407 £406 £425
25th Percentile £469 £463 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £888
90th Percentile £754 £825 -
UK median daily rate £573 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.20% -31.25% +36.75%
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 15,844 10,233 11,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.37% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,600 6,926 7,845
10th Percentile £325 £310 £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 £644
90th Percentile £718 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 265 196
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.15 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.42
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 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.62 £69.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -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 2 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Snowflake in England over the 6 months to 2 September 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 2 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 +20 420 £575 -6.12% 571
North of England -53 41 £525 +10.53% 117
Midlands -45 30 £518 +23.21% 65
South East -50 30 £616 +17.33% 83
North West -28 28 £525 +10.53% 68
West Midlands -35 26 £588 +27.03% 54
South West -47 16 £575 +21.05% 54
East of England -25 11 £380 -24.00% 15
Yorkshire -36 10 £500 +5.26% 14
East Midlands -16 4 £466 +10.83% 11
North East -45 3 - - 35
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 (21.83%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (7.75%) Apache Spark
3 33 (5.81%) Apache
4 11 (1.94%) Confluence
4 11 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.70%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.18%) JBoss
6 1 (0.18%) Luigi
6 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (3.17%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.88%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.88%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.53%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.35%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.35%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 310 (54.58%) AWS
2 239 (42.08%) Azure
3 159 (27.99%) dbt
4 138 (24.30%) Power Platform
5 134 (23.59%) GCP
6 71 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 68 (11.97%) GitHub
8 54 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (9.51%) Serverless
9 51 (8.98%) Azure Data Factory
10 48 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
11 41 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (5.11%) Fivetran
13 23 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 22 (3.87%) Dagster
14 22 (3.87%) SaaS
15 20 (3.52%) Matillion
16 18 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
17 17 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.53%) Broadband
2 2 (0.35%) DSL
2 2 (0.35%) Firewall
2 2 (0.35%) Internet
2 2 (0.35%) 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
1 196 (34.51%) Data Warehouse
2 136 (23.94%) Power BI
3 76 (13.38%) BigQuery
4 75 (13.20%) Data Lake
5 64 (11.27%) Tableau
6 61 (10.74%) Snowflake Schema
7 59 (10.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 37 (6.51%) SQL Server
9 34 (5.99%) Metadata
10 33 (5.81%) Big Data
11 29 (5.11%) NoSQL
12 25 (4.40%) Data Vault
12 25 (4.40%) Relational Database
13 24 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
14 19 (3.35%) Looker
14 19 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (2.99%) Semantic Layer
16 15 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (2.64%) Delta Lake
17 13 (2.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 56 (9.86%) Git
2 25 (4.40%) GitLab
2 25 (4.40%) JIRA
3 21 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.06%) Terragrunt
5 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.70%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.53%) Snyk
6 3 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.35%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.35%) MLflow
7 2 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.35%) Selenium
7 2 (0.35%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.18%) GCC
8 1 (0.18%) LSMW
8 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
General
1 194 (34.15%) Finance
2 165 (29.05%) Social Skills
3 95 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (13.03%) Banking
5 51 (8.98%) Retail
6 26 (4.58%) Marketing
7 21 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (3.52%) Financial Institution
8 20 (3.52%) Front Office
9 18 (3.17%) Public Sector
10 16 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.11%) Legal
12 11 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.58%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.41%) Billing
14 8 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 201 (35.39%) Data Engineer
2 111 (19.54%) Senior
3 103 (18.13%) Architect
4 93 (16.37%) Snowflake Engineer
5 71 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 66 (11.62%) Senior Data Engineer
7 63 (11.09%) Analyst
8 62 (10.92%) Data Architect
9 48 (8.45%) Lead
10 40 (7.04%) Data Analyst
11 29 (5.11%) Developer
12 26 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
13 22 (3.87%) Snowflake Architect
14 21 (3.70%) AWS Data Engineer
15 20 (3.52%) Business Analyst
16 18 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
17 16 (2.82%) Python Engineer
18 15 (2.64%) Consultant
19 13 (2.29%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (14.61%) Terraform
2 53 (9.33%) Kafka
3 26 (4.58%) REST
4 25 (4.40%) PySpark
5 16 (2.82%) .NET
6 9 (1.58%) React
7 8 (1.41%) OAuth
7 8 (1.41%) Spring
7 8 (1.41%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.23%) YAML
9 6 (1.06%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (0.88%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.88%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.88%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.88%) Langfuse
10 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.88%) OpenID
11 4 (0.70%) Node.js
11 4 (0.70%) TensorFlow
11 4 (0.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 82 (14.44%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.46%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.05%) Data Structures
4 20 (3.52%) AI Agents
5 17 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.46%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.29%) Fixed Income
8 12 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (1.94%) Reinsurance
9 11 (1.94%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.58%) Life Science
12 8 (1.41%) Clustering
12 8 (1.41%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.41%) Equities
12 8 (1.41%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.41%) Linux
2 7 (1.23%) Unix
3 2 (0.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (43.49%) Analytics
2 225 (39.61%) Data Engineering
3 211 (37.15%) Data Modelling
4 202 (35.56%) CI/CD
4 202 (35.56%) Data Pipeline
5 200 (35.21%) ETL
6 165 (29.05%) AI
7 159 (27.99%) Business Intelligence
8 141 (24.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 140 (24.65%) Agile
10 121 (21.30%) DevOps
11 108 (19.01%) Data Governance
12 107 (18.84%) Data Architecture
13 100 (17.61%) Migration
14 89 (15.67%) Validation
15 83 (14.61%) Data Transformation
16 76 (13.38%) Decision-Making
17 75 (13.20%) Machine Learning
18 66 (11.62%) Infrastructure as Code
19 63 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 324 (57.04%) SQL
2 276 (48.59%) Python
3 54 (9.51%) Java
4 13 (2.29%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.11%) R
6 11 (1.94%) Bash
7 10 (1.76%) C#
8 9 (1.58%) Scala
9 6 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.88%) Bicep
10 5 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.70%) C++
11 4 (0.70%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.53%) Cypher
12 3 (0.53%) SHACL
12 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.35%) Delphi
13 2 (0.35%) LookML
13 2 (0.35%) SOQL
13 2 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (8.10%) Security Cleared
2 39 (6.87%) Degree
3 27 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (4.75%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.11%) SnowPro
5 10 (1.76%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.58%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.41%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.70%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.18%) PMP
12 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (27.29%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.81%) GDPR
3 23 (4.05%) QA
4 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.70%) PMO
6 4 (0.70%) SLA
7 3 (0.53%) EMIR
7 3 (0.53%) MiFID
7 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.35%) GRC
8 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (6.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (8.27%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.94%) Grafana
3 5 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.70%) Control-M
5 2 (0.35%) Ansible
5 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 170 (29.93%) Databricks
2 64 (11.27%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.46%) Google
3 31 (5.46%) Salesforce
4 29 (5.11%) Informatica
5 21 (3.70%) SAP
6 16 (2.82%) Oracle
7 10 (1.76%) Teradata
8 8 (1.41%) MicroStrategy
8 8 (1.41%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.41%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.41%) Workday
9 7 (1.23%) Denodo
9 7 (1.23%) Foundry
9 7 (1.23%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.06%) Bloomberg
10 6 (1.06%) Charles River
10 6 (1.06%) Talend
11 5 (0.88%) Sage