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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 214 280
Rank change year-on-year -41 +66 +131
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 395 301 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.23% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 3.28% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 227 232
10th Percentile £362 £400 £431
25th Percentile £425 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +10.13%
75th Percentile £623 £800 £813
90th Percentile £750 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +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 £69.00 - £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 14,161 9,178 11,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.99% 37.55% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,773 6,433 8,595
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
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 £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -4.12% -0.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 188 321
10th Percentile £16.03 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.17 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.23 £26.81 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +68.69% +29.09% -24.47%
75th Percentile £68.75 £43.10 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.15 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.88 £21.00
% change year-on-year +53.10% +32.76% -30.29%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -5 291 £525 -19.23% 106
North of England -66 26 £525 +10.53% 31
Midlands -66 23 £550 +15.79% 24
West Midlands -52 20 £530 -3.64% 16
North West -32 18 £525 +1.94% 21
South West -33 17 £475 -9.52% 17
South East -58 16 £550 +49.66% 42
East of England -30 7 £400 -31.03% 14
Yorkshire -49 7 £525 +10.53% 6
East Midlands -32 3 £575 +36.90% 8
North East -20 1 £575 +6.98% 4
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 83 (21.01%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (7.34%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.54%) Apache
4 7 (1.77%) Confluence
5 3 (0.76%) SAS
6 2 (0.51%) CMS
6 2 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 15 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.53%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 26 (6.58%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.27%) BambooHR
3 4 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.76%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.76%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.51%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.25%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 205 (51.90%) AWS
2 168 (42.53%) Azure
3 100 (25.32%) dbt
3 100 (25.32%) Power Platform
4 77 (19.49%) GCP
5 63 (15.95%) Amazon S3
6 45 (11.39%) Serverless
7 42 (10.63%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (8.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (7.59%) Matillion
11 26 (6.58%) GitHub
12 23 (5.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 23 (5.82%) Dagster
13 20 (5.06%) Prefect
14 15 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
16 10 (2.53%) Fivetran
16 10 (2.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.51%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (31.39%) Data Warehouse
2 93 (23.54%) Power BI
3 53 (13.42%) Snowflake Schema
4 52 (13.16%) Tableau
5 34 (8.61%) BigQuery
6 33 (8.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 29 (7.34%) Data Lake
8 26 (6.58%) SQL Server
9 22 (5.57%) Data Vault
10 21 (5.32%) Metadata
11 19 (4.81%) NoSQL
12 18 (4.56%) Big Data
13 16 (4.05%) Relational Database
14 15 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (3.29%) Looker
17 9 (2.28%) Star Schema
18 8 (2.03%) DynamoDB
19 7 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
19 7 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 26 (6.58%) Git
2 19 (4.81%) JIRA
3 17 (4.30%) SpecFlow
4 16 (4.05%) GitLab
5 8 (2.03%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.52%) MLflow
7 3 (0.76%) Selenium
7 3 (0.76%) Snyk
7 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.76%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.76%) Toad
8 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.51%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.51%) ERwin
9 1 (0.25%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 116 (29.37%) Finance
2 96 (24.30%) Social Skills
3 48 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.82%) Banking
5 21 (5.32%) Retail
6 20 (5.06%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.29%) Marketing
8 11 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.77%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.27%) Front Office
10 5 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.27%) Legal
10 5 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.76%) Back Office
12 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.76%) Law
12 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (39.49%) Data Engineer
2 80 (20.25%) Snowflake Engineer
3 66 (16.71%) Architect
3 66 (16.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 59 (14.94%) Senior
5 44 (11.14%) Analyst
6 41 (10.38%) Lead
7 38 (9.62%) Data Architect
8 32 (8.10%) Senior Data Engineer
9 30 (7.59%) Data Analyst
10 25 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (5.57%) Developer
12 20 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
12 20 (5.06%) Lead Data Engineer
13 19 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (4.56%) AWS Data Engineer
15 17 (4.30%) Snowflake Architect
16 16 (4.05%) Business Analyst
17 14 (3.54%) Tester
18 13 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.62%) Kafka
2 18 (4.56%) Playwright
3 15 (3.80%) PySpark
4 9 (2.28%) Spring Boot
5 8 (2.03%) React
5 8 (2.03%) Spring
6 7 (1.77%) OAuth
7 6 (1.52%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.27%) .NET
8 5 (1.27%) OpenID
8 5 (1.27%) Pandas
8 5 (1.27%) scikit-learn
8 5 (1.27%) Vue
9 4 (1.01%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.01%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.01%) YAML
10 3 (0.76%) Node.js
10 3 (0.76%) NumPy
10 3 (0.76%) REST
10 3 (0.76%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.32%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (3.04%) Clustering
3 12 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.78%) Fixed Income
4 11 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.53%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.53%) Equities
6 9 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.77%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.77%) Replication
8 6 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.76%) Derivative
10 3 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.03%) Unix
2 3 (0.76%) Linux
3 2 (0.51%) VMS
4 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (45.32%) Analytics
2 152 (38.48%) Data Modelling
3 136 (34.43%) ETL
4 135 (34.18%) Data Engineering
5 123 (31.14%) Data Pipeline
6 122 (30.89%) Business Intelligence
7 110 (27.85%) CI/CD
8 88 (22.28%) Agile
9 85 (21.52%) AI
10 77 (19.49%) DevOps
11 69 (17.47%) Migration
12 68 (17.22%) Data Governance
13 63 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
14 54 (13.67%) Stakeholder Management
15 53 (13.42%) Data Architecture
16 50 (12.66%) Machine Learning
17 49 (12.41%) Decision-Making
18 47 (11.90%) Data Science
19 45 (11.39%) Performance Tuning
20 44 (11.14%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 236 (59.75%) SQL
2 201 (50.89%) Python
3 39 (9.87%) Java
4 21 (5.32%) C#
5 20 (5.06%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.30%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.03%) Bash
7 8 (2.03%) PL/SQL
8 7 (1.77%) R
8 7 (1.77%) Scala
9 5 (1.27%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.01%) Bicep
10 4 (1.01%) Korn
11 3 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.25%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.25%) C
12 1 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (9.11%) Security Cleared
2 24 (6.08%) Degree
3 22 (5.57%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.53%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.03%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.52%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.27%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.01%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.76%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.76%) PhD
10 3 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.25%) ACCA
12 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.25%) CFA
12 1 (0.25%) CIMA
12 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (25.32%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.08%) GDPR
3 12 (3.04%) QA
4 4 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.01%) SLA
5 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.51%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) FATCA
7 1 (0.25%) GAAP
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (5.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (14.18%) Terraform
2 22 (5.57%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.03%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.77%) Grafana
5 4 (1.01%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 114 (28.86%) Databricks
2 46 (11.65%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.81%) Oracle
4 17 (4.30%) Informatica
5 14 (3.54%) Google
6 12 (3.04%) SAP
7 11 (2.78%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.28%) Charles River
8 9 (2.28%) Denodo
8 9 (2.28%) Talend
9 8 (2.03%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.77%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.77%) Teradata
11 6 (1.52%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.27%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (1.27%) SimCorp
12 5 (1.27%) Splunk
12 5 (1.27%) Workday
13 4 (1.01%) Foundry
13 4 (1.01%) Murex