Snow Contracts in the UK excluding London

Snow
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Snow products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Snow over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Snow Software.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 390 413
Rank change year-on-year +68 +23 +66
Contract jobs citing Snow 17 9 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.043% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.10% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 26
10th Percentile £371 £261 £195
25th Percentile £409 £415 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £583 £413
Median % change year-on-year -18.45% +41.21% -8.33%
75th Percentile £535 £739 £586
90th Percentile £574 £866 £589
UK median daily rate £509 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +1.75% +25.00% -11.11%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Snow falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,247 8,846 10,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.84% 42.63% 44.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,971 5,327 7,325
10th Percentile £216 £205 £205
25th Percentile £370 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.58%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 949 474
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.28
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.61 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year +20.23% -49.65% +107.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Snow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Snow in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Snow in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Snow in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snow in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snow in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Snow in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Snow in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snow within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Scotland - 7 £425 - 1
South East +47 6 £500 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - - 2
Midlands +19 1 £400 -55.56% 4
West Midlands +15 1 £400 -55.56% 1
Wales - 1 £150 -
Snow
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.88%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure API Management
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) 4G
1 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
1 2 (11.76%) WAN
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.88%) HTTP
2 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Postman
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Senior
2 5 (29.41%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Project Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Administrator
5 2 (11.76%) IT Administrator
5 2 (11.76%) Lead
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Programme Test Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Project Administrator
6 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Project Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Technician
6 1 (5.88%) Test Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Test Programme Manager
6 1 (5.88%) WAN Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) SOAP
2 5 (29.41%) CSS
2 5 (29.41%) HTML
2 5 (29.41%) REST
3 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
3 4 (23.53%) HTML5
3 4 (23.53%) jQuery
4 3 (17.65%) Web Services
5 1 (5.88%) .NET
5 1 (5.88%) Ajax
5 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) CMDB
1 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) ITIL
2 5 (29.41%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) ITSM
3 4 (23.53%) IT Asset Management
3 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
3 4 (23.53%) Regression Testing
3 4 (23.53%) User Stories
3 4 (23.53%) Web Development
4 3 (17.65%) PRINCE2
4 3 (17.65%) Scrum
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.76%) Change Management
5 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.76%) Line Management
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Service Management
5 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
5 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) APMP
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) ISEB
2 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GRC
2 2 (11.76%) SLA
3 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.88%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) BT
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto