Snowflake Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Snowflake
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Snowflake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 96 104
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 +20
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 52 27 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.27% 1.50% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.60% 3.67% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 21 12
10th Percentile £407 £404 £470
25th Percentile £463 £563 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £703 £675 £728
90th Percentile £790 £725 £738
Central London median daily rate £575 £619 £650
% change year-on-year -7.07% -4.81% +8.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 928 735 833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.51% 40.83% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 497 567
10th Percentile £375 £337 £383
25th Percentile £463 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year - -0.45% -3.91%
75th Percentile £656 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%

Snowflake
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Snowflake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Snowflake job vacancy trend in the City of London

Snowflake
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Snowflake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Snowflake

Snowflake
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake in the City of London

Snowflake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 22 (42.31%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (9.62%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.77%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (9.62%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.92%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 29 (55.77%) AWS
2 21 (40.38%) Azure
3 19 (36.54%) dbt
4 16 (30.77%) Power Platform
5 12 (23.08%) GCP
6 9 (17.31%) Prefect
7 7 (13.46%) Dagster
8 6 (11.54%) GitHub
9 4 (7.69%) Amazon S3
9 4 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (3.85%) Fivetran
12 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (1.92%) Matillion
12 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (40.38%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (30.77%) Power BI
3 12 (23.08%) Tableau
4 7 (13.46%) Looker
5 6 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (11.54%) BigQuery
5 6 (11.54%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (5.77%) Big Data
6 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.77%) Metadata
6 3 (5.77%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.77%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (5.77%) Star Schema
7 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.92%) GIS
8 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Git
2 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.92%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.92%) GitLab
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (48.08%) Finance
2 12 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 5 (9.62%) Legal
5 4 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.77%) Front Office
7 2 (3.85%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.92%) Advertising
8 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.92%) Law
8 1 (1.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Data Engineer
2 12 (23.08%) Analyst
3 10 (19.23%) Data Analyst
3 10 (19.23%) Snowflake Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Senior
4 8 (15.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Architect
6 6 (11.54%) Data Architect
7 5 (9.62%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Business Analyst
10 2 (3.85%) Business Data Analyst
10 2 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
10 2 (3.85%) Lead
11 1 (1.92%) Analytics Manager
11 1 (1.92%) Asset Management Analyst
11 1 (1.92%) Asset Management Business Analyst
11 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Architect
11 1 (1.92%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) Kafka
2 6 (11.54%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) .NET
3 2 (3.85%) Spring
3 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.92%) ADO
4 1 (1.92%) Node.js
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.92%) PySpark
4 1 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.46%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.69%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.77%) Clustering
5 2 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.85%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.85%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.92%) Derivative
6 1 (1.92%) Equities
6 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.92%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (65.38%) Analytics
2 25 (48.08%) Data Engineering
3 24 (46.15%) Data Modelling
4 21 (40.38%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (38.46%) AI
6 19 (36.54%) CI/CD
6 19 (36.54%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (34.62%) ETL
8 17 (32.69%) Decision-Making
9 12 (23.08%) Data Architecture
10 11 (21.15%) Data Governance
11 10 (19.23%) DevOps
11 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (15.38%) Agile
12 8 (15.38%) Asset Management
12 8 (15.38%) Data Science
12 8 (15.38%) Data Transformation
12 8 (15.38%) Software Engineering
12 8 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
12 8 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (65.38%) SQL
2 30 (57.69%) Python
3 5 (9.62%) Java
4 2 (3.85%) Bash
4 2 (3.85%) LookML
4 2 (3.85%) R
4 2 (3.85%) Scala
5 1 (1.92%) Bicep
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) SnowPro
2 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.92%) PMP
3 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (36.54%) Data Quality
2 10 (19.23%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.85%) EMIR
3 2 (3.85%) MiFID
4 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (34.62%) Databricks
2 5 (9.62%) Workday
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.77%) Informatica
4 3 (5.77%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.85%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.92%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle
6 1 (1.92%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.92%) SAP