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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 86 99
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 +18
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 52 31 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.36% 1.81% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.74% 4.47% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 24 13
10th Percentile £385 £346 £456
25th Percentile £463 £553 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £715 £678 £725
90th Percentile £775 £714 £738
Central London median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +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 906 694 830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.13% 40.44% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 493 540
10th Percentile £350 £334 £384
25th Percentile £456 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% +1.79%
75th Percentile £660 £665 £675
90th Percentile £760 £758 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £564
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.03 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £28.06 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £38.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.35% +41.67% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £63.37 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £89.88 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +68.67%

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 29 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 17 (32.69%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (11.54%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.77%) Apache
4 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Aladdin
1 2 (3.85%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 30 (57.69%) AWS
2 24 (46.15%) Azure
3 15 (28.85%) dbt
4 14 (26.92%) GCP
5 11 (21.15%) Power Platform
6 6 (11.54%) GitHub
7 5 (9.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.77%) Dagster
8 3 (5.77%) Prefect
9 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.92%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.92%) Matillion
10 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (1.92%) Serverless
10 1 (1.92%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (21.15%) Power BI
3 7 (13.46%) Tableau
4 4 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (7.69%) BigQuery
4 4 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 4 (7.69%) Looker
4 4 (7.69%) Metadata
4 4 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.77%) Big Data
5 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.77%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.92%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.92%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.92%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (5.77%) Git
3 2 (3.85%) GitLab
4 1 (1.92%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (42.31%) Finance
2 15 (28.85%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 3 (5.77%) Legal
5 2 (3.85%) Billing
5 2 (3.85%) Front Office
5 2 (3.85%) Marketing
6 1 (1.92%) Advertising
6 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Publishing
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Data Engineer
2 14 (26.92%) Analyst
3 11 (21.15%) Architect
3 11 (21.15%) Data Analyst
4 10 (19.23%) Data Architect
5 8 (15.38%) Senior
5 8 (15.38%) Snowflake Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Business Analyst
9 2 (3.85%) Business Data Analyst
9 2 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 2 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
10 1 (1.92%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Engineer
10 1 (1.92%) Data Analytics Manager
10 1 (1.92%) Platform Engineer
10 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) Kafka
2 5 (9.62%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) REST
3 2 (3.85%) Spring
3 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.92%) .NET
4 1 (1.92%) ADO
4 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.92%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.92%) PySpark
4 1 (1.92%) pytest
4 1 (1.92%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.69%) Reinsurance
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.77%) Fixed Income
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
6 1 (1.92%) Clustering
6 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.92%) Derivative
6 1 (1.92%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.92%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.92%) Replication
6 1 (1.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (63.46%) Analytics
2 22 (42.31%) Data Modelling
3 21 (40.38%) Data Engineering
4 19 (36.54%) AI
5 17 (32.69%) CI/CD
6 16 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (30.77%) Data Architecture
6 16 (30.77%) Data Governance
6 16 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
6 16 (30.77%) Decision-Making
7 14 (26.92%) ETL
8 11 (21.15%) Agile
8 11 (21.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (19.23%) Data Transformation
9 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (17.31%) Migration
11 8 (15.38%) Data Strategy
11 8 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
12 7 (13.46%) Asset Management
12 7 (13.46%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (57.69%) SQL
2 25 (48.08%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) 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%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
1 2 (3.85%) SnowPro
2 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.92%) CISA
2 1 (1.92%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.92%) GSEC
2 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.92%) PMP
2 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 8 (15.38%) 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 4 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (40.38%) Databricks
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.85%) Informatica
3 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.85%) Workday
4 1 (1.92%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.92%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.92%) Braze
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) Refinitiv
4 1 (1.92%) SAP
4 1 (1.92%) Talend