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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 97 103
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 +22
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 54 27 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.32% 1.49% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.76% 3.64% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 21 12
10th Percentile £413 £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 £700 £675 £728
90th Percentile £775 £725 £738
Central London median daily rate £575 £619 £650
% change year-on-year -7.07% -4.81% +7.44%

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 937 741 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.32% 40.87% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 500 570
10th Percentile £375 £339 £375
25th Percentile £463 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £552
Median % change year-on-year - -0.32% -4.04%
75th Percentile £656 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.65%
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 £27.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +25.93% -10.74%

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 August 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 23 (42.59%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.56%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (9.26%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.85%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 30 (55.56%) AWS
2 20 (37.04%) Azure
2 20 (37.04%) dbt
3 18 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 12 (22.22%) GCP
5 10 (18.52%) Prefect
6 7 (12.96%) Dagster
7 6 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 6 (11.11%) GitHub
8 3 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.70%) Fivetran
9 2 (3.70%) Serverless
10 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.85%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.85%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.04%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (33.33%) Power BI
3 14 (25.93%) Tableau
4 7 (12.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (12.96%) Looker
4 7 (12.96%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (11.11%) BigQuery
6 4 (7.41%) Metadata
7 3 (5.56%) Big Data
7 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.56%) MongoDB
7 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.56%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (5.56%) Star Schema
8 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.70%) Data Vault
8 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.70%) Git
2 2 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (1.85%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (46.30%) Finance
2 13 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.96%) Banking
5 5 (9.26%) Legal
6 4 (7.41%) Telecoms
7 3 (5.56%) Front Office
8 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.70%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.85%) Advertising
9 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.85%) Law
9 1 (1.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 13 (24.07%) Analyst
3 11 (20.37%) Snowflake Engineer
4 10 (18.52%) Data Analyst
5 9 (16.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Senior
7 7 (12.96%) Architect
8 6 (11.11%) Data Architect
9 4 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) Business Analyst
9 4 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
11 2 (3.70%) Business Data Analyst
11 2 (3.70%) Data Business Analyst
11 2 (3.70%) Lead
12 1 (1.85%) Data Analytics Manager
12 1 (1.85%) Platform Engineer
12 1 (1.85%) Senior Architect
12 1 (1.85%) Site Engineer
12 1 (1.85%) Validation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) Kafka
2 6 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (3.70%) .NET
3 2 (3.70%) PySpark
3 2 (3.70%) Spring
3 2 (3.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.85%) ADO
4 1 (1.85%) Node.js
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.85%) REST
4 1 (1.85%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.96%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.41%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.56%) Clustering
4 3 (5.56%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.70%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.85%) Derivative
6 1 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.85%) Equities
6 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.85%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (62.96%) Analytics
2 26 (48.15%) Data Engineering
3 24 (44.44%) Data Modelling
4 23 (42.59%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
5 20 (37.04%) Data Pipeline
6 19 (35.19%) AI
6 19 (35.19%) ETL
7 16 (29.63%) Decision-Making
8 12 (22.22%) Data Architecture
9 11 (20.37%) Data Governance
9 11 (20.37%) DevOps
9 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (14.81%) Agile
10 8 (14.81%) Asset Management
10 8 (14.81%) Data Transformation
10 8 (14.81%) Validation
11 7 (12.96%) Migration
11 7 (12.96%) Software Engineering
11 7 (12.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (64.81%) SQL
2 31 (57.41%) Python
3 4 (7.41%) Java
4 2 (3.70%) Bash
4 2 (3.70%) LookML
4 2 (3.70%) R
5 1 (1.85%) Bicep
5 1 (1.85%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) SnowPro
2 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.85%) PMP
3 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 10 (18.52%) GDPR
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.70%) EMIR
3 2 (3.70%) MiFID
4 1 (1.85%) QA
4 1 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.85%) SLA
4 1 (1.85%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (9.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Grafana
2 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (31.48%) Databricks
2 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.26%) Workday
4 3 (5.56%) Informatica
4 3 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.70%) Google
6 1 (1.85%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.85%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.85%) SAP
6 1 (1.85%) Splunk