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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 94 103
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 49 31 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.26% 1.79% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.43% 4.39% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 24 15
10th Percentile £371 £346 £457
25th Percentile £463 £522 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £619 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -4.81% +9.24%
75th Percentile £715 £675 £725
90th Percentile £805 £688 £738
Central London median daily rate £600 £613 £613
% change year-on-year -2.04% - +2.08%

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 903 706 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.69% 40.86% 39.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 514 548
10th Percentile £350 £343 £392
25th Percentile £456 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £561
% change year-on-year - -2.00% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 3
10th Percentile £17.40 £21.58 -
25th Percentile £19.50 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £23.16 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +25.93% +20.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £46.00 £72.53 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.59% -2.86% +55.56%

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 14 October 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 12 (24.49%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (12.24%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.08%) Apache
4 1 (2.04%) Confluence
4 1 (2.04%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 26 (53.06%) AWS
2 24 (48.98%) Azure
3 14 (28.57%) GCP
4 13 (26.53%) dbt
5 9 (18.37%) Power Platform
6 6 (12.24%) GitHub
7 5 (10.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.04%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.04%) Dagster
10 1 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (2.04%) Matillion
10 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (2.04%) Prefect
10 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (2.04%) Serverless
10 1 (2.04%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.65%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (18.37%) Power BI
3 6 (12.24%) Tableau
4 4 (8.16%) Data Lake
4 4 (8.16%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.12%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (6.12%) Big Data
5 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.12%) Metadata
5 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.12%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.08%) BigQuery
6 2 (4.08%) Looker
6 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.04%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.04%) Power Query
7 1 (2.04%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) JIRA
2 3 (6.12%) Git
3 2 (4.08%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (44.90%) Finance
2 17 (34.69%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (30.61%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.29%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Marketing
6 2 (4.08%) Billing
6 2 (4.08%) Front Office
7 1 (2.04%) Advertising
7 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Law
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Analyst
2 12 (24.49%) Data Analyst
3 11 (22.45%) Architect
3 11 (22.45%) Data Engineer
4 10 (20.41%) Data Architect
5 9 (18.37%) Senior
6 5 (10.20%) Snowflake Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Business Analyst
8 3 (6.12%) Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Business Data Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Data Business Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) ETL Developer
10 1 (2.04%) Financial Analyst
10 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 1 (2.04%) Principal Architect
10 1 (2.04%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) Kafka
2 5 (10.20%) Terraform
3 2 (4.08%) REST
3 2 (4.08%) Spring
3 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.04%) .NET
4 1 (2.04%) ADO
4 1 (2.04%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.04%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (2.04%) PySpark
4 1 (2.04%) pytest
4 1 (2.04%) Snowpark
4 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 5 (10.20%) Reinsurance
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.12%) Fixed Income
5 2 (4.08%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.08%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.08%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.04%) Clustering
6 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.04%) Derivative
6 1 (2.04%) Digital Media
6 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.04%) Pricing Data
6 1 (2.04%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.04%) Replication
6 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (65.31%) Analytics
2 21 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 19 (38.78%) AI
3 19 (38.78%) Data Engineering
4 16 (32.65%) CI/CD
4 16 (32.65%) Data Architecture
4 16 (32.65%) Data Governance
4 16 (32.65%) Decision-Making
5 15 (30.61%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (26.53%) ETL
8 12 (24.49%) Agile
8 12 (24.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (24.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (20.41%) Data Transformation
10 9 (18.37%) Migration
11 8 (16.33%) Data Strategy
11 8 (16.33%) Translating Business Requirements
12 7 (14.29%) Asset Management
12 7 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (61.22%) SQL
2 20 (40.82%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) Java
4 2 (4.08%) Bash
4 2 (4.08%) LookML
4 2 (4.08%) R
4 2 (4.08%) Scala
5 1 (2.04%) Bicep
5 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
1 2 (4.08%) SnowPro
2 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.04%) CISA
2 1 (2.04%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (2.04%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.04%) GSEC
2 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.04%) PMP
2 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.24%) GDPR
3 3 (6.12%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.08%) EMIR
4 2 (4.08%) MiFID
5 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Databricks
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.08%) Informatica
3 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.04%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.04%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.04%) Braze
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle
4 1 (2.04%) Refinitiv
4 1 (2.04%) SAP
4 1 (2.04%) Talend