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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 100 98
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +52
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 32 21 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.76% 1.09% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.24% 2.83% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 32
10th Percentile £349 £451 £479
25th Percentile £467 £528 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year - -3.28% +1.19%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £688 £741 £745
Central London median daily rate £575 £670 £598
% change year-on-year -14.18% +12.13% +1.70%

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 754 743 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.38% 38.72% 39.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 472 694
10th Percentile £331 £405 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.18%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £774 £745
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 9
10th Percentile £25.49 - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +277.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £41.94 £92.50 £38.00
90th Percentile £45.28 - £53.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%

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 9 January 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 9 (28.13%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.25%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (71.88%) AWS
2 12 (37.50%) Azure
3 9 (28.13%) dbt
4 8 (25.00%) GCP
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 4 (12.50%) Serverless
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.25%) Fivetran
8 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.13%) Dagster
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.13%) Matillion
8 1 (3.13%) Prefect
8 1 (3.13%) SaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (15.63%) Tableau
3 4 (12.50%) Power BI
4 3 (9.38%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.13%) Big Data
6 1 (3.13%) Data Vault
6 1 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (3.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 10 (31.25%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Banking
5 3 (9.38%) Front Office
5 3 (9.38%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.25%) Law
6 2 (6.25%) Marketing
6 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Data Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Architect
2 6 (18.75%) Lead
3 5 (15.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Snowflake Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Data Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Snowflake Architect
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Data Migration Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Migration Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Node.js
2 4 (12.50%) .NET
3 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
3 3 (9.38%) Kafka
3 3 (9.38%) React
4 2 (6.25%) Playwright
5 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.13%) Pandas
5 1 (3.13%) PySpark
5 1 (3.13%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Equities
3 1 (3.13%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
2 13 (40.63%) Data Modelling
3 12 (37.50%) Analytics
3 12 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 9 (28.13%) ETL
5 8 (25.00%) AI
5 8 (25.00%) Asset Management
5 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 8 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (18.75%) Data Science
7 6 (18.75%) Generative AI
7 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (15.63%) Agile
8 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (15.63%) Data Integration
8 5 (15.63%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (12.50%) Migration
9 4 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (62.50%) SQL
2 17 (53.13%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) Java
3 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) SnowPro
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) GDPR
2 3 (9.38%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Databricks
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) Guidewire
4 2 (6.25%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.13%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.13%) SimCorp
5 1 (3.13%) Talend
5 1 (3.13%) Vermilion
5 1 (3.13%) Workday