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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 106 108
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 49 24 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.06% 1.28% 0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.15% 3.11% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 18 10
10th Percentile £399 £422 £508
25th Percentile £459 £563 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £619 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% -11.61% +16.67%
75th Percentile £702 £638 £734
90th Percentile £813 £740 £741
Central London median daily rate £575 £613 £675
% change year-on-year -6.12% -9.26% +12.50%

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 951 772 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.94% 41.28% 40.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 510 585
10th Percentile £363 £355 £383
25th Percentile £460 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £667 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £766
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +28.33% -26.03%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.57 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £97.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £34.33 £27.00
% change year-on-year +5.61% +27.13% -26.03%

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 11 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 20 (40.82%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (8.16%) Apache
3 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (10.20%) BambooHR
2 1 (2.04%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 25 (51.02%) AWS
2 19 (38.78%) Power Platform
3 17 (34.69%) Azure
4 16 (32.65%) dbt
5 10 (20.41%) Prefect
6 9 (18.37%) GCP
7 7 (14.29%) Dagster
8 6 (12.24%) Amazon S3
9 4 (8.16%) GitHub
10 3 (6.12%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (4.08%) Fivetran
11 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (4.08%) Matillion
11 2 (4.08%) Serverless
12 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (2.04%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.73%) Data Warehouse
1 18 (36.73%) Power BI
2 13 (26.53%) Tableau
3 8 (16.33%) Snowflake Schema
4 7 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (12.24%) BigQuery
6 5 (10.20%) Looker
7 4 (8.16%) Metadata
8 3 (6.12%) Big Data
8 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (6.12%) MongoDB
8 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
8 3 (6.12%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
8 3 (6.12%) Star Schema
9 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
9 2 (4.08%) Data Vault
9 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
10 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
10 1 (2.04%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
1 2 (4.08%) GitLab
1 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.04%) ER Studio
2 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 25 (51.02%) Finance
2 11 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Banking
4 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 5 (10.20%) Legal
6 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
7 3 (6.12%) Front Office
8 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Advertising
9 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.04%) Law
9 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (34.69%) Data Engineer
2 12 (24.49%) Analyst
3 10 (20.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 10 (20.41%) Snowflake Engineer
4 9 (18.37%) Data Analyst
5 6 (12.24%) Architect
6 5 (10.20%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.12%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Lead
7 3 (6.12%) Senior
8 2 (4.08%) Business Data Analyst
9 1 (2.04%) Financial Analyst
9 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 1 (2.04%) Principal Architect
9 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Architect
9 1 (2.04%) Senior Architect
9 1 (2.04%) Site Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Validation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) Kafka
2 2 (4.08%) .NET
2 2 (4.08%) PySpark
2 2 (4.08%) Spring
2 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.04%) ADO
3 1 (2.04%) Node.js
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) Snowpark
3 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.24%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.16%) Clustering
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.12%) Fixed Income
4 3 (6.12%) Reinsurance
5 2 (4.08%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.08%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.04%) Equities
6 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.04%) Pricing Data
6 1 (2.04%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (67.35%) Analytics
2 23 (46.94%) Data Engineering
2 23 (46.94%) Data Modelling
3 22 (44.90%) Business Intelligence
4 20 (40.82%) Data Pipeline
5 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
5 17 (34.69%) ETL
6 15 (30.61%) AI
7 13 (26.53%) Decision-Making
8 11 (22.45%) Data Architecture
9 10 (20.41%) DevOps
10 9 (18.37%) Data Governance
10 9 (18.37%) Validation
11 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (14.29%) Asset Management
12 7 (14.29%) Data Science
12 7 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 7 (14.29%) Use Case
13 6 (12.24%) Performance Tuning
13 6 (12.24%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (63.27%) SQL
2 26 (53.06%) Python
3 3 (6.12%) Java
4 2 (4.08%) R
5 1 (2.04%) Bash
5 1 (2.04%) Bicep
5 1 (2.04%) C#
5 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) SnowPro
2 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.08%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.04%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (32.65%) Data Quality
2 10 (20.41%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.08%) EMIR
3 2 (4.08%) MiFID
3 2 (4.08%) QA
4 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.04%) SLA
4 1 (2.04%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Terraform
2 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Grafana
3 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Databricks
2 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.20%) Workday
4 3 (6.12%) Google
4 3 (6.12%) Informatica
4 3 (6.12%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.08%) Oracle
6 1 (2.04%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.04%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.04%) Denodo
6 1 (2.04%) Refinitiv
6 1 (2.04%) SAP
6 1 (2.04%) Splunk