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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 87 102
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 +21
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 51 28 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.24% 1.59% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.45% 3.91% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 12
10th Percentile £404 £412 £470
25th Percentile £473 £563 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £705 £684 £728
90th Percentile £798 £721 £738
Central London median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 935 716 816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.15% 40.59% 39.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 485 555
10th Percentile £363 £336 £383
25th Percentile £460 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £656 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £766
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £552
% change year-on-year - -0.32% -2.13%
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 £31.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%

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 4 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 20 (39.22%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (11.76%) Apache Spark
3 4 (7.84%) Apache
4 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.96%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 30 (58.82%) AWS
2 22 (43.14%) Azure
3 16 (31.37%) dbt
4 13 (25.49%) GCP
4 13 (25.49%) Power Platform
5 6 (11.76%) GitHub
5 6 (11.76%) Prefect
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.84%) Dagster
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.92%) Fivetran
10 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.96%) Matillion
10 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (39.22%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (25.49%) Power BI
3 9 (17.65%) Tableau
4 6 (11.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (7.84%) BigQuery
5 4 (7.84%) Looker
6 3 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (5.88%) Big Data
6 3 (5.88%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.88%) Metadata
6 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.88%) Star Schema
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (3.92%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.96%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) GitLab
2 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.96%) Terragrunt
General
1 23 (45.10%) Finance
2 13 (25.49%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 8 (15.69%) Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Front Office
5 3 (5.88%) Legal
6 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Marketing
7 1 (1.96%) Advertising
7 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.96%) Law
7 1 (1.96%) Publishing
7 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (35.29%) Data Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) Analyst
3 11 (21.57%) Data Analyst
4 10 (19.61%) Snowflake Engineer
5 8 (15.69%) Senior
5 8 (15.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 7 (13.73%) Architect
7 6 (11.76%) Data Architect
8 5 (9.80%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Business Analyst
11 2 (3.92%) Business Data Analyst
11 2 (3.92%) Data Business Analyst
11 2 (3.92%) Lead
12 1 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
12 1 (1.96%) Asset Management Analyst
12 1 (1.96%) Asset Management Business Analyst
12 1 (1.96%) Azure Engineer
12 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) Kafka
2 6 (11.76%) Terraform
3 2 (3.92%) .NET
3 2 (3.92%) Spring
3 2 (3.92%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.96%) ADO
4 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.96%) Node.js
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.96%) PySpark
4 1 (1.96%) REST
4 1 (1.96%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.84%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.88%) Clustering
5 2 (3.92%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.92%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.92%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.96%) Derivative
6 1 (1.96%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.96%) Equities
6 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.96%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.96%) Replication
6 1 (1.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (66.67%) Analytics
2 23 (45.10%) Data Engineering
3 22 (43.14%) Data Modelling
4 21 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 20 (39.22%) AI
6 19 (37.25%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (31.37%) ETL
9 14 (27.45%) Decision-Making
10 13 (25.49%) Data Architecture
10 13 (25.49%) Data Governance
11 10 (19.61%) Agile
11 10 (19.61%) DevOps
12 9 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (15.69%) Asset Management
13 8 (15.69%) Data Science
13 8 (15.69%) Data Transformation
13 8 (15.69%) Software Engineering
13 8 (15.69%) Translating Business Requirements
13 8 (15.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 32 (62.75%) SQL
2 27 (52.94%) Python
3 5 (9.80%) Java
4 2 (3.92%) Bash
4 2 (3.92%) LookML
4 2 (3.92%) R
4 2 (3.92%) Scala
5 1 (1.96%) Bicep
5 1 (1.96%) C#
5 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.84%) SnowPro
2 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.92%) Degree
3 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.96%) PMP
3 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (13.73%) GDPR
3 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.92%) EMIR
3 2 (3.92%) MiFID
4 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Databricks
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.88%) Informatica
4 2 (3.92%) Google
4 2 (3.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.92%) Workday
5 1 (1.96%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.96%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.96%) SAP