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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 102 108
Rank change year-on-year +17 +6 +29
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 48 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.98% 1.03% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.14% 2.41% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 11 8
10th Percentile £374 £490 £498
25th Percentile £450 £544 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% - -2.00%
75th Percentile £625 £706 £688
90th Percentile £746 £775 £729
Central London median daily rate £550 £613 £625
% change year-on-year -10.20% -2.00% -

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 934 747 881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.45% 42.71% 40.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 478 616
10th Percentile £350 £364 £363
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £666
90th Percentile £750 £751 £771
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £539
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 7
10th Percentile £22.38 £23.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £51.44 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.04% +88.89% -66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.57 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.35 £97.75 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +66.71% +54.00% -57.14%

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 27 June 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 (41.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.25%) Apache
3 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) BambooHR
2 1 (2.08%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 24 (50.00%) AWS
2 19 (39.58%) Power Platform
3 16 (33.33%) Azure
4 15 (31.25%) dbt
5 11 (22.92%) GCP
6 9 (18.75%) Prefect
7 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
8 6 (12.50%) Dagster
9 4 (8.33%) Matillion
10 3 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (6.25%) GitHub
10 3 (6.25%) SaaS
10 3 (6.25%) Serverless
11 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (4.17%) Fivetran
11 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (37.50%) Power BI
2 14 (29.17%) Tableau
3 13 (27.08%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (18.75%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (14.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (14.58%) BigQuery
6 6 (12.50%) Looker
7 4 (8.33%) Metadata
8 3 (6.25%) Big Data
8 3 (6.25%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
8 3 (6.25%) Star Schema
9 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
9 2 (4.17%) Data Vault
9 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
10 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (2.08%) Delta Lake
10 1 (2.08%) GIS
10 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
10 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 27 (56.25%) Finance
2 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Banking
4 5 (10.42%) Legal
5 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.25%) Marketing
7 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Advertising
8 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Front Office
8 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Data Engineer
2 13 (27.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 13 (27.08%) Snowflake Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Analyst
4 6 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Senior
7 2 (4.17%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Business Data Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Data Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Principal Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.08%) Data Model Consultant
8 1 (2.08%) Kafka Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (4.17%) .NET
2 2 (4.17%) PySpark
2 2 (4.17%) Spring
2 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.08%) ADO
3 1 (2.08%) Middleware
3 1 (2.08%) Node.js
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (2.08%) REST
3 1 (2.08%) Snowpark
3 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.42%) Clustering
3 3 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.25%) Equities
3 3 (6.25%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.17%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.08%) Replication
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (64.58%) Analytics
2 25 (52.08%) Data Engineering
3 24 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 22 (45.83%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
6 20 (41.67%) AI
7 19 (39.58%) CI/CD
8 16 (33.33%) ETL
9 10 (20.83%) DevOps
9 10 (20.83%) Validation
10 9 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (16.67%) Data Governance
11 8 (16.67%) Data Science
11 8 (16.67%) Decision-Making
11 8 (16.67%) Use Case
12 7 (14.58%) Data Architecture
12 7 (14.58%) Migration
13 6 (12.50%) Asset Management
13 6 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
13 6 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (60.42%) Python
2 28 (58.33%) SQL
3 3 (6.25%) Java
4 2 (4.17%) R
5 1 (2.08%) Bash
5 1 (2.08%) Bicep
5 1 (2.08%) C#
5 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) Degree
1 3 (6.25%) SnowPro
2 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (35.42%) Data Quality
2 10 (20.83%) GDPR
3 2 (4.17%) EMIR
3 2 (4.17%) MiFID
3 2 (4.17%) QA
4 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.08%) SLA
4 1 (2.08%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Terraform
2 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.08%) Grafana
3 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (37.50%) Databricks
2 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.42%) Workday
4 3 (6.25%) Google
4 3 (6.25%) Informatica
4 3 (6.25%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle
5 2 (4.17%) SimCorp
5 2 (4.17%) Vermilion
6 1 (2.08%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.08%) Denodo
6 1 (2.08%) SAP
6 1 (2.08%) Splunk
6 1 (2.08%) Yardi