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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 99 119
Rank change year-on-year +15 +20 +25
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 46 15 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.98% 0.89% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.11% 2.07% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 7 6
10th Percentile £372 £386 £538
25th Percentile £450 £548 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% - -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £703
90th Percentile £750 £795 £725
Central London median daily rate £538 £670 £638
% change year-on-year -19.78% +5.10% +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 901 723 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.69% 43.11% 40.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 456 612
10th Percentile £350 £364 £363
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% -9.58%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £657
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £20.35 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £44.47 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +71.44% -72.99%
75th Percentile £63.54 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.53 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £44.47 £29.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +52.98% +29.20% -72.73%

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 23 May 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 (43.48%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.52%) Apache
3 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) BambooHR
2 1 (2.17%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 23 (50.00%) AWS
2 18 (39.13%) Power Platform
3 15 (32.61%) dbt
4 11 (23.91%) Azure
5 9 (19.57%) GCP
5 9 (19.57%) Prefect
6 7 (15.22%) Amazon S3
7 6 (13.04%) Dagster
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.52%) Matillion
8 3 (6.52%) SaaS
8 3 (6.52%) Serverless
9 2 (4.35%) Fivetran
9 2 (4.35%) GitHub
10 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.17%) PaaS
10 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.96%) Power BI
2 15 (32.61%) Tableau
3 14 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (17.39%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (15.22%) BigQuery
6 6 (13.04%) Looker
7 3 (6.52%) Metadata
7 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
7 3 (6.52%) Star Schema
8 2 (4.35%) Big Data
8 2 (4.35%) Data Vault
8 2 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.17%) Delta Lake
9 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.17%) Power Query
9 1 (2.17%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 25 (54.35%) Finance
2 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Legal
5 4 (8.70%) Banking
5 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.52%) Marketing
7 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Advertising
8 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Front Office
8 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) Data Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Snowflake Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Data Analyst
5 5 (10.87%) Lead
6 3 (6.52%) Architect
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Senior
7 2 (4.35%) Business Data Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Consultant
7 2 (4.35%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Data Consultant
7 2 (4.35%) Principal Consultant
8 1 (2.17%) Data Integration Architect
8 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 1 (2.17%) Financial Analyst
8 1 (2.17%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) Kafka
2 2 (4.35%) .NET
2 2 (4.35%) PySpark
2 2 (4.35%) Spring
2 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.17%) Middleware
3 1 (2.17%) Node.js
3 1 (2.17%) Playwright
3 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Clustering
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.52%) Equities
3 3 (6.52%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.35%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) Analytics
2 24 (52.17%) Data Engineering
3 23 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 20 (43.48%) Business Intelligence
4 20 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (39.13%) CI/CD
6 15 (32.61%) AI
6 15 (32.61%) ETL
7 10 (21.74%) Validation
8 9 (19.57%) DevOps
9 8 (17.39%) Data Science
9 8 (17.39%) Decision-Making
9 8 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (15.22%) Data Governance
10 7 (15.22%) Migration
10 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
10 7 (15.22%) Use Case
11 6 (13.04%) Asset Management
12 5 (10.87%) Data Architecture
12 5 (10.87%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) Python
1 29 (63.04%) SQL
2 3 (6.52%) Java
3 2 (4.35%) R
4 1 (2.17%) C#
4 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) Degree
2 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.35%) SnowPro
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (36.96%) Data Quality
2 9 (19.57%) GDPR
3 3 (6.52%) QA
4 2 (4.35%) EMIR
4 2 (4.35%) MiFID
5 1 (2.17%) SLA
5 1 (2.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Terraform
2 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) Grafana
3 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (30.43%) Databricks
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.87%) Workday
4 3 (6.52%) Google
4 3 (6.52%) Informatica
5 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.35%) SimCorp
5 2 (4.35%) Vermilion
6 1 (2.17%) Denodo
6 1 (2.17%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle
6 1 (2.17%) Splunk
6 1 (2.17%) Yardi