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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 100 124
Rank change year-on-year +14 +24 +19
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 44 15 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.97% 0.85% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.92% 1.97% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 5 8
10th Percentile £405 £519 £462
25th Percentile £455 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £613
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +14.29% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £713
90th Percentile £663 £805 £715
Central London median daily rate £550 £670 £650
% change year-on-year -17.91% +3.08% +4.00%

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 895 760 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.99% 42.89% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 489 606
10th Percentile £350 £379 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% +0.09% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £674
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £538
% change year-on-year -0.09% +2.32% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £33.72 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.53 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £63.54 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.53 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -66.67%

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 22 April 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 19 (43.18%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.82%) Apache
Business Applications
1 5 (11.36%) BambooHR
2 2 (4.55%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 24 (54.55%) AWS
2 17 (38.64%) Power Platform
3 14 (31.82%) Azure
3 14 (31.82%) dbt
4 10 (22.73%) Prefect
5 9 (20.45%) GCP
6 7 (15.91%) Amazon S3
6 7 (15.91%) Dagster
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.82%) Fivetran
7 3 (6.82%) Matillion
7 3 (6.82%) SaaS
7 3 (6.82%) Serverless
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.55%) GitHub
9 1 (2.27%) Datadog
9 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (36.36%) Power BI
2 15 (34.09%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (29.55%) Tableau
4 8 (18.18%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (15.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (13.64%) BigQuery
6 6 (13.64%) Looker
7 3 (6.82%) Metadata
7 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
7 3 (6.82%) Star Schema
8 2 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (2.27%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.27%) Data Vault
9 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
9 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.27%) Power Query
9 1 (2.27%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.27%) GitLab
3 1 (2.27%) Selenium
3 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Legal
4 4 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.82%) Banking
6 2 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Law
6 2 (4.55%) Marketing
6 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Front Office
7 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 13 (29.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 13 (29.55%) Snowflake Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Analyst
3 5 (11.36%) Lead
4 4 (9.09%) Architect
5 3 (6.82%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Data Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Senior
6 2 (4.55%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Data Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Principal Consultant
7 1 (2.27%) Data Architect
7 1 (2.27%) Data Model Consultant
7 1 (2.27%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 1 (2.27%) Integration Architect
7 1 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) Kafka
2 2 (4.55%) Playwright
2 2 (4.55%) PySpark
3 1 (2.27%) .NET
3 1 (2.27%) Middleware
3 1 (2.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.09%) Clustering
3 3 (6.82%) Equities
3 3 (6.82%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.27%) Replication
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Analytics
2 23 (52.27%) Data Modelling
3 22 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 21 (47.73%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (43.18%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (40.91%) ETL
7 16 (36.36%) CI/CD
8 13 (29.55%) AI
9 10 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (20.45%) Data Science
11 8 (18.18%) Asset Management
11 8 (18.18%) Data Governance
11 8 (18.18%) Decision-Making
11 8 (18.18%) Test Automation
11 8 (18.18%) Use Case
12 7 (15.91%) Migration
12 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (15.91%) Validation
13 6 (13.64%) DevOps
14 5 (11.36%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 28 (63.64%) Python
1 28 (63.64%) SQL
2 2 (4.55%) C#
2 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.27%) Java
3 1 (2.27%) Scala
3 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.82%) SnowPro
3 2 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (43.18%) Data Quality
2 7 (15.91%) GDPR
3 4 (9.09%) QA
4 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.27%) SLA
4 1 (2.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Terraform
2 1 (2.27%) Grafana
2 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) Databricks
2 9 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.36%) Workday
4 3 (6.82%) Google
4 3 (6.82%) Guidewire
4 3 (6.82%) Informatica
5 2 (4.55%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.55%) SimCorp
5 2 (4.55%) Vermilion
6 1 (2.27%) Denodo
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.27%) Splunk
6 1 (2.27%) Yardi