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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 92 101
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 +13
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 49 30 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.29% 1.74% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.50% 4.34% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 23 13
10th Percentile £375 £338 £456
25th Percentile £463 £544 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £715 £675 £725
90th Percentile £798 £688 £738
Central London median daily rate £600 £619 £650
% change year-on-year -3.03% -4.81% +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 891 691 831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.56% 40.08% 39.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 492 541
10th Percentile £350 £341 £396
25th Percentile £455 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 3
10th Percentile £17.40 £22.30 -
25th Percentile £19.50 £26.75 -
Median hourly rate £23.16 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £31.00 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £46.00 £70.21 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.59% -2.86% +68.67%

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 8 October 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 14 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (12.24%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.08%) Apache
4 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.04%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 27 (55.10%) AWS
2 24 (48.98%) Azure
3 14 (28.57%) dbt
3 14 (28.57%) GCP
4 10 (20.41%) Power Platform
5 6 (12.24%) GitHub
6 5 (10.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.08%) Dagster
8 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.08%) Prefect
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.04%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 1 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (2.04%) Serverless
9 1 (2.04%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.65%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (20.41%) Power BI
3 6 (12.24%) Tableau
4 4 (8.16%) Data Lake
4 4 (8.16%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.12%) Big Data
5 3 (6.12%) BigQuery
5 3 (6.12%) Looker
5 3 (6.12%) Metadata
5 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.12%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.04%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.04%) Power Query
7 1 (2.04%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) JIRA
2 3 (6.12%) Git
3 2 (4.08%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (42.86%) Finance
2 15 (30.61%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.29%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Billing
5 2 (4.08%) Front Office
5 2 (4.08%) Legal
5 2 (4.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.04%) Advertising
6 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Law
6 1 (2.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Analyst
2 13 (26.53%) Data Engineer
3 11 (22.45%) Architect
3 11 (22.45%) Data Analyst
4 10 (20.41%) Data Architect
5 8 (16.33%) Senior
6 6 (12.24%) Snowflake Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Business Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Business Data Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Data Business Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Developer
10 1 (2.04%) Applications Engineer
10 1 (2.04%) Platform Engineer
10 1 (2.04%) Senior Applications Engineer
10 1 (2.04%) Senior Architect
10 1 (2.04%) Validation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) Kafka
2 5 (10.20%) Terraform
3 2 (4.08%) REST
3 2 (4.08%) Spring
3 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.04%) .NET
4 1 (2.04%) ADO
4 1 (2.04%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.04%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (2.04%) PySpark
4 1 (2.04%) pytest
4 1 (2.04%) Snowpark
4 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.24%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.16%) Reinsurance
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.12%) Fixed Income
5 2 (4.08%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.08%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.08%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.04%) Clustering
6 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.04%) Derivative
6 1 (2.04%) Digital Media
6 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.04%) Pricing Data
6 1 (2.04%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.04%) Replication
6 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (63.27%) Analytics
2 21 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 19 (38.78%) AI
3 19 (38.78%) Data Engineering
4 16 (32.65%) CI/CD
4 16 (32.65%) Data Architecture
4 16 (32.65%) Data Governance
5 15 (30.61%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (30.61%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (30.61%) Decision-Making
6 13 (26.53%) ETL
7 11 (22.45%) Agile
7 11 (22.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (20.41%) Data Transformation
8 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (18.37%) Migration
10 8 (16.33%) Data Strategy
10 8 (16.33%) Translating Business Requirements
11 7 (14.29%) Asset Management
11 7 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (59.18%) SQL
2 21 (42.86%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) Java
4 2 (4.08%) Bash
4 2 (4.08%) LookML
4 2 (4.08%) R
4 2 (4.08%) Scala
5 1 (2.04%) Bicep
5 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
1 2 (4.08%) SnowPro
2 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.04%) CISA
2 1 (2.04%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (2.04%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.04%) GSEC
2 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.04%) PMP
2 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.61%) Data Quality
2 7 (14.29%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.08%) EMIR
3 2 (4.08%) MiFID
4 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (38.78%) Databricks
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.08%) Informatica
3 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.04%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.04%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.04%) Braze
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle
4 1 (2.04%) Refinitiv
4 1 (2.04%) SAP
4 1 (2.04%) Talend
4 1 (2.04%) Workday