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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 106 116
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 +25
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 47 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.12% 0.75% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.14% 1.71% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 5 11
10th Percentile £420 £540 £513
25th Percentile £469 £563 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £694
90th Percentile £683 £805 £715
Central London median daily rate £550 £670 £600
% change year-on-year -17.91% +11.67% -2.04%

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 914 759 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.25% 43.67% 38.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 497 607
10th Percentile £350 £384 £360
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £661
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 9
10th Percentile £33.72 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.53 £27.15 £17.00
Median hourly rate £48.22 £41.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.40% +82.56% -72.73%
75th Percentile £63.54 £87.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.53 £143.75 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.29% +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 8 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 21 (44.68%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (8.51%) Apache
3 3 (6.38%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) BambooHR
2 2 (4.26%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 29 (61.70%) AWS
2 17 (36.17%) dbt
3 16 (34.04%) Power Platform
4 15 (31.91%) Azure
5 10 (21.28%) GCP
6 9 (19.15%) Prefect
7 7 (14.89%) Amazon S3
8 6 (12.77%) Dagster
9 3 (6.38%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (6.38%) Fivetran
9 3 (6.38%) Matillion
9 3 (6.38%) SaaS
9 3 (6.38%) Serverless
10 2 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (4.26%) GitHub
11 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (40.43%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (31.91%) Power BI
3 12 (25.53%) Tableau
4 8 (17.02%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (12.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (10.64%) BigQuery
6 5 (10.64%) Looker
7 3 (6.38%) Metadata
7 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
7 3 (6.38%) Star Schema
8 2 (4.26%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (4.26%) Data Vault
8 2 (4.26%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
9 1 (2.13%) Delta Lake
9 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.13%) Power Query
9 1 (2.13%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Git
2 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.13%) Selenium
3 1 (2.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 20 (42.55%) Finance
2 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Legal
4 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.38%) Banking
6 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Law
6 2 (4.26%) Marketing
6 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.13%) Front Office
7 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (44.68%) Data Engineer
2 13 (27.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 13 (27.66%) Snowflake Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Lead
4 6 (12.77%) Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior
7 2 (4.26%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Consultant
7 2 (4.26%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Data Consultant
7 2 (4.26%) Principal Consultant
8 1 (2.13%) Data Model Consultant
8 1 (2.13%) Integration Architect
8 1 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) Kafka
2 2 (4.26%) Playwright
2 2 (4.26%) PySpark
3 1 (2.13%) .NET
3 1 (2.13%) Middleware
3 1 (2.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) Clustering
3 3 (6.38%) Equities
3 3 (6.38%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.13%) Replication
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) Data Engineering
1 26 (55.32%) Data Modelling
2 24 (51.06%) Analytics
2 24 (51.06%) Data Pipeline
3 19 (40.43%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (40.43%) CI/CD
4 17 (36.17%) AI
4 17 (36.17%) ETL
5 13 (27.66%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (19.15%) Data Governance
6 9 (19.15%) Data Science
6 9 (19.15%) Machine Learning
7 8 (17.02%) Asset Management
7 8 (17.02%) Decision-Making
7 8 (17.02%) Migration
8 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
8 7 (14.89%) Use Case
8 7 (14.89%) Validation
9 6 (12.77%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 31 (65.96%) SQL
2 30 (63.83%) Python
3 2 (4.26%) C#
3 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.13%) Java
4 1 (2.13%) Scala
4 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.38%) SnowPro
3 2 (4.26%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (44.68%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.77%) GDPR
3 5 (10.64%) QA
4 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.13%) SLA
4 1 (2.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) Grafana
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (40.43%) Databricks
2 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.51%) Workday
4 3 (6.38%) Google
4 3 (6.38%) Guidewire
4 3 (6.38%) Informatica
5 2 (4.26%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.26%) SimCorp
5 2 (4.26%) Vermilion
6 1 (2.13%) Denodo
6 1 (2.13%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle
6 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.13%) Splunk
6 1 (2.13%) Yardi