Snowflake Contract Job Trends in London

Snowflake
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Snowflake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 151 131
Rank change year-on-year -1 -20 +127
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 373 249 330
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.82% 1.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.49% 4.25% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 202 303
10th Percentile £413 £450 £500
25th Percentile £475 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £800
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% -20.31% +39.13%
75th Percentile £688 £825 £888
90th Percentile £800 £875 -
England median daily rate £575 £575 £800
% change year-on-year - -28.13% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,310 5,862 6,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.56% 42.91% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,670 4,012 4,921
10th Percentile £363 £343 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £639 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 83 57
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.60 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.89 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -49.77%
75th Percentile £55.19 £48.13 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £72.50 £66.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -33.33%

Snowflake
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Snowflake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Snowflake job vacancy trend in London

Snowflake
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Snowflake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Snowflake

Snowflake
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake in London

Snowflake
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Snowflake.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Snowflake

Snowflake
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snowflake within the London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +13 55 £575 -6.12% 24
West London -15 6 £850 +13.33% 5
South London - 1 - -
Snowflake
England

Snowflake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 84 (22.52%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (5.90%) Apache Spark
3 19 (5.09%) Apache
4 9 (2.41%) Confluence
4 9 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.27%) Luigi
5 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.61%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (6.17%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.34%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.80%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.54%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.27%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 196 (52.55%) AWS
2 132 (35.39%) Azure
3 97 (26.01%) Power Platform
4 94 (25.20%) dbt
5 84 (22.52%) GCP
6 51 (13.67%) Amazon S3
7 42 (11.26%) GitHub
8 36 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (7.51%) Serverless
10 26 (6.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 26 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (6.43%) Dagster
13 17 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (4.56%) Prefect
14 13 (3.49%) Fivetran
14 13 (3.49%) Matillion
15 12 (3.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (2.95%) Datadog
17 10 (2.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) Broadband
1 2 (0.54%) DSL
2 1 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.27%) DNS
2 1 (0.27%) Firewall
2 1 (0.27%) Network Security
2 1 (0.27%) SSL
2 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (27.88%) Data Warehouse
2 94 (25.20%) Power BI
3 50 (13.40%) BigQuery
4 45 (12.06%) Snowflake Schema
4 45 (12.06%) Tableau
5 41 (10.99%) Data Lake
6 30 (8.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (6.17%) SQL Server
8 22 (5.90%) Big Data
9 20 (5.36%) Metadata
10 17 (4.56%) Data Vault
11 14 (3.75%) NoSQL
12 13 (3.49%) Looker
12 13 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (3.49%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.68%) Delta Lake
13 10 (2.68%) MongoDB
13 10 (2.68%) Semantic Layer
14 9 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (1.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (8.85%) Git
2 21 (5.63%) GitLab
2 21 (5.63%) JIRA
3 15 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.61%) MLflow
5 5 (1.34%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.80%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.80%) Snyk
6 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.54%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.54%) Selenium
7 2 (0.54%) Toad
8 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.27%) ERwin
8 1 (0.27%) GCC
8 1 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 153 (41.02%) Finance
2 94 (25.20%) Social Skills
3 58 (15.55%) Banking
4 47 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (9.38%) Retail
6 20 (5.36%) Marketing
7 18 (4.83%) Financial Institution
8 16 (4.29%) Front Office
9 14 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.75%) Public Sector
10 13 (3.49%) Legal
11 8 (2.14%) Back Office
11 8 (2.14%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.14%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.61%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.34%) Private Banking
14 4 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.07%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 118 (31.64%) Data Engineer
2 73 (19.57%) Snowflake Engineer
3 68 (18.23%) Architect
4 57 (15.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 56 (15.01%) Senior
6 48 (12.87%) Analyst
7 37 (9.92%) Data Architect
8 31 (8.31%) Data Analyst
9 28 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
10 27 (7.24%) Lead
11 26 (6.97%) Senior Data Engineer
12 22 (5.90%) AWS Data Engineer
13 21 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (4.83%) Developer
15 17 (4.56%) Business Analyst
16 13 (3.49%) Consultant
16 13 (3.49%) Snowflake Architect
17 12 (3.22%) Python Engineer
18 11 (2.95%) Python Data Engineer
19 10 (2.68%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.63%) Kafka
2 17 (4.56%) REST
3 13 (3.49%) PySpark
4 10 (2.68%) .NET
5 8 (2.14%) React
6 6 (1.61%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (1.61%) YAML
7 5 (1.34%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.34%) Langfuse
7 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.34%) OAuth
7 5 (1.34%) OpenID
7 5 (1.34%) Playwright
7 5 (1.34%) Vue
8 4 (1.07%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.07%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.07%) Snowpark
8 4 (1.07%) Spring
8 4 (1.07%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.80%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.83%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.56%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.49%) Fixed Income
5 12 (3.22%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.95%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.41%) Equities
8 9 (2.41%) Reinsurance
9 7 (1.88%) Clustering
9 7 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.61%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.61%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.07%) Derivative
12 4 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.07%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.54%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (44.77%) Analytics
2 137 (36.73%) Data Engineering
3 126 (33.78%) Data Modelling
4 122 (32.71%) Data Pipeline
5 115 (30.83%) CI/CD
6 109 (29.22%) AI
7 108 (28.95%) Business Intelligence
8 107 (28.69%) ETL
9 83 (22.25%) Agile
10 74 (19.84%) Data Architecture
10 74 (19.84%) DevOps
11 64 (17.16%) Data Governance
12 61 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
13 58 (15.55%) Migration
14 53 (14.21%) Validation
15 52 (13.94%) Machine Learning
16 50 (13.40%) Decision-Making
17 47 (12.60%) Data Transformation
18 44 (11.80%) Data Science
19 42 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 208 (55.76%) SQL
2 195 (52.28%) Python
3 42 (11.26%) Java
4 14 (3.75%) R
5 9 (2.41%) C#
6 7 (1.88%) Bash
6 7 (1.88%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.88%) Scala
6 7 (1.88%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.34%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.80%) Cypher
8 3 (0.80%) SHACL
9 2 (0.54%) Bicep
9 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.54%) Delphi
9 2 (0.54%) Korn
9 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.54%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.27%) Go
10 1 (0.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 28 (7.51%) Degree
2 24 (6.43%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.22%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.88%) SnowPro
6 6 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.07%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.27%) CBAP
9 1 (0.27%) CFA
9 1 (0.27%) CISM
9 1 (0.27%) CISSP
9 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (23.32%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.24%) GDPR
3 15 (4.02%) QA
4 5 (1.34%) SLA
5 3 (0.80%) EMIR
5 3 (0.80%) MiFID
5 3 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.54%) PMO
6 2 (0.54%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (6.70%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (13.94%) Terraform
2 19 (5.09%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.68%) Grafana
4 8 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.54%) Argo
6 1 (0.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 110 (29.49%) Databricks
2 39 (10.46%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.83%) Google
4 15 (4.02%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.75%) Oracle
6 12 (3.22%) Informatica
7 9 (2.41%) Charles River
8 8 (2.14%) Denodo
9 7 (1.88%) FactSet
10 6 (1.61%) Bloomberg
10 6 (1.61%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.61%) SAP
10 6 (1.61%) Talend
10 6 (1.61%) Workday
11 5 (1.34%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.34%) Foundry
12 4 (1.07%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (1.07%) Murex
12 4 (1.07%) Splunk
13 3 (0.80%) Temenos