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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 157 137
Rank change year-on-year +7 -20 +124
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 366 242 329
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 1.78% 1.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.45% 4.16% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 198 302
10th Percentile £413 £450 £501
25th Percentile £475 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -21.88% +39.13%
75th Percentile £688 £825 £888
90th Percentile £800 £875 -
England median daily rate £574 £575 £800
% change year-on-year -0.22% -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 8,218 5,823 6,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 42.81% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,600 3,975 4,975
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 81 59
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £22.19
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -50.91%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £67.50 £66.20
England median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -37.14%

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 23 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 23 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 +14 56 £575 -6.12% 26
West London -12 6 £850 +13.33% 6
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 83 (22.68%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.56%) Apache Spark
3 18 (4.92%) Apache
4 9 (2.46%) Confluence
4 9 (2.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.27%) Luigi
5 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.64%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (6.01%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.37%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.82%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.55%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.55%) 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
1 192 (52.46%) AWS
2 129 (35.25%) Azure
3 95 (25.96%) Power Platform
4 91 (24.86%) dbt
5 86 (23.50%) GCP
6 53 (14.48%) Amazon S3
7 42 (11.48%) GitHub
8 36 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (7.92%) Serverless
10 26 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (7.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 26 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (6.28%) Dagster
12 17 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (4.37%) Prefect
14 15 (4.10%) Matillion
15 14 (3.83%) Fivetran
16 12 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (3.01%) Datadog
18 10 (2.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.55%) Broadband
1 2 (0.55%) 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
1 103 (28.14%) Data Warehouse
2 92 (25.14%) Power BI
3 50 (13.66%) BigQuery
4 46 (12.57%) Tableau
5 45 (12.30%) Snowflake Schema
6 40 (10.93%) Data Lake
7 30 (8.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (6.28%) Big Data
9 22 (6.01%) SQL Server
10 19 (5.19%) Metadata
11 18 (4.92%) Data Vault
12 14 (3.83%) Looker
12 14 (3.83%) NoSQL
13 12 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (3.28%) Relational Database
14 10 (2.73%) Delta Lake
15 9 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (2.46%) MongoDB
16 8 (2.19%) Semantic Layer
17 7 (1.91%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 33 (9.02%) Git
2 21 (5.74%) GitLab
3 20 (5.46%) JIRA
4 15 (4.10%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.64%) MLflow
6 5 (1.37%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.82%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.82%) Snyk
7 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.55%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.55%) Selenium
8 2 (0.55%) Toad
9 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.27%) ERwin
9 1 (0.27%) GCC
9 1 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 146 (39.89%) Finance
2 92 (25.14%) Social Skills
3 57 (15.57%) Banking
4 44 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (9.56%) Retail
6 20 (5.46%) Marketing
7 17 (4.64%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.83%) Front Office
9 13 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.55%) Legal
9 13 (3.55%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.19%) Back Office
10 8 (2.19%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.37%) Private Banking
13 4 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 117 (31.97%) Data Engineer
2 72 (19.67%) Snowflake Engineer
3 66 (18.03%) Architect
4 56 (15.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 54 (14.75%) Senior
6 47 (12.84%) Analyst
7 37 (10.11%) Data Architect
8 30 (8.20%) Data Analyst
9 28 (7.65%) Lead
10 26 (7.10%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (6.83%) Senior Data Engineer
12 21 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (5.46%) AWS Data Engineer
14 18 (4.92%) Developer
15 17 (4.64%) Business Analyst
16 13 (3.55%) Consultant
17 12 (3.28%) Snowflake Architect
18 10 (2.73%) Azure Engineer
18 10 (2.73%) Data Consultant
18 10 (2.73%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.56%) Kafka
2 17 (4.64%) REST
3 13 (3.55%) PySpark
4 10 (2.73%) .NET
5 8 (2.19%) React
6 6 (1.64%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (1.64%) YAML
7 5 (1.37%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.37%) Langfuse
7 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.37%) OAuth
7 5 (1.37%) OpenID
7 5 (1.37%) Playwright
7 5 (1.37%) Snowpark
7 5 (1.37%) Vue
8 4 (1.09%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.09%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.09%) Spring
8 4 (1.09%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.82%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 51 (13.93%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.64%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.64%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.55%) Fixed Income
4 11 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (3.01%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.46%) Equities
6 9 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.46%) Reinsurance
7 8 (2.19%) Clustering
8 7 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.37%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.37%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.09%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.09%) Derivative
11 4 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.09%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.55%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (45.08%) Analytics
2 136 (37.16%) Data Engineering
3 126 (34.43%) Data Modelling
4 122 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 113 (30.87%) CI/CD
6 109 (29.78%) ETL
7 107 (29.23%) Business Intelligence
8 106 (28.96%) AI
9 81 (22.13%) Agile
10 74 (20.22%) DevOps
11 72 (19.67%) Data Architecture
12 64 (17.49%) Data Governance
13 58 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 57 (15.57%) Migration
15 53 (14.48%) Machine Learning
15 53 (14.48%) Validation
16 46 (12.57%) Decision-Making
17 44 (12.02%) Data Science
18 42 (11.48%) Data Transformation
19 41 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 207 (56.56%) SQL
2 196 (53.55%) Python
3 42 (11.48%) Java
4 15 (4.10%) R
5 9 (2.46%) C#
6 7 (1.91%) Bash
6 7 (1.91%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.91%) Scala
6 7 (1.91%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.82%) Cypher
8 3 (0.82%) SHACL
9 2 (0.55%) Bicep
9 2 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.55%) Delphi
9 2 (0.55%) Korn
9 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.55%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.27%) Go
10 1 (0.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 29 (7.92%) Degree
2 23 (6.28%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.01%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.19%) SnowPro
6 6 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
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 86 (23.50%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.92%) GDPR
3 14 (3.83%) QA
4 5 (1.37%) SLA
5 3 (0.82%) EMIR
5 3 (0.82%) MiFID
5 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.55%) PMO
6 2 (0.55%) 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%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (6.56%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (13.93%) Terraform
2 19 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.73%) Grafana
4 8 (2.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.55%) Argo
6 1 (0.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 104 (28.42%) Databricks
2 39 (10.66%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.92%) Google
4 15 (4.10%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.83%) Oracle
6 12 (3.28%) Informatica
7 9 (2.46%) Charles River
8 8 (2.19%) Denodo
9 7 (1.91%) FactSet
10 6 (1.64%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.64%) SAP
10 6 (1.64%) Talend
10 6 (1.64%) Workday
11 5 (1.37%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.37%) Bloomberg
11 5 (1.37%) Foundry
12 4 (1.09%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (1.09%) Murex
12 4 (1.09%) Splunk
13 3 (0.82%) Temenos