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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 160 131
Rank change year-on-year +9 -29 +148
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 360 243 324
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 1.79% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.36% 4.16% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 199 300
10th Percentile £407 £450 £506
25th Percentile £473 £513 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -21.88% +36.87%
75th Percentile £688 £825 £888
90th Percentile £800 £875 -
England median daily rate £561 £560 £800
% change year-on-year +0.22% -30.00% +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 8,251 5,836 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.72% 42.88% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,663 3,970 5,120
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £789
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.27% -2.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 80 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.92 £22.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.54 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +20.20% +9.51% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.23 £67.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +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 13 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 13 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 +21 53 £575 -7.07% 30
West London -16 4 £850 +13.33% 4
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 80 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.61%) Apache
4 9 (2.50%) Confluence
4 9 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.28%) Luigi
5 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.94%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (5.83%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.39%) BambooHR
3 4 (1.11%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.83%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.56%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.56%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.28%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.28%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 193 (53.61%) AWS
2 125 (34.72%) Azure
3 91 (25.28%) Power Platform
4 84 (23.33%) dbt
5 79 (21.94%) GCP
6 52 (14.44%) Amazon S3
7 39 (10.83%) GitHub
8 34 (9.44%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (7.78%) Serverless
10 26 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (6.39%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (6.11%) Dagster
12 22 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (4.72%) Matillion
14 15 (4.17%) Prefect
15 12 (3.33%) Fivetran
15 12 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (3.06%) Collibra
17 10 (2.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.56%) DSL
2 1 (0.28%) Broadband
2 1 (0.28%) DNS
2 1 (0.28%) Firewall
2 1 (0.28%) SSL
2 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 87 (24.17%) Power BI
3 47 (13.06%) Snowflake Schema
4 45 (12.50%) Tableau
5 44 (12.22%) BigQuery
6 37 (10.28%) Data Lake
7 29 (8.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (6.11%) SQL Server
9 21 (5.83%) Big Data
10 20 (5.56%) Data Vault
11 17 (4.72%) Metadata
12 14 (3.89%) Looker
13 12 (3.33%) NoSQL
14 11 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (3.06%) Relational Database
15 10 (2.78%) Delta Lake
16 9 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
17 7 (1.94%) MongoDB
17 7 (1.94%) Semantic Layer
17 7 (1.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (8.33%) Git
2 23 (6.39%) GitLab
3 20 (5.56%) JIRA
4 12 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.67%) MLflow
6 5 (1.39%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.83%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.83%) Snyk
7 3 (0.83%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.83%) Toad
8 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.56%) Selenium
8 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.28%) GCC
9 1 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 144 (40.00%) Finance
2 85 (23.61%) Social Skills
3 56 (15.56%) Banking
4 42 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (10.28%) Retail
6 19 (5.28%) Marketing
7 17 (4.72%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.61%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.33%) Front Office
9 12 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.06%) Legal
11 9 (2.50%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.22%) Back Office
12 8 (2.22%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.67%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.39%) Retail Banking
16 4 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.11%) Private Banking
17 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (33.61%) Data Engineer
2 78 (21.67%) Snowflake Engineer
3 65 (18.06%) Architect
4 63 (17.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 53 (14.72%) Senior
6 44 (12.22%) Analyst
7 38 (10.56%) Data Architect
8 28 (7.78%) Lead
9 26 (7.22%) AWS Engineer
9 26 (7.22%) Data Analyst
10 25 (6.94%) Senior Data Engineer
11 20 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
11 20 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
12 18 (5.00%) Business Analyst
12 18 (5.00%) Developer
13 13 (3.61%) Consultant
13 13 (3.61%) Snowflake Architect
14 11 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (2.78%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.11%) Kafka
2 15 (4.17%) REST
3 13 (3.61%) PySpark
4 10 (2.78%) .NET
5 8 (2.22%) React
6 6 (1.67%) YAML
7 5 (1.39%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.39%) Langfuse
7 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.39%) Model Context Protocol
7 5 (1.39%) OAuth
7 5 (1.39%) OpenID
7 5 (1.39%) Playwright
7 5 (1.39%) Snowpark
7 5 (1.39%) Vue
8 4 (1.11%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.11%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.11%) Spring
8 4 (1.11%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.83%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.17%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.44%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.33%) Virtual Team
5 11 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (3.06%) Fixed Income
6 10 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.50%) Clustering
7 9 (2.50%) Equities
7 9 (2.50%) Reinsurance
8 8 (2.22%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.11%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.11%) Derivative
11 4 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.11%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (45.00%) Analytics
2 127 (35.28%) Data Engineering
3 123 (34.17%) Data Modelling
4 118 (32.78%) Data Pipeline
5 106 (29.44%) CI/CD
6 104 (28.89%) AI
7 103 (28.61%) Business Intelligence
8 101 (28.06%) ETL
9 73 (20.28%) Agile
10 71 (19.72%) DevOps
11 68 (18.89%) Data Architecture
12 59 (16.39%) Data Governance
12 59 (16.39%) Migration
13 54 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 50 (13.89%) Machine Learning
15 47 (13.06%) Validation
16 45 (12.50%) Decision-Making
17 43 (11.94%) Data Science
17 43 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
18 38 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 199 (55.28%) SQL
2 190 (52.78%) Python
3 43 (11.94%) Java
4 15 (4.17%) R
5 9 (2.50%) C#
6 7 (1.94%) Bash
6 7 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.94%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.67%) Scala
8 4 (1.11%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.11%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.83%) Cypher
9 3 (0.83%) SHACL
10 2 (0.56%) Bicep
10 2 (0.56%) Korn
10 2 (0.56%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.28%) Go
11 1 (0.28%) SOQL
11 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (7.78%) Degree
2 23 (6.39%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.06%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.22%) SnowPro
6 5 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.11%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.28%) CBAP
10 1 (0.28%) CFA
10 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.28%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.50%) GDPR
3 12 (3.33%) QA
4 4 (1.11%) SLA
5 3 (0.83%) EMIR
5 3 (0.83%) MiFID
5 3 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.56%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.28%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.28%) FATCA
7 1 (0.28%) GAAP
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (6.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (13.89%) Terraform
2 18 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.50%) Grafana
4 7 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.56%) Argo
6 1 (0.28%) Ansible
6 1 (0.28%) Control-M
6 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 99 (27.50%) Databricks
2 38 (10.56%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 14 (3.89%) Oracle
5 13 (3.61%) Google
6 10 (2.78%) Informatica
7 8 (2.22%) Charles River
7 8 (2.22%) Denodo
7 8 (2.22%) FactSet
8 7 (1.94%) Talend
9 5 (1.39%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.39%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.39%) Murex
9 5 (1.39%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.39%) SAP
9 5 (1.39%) Workday
10 4 (1.11%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.11%) Foundry
10 4 (1.11%) SimCorp
10 4 (1.11%) Splunk