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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 148 115
Rank change year-on-year +12 -33 +117
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 433 245 370
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.14% 1.82% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.20% 4.21% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 197 329
10th Percentile £400 £425 £500
25th Percentile £463 £508 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £613 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% -23.44% +36.75%
75th Percentile £675 £825 £888
90th Percentile £764 - -
England median daily rate £573 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.20% -31.25% +38.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +97.18% - -

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 8,319 5,817 6,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.12% 43.24% 41.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,682 3,953 4,716
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 94 48
10th Percentile £18.30 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £32.81 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% +0.67% -35.17%
75th Percentile £55.63 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
% change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%

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 September 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 September 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 0 56 £575 -8.00% 59
West London -13 9 £500 +0.76% 48
South London - 3 £425 - 2
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
1 114 (26.33%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (8.55%) Apache Spark
3 31 (7.16%) Apache
4 10 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.85%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) Luigi
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.23%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.46%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.46%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.46%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 234 (54.04%) AWS
2 177 (40.88%) Azure
3 134 (30.95%) dbt
4 109 (25.17%) Power Platform
5 101 (23.33%) GCP
6 65 (15.01%) GitHub
7 55 (12.70%) Amazon S3
8 46 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
10 36 (8.31%) Azure Data Factory
11 32 (7.39%) Serverless
12 27 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (5.08%) Dagster
14 20 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 18 (4.16%) Fivetran
16 16 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
17 14 (3.23%) SaaS
18 12 (2.77%) Matillion
19 11 (2.54%) Prefect
20 10 (2.31%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Broadband
1 2 (0.46%) DSL
1 2 (0.46%) Firewall
1 2 (0.46%) VPN
2 1 (0.23%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.23%) DNS
2 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.23%) SSH
2 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (33.26%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (24.71%) Power BI
3 53 (12.24%) BigQuery
3 53 (12.24%) Data Lake
4 52 (12.01%) Snowflake Schema
5 44 (10.16%) Tableau
6 41 (9.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 28 (6.47%) SQL Server
8 27 (6.24%) Big Data
8 27 (6.24%) Metadata
9 23 (5.31%) Data Vault
10 22 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (4.16%) NoSQL
12 16 (3.70%) Delta Lake
13 15 (3.46%) Relational Database
14 14 (3.23%) Looker
15 13 (3.00%) Semantic Layer
16 12 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
17 11 (2.54%) MongoDB
18 9 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (10.62%) Git
2 23 (5.31%) GitLab
3 19 (4.39%) Jenkins
3 19 (4.39%) JIRA
4 7 (1.62%) Terragrunt
5 5 (1.15%) Snyk
6 4 (0.92%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.92%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.69%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.46%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.46%) MLflow
8 2 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.46%) Selenium
8 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
General
1 165 (38.11%) Finance
2 121 (27.94%) Social Skills
3 66 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (14.55%) Banking
5 40 (9.24%) Retail
6 24 (5.54%) Marketing
7 19 (4.39%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.70%) Front Office
10 13 (3.00%) Legal
11 11 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.08%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.62%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.39%) Billing
15 5 (1.15%) Back Office
15 5 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.15%) Private Banking
16 4 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (35.10%) Data Engineer
2 83 (19.17%) Senior
3 77 (17.78%) Architect
4 76 (17.55%) Snowflake Engineer
5 58 (13.39%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 50 (11.55%) Data Architect
7 48 (11.09%) Analyst
7 48 (11.09%) Senior Data Engineer
8 35 (8.08%) Lead
9 32 (7.39%) Data Analyst
10 26 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (5.08%) Developer
12 21 (4.85%) AWS Data Engineer
13 16 (3.70%) Business Analyst
13 16 (3.70%) Consultant
13 16 (3.70%) Python Engineer
14 13 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (3.00%) Snowflake Architect
14 13 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (2.77%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (15.47%) Terraform
2 39 (9.01%) Kafka
3 27 (6.24%) PySpark
4 21 (4.85%) REST
5 16 (3.70%) .NET
6 8 (1.85%) React
7 7 (1.62%) YAML
8 6 (1.39%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (1.39%) OAuth
9 5 (1.15%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.15%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (1.15%) OpenID
10 4 (0.92%) Pandas
10 4 (0.92%) Spring
10 4 (0.92%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.69%) ADO
11 3 (0.69%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.69%) NumPy
11 3 (0.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 65 (15.01%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.70%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.08%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 14 (3.23%) Reinsurance
6 11 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.31%) Fixed Income
7 10 (2.31%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.62%) Clustering
9 7 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.62%) Taxonomies
10 6 (1.39%) Life Science
10 6 (1.39%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.15%) Equities
11 5 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.15%) Linux
2 2 (0.46%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (44.80%) Analytics
2 165 (38.11%) Data Engineering
3 163 (37.64%) Data Modelling
4 154 (35.57%) CI/CD
5 148 (34.18%) Data Pipeline
6 142 (32.79%) ETL
7 141 (32.56%) AI
8 121 (27.94%) Business Intelligence
9 106 (24.48%) Agile
10 95 (21.94%) DevOps
11 92 (21.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 90 (20.79%) Data Architecture
13 83 (19.17%) Data Governance
14 67 (15.47%) Data Transformation
14 67 (15.47%) Machine Learning
15 66 (15.24%) Migration
16 64 (14.78%) Decision-Making
17 63 (14.55%) Validation
18 54 (12.47%) Data Science
19 49 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 260 (60.05%) SQL
2 225 (51.96%) Python
3 45 (10.39%) Java
4 12 (2.77%) Bash
4 12 (2.77%) R
5 10 (2.31%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.31%) Scala
6 9 (2.08%) C#
7 7 (1.62%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.15%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.92%) C++
9 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.69%) Bicep
10 3 (0.69%) Cypher
10 3 (0.69%) SHACL
11 2 (0.46%) Delphi
11 2 (0.46%) Korn
11 2 (0.46%) LookML
11 2 (0.46%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (5.31%) Security Cleared
2 22 (5.08%) Degree
3 16 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (2.54%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.85%) SnowPro
6 6 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.15%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CBAP
10 1 (0.23%) CISM
10 1 (0.23%) CISSP
10 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) PMP
10 1 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (26.56%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.54%) GDPR
3 21 (4.85%) QA
4 4 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.69%) EMIR
5 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.69%) MiFID
5 3 (0.69%) PMO
5 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.69%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.46%) GRC
6 2 (0.46%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (7.39%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (8.08%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.08%) Grafana
3 6 (1.39%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.92%) Control-M
5 2 (0.46%) Ansible
5 2 (0.46%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (32.56%) Databricks
2 52 (12.01%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.85%) Google
4 18 (4.16%) Informatica
4 18 (4.16%) Salesforce
5 15 (3.46%) Oracle
6 9 (2.08%) MicroStrategy
7 7 (1.62%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.62%) Talend
7 7 (1.62%) Teradata
8 6 (1.39%) Bloomberg
8 6 (1.39%) Denodo
8 6 (1.39%) Foundry
8 6 (1.39%) SAP
9 5 (1.15%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.15%) Workday
10 4 (0.92%) FactSet
10 4 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.69%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.69%) PagerDuty