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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 169 229
Rank change year-on-year +23 +60 +99
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 272 210 165
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.90% 1.51% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.30% 3.67% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 145 135
10th Percentile £325 £468 £463
25th Percentile £425 £525 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £595
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +9.24% +3.48%
75th Percentile £688 £838 £714
90th Percentile £825 £888 £738
England median daily rate £525 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £37.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 - -

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 6,327 5,716 6,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 41.18% 37.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,337 3,822 5,016
10th Percentile £343 £351 £325
25th Percentile £424 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 45 69
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.66 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £31.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.52% -8.82% +36.00%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £58.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.50 £67.60
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.41 £24.43
% change year-on-year +5.60% +16.29% +7.08%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +8 33 £600 -10.45% 15
West London -17 2 £553 -11.60% 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 54 (19.85%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (6.99%) Apache
3 18 (6.62%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.10%) Confluence
5 2 (0.74%) SAS
6 1 (0.37%) Luigi
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (7.35%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.74%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.74%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.74%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 152 (55.88%) AWS
2 129 (47.43%) Azure
3 65 (23.90%) Power Platform
4 64 (23.53%) dbt
5 44 (16.18%) GCP
6 32 (11.76%) Serverless
7 27 (9.93%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (8.46%) GitHub
9 21 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (5.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (3.68%) SaaS
15 9 (3.31%) Fivetran
16 8 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (2.57%) Amazon EMR
17 7 (2.57%) Matillion
18 5 (1.84%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.74%) Firewall
2 1 (0.37%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (25.37%) Data Warehouse
2 62 (22.79%) Power BI
3 40 (14.71%) Data Lake
4 27 (9.93%) Tableau
5 25 (9.19%) Snowflake Schema
6 22 (8.09%) Data Vault
7 19 (6.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (6.62%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (5.88%) Big Data
9 16 (5.88%) SQL Server
10 15 (5.51%) Apache Iceberg
10 15 (5.51%) Metadata
11 14 (5.15%) Apache Arrow
11 14 (5.15%) Apache Ignite
11 14 (5.15%) Dremio
11 14 (5.15%) Relational Database
12 12 (4.41%) BigQuery
13 10 (3.68%) RDBMS
14 9 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (3.31%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (6.62%) JIRA
2 17 (6.25%) Git
3 16 (5.88%) GitLab
4 12 (4.41%) ERwin
4 12 (4.41%) SpecFlow
5 10 (3.68%) ER Studio
5 10 (3.68%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.84%) MLflow
7 4 (1.47%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.10%) DBeaver
8 3 (1.10%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.74%) Selenium
9 2 (0.74%) TestRail
9 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.37%) Toad
10 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (31.62%) Finance
2 68 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 39 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.29%) Banking
5 21 (7.72%) Front Office
6 20 (7.35%) Investment Banking
7 14 (5.15%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.31%) Marketing
8 9 (3.31%) Retail
9 6 (2.21%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.10%) Law
12 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.37%) Games
13 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (29.78%) Data Engineer
2 48 (17.65%) Snowflake Engineer
3 36 (13.24%) Senior
4 35 (12.87%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 33 (12.13%) Analyst
6 31 (11.40%) Architect
7 28 (10.29%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (10.29%) Lead
8 27 (9.93%) Data Analyst
9 24 (8.82%) Python Engineer
10 20 (7.35%) Developer
11 16 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (5.88%) Software Engineer
12 15 (5.51%) Data Architect
13 14 (5.15%) AWS Software Engineer
13 14 (5.15%) Data Modeller
13 14 (5.15%) Java Engineer
13 14 (5.15%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (5.15%) Python Software Engineer
14 13 (4.78%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.19%) Pandas
2 18 (6.62%) Kafka
2 18 (6.62%) NumPy
3 14 (5.15%) gRPC
3 14 (5.15%) Playwright
3 14 (5.15%) Protocol Buffers
3 14 (5.15%) SciPy
4 9 (3.31%) PySpark
4 9 (3.31%) PyTorch
5 6 (2.21%) JSON
5 6 (2.21%) Node.js
6 5 (1.84%) React
6 5 (1.84%) scikit-learn
6 5 (1.84%) TensorFlow
7 4 (1.47%) .NET
7 4 (1.47%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.47%) REST
8 3 (1.10%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.10%) OAuth
8 3 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.29%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.72%) Data Structures
2 21 (7.72%) Equities
2 21 (7.72%) Fixed Income
3 17 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (6.25%) Derivative
4 16 (5.88%) Hedge funds
5 14 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (5.15%) Pricing Data
6 9 (3.31%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.21%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.84%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.47%) Replication
11 3 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.10%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.10%) Unix
2 2 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (39.34%) Analytics
2 92 (33.82%) Data Modelling
3 89 (32.72%) ETL
4 83 (30.51%) Agile
5 75 (27.57%) Data Engineering
6 70 (25.74%) Business Intelligence
7 65 (23.90%) Data Governance
7 65 (23.90%) Data Pipeline
8 62 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (20.96%) CI/CD
10 50 (18.38%) AI
10 50 (18.38%) DevOps
11 49 (18.01%) Asset Management
12 39 (14.34%) Machine Learning
13 38 (13.97%) Migration
14 37 (13.60%) Data Transformation
15 35 (12.87%) Data Science
16 30 (11.03%) Software Engineering
16 30 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
17 29 (10.66%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 169 (62.13%) SQL
2 150 (55.15%) Python
3 38 (13.97%) Java
4 34 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 32 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.51%) C#
7 7 (2.57%) Bash
7 7 (2.57%) Korn
8 6 (2.21%) R
9 5 (1.84%) Scala
10 4 (1.47%) Bicep
10 4 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.10%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.37%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.37%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (5.51%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.15%) Degree
3 10 (3.68%) AWS Certification
3 10 (3.68%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.84%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.84%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.10%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.10%) PhD
8 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (19.12%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.15%) GDPR
3 12 (4.41%) QA
4 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.74%) MiFID
6 1 (0.37%) GRC
6 1 (0.37%) IFRS
6 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.37%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (9.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (13.60%) Terraform
2 22 (8.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.47%) Grafana
4 2 (0.74%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 71 (26.10%) Databricks
2 24 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.41%) Oracle
4 9 (3.31%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.94%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.57%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.57%) Sparx
7 6 (2.21%) Charles River
7 6 (2.21%) MicroStrategy
7 6 (2.21%) SAP
7 6 (2.21%) Talend
8 5 (1.84%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.47%) Guidewire
10 3 (1.10%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.10%) Google
10 3 (1.10%) IBM
10 3 (1.10%) Informatica
10 3 (1.10%) Murex
10 3 (1.10%) SimCorp
11 2 (0.74%) Bloomberg