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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 153 171
Rank change year-on-year -1 +18 +118
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 332 218 262
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 1.78% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.23% 4.12% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 176 240
10th Percentile £364 £450 £506
25th Percentile £450 £513 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -21.88% +39.13%
75th Percentile £675 £825 £888
90th Percentile £784 £875 -
England median daily rate £550 £580 £725
% change year-on-year -5.17% -20.00% +26.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £79.50 - -

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 7,856 5,293 6,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.17% 43.23% 39.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,415 3,584 5,081
10th Percentile £351 £350 £350
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 65 69
10th Percentile £20.83 £22.36 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.19 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £58.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +58.00% +16.50% -38.69%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +15 48 £538 -12.24% 20
West London -25 3 £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 73 (21.99%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.23%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.71%) Apache
4 6 (1.81%) Confluence
5 5 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.11%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (6.02%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.51%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.90%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.90%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.60%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.30%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 185 (55.72%) AWS
2 110 (33.13%) Azure
3 80 (24.10%) Power Platform
4 76 (22.89%) dbt
5 70 (21.08%) GCP
6 50 (15.06%) Amazon S3
7 39 (11.75%) GitHub
8 37 (11.14%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (7.83%) Serverless
10 25 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (6.63%) Dagster
12 21 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (5.72%) Azure Data Factory
14 17 (5.12%) Matillion
15 14 (4.22%) Prefect
16 13 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
17 12 (3.61%) Fivetran
18 11 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 10 (3.01%) SaaS
20 9 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) DNS
1 1 (0.30%) DSL
1 1 (0.30%) Firewall
1 1 (0.30%) SSL
1 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (23.80%) Data Warehouse
2 73 (21.99%) Power BI
3 44 (13.25%) Tableau
4 43 (12.95%) Snowflake Schema
5 39 (11.75%) BigQuery
6 26 (7.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (7.53%) Data Lake
8 20 (6.02%) Data Vault
9 19 (5.72%) SQL Server
10 18 (5.42%) Big Data
11 14 (4.22%) Metadata
12 13 (3.92%) Looker
13 10 (3.01%) NoSQL
14 9 (2.71%) Delta Lake
15 8 (2.41%) Relational Database
16 7 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
16 7 (2.11%) Star Schema
17 6 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
18 5 (1.51%) KNIME
18 5 (1.51%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 27 (8.13%) Git
2 24 (7.23%) GitLab
3 16 (4.82%) JIRA
4 12 (3.61%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.41%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.81%) MLflow
7 3 (0.90%) Snyk
7 3 (0.90%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.90%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.90%) Toad
8 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.60%) Selenium
9 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.30%) ERwin
9 1 (0.30%) GCC
9 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 125 (37.65%) Finance
2 72 (21.69%) Social Skills
3 41 (12.35%) Banking
4 34 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (8.73%) Retail
6 18 (5.42%) Marketing
7 14 (4.22%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.01%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.71%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.41%) Back Office
11 8 (2.41%) Front Office
12 6 (1.81%) Legal
12 6 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.81%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.20%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.20%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (34.04%) Data Engineer
2 70 (21.08%) Snowflake Engineer
3 57 (17.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 50 (15.06%) Architect
5 49 (14.76%) Senior
6 42 (12.65%) Analyst
7 29 (8.73%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (8.43%) Data Analyst
8 28 (8.43%) Lead
8 28 (8.43%) Senior Data Engineer
9 26 (7.83%) Data Architect
10 21 (6.33%) AWS Data Engineer
11 17 (5.12%) Developer
12 16 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (4.52%) Business Analyst
13 15 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.61%) Snowflake Architect
15 10 (3.01%) Consultant
16 9 (2.71%) Data Consultant
16 9 (2.71%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.42%) Kafka
2 12 (3.61%) REST
3 11 (3.31%) PySpark
4 9 (2.71%) .NET
5 8 (2.41%) Playwright
6 7 (2.11%) React
7 5 (1.51%) OAuth
7 5 (1.51%) OpenID
7 5 (1.51%) Vue
7 5 (1.51%) YAML
8 4 (1.20%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.20%) PyTorch
9 3 (0.90%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.90%) FastAPI
9 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (0.90%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (0.90%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.90%) Snowpark
9 3 (0.90%) Spring
9 3 (0.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.76%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.22%) Data Protection Act
2 14 (4.22%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.61%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.01%) Equities
4 10 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.01%) Virtual Team
5 8 (2.41%) Clustering
5 8 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.11%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.90%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.90%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.90%) Data Fabric
9 3 (0.90%) Derivative
9 3 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.60%) Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (43.98%) Analytics
2 116 (34.94%) Data Engineering
3 106 (31.93%) Data Pipeline
4 105 (31.63%) CI/CD
5 103 (31.02%) Data Modelling
6 94 (28.31%) AI
7 92 (27.71%) Business Intelligence
8 91 (27.41%) ETL
9 74 (22.29%) DevOps
10 69 (20.78%) Agile
11 54 (16.27%) Migration
12 53 (15.96%) Data Architecture
13 51 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
14 49 (14.76%) Data Governance
15 47 (14.16%) Validation
16 45 (13.55%) Infrastructure as Code
17 44 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
18 43 (12.95%) Machine Learning
19 39 (11.75%) Decision-Making
20 35 (10.54%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 186 (56.02%) SQL
2 176 (53.01%) Python
3 43 (12.95%) Java
4 13 (3.92%) C#
4 13 (3.92%) R
5 11 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.71%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.11%) Bash
8 5 (1.51%) Scala
9 4 (1.20%) Bicep
9 4 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.90%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.60%) Korn
12 1 (0.30%) C
12 1 (0.30%) Cypher
12 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.30%) SHACL
12 1 (0.30%) SOQL
12 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (7.23%) Degree
1 24 (7.23%) Security Cleared
2 12 (3.61%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.81%) SnowPro
5 5 (1.51%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.20%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CFA
8 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (21.99%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.63%) GDPR
3 13 (3.92%) QA
4 3 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.90%) SLA
5 2 (0.60%) EMIR
5 2 (0.60%) MiFID
5 2 (0.60%) PMO
6 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.30%) FATCA
6 1 (0.30%) GAAP
6 1 (0.30%) IFRS
6 1 (0.30%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (7.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (16.57%) Terraform
2 19 (5.72%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.81%) Grafana
4 5 (1.51%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.30%) Ansible
5 1 (0.30%) Argo
5 1 (0.30%) Control-M
5 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 88 (26.51%) Databricks
2 34 (10.24%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.92%) Oracle
3 13 (3.92%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.61%) Google
5 8 (2.41%) Denodo
5 8 (2.41%) Informatica
6 7 (2.11%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.81%) Charles River
7 6 (1.81%) FactSet
7 6 (1.81%) Talend
8 5 (1.51%) MicroStrategy
8 5 (1.51%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.51%) Workday
9 4 (1.20%) Murex
9 4 (1.20%) Splunk
10 3 (0.90%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.90%) Eze Software Group
10 3 (0.90%) Foundry
10 3 (0.90%) SAP