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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 156 119
Rank change year-on-year +16 -37 +126
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 418 238 368
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 1.78% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.04% 4.12% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 191 335
10th Percentile £406 £427 £500
25th Percentile £466 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -23.44% +36.75%
75th Percentile £678 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +125.35% - -

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 8,291 5,781 6,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.29% 43.19% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,669 3,959 4,743
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £675
90th Percentile £748 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 91 53
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.23 £30.00 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year +14.10% -1.93% -30.48%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £44.50
90th Percentile £76.42 £72.00 £65.30
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

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 1 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 1 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 +9 55 £575 -7.07% 30
West London -9 10 £500 +0.76% 50
South London - 3 £425 - 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
1 110 (26.32%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (6.94%) Apache Spark
3 27 (6.46%) Apache
4 11 (2.63%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.91%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) Luigi
6 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (4.07%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.20%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.48%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.24%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 228 (54.55%) AWS
2 160 (38.28%) Azure
3 129 (30.86%) dbt
4 107 (25.60%) Power Platform
5 95 (22.73%) GCP
6 57 (13.64%) GitHub
7 54 (12.92%) Amazon S3
8 41 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (8.13%) GitHub Actions
10 33 (7.89%) Serverless
11 29 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 24 (5.74%) Dagster
13 17 (4.07%) Fivetran
14 15 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (3.59%) Prefect
15 14 (3.35%) SaaS
16 12 (2.87%) Matillion
17 9 (2.15%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) Broadband
1 2 (0.48%) DSL
1 2 (0.48%) Firewall
1 2 (0.48%) VPN
2 1 (0.24%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.24%) DNS
2 1 (0.24%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.24%) Network Security
2 1 (0.24%) SSH
2 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (33.49%) Data Warehouse
2 105 (25.12%) Power BI
3 53 (12.68%) BigQuery
4 49 (11.72%) Snowflake Schema
5 47 (11.24%) Data Lake
5 47 (11.24%) Tableau
6 39 (9.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (5.74%) Metadata
8 23 (5.50%) Big Data
9 22 (5.26%) Data Vault
9 22 (5.26%) SQL Server
10 17 (4.07%) Looker
11 16 (3.83%) NoSQL
11 16 (3.83%) Relational Database
12 15 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (3.35%) Semantic Layer
14 13 (3.11%) Delta Lake
15 12 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (2.15%) Amazon QuickSight
16 9 (2.15%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (9.81%) Git
2 22 (5.26%) GitLab
3 20 (4.78%) JIRA
4 19 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.44%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.96%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.96%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.72%) Snyk
8 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.48%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.48%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.48%) MLflow
8 2 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.48%) Selenium
8 2 (0.48%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.24%) GCC
9 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 164 (39.23%) Finance
2 119 (28.47%) Social Skills
3 64 (15.31%) Banking
4 62 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (9.09%) Retail
6 21 (5.02%) Marketing
7 19 (4.55%) Financial Institution
8 18 (4.31%) Front Office
9 16 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.35%) Legal
11 11 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (2.39%) Public Sector
13 9 (2.15%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.91%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.44%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.20%) Back Office
16 5 (1.20%) Private Banking
17 4 (0.96%) Billing
17 4 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 145 (34.69%) Data Engineer
2 78 (18.66%) Senior
3 75 (17.94%) Snowflake Engineer
4 74 (17.70%) Architect
5 57 (13.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 48 (11.48%) Analyst
7 46 (11.00%) Data Architect
8 45 (10.77%) Senior Data Engineer
9 34 (8.13%) Lead
10 31 (7.42%) Data Analyst
11 25 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
12 20 (4.78%) AWS Data Engineer
12 20 (4.78%) Developer
13 17 (4.07%) Business Analyst
14 15 (3.59%) Python Engineer
15 14 (3.35%) Consultant
16 13 (3.11%) Snowflake Architect
16 13 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
17 12 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 11 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (14.11%) Terraform
2 35 (8.37%) Kafka
3 21 (5.02%) PySpark
4 20 (4.78%) REST
5 14 (3.35%) .NET
6 8 (1.91%) React
7 7 (1.67%) YAML
8 6 (1.44%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (1.44%) OAuth
9 5 (1.20%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.20%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (1.20%) OpenID
10 4 (0.96%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.96%) Spring
10 4 (0.96%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.96%) Vue
11 3 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (0.72%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.72%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.18%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.07%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.59%) AI Agents
5 12 (2.87%) Fixed Income
6 11 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.63%) Reinsurance
7 10 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.39%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.91%) Clustering
8 8 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.67%) Equities
9 7 (1.67%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.20%) Life Science
10 5 (1.20%) Replication
11 4 (0.96%) Data Fabric
11 4 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.20%) Linux
2 3 (0.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (43.06%) Analytics
2 162 (38.76%) Data Engineering
3 156 (37.32%) Data Modelling
4 147 (35.17%) CI/CD
5 143 (34.21%) Data Pipeline
6 134 (32.06%) ETL
7 129 (30.86%) AI
8 118 (28.23%) Business Intelligence
9 105 (25.12%) Agile
10 92 (22.01%) DevOps
11 90 (21.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 81 (19.38%) Data Architecture
13 77 (18.42%) Data Governance
14 65 (15.55%) Decision-Making
15 62 (14.83%) Data Transformation
16 61 (14.59%) Migration
17 60 (14.35%) Machine Learning
18 57 (13.64%) Validation
19 46 (11.00%) Data Science
20 45 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 245 (58.61%) SQL
2 220 (52.63%) Python
3 44 (10.53%) Java
4 11 (2.63%) R
5 10 (2.39%) Bash
6 9 (2.15%) Scala
7 8 (1.91%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.67%) C#
9 5 (1.20%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.96%) C++
10 4 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.96%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.72%) Bicep
11 3 (0.72%) Cypher
11 3 (0.72%) SHACL
12 2 (0.48%) Delphi
12 2 (0.48%) Korn
12 2 (0.48%) LookML
12 2 (0.48%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 26 (6.22%) Degree
2 22 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.91%) SnowPro
6 5 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.96%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CBAP
10 1 (0.24%) CFA
10 1 (0.24%) CISM
10 1 (0.24%) CISSP
10 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.24%) PMP
10 1 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.22%) GDPR
3 21 (5.02%) QA
4 4 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.72%) EMIR
5 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.72%) MiFID
5 3 (0.72%) PMO
5 3 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.48%) SLA
7 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.24%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 28 (6.70%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (7.66%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.91%) Grafana
3 5 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.96%) Control-M
5 2 (0.48%) Ansible
5 2 (0.48%) Argo
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 129 (30.86%) Databricks
2 40 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.78%) Google
4 17 (4.07%) Informatica
4 17 (4.07%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.11%) Oracle
6 8 (1.91%) MicroStrategy
6 8 (1.91%) Workday
7 7 (1.67%) Foundry
7 7 (1.67%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.67%) SAP
7 7 (1.67%) Teradata
8 6 (1.44%) Bloomberg
8 6 (1.44%) Denodo
9 5 (1.20%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.20%) Charles River
9 5 (1.20%) FactSet
9 5 (1.20%) Talend
10 4 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.72%) PagerDuty