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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 162 167
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +125
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 344 216 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 1.75% 1.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.33% 4.05% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 176 249
10th Percentile £364 £450 £505
25th Percentile £450 £513 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £619 £800
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -22.66% +39.13%
75th Percentile £675 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 £875 -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £738
% change year-on-year -4.35% -22.03% +28.26%
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 7,946 5,331 6,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.01% 43.10% 39.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,458 3,622 5,076
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £786 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 68 68
10th Percentile £20.86 £22.50 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +17.44% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.81 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £69.38 £55.75
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year +63.72% +16.65% -38.21%

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 17 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 17 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 +9 50 £550 -10.20% 8
West London -21 3 £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 75 (21.80%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.98%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.62%) Apache
4 6 (1.74%) Confluence
5 5 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.03%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (6.10%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.45%) BambooHR
3 4 (1.16%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.87%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.58%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.58%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.29%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 187 (54.36%) AWS
2 121 (35.17%) Azure
3 84 (24.42%) Power Platform
4 78 (22.67%) dbt
5 73 (21.22%) GCP
6 50 (14.53%) Amazon S3
7 39 (11.34%) GitHub
8 38 (11.05%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (7.27%) Serverless
10 24 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (6.40%) Dagster
12 21 (6.10%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (5.23%) Matillion
14 14 (4.07%) Prefect
15 13 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (3.49%) Fivetran
17 11 (3.20%) Collibra
17 11 (3.20%) SaaS
17 11 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) DNS
1 1 (0.29%) DSL
1 1 (0.29%) Firewall
1 1 (0.29%) SSL
1 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (23.55%) Data Warehouse
2 77 (22.38%) Power BI
3 46 (13.37%) Tableau
4 44 (12.79%) Snowflake Schema
5 40 (11.63%) BigQuery
6 29 (8.43%) Data Lake
7 27 (7.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (5.81%) Data Vault
9 19 (5.52%) SQL Server
10 18 (5.23%) Big Data
11 16 (4.65%) Metadata
12 13 (3.78%) Looker
13 11 (3.20%) NoSQL
14 10 (2.91%) Relational Database
15 9 (2.62%) Delta Lake
16 7 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
16 7 (2.03%) Star Schema
17 6 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
18 5 (1.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (8.14%) Git
2 23 (6.69%) GitLab
3 16 (4.65%) JIRA
4 12 (3.49%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.33%) SpecFlow
6 7 (2.03%) MLflow
7 3 (0.87%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.87%) Snyk
7 3 (0.87%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.87%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.87%) Toad
8 2 (0.58%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.58%) Selenium
9 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.29%) ERwin
9 1 (0.29%) GCC
9 1 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 130 (37.79%) Finance
2 73 (21.22%) Social Skills
3 44 (12.79%) Banking
4 34 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (9.30%) Retail
6 19 (5.52%) Marketing
7 14 (4.07%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.20%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.62%) Front Office
10 9 (2.62%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.33%) Back Office
12 7 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.74%) Legal
13 6 (1.74%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.45%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.45%) Retail Banking
15 4 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (33.43%) Data Engineer
2 71 (20.64%) Snowflake Engineer
3 58 (16.86%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 55 (15.99%) Architect
5 50 (14.53%) Senior
6 43 (12.50%) Analyst
7 31 (9.01%) Data Architect
8 30 (8.72%) Lead
9 29 (8.43%) Data Analyst
10 28 (8.14%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (7.85%) Senior Data Engineer
12 21 (6.10%) AWS Data Engineer
13 17 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (4.65%) Business Analyst
14 16 (4.65%) Developer
15 15 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
16 13 (3.78%) Consultant
16 13 (3.78%) Snowflake Architect
17 10 (2.91%) Data Consultant
18 9 (2.62%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.23%) Kafka
2 13 (3.78%) PySpark
3 12 (3.49%) REST
4 10 (2.91%) .NET
5 8 (2.33%) Playwright
6 7 (2.03%) React
7 5 (1.45%) OAuth
7 5 (1.45%) OpenID
7 5 (1.45%) Snowpark
7 5 (1.45%) Vue
7 5 (1.45%) YAML
8 4 (1.16%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.16%) PyTorch
9 3 (0.87%) ADO
9 3 (0.87%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (0.87%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (0.87%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.87%) Spring
9 3 (0.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.24%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.36%) Data Protection Act
2 15 (4.36%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.49%) Fixed Income
4 11 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.91%) Equities
5 10 (2.91%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.62%) Clustering
6 9 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.33%) Reinsurance
8 7 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.16%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.16%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.87%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.87%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.87%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.58%) Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (44.48%) Analytics
2 118 (34.30%) Data Engineering
3 111 (32.27%) Data Modelling
4 110 (31.98%) Data Pipeline
5 104 (30.23%) CI/CD
6 102 (29.65%) AI
7 98 (28.49%) Business Intelligence
8 96 (27.91%) ETL
9 75 (21.80%) DevOps
10 74 (21.51%) Agile
11 61 (17.73%) Migration
12 58 (16.86%) Data Architecture
13 53 (15.41%) Data Governance
14 50 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
15 49 (14.24%) Machine Learning
16 48 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
16 48 (13.95%) Validation
17 46 (13.37%) Infrastructure as Code
18 39 (11.34%) Data Science
18 39 (11.34%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 188 (54.65%) SQL
2 179 (52.03%) Python
3 43 (12.50%) Java
4 14 (4.07%) R
5 13 (3.78%) C#
6 11 (3.20%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.62%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.03%) Bash
9 5 (1.45%) Bicep
9 5 (1.45%) Scala
10 4 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.87%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.58%) Korn
13 1 (0.29%) C
13 1 (0.29%) Cypher
13 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.29%) SOQL
13 1 (0.29%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (7.27%) Security Cleared
2 24 (6.98%) Degree
3 12 (3.49%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.33%) SnowPro
5 5 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.16%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.29%) CFA
8 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (21.51%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.27%) GDPR
3 13 (3.78%) QA
4 3 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.87%) EMIR
4 3 (0.87%) MiFID
4 3 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.87%) SLA
5 2 (0.58%) PMO
5 2 (0.58%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.29%) FATCA
6 1 (0.29%) GAAP
6 1 (0.29%) IFRS
6 1 (0.29%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 26 (7.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (16.28%) Terraform
2 19 (5.52%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.74%) Grafana
4 5 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) Argo
5 1 (0.29%) Control-M
5 1 (0.29%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 97 (28.20%) Databricks
2 37 (10.76%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.36%) Salesforce
4 14 (4.07%) Oracle
5 12 (3.49%) Google
6 9 (2.62%) Informatica
7 8 (2.33%) Denodo
8 7 (2.03%) Charles River
8 7 (2.03%) FactSet
8 7 (2.03%) Talend
9 6 (1.74%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.74%) SimCorp
10 5 (1.45%) MicroStrategy
10 5 (1.45%) SAP
10 5 (1.45%) Workday
11 4 (1.16%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.16%) Murex
11 4 (1.16%) Splunk
12 3 (0.87%) Foundry
12 3 (0.87%) Temenos