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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 157 125
Rank change year-on-year +13 -32 +130
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 390 250 341
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.95% 1.84% 2.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.70% 4.28% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 205 311
10th Percentile £407 £450 £500
25th Percentile £475 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £800
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -18.75% +38.77%
75th Percentile £680 £825 £888
90th Percentile £793 £875 -
England median daily rate £571 £580 £800
% change year-on-year -1.51% -27.50% +39.13%
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 8,295 5,846 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 42.92% 40.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,667 4,015 4,830
10th Percentile £363 £339 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 85 52
10th Percentile £19.40 £22.70 £20.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -48.37%
75th Percentile £56.63 £46.75 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.70 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year +48.07% +5.67% -29.79%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +22 57 £575 -7.07% 35
West London -17 8 £700 -6.67% 10
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 94 (24.10%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (5.64%) Apache
2 22 (5.64%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.56%) Confluence
4 9 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.26%) Luigi
5 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (5.38%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.28%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.51%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.51%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.26%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.26%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 208 (53.33%) AWS
2 139 (35.64%) Azure
3 107 (27.44%) dbt
4 99 (25.38%) Power Platform
5 84 (21.54%) GCP
6 52 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 48 (12.31%) GitHub
8 39 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (7.69%) Serverless
10 29 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (6.92%) Azure Data Factory
12 25 (6.41%) Dagster
13 18 (4.62%) Prefect
14 17 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (4.10%) Fivetran
16 15 (3.85%) Matillion
17 12 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 11 (2.82%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.51%) Broadband
1 2 (0.51%) DSL
2 1 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) Network Security
2 1 (0.26%) SSL
2 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (29.23%) Data Warehouse
2 96 (24.62%) Power BI
3 52 (13.33%) BigQuery
4 46 (11.79%) Snowflake Schema
5 45 (11.54%) Tableau
6 43 (11.03%) Data Lake
7 32 (8.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (5.90%) SQL Server
9 22 (5.64%) Big Data
10 21 (5.38%) Data Vault
10 21 (5.38%) Metadata
11 14 (3.59%) Looker
11 14 (3.59%) NoSQL
11 14 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (3.33%) Relational Database
13 12 (3.08%) Semantic Layer
14 11 (2.82%) Delta Lake
15 10 (2.56%) MongoDB
16 9 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
17 8 (2.05%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 37 (9.49%) Git
2 24 (6.15%) GitLab
3 21 (5.38%) JIRA
4 19 (4.87%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.54%) MLflow
6 4 (1.03%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.03%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.77%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.77%) Snyk
7 3 (0.77%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.51%) Selenium
8 2 (0.51%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.26%) ERwin
9 1 (0.26%) GCC
9 1 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.26%) Toad
General
1 160 (41.03%) Finance
2 102 (26.15%) Social Skills
3 63 (16.15%) Banking
4 55 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (9.23%) Retail
6 21 (5.38%) Marketing
7 18 (4.62%) Financial Institution
8 17 (4.36%) Front Office
9 15 (3.85%) Public Sector
10 14 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (3.33%) Legal
12 9 (2.31%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (2.05%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.79%) Back Office
15 6 (1.54%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.28%) Private Banking
17 4 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (31.79%) Data Engineer
2 74 (18.97%) Snowflake Engineer
3 68 (17.44%) Architect
4 63 (16.15%) Senior
5 58 (14.87%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 52 (13.33%) Analyst
7 39 (10.00%) Data Architect
8 32 (8.21%) Data Analyst
9 31 (7.95%) Lead
10 30 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
10 30 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
11 24 (6.15%) AWS Data Engineer
12 18 (4.62%) Business Analyst
12 18 (4.62%) Developer
13 16 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (3.59%) Python Engineer
15 13 (3.33%) Consultant
16 12 (3.08%) Python Data Engineer
16 12 (3.08%) Snowflake Architect
17 10 (2.56%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.64%) Kafka
2 18 (4.62%) REST
3 14 (3.59%) PySpark
4 10 (2.56%) .NET
5 8 (2.05%) React
6 6 (1.54%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (1.54%) YAML
7 5 (1.28%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.28%) Langfuse
7 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.28%) OAuth
7 5 (1.28%) OpenID
7 5 (1.28%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.28%) Vue
8 4 (1.03%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.03%) Playwright
8 4 (1.03%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.03%) Spring
8 4 (1.03%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.77%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.10%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.64%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.36%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.33%) Fixed Income
5 12 (3.08%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.31%) Equities
7 9 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.31%) Reinsurance
8 8 (2.05%) Clustering
9 7 (1.79%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.54%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.03%) Derivative
11 4 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.77%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.77%) Unix
2 2 (0.51%) Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (44.87%) Analytics
2 149 (38.21%) Data Engineering
3 138 (35.38%) Data Modelling
4 131 (33.59%) Data Pipeline
5 128 (32.82%) CI/CD
6 115 (29.49%) ETL
7 112 (28.72%) Business Intelligence
8 111 (28.46%) AI
9 91 (23.33%) Agile
10 82 (21.03%) DevOps
11 78 (20.00%) Data Architecture
12 71 (18.21%) Stakeholder Management
13 69 (17.69%) Data Governance
14 60 (15.38%) Decision-Making
15 57 (14.62%) Migration
16 56 (14.36%) Validation
17 53 (13.59%) Machine Learning
18 52 (13.33%) Data Transformation
19 48 (12.31%) Data Science
20 43 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 220 (56.41%) SQL
2 204 (52.31%) Python
3 42 (10.77%) Java
4 13 (3.33%) R
5 8 (2.05%) C#
6 7 (1.79%) Bash
6 7 (1.79%) Scala
7 6 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.54%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.54%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.77%) Cypher
8 3 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.77%) SHACL
9 2 (0.51%) Bicep
9 2 (0.51%) C++
9 2 (0.51%) Delphi
9 2 (0.51%) Korn
9 2 (0.51%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (7.44%) Degree
2 25 (6.41%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.08%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.54%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.54%) SnowPro
6 5 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.26%) CBAP
9 1 (0.26%) CFA
9 1 (0.26%) CISM
9 1 (0.26%) CISSP
9 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (24.87%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.18%) GDPR
3 17 (4.36%) QA
4 5 (1.28%) SLA
5 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.77%) EMIR
5 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.77%) MiFID
5 3 (0.77%) PMO
5 3 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.26%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (7.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (13.59%) Terraform
2 22 (5.64%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.56%) Grafana
4 8 (2.05%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.03%) Control-M
6 2 (0.51%) Argo
7 1 (0.26%) Ansible
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 115 (29.49%) Databricks
2 41 (10.51%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.87%) Google
4 16 (4.10%) Oracle
5 15 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 14 (3.59%) Informatica
7 8 (2.05%) Charles River
7 8 (2.05%) Denodo
7 8 (2.05%) Workday
8 7 (1.79%) SAP
9 6 (1.54%) FactSet
9 6 (1.54%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.28%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.28%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.28%) Foundry
10 5 (1.28%) MicroStrategy
10 5 (1.28%) Teradata
11 4 (1.03%) Murex
11 4 (1.03%) Splunk
12 3 (0.77%) ServiceNow