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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 143 119
Rank change year-on-year +6 -24 +128
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 433 264 358
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.15% 1.97% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.26% 4.51% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 205 304
10th Percentile £400 £439 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £623
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £800
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -25.00% +37.51%
75th Percentile £688 £825 £888
90th Percentile £753 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £57.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.86% - -
England median hourly rate £63.50 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +78.87% - -

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 8,226 5,850 6,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.81% 43.63% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,669 3,967 4,558
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -3.08%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 96 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.12 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.95 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -9.84% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.38 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.87%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -1 52 £600 -3.03% 67
West London -12 10 £485 -2.27% 10
South London - 4 £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
1 112 (25.87%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (9.70%) Apache Spark
3 35 (8.08%) Apache
4 10 (2.31%) Confluence
4 10 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.23%) Luigi
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.46%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.92%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.46%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.46%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.46%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 229 (52.89%) AWS
2 189 (43.65%) Azure
3 141 (32.56%) dbt
4 106 (24.48%) Power Platform
5 103 (23.79%) GCP
6 66 (15.24%) GitHub
7 50 (11.55%) Amazon S3
8 43 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (8.55%) Azure Data Factory
11 36 (8.31%) Serverless
12 27 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (4.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (4.16%) SaaS
15 17 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (3.93%) Dagster
15 17 (3.93%) Fivetran
16 12 (2.77%) Datadog
16 12 (2.77%) GitHub Copilot
16 12 (2.77%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Broadband
1 2 (0.46%) DSL
1 2 (0.46%) Firewall
1 2 (0.46%) Network Security
1 2 (0.46%) VPN
2 1 (0.23%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.23%) DNS
2 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.23%) SSH
2 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (33.95%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (23.79%) Power BI
3 57 (13.16%) Data Lake
4 53 (12.24%) BigQuery
5 47 (10.85%) Snowflake Schema
6 46 (10.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 44 (10.16%) Tableau
8 33 (7.62%) Metadata
9 27 (6.24%) Big Data
9 27 (6.24%) SQL Server
10 25 (5.77%) Data Vault
10 25 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (4.39%) NoSQL
12 18 (4.16%) Delta Lake
13 14 (3.23%) Looker
13 14 (3.23%) MongoDB
13 14 (3.23%) Relational Database
14 12 (2.77%) Apache Iceberg
15 11 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (2.54%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 50 (11.55%) Git
2 23 (5.31%) GitLab
3 22 (5.08%) JIRA
4 17 (3.93%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.62%) Terragrunt
6 5 (1.15%) Snyk
7 4 (0.92%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.46%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.23%) ERwin
9 1 (0.23%) MLflow
9 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 165 (38.11%) Finance
2 130 (30.02%) Social Skills
3 74 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (14.09%) Banking
5 37 (8.55%) Retail
6 21 (4.85%) Marketing
7 18 (4.16%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.46%) Legal
9 14 (3.23%) Front Office
10 12 (2.77%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (2.77%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.85%) Billing
13 6 (1.39%) Back Office
13 6 (1.39%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.15%) Private Banking
15 4 (0.92%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 144 (33.26%) Data Engineer
2 85 (19.63%) Senior
3 72 (16.63%) Architect
3 72 (16.63%) Snowflake Engineer
4 55 (12.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 52 (12.01%) Analyst
6 47 (10.85%) Data Architect
7 45 (10.39%) Senior Data Engineer
8 30 (6.93%) Data Analyst
8 30 (6.93%) Lead
9 24 (5.54%) Developer
10 23 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (4.85%) Business Analyst
12 20 (4.62%) Consultant
13 18 (4.16%) AWS Data Engineer
14 16 (3.70%) Python Engineer
15 12 (2.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 12 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (2.77%) Python Data Engineer
16 11 (2.54%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (16.40%) Terraform
2 46 (10.62%) Kafka
3 28 (6.47%) PySpark
4 23 (5.31%) REST
5 14 (3.23%) .NET
6 7 (1.62%) YAML
7 6 (1.39%) OAuth
7 6 (1.39%) OpenID
7 6 (1.39%) React
8 5 (1.15%) FastAPI
8 5 (1.15%) GraphQL
8 5 (1.15%) Langfuse
8 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (1.15%) Pandas
8 5 (1.15%) pytest
9 4 (0.92%) Model Context Protocol
9 4 (0.92%) Snowpark
9 4 (0.92%) Spring
9 4 (0.92%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.69%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 64 (14.78%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.62%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.54%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.46%) Reinsurance
6 14 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.31%) Taxonomies
10 9 (2.08%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.85%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.62%) Life Science
12 7 (1.62%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.15%) Clustering
14 5 (1.15%) Equities
14 5 (1.15%) Replication
15 4 (0.92%) Derivative
15 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.85%) Linux
2 3 (0.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) VMS
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (43.88%) Analytics
2 176 (40.65%) Data Modelling
3 165 (38.11%) Data Engineering
4 154 (35.57%) CI/CD
5 149 (34.41%) Data Pipeline
6 145 (33.49%) ETL
7 142 (32.79%) AI
8 114 (26.33%) Business Intelligence
9 109 (25.17%) Agile
10 98 (22.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 92 (21.25%) Data Architecture
12 91 (21.02%) DevOps
13 89 (20.55%) Data Governance
14 71 (16.40%) Data Transformation
15 70 (16.17%) Decision-Making
16 69 (15.94%) Migration
17 65 (15.01%) Validation
18 64 (14.78%) Machine Learning
19 55 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
20 53 (12.24%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 267 (61.66%) SQL
2 225 (51.96%) Python
3 34 (7.85%) Java
4 12 (2.77%) Bash
4 12 (2.77%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.77%) R
5 11 (2.54%) Scala
6 9 (2.08%) C#
7 8 (1.85%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.92%) Bicep
9 4 (0.92%) C++
10 3 (0.69%) Cypher
10 3 (0.69%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.69%) SHACL
11 2 (0.46%) Delphi
11 2 (0.46%) Korn
11 2 (0.46%) LookML
11 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.46%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 22 (5.08%) Degree
2 20 (4.62%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.31%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.39%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.15%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.23%) ACCA
11 1 (0.23%) CFA
11 1 (0.23%) CIMA
11 1 (0.23%) CISA
11 1 (0.23%) CISM
11 1 (0.23%) GSEC
11 1 (0.23%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (29.33%) Data Quality
2 27 (6.24%) GDPR
3 21 (4.85%) QA
4 5 (1.15%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.69%) EMIR
5 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.69%) MiFID
5 3 (0.69%) PMO
5 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.46%) GRC
6 2 (0.46%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (8.08%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (8.78%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.31%) Grafana
3 7 (1.62%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.15%) Control-M
5 3 (0.69%) Ansible
6 2 (0.46%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 148 (34.18%) Databricks
2 59 (13.63%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.39%) Google
4 18 (4.16%) Oracle
5 17 (3.93%) Informatica
5 17 (3.93%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.31%) MicroStrategy
7 8 (1.85%) Talend
7 8 (1.85%) Workday
8 7 (1.62%) Bloomberg
8 7 (1.62%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.62%) Teradata
9 6 (1.39%) Denodo
9 6 (1.39%) SAP
10 5 (1.15%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.15%) Confluent
11 4 (0.92%) FactSet
11 4 (0.92%) Foundry
11 4 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.69%) PagerDuty