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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 171 247
Rank change year-on-year +30 +76 +98
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 286 198 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.93% 1.43% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.36% 3.45% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 133 133
10th Percentile £325 £464 £475
25th Percentile £414 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £585
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +11.11% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £813 £715
90th Percentile £770 £888 £738
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £37.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 - -

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 6,563 5,738 6,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.31% 41.47% 37.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,497 3,810 5,124
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.03%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 47 79
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.88 £31.35 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +2.77% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £76.34 £68.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £33.00 £27.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year +20.00% +20.88% -9.00%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +7 35 £525 -12.50% 16
West London -21 2 £553 +8.87% 1
South London -4 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 54 (18.88%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (7.34%) Apache Spark
3 17 (5.94%) Apache
4 3 (1.05%) Confluence
4 3 (1.05%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.35%) Luigi
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 8 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.75%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (7.69%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.70%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.70%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.70%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.70%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.70%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 156 (54.55%) AWS
2 133 (46.50%) Azure
3 72 (25.17%) Power Platform
4 61 (21.33%) dbt
5 49 (17.13%) GCP
6 32 (11.19%) Serverless
7 27 (9.44%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.44%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (7.69%) GitHub
9 17 (5.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (4.55%) Matillion
11 12 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (3.50%) SaaS
13 9 (3.15%) Fivetran
14 7 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (2.45%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (1.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (24.83%) Data Warehouse
2 68 (23.78%) Power BI
3 35 (12.24%) Data Lake
3 35 (12.24%) Tableau
4 29 (10.14%) Snowflake Schema
5 24 (8.39%) Data Vault
6 17 (5.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (5.94%) Big Data
6 17 (5.94%) Metadata
7 15 (5.24%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (4.90%) Relational Database
8 14 (4.90%) SQL Server
9 13 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
10 12 (4.20%) BigQuery
11 11 (3.85%) Apache Arrow
11 11 (3.85%) Apache Ignite
11 11 (3.85%) Dremio
12 9 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (3.15%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (6.99%) Git
2 19 (6.64%) JIRA
3 16 (5.59%) GitLab
4 13 (4.55%) SpecFlow
5 11 (3.85%) ERwin
6 10 (3.50%) ER Studio
7 9 (3.15%) PowerDesigner
8 5 (1.75%) MLflow
9 4 (1.40%) Jenkins
10 3 (1.05%) DBeaver
10 3 (1.05%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.70%) Selenium
11 2 (0.70%) TestRail
11 2 (0.70%) Toad
11 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (29.02%) Finance
2 67 (23.43%) Social Skills
3 37 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.44%) Banking
5 18 (6.29%) Front Office
5 18 (6.29%) Investment Banking
6 14 (4.90%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.20%) Retail
8 10 (3.50%) Marketing
9 7 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.05%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.05%) Law
13 2 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.35%) Back Office
14 1 (0.35%) Publishing
14 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (31.12%) Data Engineer
2 56 (19.58%) Snowflake Engineer
3 42 (14.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 37 (12.94%) Analyst
5 36 (12.59%) Architect
6 32 (11.19%) Senior
7 31 (10.84%) Lead
8 29 (10.14%) Data Analyst
9 24 (8.39%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (7.34%) Developer
10 21 (7.34%) Python Engineer
11 17 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (5.59%) Data Architect
13 14 (4.90%) Business Analyst
14 13 (4.55%) Data Modeller
14 13 (4.55%) Software Engineer
15 12 (4.20%) Lead Data Engineer
15 12 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (4.20%) Tester
16 11 (3.85%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.34%) Kafka
1 21 (7.34%) Pandas
2 15 (5.24%) NumPy
2 15 (5.24%) Playwright
3 11 (3.85%) gRPC
3 11 (3.85%) Protocol Buffers
3 11 (3.85%) SciPy
4 9 (3.15%) PySpark
4 9 (3.15%) PyTorch
5 6 (2.10%) JSON
5 6 (2.10%) Node.js
6 5 (1.75%) React
6 5 (1.75%) TensorFlow
7 4 (1.40%) .NET
7 4 (1.40%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.40%) REST
7 4 (1.40%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.05%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.05%) OAuth
8 3 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.19%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.34%) Data Structures
3 19 (6.64%) Data Protection Act
4 18 (6.29%) Equities
4 18 (6.29%) Fixed Income
5 14 (4.90%) Derivative
6 13 (4.55%) Hedge funds
7 11 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (3.85%) Pricing Data
8 9 (3.15%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.10%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.40%) Clustering
11 4 (1.40%) Replication
11 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.05%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.05%) Unix
2 2 (0.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (40.91%) Analytics
2 100 (34.97%) Data Modelling
3 97 (33.92%) ETL
4 86 (30.07%) Agile
5 79 (27.62%) Business Intelligence
6 78 (27.27%) Data Engineering
7 71 (24.83%) Data Pipeline
8 64 (22.38%) Data Governance
9 63 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (20.98%) CI/CD
11 57 (19.93%) AI
12 50 (17.48%) DevOps
13 47 (16.43%) Asset Management
14 39 (13.64%) Machine Learning
15 38 (13.29%) Migration
16 36 (12.59%) Data Transformation
17 33 (11.54%) Data Science
18 32 (11.19%) Data Architecture
19 31 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
19 31 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 180 (62.94%) SQL
2 154 (53.85%) Python
3 37 (12.94%) Java
4 32 (11.19%) TypeScript
5 30 (10.49%) JavaScript
6 16 (5.59%) C#
7 7 (2.45%) Korn
7 7 (2.45%) R
8 6 (2.10%) Bash
9 5 (1.75%) Scala
10 4 (1.40%) Bicep
10 4 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.05%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.35%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.35%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (5.24%) Degree
1 15 (5.24%) Security Cleared
2 10 (3.50%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.15%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.45%) SnowPro
5 4 (1.40%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.40%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.05%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.05%) PhD
7 2 (0.70%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (20.28%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.90%) QA
3 13 (4.55%) GDPR
4 4 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) FATCA
6 1 (0.35%) GAAP
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) PMO
6 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (13.64%) Terraform
2 21 (7.34%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.05%) Grafana
4 2 (0.70%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 74 (25.87%) Databricks
2 27 (9.44%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.20%) Oracle
4 10 (3.50%) Talend
5 9 (3.15%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.80%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.45%) Charles River
7 7 (2.45%) MicroStrategy
8 6 (2.10%) Sparx
9 5 (1.75%) Informatica
9 5 (1.75%) SAP
9 5 (1.75%) Virgin Media
10 4 (1.40%) Google
10 4 (1.40%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.40%) Murex
10 4 (1.40%) SimCorp
11 3 (1.05%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.05%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.70%) Vermilion