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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 154 107
Rank change year-on-year +22 -47 +143
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 442 248 369
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.17% 1.85% 2.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.30% 4.27% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 198 320
10th Percentile £400 £454 £500
25th Percentile £463 £513 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -21.88% +36.75%
75th Percentile £675 £825 £888
90th Percentile £765 - -
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 £70.00 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +97.18% - -

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 8,343 5,803 6,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.98% 43.39% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,737 3,954 4,577
10th Percentile £360 £343 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.02% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 93 44
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £29.28 £30.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.58% -21.04%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.33
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -25.71% +6.06%

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 23 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 23 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 +4 56 £575 -8.00% 72
West London -15 9 £500 +0.76% 50
South London - 3 £425 - 2
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 (25.34%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (9.05%) Apache Spark
3 33 (7.47%) Apache
4 10 (2.26%) SharePoint
5 9 (2.04%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) Luigi
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (3.62%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.90%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.45%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.45%) 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
1 236 (53.39%) AWS
2 187 (42.31%) Azure
3 137 (31.00%) dbt
4 106 (23.98%) Power Platform
5 103 (23.30%) GCP
6 66 (14.93%) GitHub
7 55 (12.44%) Amazon S3
8 47 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (8.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 36 (8.14%) Serverless
12 29 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (4.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 22 (4.98%) Dagster
14 17 (3.85%) Fivetran
15 16 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (3.17%) SaaS
17 12 (2.71%) Matillion
18 11 (2.49%) Datadog
18 11 (2.49%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.45%) Broadband
1 2 (0.45%) DSL
1 2 (0.45%) Firewall
1 2 (0.45%) Network Security
1 2 (0.45%) 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
1 145 (32.81%) Data Warehouse
2 104 (23.53%) Power BI
3 56 (12.67%) Data Lake
4 53 (11.99%) BigQuery
5 50 (11.31%) Snowflake Schema
6 44 (9.95%) Tableau
7 41 (9.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 30 (6.79%) Metadata
9 28 (6.33%) SQL Server
10 27 (6.11%) Big Data
11 26 (5.88%) Data Vault
12 23 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (4.07%) NoSQL
14 17 (3.85%) Delta Lake
15 14 (3.17%) Looker
15 14 (3.17%) Relational Database
16 13 (2.94%) MongoDB
17 12 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (2.71%) Semantic Layer
18 10 (2.26%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 49 (11.09%) Git
2 23 (5.20%) GitLab
3 21 (4.75%) JIRA
4 18 (4.07%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.58%) Terragrunt
6 6 (1.36%) Snyk
7 4 (0.90%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.90%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.90%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.45%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.45%) MLflow
8 2 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.45%) Selenium
8 2 (0.45%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.23%) ERwin
9 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
General
1 166 (37.56%) Finance
2 124 (28.05%) Social Skills
3 69 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (14.48%) Banking
5 41 (9.28%) Retail
6 23 (5.20%) Marketing
7 18 (4.07%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.39%) Front Office
10 13 (2.94%) Legal
11 11 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (2.49%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.04%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.58%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.36%) Back Office
14 6 (1.36%) Billing
15 5 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.13%) Private Banking
16 4 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 151 (34.16%) Data Engineer
2 86 (19.46%) Senior
3 82 (18.55%) Architect
4 78 (17.65%) Snowflake Engineer
5 60 (13.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 55 (12.44%) Data Architect
7 49 (11.09%) Analyst
8 48 (10.86%) Senior Data Engineer
9 32 (7.24%) Lead
10 31 (7.01%) Data Analyst
11 26 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (4.75%) AWS Data Engineer
12 21 (4.75%) Developer
13 19 (4.30%) Consultant
14 17 (3.85%) Business Analyst
15 16 (3.62%) Python Engineer
16 13 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (2.94%) Snowflake Architect
17 12 (2.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 12 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (16.06%) Terraform
2 43 (9.73%) Kafka
3 27 (6.11%) PySpark
4 23 (5.20%) REST
5 15 (3.39%) .NET
6 8 (1.81%) React
7 7 (1.58%) YAML
8 6 (1.36%) OAuth
9 5 (1.13%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.13%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (1.13%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (1.13%) OpenID
10 4 (0.90%) FastAPI
10 4 (0.90%) Pandas
10 4 (0.90%) pytest
10 4 (0.90%) Snowpark
10 4 (0.90%) Spring
10 4 (0.90%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.68%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 67 (15.16%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.79%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.98%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.62%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.39%) Reinsurance
6 13 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.26%) Fixed Income
9 9 (2.04%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.81%) Taxonomies
11 7 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (1.58%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.36%) Clustering
12 6 (1.36%) Life Science
13 5 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.13%) Equities
13 5 (1.13%) Replication
14 4 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.13%) Linux
2 2 (0.45%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (43.67%) Analytics
2 169 (38.24%) Data Modelling
3 167 (37.78%) Data Engineering
4 155 (35.07%) CI/CD
5 149 (33.71%) Data Pipeline
6 142 (32.13%) AI
7 141 (31.90%) ETL
8 118 (26.70%) Business Intelligence
9 107 (24.21%) Agile
10 94 (21.27%) DevOps
11 93 (21.04%) Data Architecture
11 93 (21.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 88 (19.91%) Data Governance
13 71 (16.06%) Decision-Making
13 71 (16.06%) Migration
14 69 (15.61%) Machine Learning
15 68 (15.38%) Data Transformation
16 64 (14.48%) Validation
17 54 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
18 53 (11.99%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 267 (60.41%) SQL
2 229 (51.81%) Python
3 42 (9.50%) Java
4 12 (2.71%) Bash
4 12 (2.71%) R
5 11 (2.49%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.49%) Scala
6 10 (2.26%) C#
7 8 (1.81%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.90%) Bicep
8 4 (0.90%) C++
8 4 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.90%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.68%) Cypher
9 3 (0.68%) SHACL
10 2 (0.45%) Delphi
10 2 (0.45%) Korn
10 2 (0.45%) LookML
10 2 (0.45%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (5.43%) Security Cleared
2 21 (4.75%) Degree
3 14 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.71%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.58%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.36%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.36%) SnowPro
7 5 (1.13%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.45%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CISA
10 1 (0.23%) CISM
10 1 (0.23%) CISSP
10 1 (0.23%) GSEC
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PMP
10 1 (0.23%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (26.92%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.66%) GDPR
3 21 (4.75%) QA
4 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.90%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.68%) EMIR
5 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.68%) MiFID
5 3 (0.68%) PMO
5 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.45%) GRC
6 2 (0.45%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
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 34 (7.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (8.37%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.04%) Grafana
3 6 (1.36%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.90%) Control-M
5 2 (0.45%) Ansible
5 2 (0.45%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 153 (34.62%) Databricks
2 54 (12.22%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.30%) Google
4 18 (4.07%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.62%) Informatica
5 16 (3.62%) Oracle
6 10 (2.26%) MicroStrategy
7 7 (1.58%) Bloomberg
7 7 (1.58%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.58%) Talend
7 7 (1.58%) Teradata
7 7 (1.58%) Workday
8 6 (1.36%) Denodo
8 6 (1.36%) Foundry
8 6 (1.36%) SAP
9 5 (1.13%) Amplitude
10 4 (0.90%) Confluent
10 4 (0.90%) FactSet
10 4 (0.90%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.68%) Alteryx