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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 147 115
Rank change year-on-year +5 -32 +126
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 435 259 353
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.15% 1.93% 2.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.26% 4.43% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 199 299
10th Percentile £400 £446 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £620
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 £756 - -
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 8,270 5,849 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.92% 43.67% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,710 3,957 4,544
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% -2.96%
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 90 97 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.01 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.40 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -11.61% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.25 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%

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 8 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 8 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 -3 49 £600 -3.03% 67
West London -9 10 £485 -2.27% 11
South London - 5 £425 - 3
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 (25.75%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (9.66%) Apache Spark
3 34 (7.82%) Apache
4 10 (2.30%) Confluence
4 10 (2.30%) 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 (3.45%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.92%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.46%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.46%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.23%) BambooHR
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
1 230 (52.87%) AWS
2 194 (44.60%) Azure
3 141 (32.41%) dbt
4 107 (24.60%) Power Platform
5 104 (23.91%) GCP
6 68 (15.63%) GitHub
7 51 (11.72%) Amazon S3
8 44 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (8.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 37 (8.51%) Serverless
12 28 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (4.14%) SaaS
15 17 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (3.91%) Dagster
15 17 (3.91%) Fivetran
16 12 (2.76%) Datadog
16 12 (2.76%) GitHub Copilot
16 12 (2.76%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Broadband
1 2 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
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%) DNS
2 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.23%) SSH
2 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (34.25%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (23.68%) Power BI
3 57 (13.10%) Data Lake
4 51 (11.72%) BigQuery
5 47 (10.80%) Snowflake Schema
6 45 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 43 (9.89%) Tableau
8 35 (8.05%) Metadata
9 27 (6.21%) Big Data
9 27 (6.21%) Data Vault
9 27 (6.21%) SQL Server
10 25 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (4.60%) NoSQL
12 18 (4.14%) Delta Lake
13 14 (3.22%) MongoDB
13 14 (3.22%) Relational Database
14 13 (2.99%) Looker
15 12 (2.76%) Semantic Layer
16 11 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (2.53%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 51 (11.72%) Git
2 23 (5.29%) GitLab
3 22 (5.06%) JIRA
4 17 (3.91%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.61%) 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 (37.93%) Finance
2 132 (30.34%) Social Skills
3 77 (17.70%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (14.02%) Banking
5 36 (8.28%) Retail
6 21 (4.83%) Marketing
7 18 (4.14%) Financial Institution
8 16 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.45%) Legal
10 14 (3.22%) Front Office
11 12 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (2.76%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.07%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.84%) Billing
14 7 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.38%) Back Office
15 6 (1.38%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.15%) Private Banking
17 4 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 145 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 87 (20.00%) Senior
3 73 (16.78%) Architect
4 72 (16.55%) Snowflake Engineer
5 55 (12.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 52 (11.95%) Analyst
7 49 (11.26%) Data Architect
8 46 (10.57%) Senior Data Engineer
9 30 (6.90%) Data Analyst
10 29 (6.67%) Lead
11 24 (5.52%) Developer
12 22 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (4.83%) Business Analyst
13 21 (4.83%) Consultant
14 17 (3.91%) AWS Data Engineer
15 16 (3.68%) Python Engineer
16 13 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 12 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
17 12 (2.76%) Python Data Engineer
18 11 (2.53%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (17.01%) Terraform
2 47 (10.80%) Kafka
3 29 (6.67%) PySpark
4 23 (5.29%) REST
5 15 (3.45%) .NET
6 7 (1.61%) OAuth
6 7 (1.61%) OpenID
6 7 (1.61%) YAML
7 6 (1.38%) 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 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.59%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.29%) Data Structures
4 17 (3.91%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.45%) Reinsurance
6 14 (3.22%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.30%) Taxonomies
9 9 (2.07%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.84%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.61%) Life Science
11 7 (1.61%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.15%) Clustering
13 5 (1.15%) Equities
13 5 (1.15%) Replication
14 4 (0.92%) Derivative
14 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.84%) 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
1 191 (43.91%) Analytics
2 180 (41.38%) Data Modelling
3 166 (38.16%) Data Engineering
4 155 (35.63%) CI/CD
5 152 (34.94%) Data Pipeline
6 145 (33.33%) AI
7 144 (33.10%) ETL
8 114 (26.21%) Business Intelligence
9 109 (25.06%) Agile
10 98 (22.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 94 (21.61%) Data Architecture
11 94 (21.61%) DevOps
12 92 (21.15%) Data Governance
13 70 (16.09%) Data Transformation
14 69 (15.86%) Decision-Making
15 68 (15.63%) Migration
16 65 (14.94%) Machine Learning
16 65 (14.94%) Validation
17 56 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
18 55 (12.64%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 270 (62.07%) SQL
2 226 (51.95%) Python
3 34 (7.82%) Java
4 12 (2.76%) Bash
4 12 (2.76%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.76%) R
5 11 (2.53%) Scala
6 9 (2.07%) C#
7 8 (1.84%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.15%) Bicep
10 4 (0.92%) C++
11 3 (0.69%) Cypher
11 3 (0.69%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.69%) SHACL
12 2 (0.46%) Delphi
12 2 (0.46%) Korn
12 2 (0.46%) LookML
12 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.46%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 24 (5.52%) Degree
2 19 (4.37%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.30%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.07%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.38%) 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%) ACCA
10 2 (0.46%) CIMA
10 2 (0.46%) CISM
10 2 (0.46%) CISSP
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CFA
11 1 (0.23%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (30.11%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.44%) GDPR
3 21 (4.83%) QA
4 6 (1.38%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.69%) EMIR
6 3 (0.69%) MiFID
6 3 (0.69%) PMO
6 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.46%) GRC
7 2 (0.46%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (8.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (8.74%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.30%) Grafana
3 7 (1.61%) 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
1 150 (34.48%) Databricks
2 64 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.37%) Google
3 19 (4.37%) Oracle
4 17 (3.91%) Informatica
4 17 (3.91%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.07%) MicroStrategy
6 8 (1.84%) Talend
6 8 (1.84%) Workday
7 7 (1.61%) Bloomberg
7 7 (1.61%) Denodo
7 7 (1.61%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.61%) Teradata
8 6 (1.38%) SAP
9 5 (1.15%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.15%) Confluent
10 4 (0.92%) Adaptive Insights
10 4 (0.92%) FactSet
10 4 (0.92%) Foundry
10 4 (0.92%) ServiceNow