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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 147 126
Rank change year-on-year +4 -21 +124
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 438 267 345
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.17% 1.99% 2.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.29% 4.55% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 206 291
10th Percentile £400 £413 £463
25th Percentile £463 £511 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £800
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -25.00% +36.75%
75th Percentile £688 £825 £888
90th Percentile £753 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +36.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £57.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.86% - -
England median hourly rate £57.00 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +60.56% - -

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 8,283 5,872 6,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.97% 43.86% 40.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,720 3,992 4,547
10th Percentile £362 £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% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 101 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £31.25 £27.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -14.29% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £80.00 £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 11 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 11 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 -6 47 £600 -2.04% 60
West London -7 10 £485 -2.27% 13
South London - 5 £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
1 110 (25.11%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (9.82%) Apache Spark
3 34 (7.76%) Apache
4 10 (2.28%) Confluence
4 10 (2.28%) 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 10 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (3.42%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.91%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.68%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.46%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 228 (52.05%) AWS
2 194 (44.29%) Azure
3 138 (31.51%) dbt
4 106 (24.20%) GCP
5 105 (23.97%) Power Platform
6 67 (15.30%) GitHub
7 50 (11.42%) Amazon S3
8 41 (9.36%) GitHub Actions
9 40 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (8.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 37 (8.45%) Serverless
12 28 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 19 (4.34%) SaaS
15 17 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (3.88%) Fivetran
16 15 (3.42%) Dagster
16 15 (3.42%) Datadog
17 12 (2.74%) GitHub Copilot
17 12 (2.74%) 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
1 147 (33.56%) Data Warehouse
2 101 (23.06%) Power BI
3 58 (13.24%) Data Lake
4 51 (11.64%) BigQuery
5 47 (10.73%) Tableau
6 45 (10.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 44 (10.05%) Snowflake Schema
8 35 (7.99%) Metadata
9 28 (6.39%) Big Data
10 27 (6.16%) SQL Server
11 26 (5.94%) Data Vault
12 25 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (4.57%) NoSQL
14 18 (4.11%) Delta Lake
15 14 (3.20%) MongoDB
15 14 (3.20%) Relational Database
16 12 (2.74%) Looker
16 12 (2.74%) Semantic Layer
17 11 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
17 11 (2.51%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 51 (11.64%) Git
2 23 (5.25%) GitLab
3 22 (5.02%) JIRA
4 17 (3.88%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.60%) Terragrunt
6 5 (1.14%) Claude Code
6 5 (1.14%) Snyk
7 4 (0.91%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.46%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) ERwin
9 1 (0.23%) MLflow
9 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 167 (38.13%) Finance
2 133 (30.37%) Social Skills
3 79 (18.04%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (14.84%) Banking
5 36 (8.22%) Retail
6 26 (5.94%) Marketing
7 18 (4.11%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.88%) Legal
9 14 (3.20%) Front Office
9 14 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (2.74%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.05%) Billing
11 9 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.37%) Back Office
12 6 (1.37%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.14%) Private Banking
14 4 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 142 (32.42%) Data Engineer
2 86 (19.63%) Senior
3 73 (16.67%) Architect
4 68 (15.53%) Snowflake Engineer
5 54 (12.33%) Analyst
6 52 (11.87%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 49 (11.19%) Data Architect
8 45 (10.27%) Senior Data Engineer
9 31 (7.08%) Data Analyst
10 30 (6.85%) Lead
11 24 (5.48%) Developer
12 22 (5.02%) Consultant
13 21 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (4.57%) Business Analyst
15 16 (3.65%) AWS Data Engineer
15 16 (3.65%) Python Engineer
16 13 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 12 (2.74%) Python Data Engineer
18 11 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
19 10 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (16.89%) Terraform
2 47 (10.73%) Kafka
3 29 (6.62%) PySpark
4 23 (5.25%) REST
5 15 (3.42%) .NET
6 7 (1.60%) YAML
7 6 (1.37%) OAuth
7 6 (1.37%) OpenID
7 6 (1.37%) Pandas
7 6 (1.37%) React
8 5 (1.14%) FastAPI
8 5 (1.14%) GraphQL
8 5 (1.14%) Langfuse
8 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (1.14%) pytest
9 4 (0.91%) Model Context Protocol
9 4 (0.91%) Snowpark
9 4 (0.91%) Spring
9 4 (0.91%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.68%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 65 (14.84%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.53%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.48%) Data Structures
4 17 (3.88%) AI Agents
5 16 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.42%) Reinsurance
7 11 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.28%) Taxonomies
9 9 (2.05%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.83%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.60%) Life Science
11 7 (1.60%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.14%) Clustering
13 5 (1.14%) Equities
13 5 (1.14%) Replication
13 5 (1.14%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.91%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.83%) Linux
2 3 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) VMS
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (43.84%) Analytics
2 180 (41.10%) Data Modelling
3 166 (37.90%) Data Engineering
4 157 (35.84%) CI/CD
5 153 (34.93%) AI
6 152 (34.70%) Data Pipeline
7 144 (32.88%) ETL
8 114 (26.03%) Business Intelligence
9 108 (24.66%) Agile
10 102 (23.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 95 (21.69%) Data Architecture
12 93 (21.23%) Data Governance
13 90 (20.55%) DevOps
14 70 (15.98%) Decision-Making
15 69 (15.75%) Data Transformation
15 69 (15.75%) Migration
16 66 (15.07%) Machine Learning
17 65 (14.84%) Validation
18 56 (12.79%) Infrastructure as Code
18 56 (12.79%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 268 (61.19%) SQL
2 226 (51.60%) Python
3 33 (7.53%) Java
4 14 (3.20%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.74%) Bash
5 12 (2.74%) R
6 11 (2.51%) Scala
7 9 (2.05%) C#
8 8 (1.83%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.14%) Bicep
11 4 (0.91%) C++
12 3 (0.68%) Cypher
12 3 (0.68%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.68%) SHACL
13 2 (0.46%) Delphi
13 2 (0.46%) Korn
13 2 (0.46%) LookML
13 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.46%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 24 (5.48%) Degree
2 19 (4.34%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.28%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.28%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.83%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.37%) SnowPro
7 5 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.68%) 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%) CISA
11 1 (0.23%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (30.59%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.39%) GDPR
3 21 (4.79%) QA
4 8 (1.83%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.68%) EMIR
6 3 (0.68%) MiFID
6 3 (0.68%) PMO
6 3 (0.68%) 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 (7.99%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (8.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.28%) Grafana
3 7 (1.60%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.14%) Control-M
5 3 (0.68%) 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 (33.79%) Databricks
2 69 (15.75%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.25%) Google
4 22 (5.02%) Oracle
4 22 (5.02%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.88%) Informatica
6 9 (2.05%) MicroStrategy
7 8 (1.83%) Talend
8 7 (1.60%) Bloomberg
8 7 (1.60%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.60%) Teradata
8 7 (1.60%) Workday
9 6 (1.37%) Denodo
9 6 (1.37%) SAP
10 5 (1.14%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.14%) Confluent
11 4 (0.91%) Adaptive Insights
11 4 (0.91%) FactSet
11 4 (0.91%) Foundry
11 4 (0.91%) ServiceNow