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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 170 234
Rank change year-on-year +31 +64 +98
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 284 210 162
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.94% 1.51% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.36% 3.65% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 145 133
10th Percentile £325 £465 £465
25th Percentile £421 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £825 £715
90th Percentile £825 £888 £738
England median daily rate £525 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -
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 6,508 5,749 6,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.43% 41.26% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,474 3,836 5,099
10th Percentile £346 £352 £325
25th Percentile £424 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £780 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 46 71
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.30 £29.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% -8.32% +25.75%
75th Percentile £56.13 £47.72 £55.63
90th Percentile £77.71 £64.38 £63.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.43
% change year-on-year +9.09% +12.57% +5.39%

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 24 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 24 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 +5 36 £550 -17.91% 12
West London -16 2 £553 -11.60% 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 57 (20.07%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (6.69%) Apache
2 19 (6.69%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.06%) Confluence
3 3 (1.06%) SAS
4 1 (0.35%) Luigi
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (7.04%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.70%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.70%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.70%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Fidessa
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%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 155 (54.58%) AWS
2 129 (45.42%) Azure
3 69 (24.30%) Power Platform
4 65 (22.89%) dbt
5 44 (15.49%) GCP
6 34 (11.97%) Serverless
7 29 (10.21%) Amazon S3
7 29 (10.21%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (8.10%) GitHub
9 22 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (4.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.23%) Matillion
13 11 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (3.52%) SaaS
15 9 (3.17%) Fivetran
16 8 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (2.46%) Amazon EMR
18 5 (1.76%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) Firewall
2 1 (0.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (24.65%) Data Warehouse
2 65 (22.89%) Power BI
3 39 (13.73%) Data Lake
4 29 (10.21%) Tableau
5 28 (9.86%) Snowflake Schema
6 22 (7.75%) Data Vault
7 19 (6.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (6.34%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (5.63%) Big Data
9 16 (5.63%) Metadata
9 16 (5.63%) SQL Server
10 15 (5.28%) Apache Iceberg
11 14 (4.93%) Apache Arrow
11 14 (4.93%) Apache Ignite
11 14 (4.93%) Dremio
11 14 (4.93%) Relational Database
12 12 (4.23%) BigQuery
13 10 (3.52%) RDBMS
14 9 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (3.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (7.04%) Git
2 18 (6.34%) JIRA
3 16 (5.63%) GitLab
4 12 (4.23%) ERwin
4 12 (4.23%) SpecFlow
5 10 (3.52%) ER Studio
5 10 (3.52%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.76%) MLflow
7 4 (1.41%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.06%) DBeaver
8 3 (1.06%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.70%) Selenium
9 2 (0.70%) TestRail
9 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.35%) Toad
10 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (30.63%) Finance
2 69 (24.30%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.92%) Banking
5 21 (7.39%) Front Office
5 21 (7.39%) Investment Banking
6 14 (4.93%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.52%) Retail
8 9 (3.17%) Marketing
9 7 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.11%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Law
13 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.35%) Games
14 1 (0.35%) Publishing
14 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (31.34%) Data Engineer
2 55 (19.37%) Snowflake Engineer
3 41 (14.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 37 (13.03%) Senior
5 35 (12.32%) Analyst
6 32 (11.27%) Architect
7 29 (10.21%) Lead
8 28 (9.86%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (9.86%) Data Analyst
9 24 (8.45%) Python Engineer
10 21 (7.39%) Developer
11 17 (5.99%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (5.63%) Data Architect
12 16 (5.63%) Software Engineer
13 14 (4.93%) AWS Software Engineer
13 14 (4.93%) Data Modeller
13 14 (4.93%) Java Engineer
13 14 (4.93%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (4.93%) Python Software Engineer
14 13 (4.58%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.80%) Pandas
2 20 (7.04%) Kafka
3 18 (6.34%) NumPy
4 14 (4.93%) gRPC
4 14 (4.93%) Playwright
4 14 (4.93%) Protocol Buffers
4 14 (4.93%) SciPy
5 9 (3.17%) PySpark
5 9 (3.17%) PyTorch
6 6 (2.11%) JSON
6 6 (2.11%) Node.js
7 5 (1.76%) React
7 5 (1.76%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.76%) TensorFlow
8 4 (1.41%) .NET
8 4 (1.41%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.41%) REST
9 3 (1.06%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.06%) OAuth
9 3 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.21%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.39%) Data Structures
2 21 (7.39%) Equities
2 21 (7.39%) Fixed Income
3 17 (5.99%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (5.99%) Derivative
4 16 (5.63%) Hedge funds
5 14 (4.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (4.93%) Pricing Data
6 9 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.11%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.76%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.41%) Replication
10 4 (1.41%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.06%) Clustering
11 3 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.06%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.06%) Unix
2 2 (0.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (39.08%) Analytics
2 99 (34.86%) Data Modelling
3 93 (32.75%) ETL
4 84 (29.58%) Agile
5 76 (26.76%) Data Engineering
6 74 (26.06%) Business Intelligence
7 70 (24.65%) Data Pipeline
8 66 (23.24%) Data Governance
9 63 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (21.48%) CI/CD
11 52 (18.31%) AI
12 51 (17.96%) DevOps
13 49 (17.25%) Asset Management
14 39 (13.73%) Machine Learning
14 39 (13.73%) Migration
15 37 (13.03%) Data Transformation
16 34 (11.97%) Data Science
17 30 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 29 (10.21%) Data Architecture
18 29 (10.21%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 175 (61.62%) SQL
2 154 (54.23%) Python
3 38 (13.38%) Java
4 34 (11.97%) TypeScript
5 32 (11.27%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.28%) C#
7 7 (2.46%) Bash
7 7 (2.46%) Korn
8 6 (2.11%) R
9 5 (1.76%) Scala
10 4 (1.41%) Bicep
10 4 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.06%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.35%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.35%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (5.28%) Security Cleared
2 13 (4.58%) Degree
3 10 (3.52%) AWS Certification
3 10 (3.52%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.76%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.76%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.41%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.06%) PhD
8 2 (0.70%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (19.72%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.58%) GDPR
2 13 (4.58%) QA
3 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.70%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) FATCA
5 1 (0.35%) GAAP
5 1 (0.35%) GRC
5 1 (0.35%) IFRS
5 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.35%) PMO
5 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (9.51%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (13.03%) Terraform
2 22 (7.75%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.41%) Grafana
4 2 (0.70%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.35%) Ansible
5 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 71 (25.00%) Databricks
2 25 (8.80%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.58%) Oracle
4 9 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.82%) MuleSoft
5 8 (2.82%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.46%) Sparx
7 6 (2.11%) Charles River
7 6 (2.11%) MicroStrategy
7 6 (2.11%) SAP
7 6 (2.11%) Talend
8 5 (1.76%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.41%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.41%) Murex
10 3 (1.06%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.06%) Google
10 3 (1.06%) IBM
10 3 (1.06%) Informatica
10 3 (1.06%) SimCorp
11 2 (0.70%) Vermilion