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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 151 118
Rank change year-on-year +5 -33 +128
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 390 251 345
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.94% 1.84% 2.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.68% 4.29% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 205 318
10th Percentile £407 £450 £500
25th Percentile £470 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -21.88% +38.34%
75th Percentile £675 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 £875 -
England median daily rate £570 £578 £800
% change year-on-year -1.30% -27.81% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% - -
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 8,333 5,855 6,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.36% 42.82% 40.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,679 4,028 4,781
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 87 52
10th Percentile £19.13 £22.80 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.94 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -48.00%
75th Percentile £54.88 £45.25 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.88 £69.30 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 53 £575 -6.12% 36
West London -16 8 £700 -6.67% 12
South London - 1 £425 -
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 97 (24.87%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.15%) Apache
2 24 (6.15%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.56%) Confluence
3 10 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.26%) Luigi
4 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (5.13%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.28%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.51%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.51%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.26%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.26%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 210 (53.85%) AWS
2 141 (36.15%) Azure
3 108 (27.69%) dbt
4 100 (25.64%) Power Platform
5 85 (21.79%) GCP
6 53 (13.59%) Amazon S3
7 48 (12.31%) GitHub
8 40 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (7.95%) Serverless
10 29 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (6.92%) Azure Data Factory
13 24 (6.15%) Dagster
14 18 (4.62%) Prefect
15 17 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (4.36%) Fivetran
16 15 (3.85%) Matillion
17 12 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (2.82%) Datadog
18 11 (2.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.51%) Broadband
1 2 (0.51%) DSL
2 1 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) Network Security
2 1 (0.26%) SSL
2 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (30.51%) Data Warehouse
2 97 (24.87%) Power BI
3 53 (13.59%) BigQuery
4 46 (11.79%) Snowflake Schema
4 46 (11.79%) Tableau
5 43 (11.03%) Data Lake
6 33 (8.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (5.64%) Big Data
7 22 (5.64%) SQL Server
8 21 (5.38%) Data Vault
8 21 (5.38%) Metadata
9 15 (3.85%) NoSQL
10 14 (3.59%) Looker
10 14 (3.59%) Semantic Layer
11 13 (3.33%) Delta Lake
11 13 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (3.33%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.56%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (2.05%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 39 (10.00%) Git
2 24 (6.15%) GitLab
3 21 (5.38%) JIRA
4 19 (4.87%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.54%) MLflow
6 4 (1.03%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.03%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.77%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.77%) Snyk
7 3 (0.77%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.51%) Selenium
8 2 (0.51%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.26%) ERwin
9 1 (0.26%) GCC
9 1 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.26%) Toad
General
1 158 (40.51%) Finance
2 102 (26.15%) Social Skills
3 65 (16.67%) Banking
4 53 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (9.23%) Retail
6 22 (5.64%) Marketing
7 18 (4.62%) Financial Institution
8 17 (4.36%) Front Office
9 15 (3.85%) Public Sector
10 14 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (3.33%) Legal
12 10 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (2.31%) Manufacturing
14 8 (2.05%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.79%) Back Office
16 6 (1.54%) Telecoms
17 5 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (1.28%) Private Banking
18 4 (1.03%) Retail Banking
19 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (32.56%) Data Engineer
2 73 (18.72%) Snowflake Engineer
3 68 (17.44%) Architect
4 66 (16.92%) Senior
5 57 (14.62%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 49 (12.56%) Analyst
7 39 (10.00%) Data Architect
8 32 (8.21%) Lead
8 32 (8.21%) Senior Data Engineer
9 29 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
9 29 (7.44%) Data Analyst
10 23 (5.90%) AWS Data Engineer
11 18 (4.62%) Business Analyst
11 18 (4.62%) Developer
12 16 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (3.59%) Python Engineer
14 12 (3.08%) Python Data Engineer
14 12 (3.08%) Snowflake Architect
15 11 (2.82%) Consultant
16 10 (2.56%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.41%) Kafka
2 19 (4.87%) REST
3 16 (4.10%) PySpark
4 11 (2.82%) .NET
5 8 (2.05%) React
6 6 (1.54%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (1.54%) YAML
7 5 (1.28%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.28%) Langfuse
7 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.28%) OAuth
7 5 (1.28%) OpenID
7 5 (1.28%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.28%) Vue
8 4 (1.03%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.03%) Playwright
8 4 (1.03%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.03%) Spring
8 4 (1.03%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.77%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 57 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.36%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.33%) Fixed Income
5 12 (3.08%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.31%) Equities
7 9 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.31%) Reinsurance
8 8 (2.05%) AI Agents
8 8 (2.05%) Clustering
9 7 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.54%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.03%) Derivative
12 4 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.77%) Linux
1 3 (0.77%) Unix
2 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (43.85%) Analytics
2 149 (38.21%) Data Engineering
3 136 (34.87%) Data Modelling
4 132 (33.85%) Data Pipeline
5 131 (33.59%) CI/CD
6 118 (30.26%) ETL
7 110 (28.21%) AI
8 109 (27.95%) Business Intelligence
9 93 (23.85%) Agile
10 86 (22.05%) DevOps
11 77 (19.74%) Data Architecture
12 75 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
13 69 (17.69%) Data Governance
14 59 (15.13%) Decision-Making
15 56 (14.36%) Machine Learning
16 55 (14.10%) Data Transformation
17 54 (13.85%) Migration
17 54 (13.85%) Validation
18 47 (12.05%) Data Science
19 41 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 220 (56.41%) SQL
2 203 (52.05%) Python
3 42 (10.77%) Java
4 13 (3.33%) R
5 7 (1.79%) Bash
5 7 (1.79%) C#
5 7 (1.79%) Scala
6 6 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.54%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.54%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.77%) Cypher
7 3 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.77%) SHACL
8 2 (0.51%) Bicep
8 2 (0.51%) C++
8 2 (0.51%) Delphi
8 2 (0.51%) Korn
8 2 (0.51%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (7.18%) Degree
2 26 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.08%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.54%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.54%) SnowPro
6 5 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.26%) CBAP
9 1 (0.26%) CFA
9 1 (0.26%) CISM
9 1 (0.26%) CISSP
9 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (25.13%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.18%) GDPR
3 19 (4.87%) QA
4 5 (1.28%) SLA
5 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.77%) EMIR
5 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.77%) MiFID
5 3 (0.77%) PMO
5 3 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.26%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (7.95%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (13.59%) Terraform
2 25 (6.41%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.56%) Grafana
4 8 (2.05%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.03%) Control-M
6 2 (0.51%) Argo
7 1 (0.26%) Ansible
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 115 (29.49%) Databricks
2 41 (10.51%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.87%) Google
4 16 (4.10%) Salesforce
5 15 (3.85%) Oracle
6 14 (3.59%) Informatica
7 8 (2.05%) Charles River
7 8 (2.05%) Denodo
7 8 (2.05%) Workday
8 7 (1.79%) SAP
9 6 (1.54%) FactSet
9 6 (1.54%) Foundry
9 6 (1.54%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.28%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.28%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.28%) MicroStrategy
10 5 (1.28%) Teradata
11 4 (1.03%) Murex
11 4 (1.03%) Splunk
12 3 (0.77%) ServiceNow