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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 162 117
Rank change year-on-year +19 -45 +130
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 417 238 367
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.06% 1.77% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% 4.10% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 191 337
10th Percentile £406 £427 £500
25th Percentile £469 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -23.44% +36.75%
75th Percentile £678 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +37.51%
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 8,347 5,811 6,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.28% 43.16% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,708 3,979 4,762
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 91 51
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -36.84%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.42 £72.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%

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 29 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 29 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 +12 57 £575 -7.07% 22
West London -10 10 £500 +0.76% 50
South London - 3 £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
1 112 (26.86%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (6.47%) Apache Spark
3 24 (5.76%) Apache
4 10 (2.40%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.92%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) Luigi
6 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (4.08%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.20%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.48%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.24%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 228 (54.68%) AWS
2 156 (37.41%) Azure
3 129 (30.94%) dbt
4 109 (26.14%) Power Platform
5 95 (22.78%) GCP
6 57 (13.67%) Amazon S3
6 57 (13.67%) GitHub
7 41 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (8.63%) Serverless
9 34 (8.15%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (7.67%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (6.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 24 (5.76%) Dagster
13 18 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (4.32%) Prefect
14 17 (4.08%) Fivetran
15 14 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (2.88%) Matillion
16 12 (2.88%) SaaS
16 12 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) Broadband
1 2 (0.48%) DSL
1 2 (0.48%) Firewall
1 2 (0.48%) VPN
2 1 (0.24%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.24%) DNS
2 1 (0.24%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.24%) Network Security
2 1 (0.24%) SSH
2 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (33.09%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (25.66%) Power BI
3 53 (12.71%) BigQuery
4 50 (11.99%) Snowflake Schema
5 48 (11.51%) Tableau
6 46 (11.03%) Data Lake
7 39 (9.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (5.76%) Metadata
9 23 (5.52%) Data Vault
10 22 (5.28%) Big Data
11 21 (5.04%) SQL Server
12 17 (4.08%) Looker
13 16 (3.84%) NoSQL
14 15 (3.60%) Relational Database
15 14 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (3.36%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (3.12%) Delta Lake
17 11 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
18 9 (2.16%) MongoDB
19 8 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 40 (9.59%) Git
2 25 (6.00%) GitLab
3 22 (5.28%) Jenkins
4 20 (4.80%) JIRA
5 6 (1.44%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.96%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.96%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.72%) Snyk
8 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.48%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.48%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.48%) MLflow
8 2 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.48%) Selenium
8 2 (0.48%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.24%) GCC
9 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 164 (39.33%) Finance
2 117 (28.06%) Social Skills
3 65 (15.59%) Banking
4 61 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (9.11%) Retail
6 21 (5.04%) Marketing
7 19 (4.56%) Financial Institution
8 18 (4.32%) Front Office
9 15 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.36%) Legal
11 11 (2.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (2.40%) Public Sector
13 9 (2.16%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.92%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.44%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.20%) Back Office
16 5 (1.20%) Private Banking
17 4 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 143 (34.29%) Data Engineer
2 79 (18.94%) Senior
3 76 (18.23%) Snowflake Engineer
4 73 (17.51%) Architect
5 58 (13.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 48 (11.51%) Analyst
7 45 (10.79%) Data Architect
8 43 (10.31%) Senior Data Engineer
9 34 (8.15%) Lead
10 30 (7.19%) Data Analyst
11 28 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (5.04%) AWS Data Engineer
13 19 (4.56%) Developer
14 18 (4.32%) Business Analyst
15 15 (3.60%) Python Engineer
16 14 (3.36%) Consultant
17 13 (3.12%) Snowflake Architect
17 13 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
18 12 (2.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 11 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (14.15%) Terraform
2 34 (8.15%) Kafka
3 21 (5.04%) PySpark
4 19 (4.56%) REST
5 14 (3.36%) .NET
6 8 (1.92%) React
7 7 (1.68%) YAML
8 6 (1.44%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (1.44%) OAuth
9 5 (1.20%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.20%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (1.20%) OpenID
10 4 (0.96%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.96%) Spring
10 4 (0.96%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.96%) Vue
11 3 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (0.72%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.72%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 61 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.71%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.32%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.36%) AI Agents
5 12 (2.88%) Fixed Income
6 11 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.64%) Reinsurance
7 10 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.40%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.92%) Clustering
8 8 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.68%) Equities
10 6 (1.44%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.96%) Data Fabric
12 4 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.96%) Life Science
12 4 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.20%) Linux
2 3 (0.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (42.69%) Analytics
2 162 (38.85%) Data Engineering
3 153 (36.69%) Data Modelling
4 147 (35.25%) CI/CD
5 141 (33.81%) Data Pipeline
6 131 (31.41%) ETL
7 125 (29.98%) AI
8 120 (28.78%) Business Intelligence
9 105 (25.18%) Agile
10 92 (22.06%) DevOps
11 90 (21.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 80 (19.18%) Data Architecture
13 75 (17.99%) Data Governance
14 64 (15.35%) Decision-Making
14 64 (15.35%) Migration
15 60 (14.39%) Data Transformation
16 59 (14.15%) Machine Learning
17 57 (13.67%) Validation
18 45 (10.79%) Data Science
19 44 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 241 (57.79%) SQL
2 220 (52.76%) Python
3 43 (10.31%) Java
4 11 (2.64%) R
5 10 (2.40%) Bash
6 8 (1.92%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.68%) C#
7 7 (1.68%) Scala
8 5 (1.20%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.96%) C++
9 4 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.96%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.72%) Bicep
10 3 (0.72%) Cypher
10 3 (0.72%) SHACL
11 2 (0.48%) Delphi
11 2 (0.48%) Korn
11 2 (0.48%) LookML
11 2 (0.48%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (6.24%) Degree
2 22 (5.28%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (2.64%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.68%) SnowPro
6 5 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.96%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CBAP
10 1 (0.24%) CFA
10 1 (0.24%) CISM
10 1 (0.24%) CISSP
10 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.24%) PMP
10 1 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (25.66%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.24%) GDPR
3 21 (5.04%) QA
4 5 (1.20%) SLA
5 4 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.72%) EMIR
6 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.72%) MiFID
6 3 (0.72%) PMO
6 3 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (7.67%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (7.43%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.64%) Grafana
3 8 (1.92%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.96%) Control-M
5 2 (0.48%) Ansible
5 2 (0.48%) Argo
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 125 (29.98%) Databricks
2 42 (10.07%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.56%) Google
4 17 (4.08%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.84%) Informatica
6 12 (2.88%) Oracle
7 8 (1.92%) MicroStrategy
7 8 (1.92%) Workday
8 7 (1.68%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.68%) SAP
8 7 (1.68%) Teradata
9 6 (1.44%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.44%) Denodo
9 6 (1.44%) Foundry
10 5 (1.20%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.20%) Charles River
10 5 (1.20%) FactSet
11 4 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.96%) Splunk
11 4 (0.96%) Talend