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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 161 184
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 +115
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 326 212 240
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 1.74% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.17% 4.06% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 173 219
10th Percentile £365 £451 £506
25th Percentile £440 £515 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £800
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -18.75% +39.13%
75th Percentile £650 £825 £888
90th Percentile £759 £875 -
England median daily rate £550 £586 £718
% change year-on-year -6.18% -18.38% +24.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £79.50 - -

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 7,820 5,219 6,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.33% 42.89% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,409 3,554 5,027
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 59 67
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.27 £17.16
25th Percentile £27.06 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.94 £45.63 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.75 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +55.88% +19.33% -38.94%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +14 50 £550 -17.91% 15
West London -27 3 £850 +9.68% 3
South London - 1 - - 2
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 72 (22.09%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.36%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.76%) Apache
4 5 (1.53%) Confluence
5 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.15%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (6.44%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.53%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.92%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.92%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.61%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.31%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 178 (54.60%) AWS
2 116 (35.58%) Azure
3 81 (24.85%) Power Platform
4 76 (23.31%) dbt
5 70 (21.47%) GCP
6 46 (14.11%) Amazon S3
7 41 (12.58%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (11.96%) GitHub
9 24 (7.36%) Serverless
10 23 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (6.75%) Dagster
12 21 (6.44%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (6.44%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (5.21%) Matillion
14 14 (4.29%) Prefect
15 11 (3.37%) Fivetran
16 10 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 10 (3.07%) Datadog
16 10 (3.07%) SaaS
17 9 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) DNS
1 1 (0.31%) Firewall
1 1 (0.31%) SSL
1 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (24.54%) Data Warehouse
2 74 (22.70%) Power BI
3 44 (13.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 44 (13.50%) Tableau
4 37 (11.35%) BigQuery
5 25 (7.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (7.06%) Data Lake
7 20 (6.13%) SQL Server
8 19 (5.83%) Data Vault
9 15 (4.60%) Big Data
10 13 (3.99%) Looker
10 13 (3.99%) Metadata
11 10 (3.07%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.76%) Delta Lake
13 8 (2.45%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.15%) Star Schema
15 6 (1.84%) KNIME
16 5 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
16 5 (1.53%) Semantic Layer
17 4 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (7.98%) Git
2 20 (6.13%) GitLab
3 15 (4.60%) JIRA
4 12 (3.68%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.76%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.84%) MLflow
7 3 (0.92%) Selenium
7 3 (0.92%) Snyk
7 3 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.92%) Toad
8 2 (0.61%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.61%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.61%) ERwin
9 1 (0.31%) GCC
9 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 124 (38.04%) Finance
2 71 (21.78%) Social Skills
3 37 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (11.35%) Banking
4 27 (8.28%) Retail
5 17 (5.21%) Marketing
6 14 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.07%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.45%) Front Office
9 8 (2.45%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.15%) Back Office
11 6 (1.84%) Legal
12 5 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.92%) Advertising
14 3 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 111 (34.05%) Data Engineer
2 72 (22.09%) Snowflake Engineer
3 58 (17.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 50 (15.34%) Architect
5 49 (15.03%) Senior
6 41 (12.58%) Analyst
7 28 (8.59%) Data Analyst
8 27 (8.28%) Data Architect
8 27 (8.28%) Lead
8 27 (8.28%) Senior Data Engineer
9 26 (7.98%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (6.75%) AWS Data Engineer
11 17 (5.21%) Developer
12 16 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (4.29%) Business Analyst
14 13 (3.99%) Snowflake Architect
15 11 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
16 9 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
16 9 (2.76%) Enterprise Architect
16 9 (2.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.83%) Kafka
2 12 (3.68%) PySpark
3 10 (3.07%) Playwright
3 10 (3.07%) REST
4 9 (2.76%) .NET
5 6 (1.84%) React
6 5 (1.53%) OAuth
6 5 (1.53%) OpenID
6 5 (1.53%) Vue
7 4 (1.23%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.23%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.23%) YAML
8 3 (0.92%) ADO
8 3 (0.92%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.92%) Snowpark
8 3 (0.92%) Spring
8 3 (0.92%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.61%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.61%) Node.js
9 2 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.60%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (3.68%) Fixed Income
4 11 (3.37%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.07%) Equities
6 9 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.45%) Clustering
8 7 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.15%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.15%) Reinsurance
8 7 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.84%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.92%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.92%) Credit Risk
12 3 (0.92%) Data Fabric
12 3 (0.92%) Derivative
12 3 (0.92%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (44.48%) Analytics
2 114 (34.97%) Data Engineering
3 102 (31.29%) CI/CD
3 102 (31.29%) Data Pipeline
4 101 (30.98%) Data Modelling
5 93 (28.53%) Business Intelligence
6 92 (28.22%) ETL
7 87 (26.69%) AI
8 75 (23.01%) DevOps
9 70 (21.47%) Agile
10 55 (16.87%) Migration
11 52 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (15.64%) Data Architecture
13 49 (15.03%) Data Governance
14 46 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 44 (13.50%) Validation
16 42 (12.88%) Machine Learning
17 40 (12.27%) Infrastructure as Code
18 37 (11.35%) Decision-Making
19 35 (10.74%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 189 (57.98%) SQL
2 174 (53.37%) Python
3 43 (13.19%) Java
4 14 (4.29%) C#
5 12 (3.68%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.68%) R
6 9 (2.76%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.45%) Bash
8 5 (1.53%) Scala
9 4 (1.23%) Bicep
9 4 (1.23%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.92%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.61%) Korn
12 1 (0.31%) C
12 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (7.67%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.06%) Degree
3 13 (3.99%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.84%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.84%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.31%) CFA
7 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (21.17%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.75%) GDPR
3 14 (4.29%) QA
4 3 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.92%) SLA
5 2 (0.61%) EMIR
5 2 (0.61%) MiFID
5 2 (0.61%) PMO
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.31%) FATCA
6 1 (0.31%) GAAP
6 1 (0.31%) IFRS
6 1 (0.31%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (6.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (15.64%) Terraform
2 15 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.53%) Grafana
3 5 (1.53%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.31%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 89 (27.30%) Databricks
2 30 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.60%) Oracle
4 11 (3.37%) Google
5 9 (2.76%) Informatica
6 8 (2.45%) Denodo
6 8 (2.45%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.15%) Talend
8 6 (1.84%) Charles River
9 5 (1.53%) FactSet
9 5 (1.53%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.53%) SimCorp
9 5 (1.53%) Workday
10 4 (1.23%) Murex
10 4 (1.23%) Splunk
11 3 (0.92%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.92%) Eze Software Group
11 3 (0.92%) Foundry
11 3 (0.92%) SAP