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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 155 196
Rank change year-on-year -6 +41 +105
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 293 221 216
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.63% 1.77% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.86% 4.16% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 180 196
10th Percentile £325 £456 £513
25th Percentile £431 £518 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £800
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -18.75% +39.13%
75th Percentile £650 £825 £853
90th Percentile £775 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £588 £700
% change year-on-year -10.64% -16.07% +21.74%
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 7,595 5,317 6,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.31% 42.50% 38.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,257 3,671 4,982
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 53 70
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.76 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -45.26%
75th Percentile £52.96 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.00 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £41.78 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +63.84% +19.33% -37.15%

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 18 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 18 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 +13 50 £525 -21.64% 28
West London -23 4 £700 -9.68% 2
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 64 (21.84%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (7.85%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.05%) Apache
4 5 (1.71%) Confluence
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.39%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (7.17%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.71%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.02%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.02%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.68%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.34%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 164 (55.97%) AWS
2 106 (36.18%) Azure
3 69 (23.55%) Power Platform
4 62 (21.16%) GCP
5 61 (20.82%) dbt
6 42 (14.33%) Amazon S3
7 31 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (10.58%) GitHub
8 23 (7.85%) Serverless
9 21 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (7.17%) Dagster
10 17 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (5.46%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (4.78%) Matillion
12 14 (4.78%) Prefect
13 11 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (2.39%) Datadog
14 7 (2.39%) Fivetran
14 7 (2.39%) SaaS
15 6 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (22.87%) Data Warehouse
2 62 (21.16%) Power BI
3 37 (12.63%) Snowflake Schema
3 37 (12.63%) Tableau
4 34 (11.60%) BigQuery
5 24 (8.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 18 (6.14%) Data Lake
7 17 (5.80%) Data Vault
8 15 (5.12%) SQL Server
9 14 (4.78%) Big Data
10 12 (4.10%) Looker
11 9 (3.07%) Metadata
12 8 (2.73%) Delta Lake
13 7 (2.39%) Star Schema
14 6 (2.05%) KNIME
14 6 (2.05%) Relational Database
15 5 (1.71%) NoSQL
15 5 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 4 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 22 (7.51%) Git
2 16 (5.46%) GitLab
3 14 (4.78%) JIRA
4 11 (3.75%) SpecFlow
5 8 (2.73%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.05%) MLflow
7 3 (1.02%) Selenium
7 3 (1.02%) Snyk
7 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.02%) Toad
8 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.68%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.68%) ERwin
8 2 (0.68%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.34%) GCC
9 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 102 (34.81%) Finance
2 59 (20.14%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.26%) Banking
4 30 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.53%) Retail
6 13 (4.44%) Marketing
7 12 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.07%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.05%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.05%) Front Office
9 6 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.71%) Back Office
10 5 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.71%) Legal
11 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (34.13%) Data Engineer
2 67 (22.87%) Snowflake Engineer
3 54 (18.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 50 (17.06%) Architect
5 37 (12.63%) Senior
6 36 (12.29%) Analyst
7 28 (9.56%) Lead
8 24 (8.19%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (8.19%) Data Architect
9 23 (7.85%) Data Analyst
10 21 (7.17%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (6.14%) AWS Data Engineer
12 16 (5.46%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (4.78%) Developer
14 13 (4.44%) Snowflake Architect
15 12 (4.10%) Business Analyst
15 12 (4.10%) Enterprise Architect
16 11 (3.75%) Tester
17 10 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
17 10 (3.41%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.17%) Kafka
2 12 (4.10%) Playwright
3 11 (3.75%) PySpark
4 7 (2.39%) .NET
5 6 (2.05%) React
5 6 (2.05%) REST
6 5 (1.71%) OAuth
6 5 (1.71%) OpenID
6 5 (1.71%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.71%) Vue
7 4 (1.37%) Pandas
7 4 (1.37%) scikit-learn
7 4 (1.37%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.02%) Snowpark
8 3 (1.02%) Spring
8 3 (1.02%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.68%) ADO
9 2 (0.68%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (0.68%) NumPy
9 2 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.36%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.80%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.75%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.41%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.07%) Equities
6 8 (2.73%) Clustering
7 7 (2.39%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.39%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.39%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.02%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.02%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.02%) Derivative
11 3 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.02%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.02%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.34%) Linux
1 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (44.37%) Analytics
2 98 (33.45%) Data Engineering
3 92 (31.40%) Data Modelling
4 86 (29.35%) Data Pipeline
5 84 (28.67%) Business Intelligence
5 84 (28.67%) CI/CD
6 79 (26.96%) ETL
7 76 (25.94%) AI
8 62 (21.16%) Agile
9 61 (20.82%) DevOps
10 49 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (16.38%) Migration
12 44 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 40 (13.65%) Data Architecture
13 40 (13.65%) Machine Learning
14 39 (13.31%) Data Governance
14 39 (13.31%) Validation
15 38 (12.97%) Decision-Making
16 34 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
17 30 (10.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 166 (56.66%) SQL
2 154 (52.56%) Python
3 35 (11.95%) Java
4 15 (5.12%) C#
5 14 (4.78%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.75%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.41%) R
8 5 (1.71%) Bash
8 5 (1.71%) Scala
9 3 (1.02%) Bicep
9 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.68%) Korn
10 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.34%) C
11 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (7.85%) Degree
2 21 (7.17%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.41%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.05%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.37%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.02%) PhD
7 3 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.34%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (20.14%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.14%) GDPR
3 12 (4.10%) QA
4 3 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.02%) SLA
5 2 (0.68%) EMIR
5 2 (0.68%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) FATCA
6 1 (0.34%) GAAP
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (7.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (14.68%) Terraform
2 14 (4.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.02%) Grafana
3 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.68%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 86 (29.35%) Databricks
2 30 (10.24%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.78%) Oracle
4 11 (3.75%) Google
5 8 (2.73%) Informatica
5 8 (2.73%) MuleSoft
5 8 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.39%) Denodo
6 7 (2.39%) Talend
7 6 (2.05%) Charles River
8 5 (1.71%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.71%) Workday
9 4 (1.37%) FactSet
9 4 (1.37%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.37%) MicroStrategy
9 4 (1.37%) Murex
9 4 (1.37%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.02%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.02%) Foundry
10 3 (1.02%) Splunk