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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 156 168
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +124
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 324 215 253
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 1.78% 1.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.15% 4.12% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 176 232
10th Percentile £363 £450 £507
25th Percentile £442 £513 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £638 £800
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -20.31% +39.13%
75th Percentile £656 £825 £888
90th Percentile £762 £875 -
England median daily rate £550 £585 £725
% change year-on-year -5.98% -19.31% +26.09%
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 7,806 5,219 6,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.30% 43.13% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,389 3,531 5,001
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £780
England median daily rate £513 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 61 70
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.27 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.64 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -49.03%
75th Percentile £55.94 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.17 £67.50 £58.00
England median hourly rate £40.28 £25.26 £21.37
% change year-on-year +59.49% +18.18% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +20 50 £550 -17.91% 28
West London -22 3 £850 +11.48% 4
South London - 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 73 (22.53%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.78%) Apache
4 5 (1.54%) Confluence
5 3 (0.93%) 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 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.16%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (6.48%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.54%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.93%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.93%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.62%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
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 (54.94%) AWS
2 110 (33.95%) Azure
3 81 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 76 (23.46%) dbt
5 69 (21.30%) GCP
6 46 (14.20%) Amazon S3
7 39 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (11.73%) GitHub
9 24 (7.41%) Serverless
10 23 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (6.79%) Dagster
12 20 (6.17%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (5.25%) Matillion
14 14 (4.32%) Prefect
15 11 (3.40%) Fivetran
16 10 (3.09%) SaaS
17 9 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
17 9 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 9 (2.78%) Datadog
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 (24.69%) Data Warehouse
2 74 (22.84%) Power BI
3 44 (13.58%) Tableau
4 43 (13.27%) Snowflake Schema
5 37 (11.42%) BigQuery
6 25 (7.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (7.10%) Data Lake
8 20 (6.17%) SQL Server
9 19 (5.86%) Data Vault
10 16 (4.94%) Big Data
11 13 (4.01%) Looker
11 13 (4.01%) Metadata
12 10 (3.09%) NoSQL
13 9 (2.78%) Delta Lake
14 8 (2.47%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.16%) Star Schema
16 6 (1.85%) KNIME
16 6 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
17 5 (1.54%) Semantic Layer
18 4 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 26 (8.02%) Git
2 20 (6.17%) GitLab
3 15 (4.63%) JIRA
4 12 (3.70%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.78%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.85%) MLflow
7 3 (0.93%) Selenium
7 3 (0.93%) Snyk
7 3 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.93%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.93%) Toad
8 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.62%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.62%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.62%) 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
1 122 (37.65%) Finance
2 70 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 37 (11.42%) Banking
4 35 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.33%) Retail
6 17 (5.25%) Marketing
7 13 (4.01%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.09%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.47%) Front Office
10 8 (2.47%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.16%) Back Office
12 6 (1.85%) Legal
13 5 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.54%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.93%) Advertising
15 3 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 110 (33.95%) Data Engineer
2 70 (21.60%) Snowflake Engineer
3 57 (17.59%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 50 (15.43%) Architect
5 49 (15.12%) Senior
6 41 (12.65%) Analyst
7 28 (8.64%) Data Analyst
7 28 (8.64%) Senior Data Engineer
8 27 (8.33%) Data Architect
8 27 (8.33%) Lead
9 26 (8.02%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (6.48%) AWS Data Engineer
11 16 (4.94%) Developer
11 16 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (4.32%) Business Analyst
13 13 (4.01%) Snowflake Architect
14 12 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.09%) Consultant
16 9 (2.78%) Enterprise Architect
16 9 (2.78%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.56%) Kafka
2 12 (3.70%) PySpark
3 10 (3.09%) Playwright
3 10 (3.09%) REST
4 9 (2.78%) .NET
5 6 (1.85%) React
6 5 (1.54%) OAuth
6 5 (1.54%) OpenID
6 5 (1.54%) Vue
7 4 (1.23%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.23%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.23%) YAML
8 3 (0.93%) ADO
8 3 (0.93%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.93%) Snowpark
8 3 (0.93%) Spring
8 3 (0.93%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.62%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.62%) Node.js
9 2 (0.62%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.51%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.63%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.70%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.09%) Equities
5 9 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.47%) Clustering
6 8 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.47%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.16%) Reinsurance
8 6 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.93%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.93%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.93%) Derivative
11 3 (0.93%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.62%) Linux
2 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (44.14%) Analytics
2 113 (34.88%) Data Engineering
3 104 (32.10%) CI/CD
4 103 (31.79%) Data Pipeline
5 102 (31.48%) Data Modelling
6 93 (28.70%) Business Intelligence
7 91 (28.09%) ETL
8 87 (26.85%) AI
9 73 (22.53%) DevOps
10 69 (21.30%) Agile
11 55 (16.98%) Migration
12 52 (16.05%) Data Architecture
12 52 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
13 50 (15.43%) Data Governance
14 46 (14.20%) Stakeholder Management
15 45 (13.89%) Validation
16 42 (12.96%) Machine Learning
17 41 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
18 36 (11.11%) Decision-Making
19 35 (10.80%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 187 (57.72%) SQL
2 174 (53.70%) Python
3 43 (13.27%) Java
4 14 (4.32%) C#
5 12 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.70%) R
6 9 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.16%) Bash
8 5 (1.54%) Scala
9 4 (1.23%) Bicep
9 4 (1.23%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.93%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.62%) Korn
12 1 (0.31%) C
12 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (7.10%) Degree
1 23 (7.10%) Security Cleared
2 11 (3.40%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.85%) SnowPro
5 5 (1.54%) DBS Check
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 71 (21.91%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.79%) GDPR
3 14 (4.32%) QA
4 3 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.93%) SLA
5 2 (0.62%) EMIR
5 2 (0.62%) MiFID
5 2 (0.62%) 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 23 (7.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (15.74%) Terraform
2 16 (4.94%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.54%) Grafana
3 5 (1.54%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.31%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Control-M
4 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 86 (26.54%) Databricks
2 31 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.01%) Oracle
4 11 (3.40%) Google
5 9 (2.78%) Informatica
5 9 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.47%) Denodo
7 7 (2.16%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.85%) Charles River
8 6 (1.85%) Talend
9 5 (1.54%) FactSet
9 5 (1.54%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.54%) SimCorp
9 5 (1.54%) Workday
10 4 (1.23%) Murex
10 4 (1.23%) Splunk
11 3 (0.93%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.93%) Eze Software Group
11 3 (0.93%) Foundry
11 3 (0.93%) SAP