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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 171 230
Rank change year-on-year +17 +59 +71
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 302 190 167
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 1.50% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 3.52% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 146 147
10th Percentile £363 £456 £475
25th Percentile £425 £551 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £660 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -5.71% +24.72%
75th Percentile £638 £866 £850
90th Percentile £750 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £69.00 - -

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 7,442 5,391 6,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.52% 42.51% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,119 3,767 4,924
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 52 78
10th Percentile £18.03 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £49.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £73.13 £60.75
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.48 £20.77
% change year-on-year +61.23% +27.47% -21.56%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +18 50 £550 -17.91% 36
West London -20 4 £650 -16.13% 5
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 75 (24.83%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (6.62%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.31%) Apache
4 6 (1.99%) Confluence
5 3 (0.99%) SAS
6 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.65%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (7.95%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.32%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.99%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.99%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.66%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.33%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 164 (54.30%) AWS
2 131 (43.38%) Azure
3 80 (26.49%) Power Platform
4 70 (23.18%) dbt
5 53 (17.55%) GCP
6 42 (13.91%) Amazon S3
7 33 (10.93%) Serverless
8 30 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (8.28%) GitHub
11 19 (6.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (6.29%) Dagster
12 14 (4.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (4.64%) Matillion
13 13 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (4.30%) Prefect
14 12 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.98%) Amazon Kinesis
16 8 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (2.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (27.15%) Data Warehouse
2 74 (24.50%) Power BI
3 41 (13.58%) Tableau
4 33 (10.93%) Snowflake Schema
5 25 (8.28%) Data Lake
6 23 (7.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (7.62%) BigQuery
7 19 (6.29%) Data Vault
8 13 (4.30%) Metadata
9 12 (3.97%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.98%) Big Data
10 9 (2.98%) Looker
11 8 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (2.32%) NoSQL
12 7 (2.32%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.99%) KNIME
13 6 (1.99%) Star Schema
14 5 (1.66%) Delta Lake
14 5 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (8.28%) Git
2 17 (5.63%) GitLab
3 15 (4.97%) SpecFlow
4 13 (4.30%) JIRA
5 9 (2.98%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.99%) MLflow
7 3 (0.99%) ERwin
7 3 (0.99%) Selenium
7 3 (0.99%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.99%) Toad
8 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.66%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.66%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.66%) Snyk
8 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 92 (30.46%) Finance
2 74 (24.50%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.61%) Banking
5 18 (5.96%) Retail
6 17 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.64%) Marketing
8 10 (3.31%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.32%) Front Office
10 7 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.32%) Legal
12 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.99%) Back Office
13 3 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.99%) Law
13 3 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.66%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 116 (38.41%) Data Engineer
2 66 (21.85%) Snowflake Engineer
3 53 (17.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 47 (15.56%) Architect
5 39 (12.91%) Senior
6 37 (12.25%) Analyst
7 30 (9.93%) Lead
8 25 (8.28%) Data Analyst
8 25 (8.28%) Data Architect
9 24 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (6.62%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (5.63%) Lead Data Engineer
12 16 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (4.97%) AWS Data Engineer
13 15 (4.97%) Business Analyst
13 15 (4.97%) Developer
14 14 (4.64%) Python Engineer
15 13 (4.30%) Tester
16 12 (3.97%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.94%) Kafka
2 16 (5.30%) Playwright
3 11 (3.64%) Pandas
3 11 (3.64%) PySpark
4 8 (2.65%) PyTorch
5 7 (2.32%) NumPy
6 6 (1.99%) React
6 6 (1.99%) TensorFlow
7 5 (1.66%) .NET
7 5 (1.66%) OAuth
7 5 (1.66%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.32%) Vue
9 3 (0.99%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.99%) OpenID
9 3 (0.99%) Spark Streaming
9 3 (0.99%) YAML
10 2 (0.66%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.66%) Model Context Protocol
10 2 (0.66%) Seaborn
10 2 (0.66%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.62%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (3.97%) Fixed Income
3 12 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.64%) Equities
5 9 (2.98%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.98%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.32%) Clustering
6 7 (2.32%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.66%) Derivative
7 5 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.32%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.99%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.99%) Replication
10 2 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.32%) Unix
2 2 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (44.04%) Analytics
2 104 (34.44%) Data Engineering
2 104 (34.44%) Data Modelling
3 96 (31.79%) Business Intelligence
3 96 (31.79%) Data Pipeline
3 96 (31.79%) ETL
4 84 (27.81%) CI/CD
5 78 (25.83%) AI
6 73 (24.17%) Agile
7 64 (21.19%) DevOps
8 55 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (15.56%) Data Governance
9 47 (15.56%) Machine Learning
10 42 (13.91%) Migration
11 41 (13.58%) Data Architecture
12 39 (12.91%) Decision-Making
13 38 (12.58%) Performance Tuning
14 37 (12.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 36 (11.92%) Data Science
15 36 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 184 (60.93%) SQL
2 174 (57.62%) Python
3 30 (9.93%) Java
4 21 (6.95%) JavaScript
5 20 (6.62%) C#
6 18 (5.96%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.32%) Bash
7 7 (2.32%) R
8 6 (1.99%) Scala
9 5 (1.66%) Korn
10 4 (1.32%) Bicep
11 3 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.99%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.33%) C
12 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (7.95%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.28%) Degree
3 14 (4.64%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.32%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.99%) SnowPro
7 4 (1.32%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.99%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.99%) PhD
8 3 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.33%) CFA
9 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (21.85%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.29%) GDPR
3 14 (4.64%) QA
4 3 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.99%) SLA
5 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) FATCA
6 1 (0.33%) GAAP
6 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.33%) PMO
6 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (6.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (16.23%) Terraform
2 13 (4.30%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.99%) Grafana
3 3 (0.99%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 92 (30.46%) Databricks
2 36 (11.92%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.30%) Oracle
4 12 (3.97%) Google
5 9 (2.98%) Charles River
5 9 (2.98%) Informatica
5 9 (2.98%) Talend
6 8 (2.65%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.32%) Denodo
7 7 (2.32%) MicroStrategy
7 7 (2.32%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.66%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.66%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.32%) FactSet
9 4 (1.32%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.32%) Murex
9 4 (1.32%) Splunk
9 4 (1.32%) Workday
10 3 (0.99%) Bloomberg