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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 149 114
Rank change year-on-year +7 -35 +125
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 422 245 371
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.09% 1.83% 2.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.07% 4.23% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 197 335
10th Percentile £400 £428 £500
25th Percentile £469 £510 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -23.44% +36.75%
75th Percentile £675 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 - -
England median daily rate £574 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.43% -31.25% +38.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +125.35% - -

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 8,323 5,794 6,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.18% 43.26% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,696 3,953 4,733
10th Percentile £360 £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 £648 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 94 52
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.20
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +2.33% -31.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £45.65
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.78
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.38 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.38% -12.08% -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 7 September 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 7 September 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 +9 56 £575 -8.00% 40
West London -9 9 £500 +0.76% 43
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
1 114 (27.01%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (8.06%) Apache Spark
3 30 (7.11%) Apache
4 9 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.90%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) Luigi
6 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.32%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.47%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.47%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.47%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.24%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 230 (54.50%) AWS
2 172 (40.76%) Azure
3 131 (31.04%) dbt
4 105 (24.88%) Power Platform
5 100 (23.70%) GCP
6 60 (14.22%) GitHub
7 53 (12.56%) Amazon S3
8 45 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (8.53%) GitHub Actions
10 35 (8.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 33 (7.82%) Serverless
12 28 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (4.98%) Dagster
14 19 (4.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 19 (4.50%) Fivetran
15 15 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (3.32%) SaaS
17 12 (2.84%) Matillion
17 12 (2.84%) Prefect
18 9 (2.13%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.47%) Broadband
1 2 (0.47%) DSL
1 2 (0.47%) Firewall
1 2 (0.47%) 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
1 143 (33.89%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (24.41%) Power BI
3 53 (12.56%) BigQuery
4 52 (12.32%) Data Lake
5 50 (11.85%) Snowflake Schema
6 43 (10.19%) Tableau
7 40 (9.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 27 (6.40%) SQL Server
9 26 (6.16%) Metadata
10 25 (5.92%) Big Data
11 23 (5.45%) Data Vault
12 21 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (4.27%) NoSQL
14 16 (3.79%) Delta Lake
15 15 (3.55%) Relational Database
16 14 (3.32%) Looker
17 13 (3.08%) Semantic Layer
18 12 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
19 11 (2.61%) MongoDB
20 9 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (10.66%) Git
2 24 (5.69%) GitLab
3 20 (4.74%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.74%) JIRA
4 7 (1.66%) Terragrunt
5 4 (0.95%) Snyk
5 4 (0.95%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.95%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.47%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.47%) MLflow
6 2 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.47%) Selenium
6 2 (0.47%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 162 (38.39%) Finance
2 117 (27.73%) Social Skills
3 67 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (14.93%) Banking
5 39 (9.24%) Retail
6 23 (5.45%) Marketing
7 19 (4.50%) Financial Institution
8 16 (3.79%) Front Office
8 16 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.08%) Legal
10 10 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (2.37%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.13%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.66%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.42%) Billing
14 5 (1.18%) Back Office
14 5 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.18%) Private Banking
15 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (35.55%) Data Engineer
2 80 (18.96%) Senior
3 76 (18.01%) Architect
3 76 (18.01%) Snowflake Engineer
4 58 (13.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 49 (11.61%) Data Architect
6 45 (10.66%) Analyst
6 45 (10.66%) Senior Data Engineer
7 34 (8.06%) Lead
8 30 (7.11%) Data Analyst
9 25 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.21%) Developer
11 20 (4.74%) AWS Data Engineer
12 16 (3.79%) Python Engineer
13 15 (3.55%) Business Analyst
14 14 (3.32%) Consultant
15 13 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (3.08%) Snowflake Architect
16 12 (2.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 12 (2.84%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (14.69%) Terraform
2 38 (9.00%) Kafka
3 22 (5.21%) PySpark
4 21 (4.98%) REST
5 16 (3.79%) .NET
6 9 (2.13%) React
7 7 (1.66%) YAML
8 6 (1.42%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (1.42%) OAuth
9 5 (1.18%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.18%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (1.18%) OpenID
10 4 (0.95%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.95%) Spring
10 4 (0.95%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.95%) Vue
11 3 (0.71%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.71%) Snowpark
11 3 (0.71%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.64%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.40%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.74%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.79%) AI Agents
5 14 (3.32%) Reinsurance
6 11 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.37%) Fixed Income
7 10 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.37%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.90%) Clustering
8 8 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.42%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.18%) Equities
11 5 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.18%) Life Science
11 5 (1.18%) Replication
11 5 (1.18%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.18%) Linux
2 3 (0.71%) Unix
3 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (44.55%) Analytics
2 163 (38.63%) Data Engineering
3 161 (38.15%) Data Modelling
4 152 (36.02%) CI/CD
5 148 (35.07%) Data Pipeline
6 139 (32.94%) ETL
7 135 (31.99%) AI
8 116 (27.49%) Business Intelligence
9 104 (24.64%) Agile
10 93 (22.04%) DevOps
11 89 (21.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 88 (20.85%) Data Architecture
13 82 (19.43%) Data Governance
14 65 (15.40%) Migration
15 64 (15.17%) Data Transformation
15 64 (15.17%) Machine Learning
16 63 (14.93%) Decision-Making
17 57 (13.51%) Validation
18 50 (11.85%) Data Science
19 46 (10.90%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 250 (59.24%) SQL
2 221 (52.37%) Python
3 44 (10.43%) Java
4 12 (2.84%) Bash
5 11 (2.61%) R
6 9 (2.13%) C#
6 9 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.13%) Scala
7 6 (1.42%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.95%) C++
8 4 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.71%) Bicep
9 3 (0.71%) Cypher
9 3 (0.71%) SHACL
10 2 (0.47%) Delphi
10 2 (0.47%) Korn
10 2 (0.47%) LookML
10 2 (0.47%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (5.21%) Degree
1 22 (5.21%) Security Cleared
2 16 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.61%) SC Cleared
4 8 (1.90%) SnowPro
5 6 (1.42%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.95%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.95%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CBAP
9 1 (0.24%) CISM
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.24%) PMP
9 1 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (26.54%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.92%) GDPR
3 21 (4.98%) QA
4 4 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.71%) EMIR
5 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.71%) MiFID
5 3 (0.71%) PMO
5 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.47%) GRC
6 2 (0.47%) SLA
6 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.24%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 31 (7.35%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.90%) Grafana
3 5 (1.18%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.95%) Control-M
5 2 (0.47%) Ansible
5 2 (0.47%) Argo
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 133 (31.52%) Databricks
2 46 (10.90%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.21%) Google
4 19 (4.50%) Informatica
5 18 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.08%) Oracle
7 9 (2.13%) MicroStrategy
8 8 (1.90%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.66%) Foundry
9 7 (1.66%) Talend
9 7 (1.66%) Teradata
10 6 (1.42%) Bloomberg
10 6 (1.42%) Denodo
10 6 (1.42%) SAP
11 5 (1.18%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.18%) Workday
12 4 (0.95%) FactSet
12 4 (0.95%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.71%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.71%) PagerDuty