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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 155 153
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 +130
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 356 227 298
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.79% 1.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.44% 4.16% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 187 274
10th Percentile £400 £450 £506
25th Percentile £456 £513 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -21.88% +39.13%
75th Percentile £675 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 £875 -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £800
% change year-on-year -4.35% -28.13% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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 8,024 5,462 6,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.97% 43.02% 39.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,524 3,711 5,118
10th Percentile £359 £350 £350
25th Percentile £435 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.34% -2.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 72 68
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.55 £19.33
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +13.22% -47.38%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £67.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%

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 26 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 26 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 +12 51 £550 -10.20% 8
West London -24 3 £850 +13.33% 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 78 (21.91%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (7.02%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.37%) Apache
4 8 (2.25%) Confluence
4 8 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.97%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (6.18%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.40%) BambooHR
3 4 (1.12%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.84%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.56%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.56%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.28%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.28%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 194 (54.49%) AWS
2 128 (35.96%) Azure
3 90 (25.28%) Power Platform
4 82 (23.03%) dbt
5 77 (21.63%) GCP
6 53 (14.89%) Amazon S3
7 39 (10.96%) GitHub
8 38 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (7.30%) Serverless
10 25 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (6.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (6.18%) Dagster
13 21 (5.90%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (5.06%) Matillion
15 16 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (3.93%) Prefect
17 12 (3.37%) Fivetran
17 12 (3.37%) SaaS
17 12 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (3.09%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) DNS
1 1 (0.28%) DSL
1 1 (0.28%) Firewall
1 1 (0.28%) SSL
1 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (24.72%) Data Warehouse
2 83 (23.31%) Power BI
3 46 (12.92%) Snowflake Schema
4 45 (12.64%) Tableau
5 42 (11.80%) BigQuery
6 33 (9.27%) Data Lake
7 29 (8.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (6.18%) SQL Server
9 21 (5.90%) Data Vault
10 20 (5.62%) Big Data
11 17 (4.78%) Metadata
12 13 (3.65%) Looker
13 12 (3.37%) NoSQL
13 12 (3.37%) Relational Database
14 10 (2.81%) Delta Lake
14 10 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
15 8 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (1.97%) MongoDB
16 7 (1.97%) Semantic Layer
16 7 (1.97%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (7.87%) Git
2 22 (6.18%) GitLab
3 18 (5.06%) JIRA
4 12 (3.37%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.97%) MLflow
5 7 (1.97%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.84%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.84%) Snyk
6 3 (0.84%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.84%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.84%) Toad
7 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.56%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.28%) ERwin
8 1 (0.28%) GCC
8 1 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 140 (39.33%) Finance
2 79 (22.19%) Social Skills
3 51 (14.33%) Banking
4 36 (10.11%) Retail
5 35 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.34%) Marketing
7 14 (3.93%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.65%) Financial Institution
9 12 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.09%) Front Office
11 9 (2.53%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.25%) Back Office
12 8 (2.25%) Legal
12 8 (2.25%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.69%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.40%) Retail Banking
16 4 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (33.99%) Data Engineer
2 76 (21.35%) Snowflake Engineer
3 61 (17.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 60 (16.85%) Architect
5 52 (14.61%) Senior
6 42 (11.80%) Analyst
7 33 (9.27%) Data Architect
8 30 (8.43%) Lead
9 28 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
10 27 (7.58%) Senior Data Engineer
11 26 (7.30%) Data Analyst
12 21 (5.90%) AWS Data Engineer
13 19 (5.34%) Business Analyst
13 19 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (4.78%) Developer
15 15 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
16 13 (3.65%) Consultant
16 13 (3.65%) Snowflake Architect
17 11 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
18 10 (2.81%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.62%) Kafka
2 14 (3.93%) PySpark
2 14 (3.93%) REST
3 10 (2.81%) .NET
4 7 (1.97%) Playwright
4 7 (1.97%) React
5 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Graph
5 5 (1.40%) OAuth
5 5 (1.40%) OpenID
5 5 (1.40%) Snowpark
5 5 (1.40%) Vue
5 5 (1.40%) YAML
6 4 (1.12%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.12%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.12%) Spring
6 4 (1.12%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.84%) ADO
7 3 (0.84%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.84%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (0.84%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 52 (14.61%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.49%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.37%) Fixed Income
4 12 (3.37%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.81%) Equities
6 9 (2.53%) Clustering
6 9 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.25%) Reinsurance
8 7 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.12%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.12%) Data Fabric
10 4 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.12%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.84%) Derivative
11 3 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (46.07%) Analytics
2 125 (35.11%) Data Engineering
3 116 (32.58%) Data Modelling
4 113 (31.74%) Data Pipeline
5 109 (30.62%) AI
6 107 (30.06%) CI/CD
7 105 (29.49%) Business Intelligence
8 97 (27.25%) ETL
9 78 (21.91%) Agile
10 76 (21.35%) DevOps
11 62 (17.42%) Data Architecture
12 61 (17.13%) Migration
13 57 (16.01%) Data Governance
14 52 (14.61%) Machine Learning
15 51 (14.33%) Stakeholder Management
16 48 (13.48%) Validation
17 47 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
18 45 (12.64%) Infrastructure as Code
19 42 (11.80%) Decision-Making
20 41 (11.52%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 192 (53.93%) SQL
2 185 (51.97%) Python
3 43 (12.08%) Java
4 13 (3.65%) R
5 11 (3.09%) C#
6 9 (2.53%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.25%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.97%) Bash
9 5 (1.40%) Bicep
9 5 (1.40%) Scala
10 4 (1.12%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.84%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.56%) Cypher
12 2 (0.56%) Korn
12 2 (0.56%) SHACL
12 2 (0.56%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.28%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 26 (7.30%) Degree
2 24 (6.74%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.09%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.25%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.28%) CBAP
9 1 (0.28%) CFA
9 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (21.91%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.02%) GDPR
3 12 (3.37%) QA
4 3 (0.84%) EMIR
4 3 (0.84%) MiFID
4 3 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.84%) SLA
5 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.56%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.28%) FATCA
6 1 (0.28%) GAAP
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (7.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (15.45%) Terraform
2 21 (5.90%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.97%) Grafana
4 6 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Argo
5 1 (0.28%) Control-M
5 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 100 (28.09%) Databricks
2 38 (10.67%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.49%) Salesforce
4 14 (3.93%) Oracle
5 12 (3.37%) Google
6 10 (2.81%) Informatica
7 8 (2.25%) Denodo
8 7 (1.97%) Charles River
8 7 (1.97%) FactSet
8 7 (1.97%) Talend
9 6 (1.69%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.69%) SimCorp
10 5 (1.40%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.40%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.40%) SAP
10 5 (1.40%) Workday
11 4 (1.12%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.12%) Murex
11 4 (1.12%) Splunk
12 3 (0.84%) Temenos