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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 179 257
Rank change year-on-year +27 +78 +66
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 297 184 139
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 1.44% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.12% 3.41% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 135 121
10th Percentile £325 £460 £475
25th Percentile £416 £551 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £609 £875 £738
90th Percentile £726 - £800
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
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 7,203 5,390 6,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.84% 42.05% 37.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,932 3,737 4,978
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
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 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 43 77
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £24.00 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +10.79% -25.03%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.54 £26.81 £21.37
% change year-on-year +40.01% +25.47% -14.52%

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 March 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 March 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 +23 44 £563 -16.04% 28
West London -17 4 £650 -14.75% 4
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 65 (21.89%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (6.40%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.03%) Apache
4 6 (2.02%) Confluence
5 3 (1.01%) SAS
6 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.34%) Luigi
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 12 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.69%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (8.75%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.01%) BambooHR
2 3 (1.01%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.01%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.67%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.67%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 166 (55.89%) AWS
2 132 (44.44%) Azure
3 80 (26.94%) Power Platform
4 63 (21.21%) dbt
5 47 (15.82%) GCP
6 37 (12.46%) Serverless
7 34 (11.45%) Amazon S3
8 32 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (9.09%) GitHub
10 26 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (6.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (5.05%) Matillion
13 14 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (3.37%) Prefect
16 9 (3.03%) Dagster
16 9 (3.03%) SaaS
17 8 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 7 (2.36%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (27.95%) Data Warehouse
2 74 (24.92%) Power BI
3 42 (14.14%) Tableau
4 29 (9.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 26 (8.75%) Data Lake
6 22 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (6.40%) Data Vault
8 18 (6.06%) SQL Server
9 17 (5.72%) BigQuery
9 17 (5.72%) Metadata
10 16 (5.39%) Big Data
11 15 (5.05%) Relational Database
12 11 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (3.03%) RDBMS
14 8 (2.69%) KNIME
14 8 (2.69%) Looker
14 8 (2.69%) NoSQL
15 7 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (2.36%) Delta Lake
15 7 (2.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (7.74%) Git
2 20 (6.73%) GitLab
3 15 (5.05%) SpecFlow
4 12 (4.04%) JIRA
5 9 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 9 (3.03%) MLflow
6 5 (1.68%) ERwin
7 4 (1.35%) ER Studio
8 3 (1.01%) DBeaver
8 3 (1.01%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (1.01%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.01%) Toad
9 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) GCC
10 1 (0.34%) Selenium
10 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 88 (29.63%) Finance
2 76 (25.59%) Social Skills
3 43 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.08%) Banking
5 19 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.38%) Retail
7 11 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 9 (3.03%) Front Office
8 9 (3.03%) Marketing
9 7 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Back Office
11 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.01%) Law
11 3 (1.01%) Legal
11 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (34.01%) Data Engineer
2 60 (20.20%) Snowflake Engineer
3 47 (15.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 40 (13.47%) Architect
5 38 (12.79%) Analyst
6 34 (11.45%) Lead
7 32 (10.77%) Senior
8 26 (8.75%) Data Analyst
9 21 (7.07%) AWS Engineer
10 19 (6.40%) Developer
11 17 (5.72%) Data Architect
11 17 (5.72%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (5.39%) Business Analyst
13 15 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (5.05%) Lead Data Engineer
13 15 (5.05%) Python Engineer
14 14 (4.71%) Tester
15 13 (4.38%) Senior Data Engineer
16 12 (4.04%) AWS Data Engineer
17 11 (3.70%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.42%) Kafka
2 16 (5.39%) Playwright
3 13 (4.38%) Pandas
4 12 (4.04%) PyTorch
5 11 (3.70%) PySpark
6 7 (2.36%) NumPy
6 7 (2.36%) scikit-learn
7 6 (2.02%) TensorFlow
8 5 (1.68%) .NET
8 5 (1.68%) React
9 4 (1.35%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.35%) REST
10 3 (1.01%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.01%) JSON
10 3 (1.01%) Node.js
10 3 (1.01%) OAuth
10 3 (1.01%) Spark Streaming
10 3 (1.01%) Vue
10 3 (1.01%) YAML
11 2 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.13%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.73%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (4.71%) Equities
3 14 (4.71%) Fixed Income
4 12 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 12 (4.04%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.69%) Derivative
5 8 (2.69%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.68%) Clustering
8 5 (1.68%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.35%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.35%) Replication
10 3 (1.01%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.01%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.35%) Unix
2 2 (0.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (42.09%) Analytics
2 107 (36.03%) Data Modelling
3 101 (34.01%) ETL
4 97 (32.66%) Data Engineering
5 91 (30.64%) Business Intelligence
6 86 (28.96%) Data Pipeline
7 80 (26.94%) CI/CD
8 79 (26.60%) Agile
9 72 (24.24%) AI
10 61 (20.54%) DevOps
10 61 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (18.52%) Data Governance
12 43 (14.48%) Machine Learning
12 43 (14.48%) Migration
13 40 (13.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (12.79%) Data Architecture
15 37 (12.46%) Asset Management
15 37 (12.46%) Data Science
16 36 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
17 34 (11.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 196 (65.99%) SQL
2 174 (58.59%) Python
3 24 (8.08%) Java
4 21 (7.07%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.40%) C#
5 19 (6.40%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.03%) Bash
7 8 (2.69%) R
8 6 (2.02%) Korn
8 6 (2.02%) Scala
9 4 (1.35%) Bicep
10 3 (1.01%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.34%) C
12 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (7.07%) Degree
1 21 (7.07%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.04%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.69%) AWS Certification
3 8 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.68%) SnowPro
5 4 (1.35%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.01%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.01%) PhD
7 1 (0.34%) CFA
7 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (22.90%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.39%) GDPR
3 15 (5.05%) QA
4 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.01%) SLA
5 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.34%) FATCA
6 1 (0.34%) GAAP
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.34%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 31 (10.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (15.82%) Terraform
2 22 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.68%) Grafana
4 3 (1.01%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 82 (27.61%) Databricks
2 34 (11.45%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.39%) Oracle
4 12 (4.04%) Charles River
5 10 (3.37%) Google
6 9 (3.03%) MuleSoft
6 9 (3.03%) OpenAI
6 9 (3.03%) Talend
7 8 (2.69%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.36%) Informatica
8 7 (2.36%) MicroStrategy
8 7 (2.36%) Murex
9 5 (1.68%) Denodo
9 5 (1.68%) SimCorp
9 5 (1.68%) Virgin Media
10 4 (1.35%) FactSet
10 4 (1.35%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.35%) Splunk
11 3 (1.01%) Eze Software Group
11 3 (1.01%) Workday