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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 155 136
Rank change year-on-year +6 -19 +135
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 367 241 328
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 1.78% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.47% 4.16% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 198 304
10th Percentile £407 £444 £502
25th Percentile £463 £513 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -21.88% +39.13%
75th Percentile £688 £825 £888
90th Percentile £800 £875 -
England median daily rate £560 £558 £800
% change year-on-year +0.45% -30.31% +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 8,216 5,790 6,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.51% 42.69% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,621 3,951 5,076
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 81 62
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.05
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.01 £22.68
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -53.04%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +25 58 £575 -7.07% 15
West London -13 5 £850 +13.33% 2
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 83 (22.62%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.54%) Apache Spark
3 18 (4.90%) Apache
4 9 (2.45%) Confluence
4 9 (2.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.27%) Luigi
5 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.63%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (5.72%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.36%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.82%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.54%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.27%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 190 (51.77%) AWS
2 125 (34.06%) Azure
3 95 (25.89%) Power Platform
4 90 (24.52%) dbt
5 84 (22.89%) GCP
6 53 (14.44%) Amazon S3
7 41 (11.17%) GitHub
8 37 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (7.63%) Serverless
10 26 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (6.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 25 (6.81%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (6.27%) Dagster
13 19 (5.18%) Matillion
14 17 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (4.36%) Prefect
16 14 (3.81%) Fivetran
17 12 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (3.00%) Collibra
19 10 (2.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) Broadband
1 2 (0.54%) DSL
2 1 (0.27%) DNS
2 1 (0.27%) Firewall
2 1 (0.27%) SSL
2 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (27.52%) Data Warehouse
2 91 (24.80%) Power BI
3 49 (13.35%) BigQuery
4 47 (12.81%) Snowflake Schema
5 46 (12.53%) Tableau
6 38 (10.35%) Data Lake
7 30 (8.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (5.99%) Big Data
8 22 (5.99%) SQL Server
9 20 (5.45%) Metadata
10 18 (4.90%) Data Vault
11 14 (3.81%) Looker
11 14 (3.81%) NoSQL
12 12 (3.27%) Relational Database
13 11 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (2.72%) Delta Lake
15 9 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (2.45%) MongoDB
16 8 (2.18%) Semantic Layer
17 7 (1.91%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (8.99%) Git
2 21 (5.72%) GitLab
3 19 (5.18%) JIRA
4 15 (4.09%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.63%) MLflow
6 5 (1.36%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.82%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.82%) Snyk
7 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.54%) Selenium
8 2 (0.54%) Toad
9 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.27%) ERwin
9 1 (0.27%) GCC
9 1 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 145 (39.51%) Finance
2 89 (24.25%) Social Skills
3 57 (15.53%) Banking
4 44 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (9.81%) Retail
6 20 (5.45%) Marketing
7 17 (4.63%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.81%) Front Office
9 13 (3.54%) Public Sector
10 12 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (3.00%) Legal
12 9 (2.45%) Investment Banking
13 8 (2.18%) Back Office
13 8 (2.18%) Manufacturing
13 8 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.63%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.36%) Retail Banking
16 4 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.09%) Private Banking
17 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (32.70%) Data Engineer
2 76 (20.71%) Snowflake Engineer
3 65 (17.71%) Architect
4 59 (16.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 53 (14.44%) Senior
6 47 (12.81%) Analyst
7 37 (10.08%) Data Architect
8 29 (7.90%) Data Analyst
9 27 (7.36%) Lead
10 26 (7.08%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (6.81%) Senior Data Engineer
12 20 (5.45%) AWS Data Engineer
12 20 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (4.90%) Business Analyst
13 18 (4.90%) Developer
14 13 (3.54%) Consultant
15 12 (3.27%) Snowflake Architect
16 11 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
17 10 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
17 10 (2.72%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.54%) Kafka
2 17 (4.63%) REST
3 13 (3.54%) PySpark
4 10 (2.72%) .NET
5 8 (2.18%) React
6 6 (1.63%) YAML
7 5 (1.36%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.36%) Langfuse
7 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.36%) Model Context Protocol
7 5 (1.36%) OAuth
7 5 (1.36%) OpenID
7 5 (1.36%) Playwright
7 5 (1.36%) Snowpark
7 5 (1.36%) Vue
8 4 (1.09%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.09%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.09%) Spring
8 4 (1.09%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.82%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 51 (13.90%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.63%) Data Structures
3 16 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.54%) Fixed Income
5 12 (3.27%) Virtual Team
6 11 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.45%) Clustering
8 9 (2.45%) Equities
8 9 (2.45%) Reinsurance
9 8 (2.18%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.36%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.36%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.09%) Data Fabric
12 4 (1.09%) Derivative
12 4 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.09%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.54%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (44.96%) Analytics
2 133 (36.24%) Data Engineering
3 126 (34.33%) Data Modelling
4 120 (32.70%) Data Pipeline
5 110 (29.97%) CI/CD
6 108 (29.43%) Business Intelligence
7 106 (28.88%) ETL
8 105 (28.61%) AI
9 79 (21.53%) Agile
10 73 (19.89%) DevOps
11 70 (19.07%) Data Architecture
12 62 (16.89%) Data Governance
13 58 (15.80%) Migration
14 55 (14.99%) Stakeholder Management
15 52 (14.17%) Machine Learning
15 52 (14.17%) Validation
16 47 (12.81%) Decision-Making
17 42 (11.44%) Data Science
17 42 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
18 41 (11.17%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 207 (56.40%) SQL
2 195 (53.13%) Python
3 42 (11.44%) Java
4 15 (4.09%) R
5 9 (2.45%) C#
6 7 (1.91%) Bash
6 7 (1.91%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.91%) Scala
6 7 (1.91%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.82%) Cypher
8 3 (0.82%) SHACL
9 2 (0.54%) Bicep
9 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.54%) Korn
9 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.54%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.27%) Delphi
10 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (7.36%) Degree
2 23 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.18%) SnowPro
6 5 (1.36%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.09%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.27%) CBAP
10 1 (0.27%) CFA
10 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (23.43%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.36%) GDPR
3 13 (3.54%) QA
4 5 (1.36%) SLA
5 3 (0.82%) EMIR
5 3 (0.82%) MiFID
5 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.54%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.27%) FATCA
7 1 (0.27%) GAAP
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (6.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (13.35%) Terraform
2 19 (5.18%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.45%) Grafana
4 7 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.54%) Argo
6 1 (0.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 103 (28.07%) Databricks
2 38 (10.35%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.63%) Google
4 15 (4.09%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.81%) Oracle
6 12 (3.27%) Informatica
7 8 (2.18%) Charles River
7 8 (2.18%) Denodo
8 7 (1.91%) FactSet
9 6 (1.63%) Talend
10 5 (1.36%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.36%) Murex
10 5 (1.36%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.36%) SAP
10 5 (1.36%) Workday
11 4 (1.09%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.09%) Foundry
11 4 (1.09%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (1.09%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.09%) Splunk