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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 150 198
Rank change year-on-year -12 +48 +107
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 292 218 215
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.64% 1.76% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 4.16% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 178 194
10th Percentile £325 £454 £513
25th Percentile £431 £516 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £800
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -18.75% +39.13%
75th Percentile £624 £825 £850
90th Percentile £775 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £79.50 - -

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 7,553 5,244 6,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.42% 42.42% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,216 3,623 4,969
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £448
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 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -48.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +17 50 £525 -21.64% 26
West London -21 4 £700 -9.68% 4
South London - 1 - - 3
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 64 (21.92%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (7.88%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.05%) Apache
3 6 (2.05%) Confluence
4 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (2.74%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (7.53%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.71%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.03%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.03%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.68%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.34%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 160 (54.79%) AWS
2 109 (37.33%) Azure
3 68 (23.29%) Power Platform
4 63 (21.58%) dbt
5 61 (20.89%) GCP
6 42 (14.38%) Amazon S3
7 34 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (10.62%) GitHub
9 23 (7.88%) Serverless
10 21 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (7.19%) Dagster
11 18 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (4.79%) Matillion
13 14 (4.79%) Prefect
14 13 (4.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.40%) Fivetran
15 7 (2.40%) SaaS
16 6 (2.05%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (23.63%) Data Warehouse
2 61 (20.89%) Power BI
3 38 (13.01%) Snowflake Schema
4 35 (11.99%) Tableau
5 33 (11.30%) BigQuery
6 25 (8.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (6.51%) Data Lake
8 17 (5.82%) Data Vault
9 14 (4.79%) Big Data
9 14 (4.79%) SQL Server
10 12 (4.11%) Looker
11 9 (3.08%) Metadata
12 8 (2.74%) Delta Lake
13 7 (2.40%) Star Schema
14 6 (2.05%) KNIME
14 6 (2.05%) Relational Database
15 5 (1.71%) NoSQL
15 5 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 4 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 21 (7.19%) Git
2 16 (5.48%) GitLab
3 15 (5.14%) JIRA
4 12 (4.11%) SpecFlow
5 8 (2.74%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.05%) MLflow
7 3 (1.03%) Selenium
7 3 (1.03%) Snyk
7 3 (1.03%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.03%) Toad
8 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.68%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.68%) ERwin
8 2 (0.68%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.34%) GCC
9 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (34.59%) Finance
2 59 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 32 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.62%) Banking
5 24 (8.22%) Retail
6 13 (4.45%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.11%) Marketing
8 10 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.08%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.05%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.05%) Front Office
10 6 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.71%) Legal
12 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.03%) Back Office
13 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (34.25%) Data Engineer
2 66 (22.60%) Snowflake Engineer
3 53 (18.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 51 (17.47%) Architect
5 37 (12.67%) Senior
6 36 (12.33%) Analyst
7 28 (9.59%) Lead
8 23 (7.88%) Data Analyst
8 23 (7.88%) Data Architect
9 21 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (7.19%) Senior Data Engineer
10 16 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (5.14%) AWS Data Engineer
12 14 (4.79%) Developer
13 13 (4.45%) Snowflake Architect
14 12 (4.11%) Business Analyst
14 12 (4.11%) Enterprise Architect
14 12 (4.11%) Tester
15 10 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (3.42%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.19%) Kafka
2 13 (4.45%) Playwright
3 12 (4.11%) PySpark
4 7 (2.40%) .NET
5 6 (2.05%) React
6 5 (1.71%) OAuth
6 5 (1.71%) OpenID
6 5 (1.71%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.71%) Vue
7 4 (1.37%) Pandas
7 4 (1.37%) REST
7 4 (1.37%) scikit-learn
7 4 (1.37%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.03%) Snowpark
8 3 (1.03%) Spring
8 3 (1.03%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.68%) ADO
9 2 (0.68%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (0.68%) Node.js
9 2 (0.68%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 44 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.82%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (4.11%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.42%) Equities
5 8 (2.74%) Clustering
5 8 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.40%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.05%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.03%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.03%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.03%) Derivative
10 3 (1.03%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.03%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.34%) Linux
1 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (45.21%) Analytics
2 100 (34.25%) Data Engineering
3 93 (31.85%) Data Modelling
4 87 (29.79%) Data Pipeline
5 86 (29.45%) CI/CD
6 84 (28.77%) Business Intelligence
7 80 (27.40%) ETL
8 76 (26.03%) AI
9 64 (21.92%) DevOps
10 63 (21.58%) Agile
11 51 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (16.44%) Migration
13 43 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 41 (14.04%) Machine Learning
15 39 (13.36%) Data Governance
15 39 (13.36%) Validation
16 38 (13.01%) Data Architecture
17 37 (12.67%) Decision-Making
18 35 (11.99%) Infrastructure as Code
19 32 (10.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 168 (57.53%) SQL
2 155 (53.08%) Python
3 34 (11.64%) Java
4 16 (5.48%) C#
5 15 (5.14%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.11%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.42%) R
8 6 (2.05%) Bash
9 5 (1.71%) Scala
10 4 (1.37%) Bicep
11 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.68%) Korn
12 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.34%) C
13 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (7.53%) Degree
1 22 (7.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (3.77%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.05%) SnowPro
5 5 (1.71%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.03%) PhD
6 3 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.34%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (20.21%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.16%) GDPR
3 12 (4.11%) QA
4 3 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.03%) SLA
5 2 (0.68%) EMIR
5 2 (0.68%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) FATCA
6 1 (0.34%) GAAP
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (7.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (15.41%) Terraform
2 14 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.03%) Grafana
3 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.68%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 89 (30.48%) Databricks
2 31 (10.62%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.79%) Oracle
4 11 (3.77%) Google
5 8 (2.74%) Informatica
5 8 (2.74%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.40%) Charles River
6 7 (2.40%) Denodo
6 7 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.40%) Talend
7 5 (1.71%) SimCorp
7 5 (1.71%) Workday
8 4 (1.37%) FactSet
8 4 (1.37%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.37%) MicroStrategy
8 4 (1.37%) Murex
8 4 (1.37%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.03%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.03%) Foundry
9 3 (1.03%) Splunk