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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 173 238
Rank change year-on-year +21 +65 +74
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 297 189 160
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.75% 1.50% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.01% 3.53% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 146 141
10th Percentile £363 £426 £475
25th Percentile £425 £520 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -3.70% +20.27%
75th Percentile £638 £866 £775
90th Percentile £750 £875 £888
England median daily rate £523 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.92% - +9.09%
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 7,405 5,361 6,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.72% 42.54% 37.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,090 3,752 4,943
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 51 77
10th Percentile £18.03 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £24.29 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.25 £67.50 £61.00
England median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +60.73% +26.19% -18.75%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 48 £538 -19.78% 36
West London -20 4 £650 -14.75% 5
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 71 (23.91%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (6.73%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.37%) 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%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
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 23 (7.74%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.01%) BambooHR
2 3 (1.01%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.01%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.67%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.34%) Cloudability
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
1 158 (53.20%) AWS
2 131 (44.11%) Azure
3 80 (26.94%) Power Platform
4 67 (22.56%) dbt
5 51 (17.17%) GCP
6 40 (13.47%) Amazon S3
7 31 (10.44%) Serverless
8 28 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (8.08%) GitHub
11 19 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (6.06%) Dagster
13 14 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (4.71%) Matillion
14 12 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (4.04%) Prefect
15 11 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
17 8 (2.69%) SaaS
18 7 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (26.94%) Data Warehouse
2 74 (24.92%) Power BI
3 42 (14.14%) Tableau
4 32 (10.77%) Snowflake Schema
5 25 (8.42%) Data Lake
6 22 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (7.07%) BigQuery
8 19 (6.40%) Data Vault
9 13 (4.38%) Metadata
9 13 (4.38%) SQL Server
10 10 (3.37%) Big Data
11 8 (2.69%) Looker
11 8 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (2.69%) Relational Database
12 7 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (2.36%) NoSQL
13 6 (2.02%) KNIME
13 6 (2.02%) Star Schema
14 5 (1.68%) Delta Lake
14 5 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (7.74%) Git
2 17 (5.72%) GitLab
3 15 (5.05%) SpecFlow
4 13 (4.38%) JIRA
5 8 (2.69%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.02%) MLflow
7 3 (1.01%) ERwin
7 3 (1.01%) Terragrunt
7 3 (1.01%) Toad
8 2 (0.67%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.67%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.67%) Selenium
8 2 (0.67%) Snyk
8 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.34%) GCC
9 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 92 (30.98%) Finance
2 74 (24.92%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.42%) Banking
5 17 (5.72%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.72%) Retail
6 11 (3.70%) Marketing
7 9 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.03%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.02%) Front Office
10 5 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Back Office
11 3 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Law
11 3 (1.01%) Legal
11 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 111 (37.37%) Data Engineer
2 62 (20.88%) Snowflake Engineer
3 49 (16.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 45 (15.15%) Architect
5 38 (12.79%) Analyst
5 38 (12.79%) Senior
6 29 (9.76%) Lead
7 26 (8.75%) Data Analyst
8 25 (8.42%) Data Architect
9 21 (7.07%) AWS Engineer
10 19 (6.40%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (5.72%) Developer
12 16 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (5.39%) Business Analyst
12 16 (5.39%) Lead Data Engineer
13 15 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (4.71%) Python Engineer
15 13 (4.38%) Tester
16 12 (4.04%) AWS Data Engineer
16 12 (4.04%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.09%) Kafka
2 16 (5.39%) Playwright
3 11 (3.70%) Pandas
3 11 (3.70%) PySpark
4 8 (2.69%) PyTorch
5 7 (2.36%) NumPy
6 6 (2.02%) TensorFlow
7 5 (1.68%) OAuth
7 5 (1.68%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.35%) React
9 3 (1.01%) .NET
9 3 (1.01%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.01%) OpenID
9 3 (1.01%) Spark Streaming
9 3 (1.01%) Vue
9 3 (1.01%) YAML
10 2 (0.67%) Anaconda
10 2 (0.67%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.67%) Seaborn
10 2 (0.67%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.13%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.73%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (4.04%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.70%) Equities
4 11 (3.70%) Fixed Income
5 9 (3.03%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.69%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.36%) Clustering
7 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.68%) Derivative
8 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.35%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.01%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.01%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.01%) Replication
11 2 (0.67%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.67%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.35%) Unix
2 2 (0.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (44.78%) Analytics
2 103 (34.68%) Data Engineering
2 103 (34.68%) Data Modelling
3 96 (32.32%) ETL
4 95 (31.99%) Business Intelligence
5 93 (31.31%) Data Pipeline
6 81 (27.27%) CI/CD
7 76 (25.59%) AI
8 72 (24.24%) Agile
9 62 (20.88%) DevOps
10 56 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (16.16%) Data Governance
12 46 (15.49%) Machine Learning
13 41 (13.80%) Data Architecture
13 41 (13.80%) Migration
14 38 (12.79%) Decision-Making
14 38 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 37 (12.46%) Performance Tuning
16 36 (12.12%) Data Science
16 36 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 184 (61.95%) SQL
2 169 (56.90%) Python
3 28 (9.43%) Java
4 20 (6.73%) C#
4 20 (6.73%) JavaScript
5 18 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.36%) Bash
6 7 (2.36%) R
7 6 (2.02%) Scala
8 5 (1.68%) Korn
9 4 (1.35%) Bicep
10 3 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.01%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.34%) C
11 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (8.08%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.07%) Degree
3 14 (4.71%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.36%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.02%) SnowPro
7 4 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.01%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.01%) PhD
8 3 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CFA
9 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.06%) GDPR
3 14 (4.71%) QA
4 3 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.01%) SLA
5 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) FATCA
6 1 (0.34%) GAAP
6 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (7.07%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (15.82%) Terraform
2 14 (4.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.01%) Grafana
3 3 (1.01%) Kubeflow
3 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 90 (30.30%) Databricks
2 36 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.38%) Oracle
4 12 (4.04%) Google
5 9 (3.03%) Charles River
5 9 (3.03%) Informatica
5 9 (3.03%) Talend
6 8 (2.69%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.36%) Denodo
7 7 (2.36%) MicroStrategy
7 7 (2.36%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.68%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.68%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.35%) FactSet
9 4 (1.35%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.35%) Murex
9 4 (1.35%) Splunk
10 3 (1.01%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.01%) Foundry