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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 176 266
Rank change year-on-year +29 +90 +64
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 296 194 132
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 1.49% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.21% 3.54% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 135 114
10th Percentile £363 £471 £475
25th Percentile £425 £563 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £638 £875 £738
90th Percentile £735 - £745
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £66.75 - -

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 7,024 5,486 6,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.79% 42.02% 37.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,820 3,786 4,985
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 £675 £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 101 44 78
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -12.72%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £62.88
England median hourly rate £37.58 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +40.16% +27.68% -16.00%

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 9 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 9 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 +14 42 £575 -14.18% 17
West London -16 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 62 (20.95%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (6.42%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.72%) Apache
4 6 (2.03%) Confluence
5 3 (1.01%) SAS
6 2 (0.68%) 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 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.70%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 27 (9.12%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.01%) BambooHR
2 3 (1.01%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.01%) SimCorp Dimension
2 3 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.68%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.68%) 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
Cloud Services
1 166 (56.08%) AWS
2 135 (45.61%) Azure
3 77 (26.01%) Power Platform
4 62 (20.95%) dbt
5 49 (16.55%) GCP
6 36 (12.16%) Serverless
7 31 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (10.14%) Amazon S3
9 27 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (8.78%) GitHub
11 20 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (5.07%) Matillion
13 14 (4.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (3.38%) SaaS
16 8 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (2.70%) Dagster
16 8 (2.70%) Prefect
17 6 (2.03%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (27.03%) Data Warehouse
2 71 (23.99%) Power BI
3 40 (13.51%) Tableau
4 29 (9.80%) Data Lake
4 29 (9.80%) Snowflake Schema
5 22 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (7.09%) Data Vault
7 18 (6.08%) SQL Server
8 17 (5.74%) BigQuery
8 17 (5.74%) Metadata
9 16 (5.41%) Big Data
10 15 (5.07%) Relational Database
11 11 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (3.04%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (2.70%) KNIME
13 8 (2.70%) Looker
13 8 (2.70%) NoSQL
14 7 (2.36%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (2.36%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 23 (7.77%) Git
2 19 (6.42%) GitLab
3 15 (5.07%) SpecFlow
4 14 (4.73%) JIRA
5 9 (3.04%) MLflow
6 8 (2.70%) ERwin
7 7 (2.36%) ER Studio
7 7 (2.36%) Jenkins
8 6 (2.03%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (1.01%) DBeaver
9 3 (1.01%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.01%) Toad
10 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.34%) GCC
11 1 (0.34%) Selenium
11 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (29.39%) Finance
2 75 (25.34%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.45%) Banking
5 18 (6.08%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.39%) Retail
7 12 (4.05%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.38%) Front Office
9 8 (2.70%) Marketing
10 7 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.01%) Back Office
12 3 (1.01%) Law
12 3 (1.01%) Legal
12 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 95 (32.09%) Data Engineer
2 58 (19.59%) Snowflake Engineer
3 44 (14.86%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 39 (13.18%) Architect
5 38 (12.84%) Analyst
6 33 (11.15%) Lead
7 31 (10.47%) Senior
8 26 (8.78%) Data Analyst
9 22 (7.43%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (6.76%) Developer
11 17 (5.74%) Data Architect
11 17 (5.74%) Python Engineer
11 17 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (5.41%) Business Analyst
13 15 (5.07%) Lead Data Engineer
14 14 (4.73%) Tester
15 11 (3.72%) AWS Data Engineer
15 11 (3.72%) Python Data Engineer
15 11 (3.72%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.09%) Kafka
2 16 (5.41%) Playwright
3 15 (5.07%) Pandas
4 12 (4.05%) PyTorch
5 10 (3.38%) PySpark
6 9 (3.04%) NumPy
7 7 (2.36%) scikit-learn
8 6 (2.03%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.35%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.35%) gRPC
9 4 (1.35%) JSON
9 4 (1.35%) Protocol Buffers
9 4 (1.35%) REST
9 4 (1.35%) SciPy
10 3 (1.01%) .NET
10 3 (1.01%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.01%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.01%) Node.js
10 3 (1.01%) Spark Streaming
10 3 (1.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.76%) Data Protection Act
3 16 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 15 (5.07%) Equities
4 15 (5.07%) Fixed Income
5 12 (4.05%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.38%) Derivative
7 7 (2.36%) Hedge funds
7 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.03%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.69%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.35%) Clustering
10 4 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.35%) Pricing Data
10 4 (1.35%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.35%) Replication
11 3 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.01%) Unix
2 2 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (42.57%) Analytics
2 106 (35.81%) Data Modelling
3 98 (33.11%) ETL
4 93 (31.42%) Data Engineering
5 88 (29.73%) Business Intelligence
6 82 (27.70%) Agile
6 82 (27.70%) Data Pipeline
7 75 (25.34%) CI/CD
8 68 (22.97%) AI
9 63 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (20.27%) DevOps
11 55 (18.58%) Data Governance
12 43 (14.53%) Migration
13 42 (14.19%) Machine Learning
14 40 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
15 39 (13.18%) Asset Management
16 38 (12.84%) Data Architecture
17 36 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
18 35 (11.82%) Data Science
19 33 (11.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 192 (64.86%) SQL
2 170 (57.43%) Python
3 25 (8.45%) Java
4 23 (7.77%) TypeScript
5 22 (7.43%) JavaScript
6 19 (6.42%) C#
7 9 (3.04%) Bash
8 8 (2.70%) R
9 6 (2.03%) Korn
9 6 (2.03%) Scala
10 4 (1.35%) Bicep
11 3 (1.01%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.34%) C
13 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (7.09%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.76%) Degree
3 12 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.70%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.01%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.01%) PhD
7 3 (1.01%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.34%) CFA
8 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (22.64%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.07%) QA
3 14 (4.73%) GDPR
4 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.01%) SLA
5 2 (0.68%) 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 32 (10.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (15.54%) Terraform
2 23 (7.77%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.69%) Grafana
4 3 (1.01%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 84 (28.38%) Databricks
2 32 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.41%) Oracle
4 12 (4.05%) Charles River
5 9 (3.04%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.04%) Talend
6 8 (2.70%) Google
6 8 (2.70%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.36%) MicroStrategy
7 7 (2.36%) Murex
8 5 (1.69%) Informatica
8 5 (1.69%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.69%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.35%) Denodo
9 4 (1.35%) FactSet
9 4 (1.35%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.35%) Splunk
10 3 (1.01%) Sparx
10 3 (1.01%) Workday