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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 154 165
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 +118
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 350 222 284
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 1.77% 1.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.36% 4.13% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 181 261
10th Percentile £396 £450 £506
25th Percentile £456 £513 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £800
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -23.44% +39.13%
75th Percentile £678 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 £875 -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £800
% change year-on-year -4.35% -28.13% +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 8,029 5,373 6,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.05% 42.83% 39.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,515 3,647 5,103
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 69 70
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.90 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +20.82% -48.32%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £68.75 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +67.03% +15.91% -31.89%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +19 51 £550 -10.20% 9
West London -28 3 £850 +13.33% 3
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 77 (22.00%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.14%) Apache
4 7 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.71%) Confluence
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (6.00%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.43%) BambooHR
3 4 (1.14%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.86%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.57%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.57%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.29%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.29%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 191 (54.57%) AWS
2 125 (35.71%) Azure
3 87 (24.86%) Power Platform
4 80 (22.86%) dbt
5 76 (21.71%) GCP
6 52 (14.86%) Amazon S3
7 39 (11.14%) GitHub
8 38 (10.86%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (7.43%) Serverless
10 25 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (6.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (6.29%) Dagster
12 21 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (5.14%) Matillion
14 15 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (4.00%) Prefect
16 12 (3.43%) Fivetran
16 12 (3.43%) SaaS
16 12 (3.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (3.14%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) DNS
1 1 (0.29%) DSL
1 1 (0.29%) Firewall
1 1 (0.29%) SSL
1 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (24.29%) Data Warehouse
2 80 (22.86%) Power BI
3 45 (12.86%) Snowflake Schema
3 45 (12.86%) Tableau
4 42 (12.00%) BigQuery
5 31 (8.86%) Data Lake
6 27 (7.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (6.00%) SQL Server
8 20 (5.71%) Data Vault
9 19 (5.43%) Big Data
10 17 (4.86%) Metadata
11 13 (3.71%) Looker
12 12 (3.43%) NoSQL
12 12 (3.43%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.86%) Delta Lake
14 9 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (2.00%) MongoDB
15 7 (2.00%) Semantic Layer
15 7 (2.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (8.00%) Git
2 22 (6.29%) GitLab
3 16 (4.57%) JIRA
4 12 (3.43%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.00%) MLflow
5 7 (2.00%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.86%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.86%) Snyk
6 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.86%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.86%) Toad
7 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.57%) Selenium
8 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.29%) ERwin
8 1 (0.29%) GCC
8 1 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 135 (38.57%) Finance
2 75 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 47 (13.43%) Banking
4 35 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (9.43%) Retail
6 19 (5.43%) Marketing
7 14 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.71%) Financial Institution
9 12 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.86%) Front Office
11 9 (2.57%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.29%) Back Office
13 7 (2.00%) Legal
13 7 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.71%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.71%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.43%) Retail Banking
16 4 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (34.00%) Data Engineer
2 75 (21.43%) Snowflake Engineer
3 60 (17.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 58 (16.57%) Architect
5 52 (14.86%) Senior
6 40 (11.43%) Analyst
7 31 (8.86%) Data Architect
8 30 (8.57%) Lead
9 28 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
10 27 (7.71%) Senior Data Engineer
11 26 (7.43%) Data Analyst
12 21 (6.00%) AWS Data Engineer
13 19 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (4.86%) Business Analyst
15 16 (4.57%) Developer
16 15 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
17 13 (3.71%) Consultant
17 13 (3.71%) Snowflake Architect
18 11 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
19 10 (2.86%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.71%) Kafka
2 14 (4.00%) PySpark
3 13 (3.71%) REST
4 10 (2.86%) .NET
5 7 (2.00%) Playwright
5 7 (2.00%) React
6 5 (1.43%) OAuth
6 5 (1.43%) OpenID
6 5 (1.43%) Snowpark
6 5 (1.43%) Vue
6 5 (1.43%) YAML
7 4 (1.14%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.14%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.14%) Spring
7 4 (1.14%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.86%) ADO
8 3 (0.86%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.86%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (0.86%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.57%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.29%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.71%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (3.43%) Fixed Income
4 12 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.14%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.86%) Equities
7 9 (2.57%) Clustering
7 9 (2.57%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.29%) Reinsurance
9 7 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.14%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.14%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.86%) Derivative
12 3 (0.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (44.86%) Analytics
2 123 (35.14%) Data Engineering
3 112 (32.00%) Data Modelling
3 112 (32.00%) Data Pipeline
4 106 (30.29%) AI
5 105 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 100 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
7 95 (27.14%) ETL
8 76 (21.71%) DevOps
9 74 (21.14%) Agile
10 61 (17.43%) Migration
11 60 (17.14%) Data Architecture
12 57 (16.29%) Data Governance
13 51 (14.57%) Machine Learning
14 48 (13.71%) Validation
15 47 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
15 47 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
16 45 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
17 42 (12.00%) Data Science
18 40 (11.43%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 190 (54.29%) SQL
2 183 (52.29%) Python
3 43 (12.29%) Java
4 13 (3.71%) R
5 11 (3.14%) C#
6 9 (2.57%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.29%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.00%) Bash
9 5 (1.43%) Bicep
9 5 (1.43%) Scala
10 4 (1.14%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.86%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.57%) Cypher
12 2 (0.57%) Korn
12 2 (0.57%) SHACL
12 2 (0.57%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.29%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.29%) SOQL
13 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (7.43%) Degree
2 24 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.14%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.29%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.29%) CBAP
9 1 (0.29%) CFA
9 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (22.29%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.14%) GDPR
3 12 (3.43%) QA
4 3 (0.86%) EMIR
4 3 (0.86%) MiFID
4 3 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.86%) SLA
5 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.57%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.29%) FATCA
6 1 (0.29%) GAAP
6 1 (0.29%) IFRS
6 1 (0.29%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (15.71%) Terraform
2 21 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.00%) Grafana
4 6 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) Argo
5 1 (0.29%) Control-M
5 1 (0.29%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 97 (27.71%) Databricks
2 36 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.29%) Salesforce
4 14 (4.00%) Oracle
5 12 (3.43%) Google
6 10 (2.86%) Informatica
7 8 (2.29%) Denodo
8 7 (2.00%) Charles River
8 7 (2.00%) FactSet
8 7 (2.00%) Talend
9 6 (1.71%) SimCorp
10 5 (1.43%) MicroStrategy
10 5 (1.43%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.43%) SAP
10 5 (1.43%) Workday
11 4 (1.14%) Amplitude
11 4 (1.14%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.14%) Murex
11 4 (1.14%) Splunk
12 3 (0.86%) Temenos