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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 159 113
Rank change year-on-year +20 -46 +131
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 435 247 373
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.15% 1.84% 2.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.25% 4.23% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 197 325
10th Percentile £403 £454 £500
25th Percentile £463 £513 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -21.88% +34.68%
75th Percentile £680 £825 £888
90th Percentile £761 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +36.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +97.18% - -

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 8,287 5,846 6,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.94% 43.44% 41.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,690 3,987 4,681
10th Percentile £360 £343 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 45
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £31.00 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.34% -24.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.10
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -1 55 £575 -8.00% 72
West London -16 9 £500 +0.76% 44
South London - 3 £425 - 2
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
1 109 (25.06%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (8.74%) Apache Spark
3 31 (7.13%) Apache
4 10 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 9 (2.07%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) Luigi
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (3.68%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.46%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.46%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.46%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 231 (53.10%) AWS
2 182 (41.84%) Azure
3 133 (30.57%) dbt
4 104 (23.91%) Power Platform
5 102 (23.45%) GCP
6 65 (14.94%) GitHub
7 53 (12.18%) Amazon S3
8 47 (10.80%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (8.51%) Azure Data Factory
11 35 (8.05%) Serverless
12 28 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (4.83%) Dagster
15 16 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (3.68%) Fivetran
16 14 (3.22%) SaaS
17 12 (2.76%) Matillion
18 11 (2.53%) Datadog
18 11 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Broadband
1 2 (0.46%) DSL
1 2 (0.46%) Firewall
1 2 (0.46%) Network Security
1 2 (0.46%) VPN
2 1 (0.23%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.23%) DNS
2 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.23%) SSH
2 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (32.87%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (23.45%) Power BI
3 56 (12.87%) Data Lake
4 53 (12.18%) BigQuery
5 50 (11.49%) Snowflake Schema
6 42 (9.66%) Tableau
7 41 (9.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 29 (6.67%) Metadata
9 28 (6.44%) SQL Server
10 27 (6.21%) Big Data
11 24 (5.52%) Data Vault
12 22 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (4.14%) NoSQL
14 17 (3.91%) Delta Lake
15 15 (3.45%) Relational Database
16 14 (3.22%) Looker
17 13 (2.99%) MongoDB
18 12 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
18 12 (2.76%) Semantic Layer
19 9 (2.07%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 48 (11.03%) Git
2 23 (5.29%) GitLab
3 20 (4.60%) JIRA
4 18 (4.14%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.61%) Terragrunt
6 6 (1.38%) Snyk
7 4 (0.92%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.46%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.46%) MLflow
8 2 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.46%) Selenium
8 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.23%) ERwin
9 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
General
1 165 (37.93%) Finance
2 122 (28.05%) Social Skills
3 68 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (14.25%) Banking
5 40 (9.20%) Retail
6 23 (5.29%) Marketing
7 18 (4.14%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.45%) Front Office
10 13 (2.99%) Legal
11 11 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (2.53%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.07%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.61%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.38%) Back Office
14 6 (1.38%) Billing
15 5 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.15%) Private Banking
16 4 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (34.48%) Data Engineer
2 86 (19.77%) Senior
3 77 (17.70%) Architect
3 77 (17.70%) Snowflake Engineer
4 59 (13.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 51 (11.72%) Data Architect
6 48 (11.03%) Analyst
6 48 (11.03%) Senior Data Engineer
7 34 (7.82%) Lead
8 31 (7.13%) Data Analyst
9 26 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (4.83%) AWS Data Engineer
10 21 (4.83%) Developer
11 17 (3.91%) Business Analyst
11 17 (3.91%) Consultant
12 16 (3.68%) Python Engineer
13 13 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (2.99%) Snowflake Architect
14 12 (2.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (2.76%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (16.32%) Terraform
2 39 (8.97%) Kafka
3 26 (5.98%) PySpark
4 22 (5.06%) REST
5 15 (3.45%) .NET
6 8 (1.84%) React
7 7 (1.61%) YAML
8 6 (1.38%) OAuth
9 5 (1.15%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.15%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (1.15%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (1.15%) OpenID
10 4 (0.92%) FastAPI
10 4 (0.92%) Pandas
10 4 (0.92%) pytest
10 4 (0.92%) Spring
10 4 (0.92%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.69%) ADO
11 3 (0.69%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 67 (15.40%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.06%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.68%) AI Agents
5 14 (3.22%) Reinsurance
6 13 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.30%) Fixed Income
9 9 (2.07%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.84%) Taxonomies
11 7 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (1.61%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.38%) Life Science
13 5 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.15%) Clustering
13 5 (1.15%) Equities
13 5 (1.15%) Replication
14 4 (0.92%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.15%) Linux
2 2 (0.46%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (43.45%) Analytics
2 164 (37.70%) Data Engineering
3 163 (37.47%) Data Modelling
4 154 (35.40%) CI/CD
5 145 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 140 (32.18%) ETL
7 139 (31.95%) AI
8 116 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
9 107 (24.60%) Agile
10 94 (21.61%) DevOps
11 93 (21.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 91 (20.92%) Data Architecture
13 84 (19.31%) Data Governance
14 68 (15.63%) Migration
15 67 (15.40%) Data Transformation
15 67 (15.40%) Decision-Making
16 66 (15.17%) Machine Learning
17 62 (14.25%) Validation
18 54 (12.41%) Infrastructure as Code
19 53 (12.18%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 261 (60.00%) SQL
2 225 (51.72%) Python
3 42 (9.66%) Java
4 12 (2.76%) Bash
4 12 (2.76%) R
5 11 (2.53%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.53%) Scala
6 10 (2.30%) C#
7 8 (1.84%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.92%) Bicep
8 4 (0.92%) C++
8 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.92%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.69%) Cypher
9 3 (0.69%) SHACL
10 2 (0.46%) Delphi
10 2 (0.46%) Korn
10 2 (0.46%) LookML
10 2 (0.46%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (5.52%) Security Cleared
2 22 (5.06%) Degree
3 15 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.76%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.38%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.38%) SnowPro
7 5 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CFA
10 1 (0.23%) CISA
10 1 (0.23%) CISM
10 1 (0.23%) CISSP
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PMP
10 1 (0.23%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.29%) GDPR
3 21 (4.83%) QA
4 4 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.92%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.69%) EMIR
5 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.69%) MiFID
5 3 (0.69%) PMO
5 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.46%) GRC
6 2 (0.46%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 34 (7.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.07%) Grafana
3 6 (1.38%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.92%) Control-M
5 2 (0.46%) Ansible
5 2 (0.46%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 149 (34.25%) Databricks
2 54 (12.41%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.37%) Google
4 18 (4.14%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.91%) Informatica
6 15 (3.45%) Oracle
7 9 (2.07%) MicroStrategy
8 7 (1.61%) Bloomberg
8 7 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.61%) Talend
8 7 (1.61%) Teradata
9 6 (1.38%) Denodo
9 6 (1.38%) Foundry
9 6 (1.38%) SAP
10 5 (1.15%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.15%) Workday
11 4 (0.92%) FactSet
11 4 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.69%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.69%) PagerDuty