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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 147 131
Rank change year-on-year +5 -16 +129
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 373 252 336
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 1.85% 2.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.53% 4.32% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 205 308
10th Percentile £413 £450 £500
25th Percentile £475 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -21.88% +39.13%
75th Percentile £688 £825 £888
90th Percentile £795 £875 -
England median daily rate £575 £580 £800
% change year-on-year -0.86% -27.50% +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 8,233 5,829 6,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.47% 42.87% 40.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,621 3,994 4,860
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 83 53
10th Percentile £19.38 £22.60 £20.80
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +2.00% -44.39%
75th Percentile £55.56 £45.63 £40.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £67.11 £65.30
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% +14.32% -33.33%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 56 £575 -7.07% 23
West London -14 7 £850 +13.33% 10
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 85 (22.79%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (5.63%) Apache Spark
3 19 (5.09%) Apache
4 9 (2.41%) Confluence
4 9 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Luigi
5 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.34%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (5.63%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.34%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.54%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.54%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 195 (52.28%) AWS
2 131 (35.12%) Azure
3 95 (25.47%) dbt
3 95 (25.47%) Power Platform
4 82 (21.98%) GCP
5 52 (13.94%) Amazon S3
6 43 (11.53%) GitHub
7 36 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (7.77%) Serverless
9 26 (6.97%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (6.97%) Azure Data Factory
9 26 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (6.43%) Dagster
11 17 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (4.56%) Prefect
12 13 (3.49%) Fivetran
12 13 (3.49%) Matillion
13 12 (3.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (2.95%) Datadog
15 10 (2.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) Broadband
1 2 (0.54%) DSL
2 1 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.27%) DNS
2 1 (0.27%) Firewall
2 1 (0.27%) Network Security
2 1 (0.27%) SSL
2 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (28.15%) Data Warehouse
2 92 (24.66%) Power BI
3 50 (13.40%) BigQuery
4 46 (12.33%) Tableau
5 45 (12.06%) Snowflake Schema
6 41 (10.99%) Data Lake
7 30 (8.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (6.17%) SQL Server
9 22 (5.90%) Big Data
10 19 (5.09%) Metadata
11 16 (4.29%) Data Vault
12 15 (4.02%) Looker
13 14 (3.75%) NoSQL
14 13 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (3.49%) Relational Database
15 10 (2.68%) Delta Lake
15 10 (2.68%) MongoDB
15 10 (2.68%) Semantic Layer
16 9 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
17 7 (1.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (9.12%) Git
2 21 (5.63%) GitLab
3 20 (5.36%) JIRA
4 15 (4.02%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.61%) MLflow
6 4 (1.07%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.80%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.80%) Snyk
7 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.54%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.54%) Selenium
9 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.27%) ERwin
9 1 (0.27%) GCC
9 1 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.27%) Toad
General
1 151 (40.48%) Finance
2 95 (25.47%) Social Skills
3 60 (16.09%) Banking
4 48 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.12%) Retail
6 20 (5.36%) Marketing
7 18 (4.83%) Financial Institution
8 16 (4.29%) Front Office
9 15 (4.02%) Public Sector
10 14 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (3.49%) Legal
12 8 (2.14%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 8 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.88%) Back Office
14 6 (1.61%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.34%) Private Banking
16 4 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.07%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 119 (31.90%) Data Engineer
2 73 (19.57%) Snowflake Engineer
3 65 (17.43%) Architect
4 57 (15.28%) Senior
4 57 (15.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 48 (12.87%) Analyst
6 39 (10.46%) Data Architect
7 31 (8.31%) Data Analyst
8 29 (7.77%) AWS Engineer
9 28 (7.51%) Lead
10 27 (7.24%) Senior Data Engineer
11 23 (6.17%) AWS Data Engineer
12 18 (4.83%) Developer
13 16 (4.29%) Business Analyst
13 16 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.49%) Consultant
15 12 (3.22%) Python Engineer
16 11 (2.95%) Python Data Engineer
17 10 (2.68%) Data Consultant
17 10 (2.68%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.90%) Kafka
2 17 (4.56%) REST
3 13 (3.49%) PySpark
4 10 (2.68%) .NET
5 8 (2.14%) React
6 6 (1.61%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (1.61%) YAML
7 5 (1.34%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.34%) Langfuse
7 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.34%) OAuth
7 5 (1.34%) OpenID
7 5 (1.34%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.34%) Vue
8 4 (1.07%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.07%) Playwright
8 4 (1.07%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.07%) Spring
8 4 (1.07%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.09%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.56%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.49%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.95%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.41%) Equities
7 9 (2.41%) Reinsurance
8 7 (1.88%) Clustering
8 7 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.61%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.61%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.07%) Derivative
11 4 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.80%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.54%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (44.50%) Analytics
2 139 (37.27%) Data Engineering
3 128 (34.32%) Data Modelling
4 123 (32.98%) Data Pipeline
5 117 (31.37%) CI/CD
6 107 (28.69%) AI
6 107 (28.69%) Business Intelligence
7 106 (28.42%) ETL
8 83 (22.25%) Agile
9 74 (19.84%) Data Architecture
9 74 (19.84%) DevOps
10 67 (17.96%) Data Governance
11 61 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
12 56 (15.01%) Migration
13 55 (14.75%) Validation
14 53 (14.21%) Machine Learning
15 51 (13.67%) Decision-Making
16 47 (12.60%) Data Science
17 46 (12.33%) Data Transformation
18 40 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 207 (55.50%) SQL
2 195 (52.28%) Python
3 40 (10.72%) Java
4 14 (3.75%) R
5 8 (2.14%) C#
6 7 (1.88%) Bash
6 7 (1.88%) Scala
7 6 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.61%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.34%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.80%) Cypher
9 3 (0.80%) SHACL
10 2 (0.54%) Bicep
10 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.54%) Delphi
10 2 (0.54%) Korn
10 2 (0.54%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.27%) C
11 1 (0.27%) Go
11 1 (0.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 27 (7.24%) Degree
2 25 (6.70%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (3.49%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.61%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.07%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.07%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.27%) CBAP
8 1 (0.27%) CFA
8 1 (0.27%) CISM
8 1 (0.27%) CISSP
8 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (24.40%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.24%) GDPR
3 16 (4.29%) QA
4 5 (1.34%) SLA
5 3 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.80%) EMIR
5 3 (0.80%) MiFID
5 3 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.54%) PMO
6 2 (0.54%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (6.70%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (13.40%) Terraform
2 19 (5.09%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.68%) Grafana
4 8 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.54%) Argo
6 1 (0.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 112 (30.03%) Databricks
2 38 (10.19%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.83%) Google
4 15 (4.02%) Oracle
4 15 (4.02%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.22%) Informatica
6 8 (2.14%) Charles River
6 8 (2.14%) Denodo
7 7 (1.88%) SAP
7 7 (1.88%) Workday
8 6 (1.61%) FactSet
8 6 (1.61%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.34%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.34%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.34%) Foundry
10 4 (1.07%) MicroStrategy
10 4 (1.07%) Murex
10 4 (1.07%) Splunk
11 3 (0.80%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.80%) Temenos