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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 145 115
Rank change year-on-year +10 -30 +126
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 438 255 362
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.17% 1.92% 2.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.30% 4.42% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 199 309
10th Percentile £400 £450 £500
25th Percentile £463 £513 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -23.44% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £825 £888
90th Percentile £754 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
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 8,263 5,767 6,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.86% 43.44% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,693 3,928 4,551
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £532
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.83% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 92 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.55 £22.18
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.15 £23.89
Median hourly rate £28.55 £29.25 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -5.02% -23.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.78
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

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 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 29 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 -4 52 £600 -4.00% 62
West London -11 10 £485 -2.27% 30
South London - 4 £425 - 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
1 114 (26.03%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (9.36%) Apache Spark
3 34 (7.76%) Apache
4 10 (2.28%) Confluence
4 10 (2.28%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.23%) Luigi
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (3.65%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.91%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.46%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.46%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.23%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 237 (54.11%) AWS
2 186 (42.47%) Azure
3 142 (32.42%) dbt
4 106 (24.20%) Power Platform
5 102 (23.29%) GCP
6 66 (15.07%) GitHub
7 54 (12.33%) Amazon S3
8 44 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (9.13%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (8.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 37 (8.45%) Serverless
11 30 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (4.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (4.34%) Dagster
14 17 (3.88%) Fivetran
15 16 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (3.65%) SaaS
16 12 (2.74%) Matillion
17 11 (2.51%) Datadog
17 11 (2.51%) 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
1 148 (33.79%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (23.52%) Power BI
3 56 (12.79%) Data Lake
4 52 (11.87%) BigQuery
5 49 (11.19%) Snowflake Schema
6 45 (10.27%) Tableau
7 44 (10.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 32 (7.31%) Metadata
9 27 (6.16%) Big Data
9 27 (6.16%) SQL Server
10 26 (5.94%) Data Vault
11 24 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
12 19 (4.34%) NoSQL
13 17 (3.88%) Delta Lake
14 14 (3.20%) Looker
14 14 (3.20%) Relational Database
15 13 (2.97%) MongoDB
16 12 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (2.74%) Apache Iceberg
17 11 (2.51%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 51 (11.64%) Git
2 23 (5.25%) GitLab
3 21 (4.79%) JIRA
4 18 (4.11%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.60%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.91%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.91%) Snyk
6 4 (0.91%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.46%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.46%) MLflow
7 2 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.23%) ERwin
8 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 161 (36.76%) Finance
2 127 (29.00%) Social Skills
3 72 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (14.61%) Banking
5 39 (8.90%) Retail
6 21 (4.79%) Marketing
7 18 (4.11%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.42%) Front Office
8 15 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.20%) Legal
10 12 (2.74%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.51%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (2.05%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.60%) Billing
13 7 (1.60%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.37%) Back Office
15 5 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.14%) Private Banking
16 4 (0.91%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 149 (34.02%) Data Engineer
2 86 (19.63%) Senior
3 78 (17.81%) Architect
4 76 (17.35%) Snowflake Engineer
5 59 (13.47%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 51 (11.64%) Data Architect
7 50 (11.42%) Analyst
8 47 (10.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 32 (7.31%) Lead
10 30 (6.85%) Data Analyst
11 26 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (4.79%) AWS Data Engineer
12 21 (4.79%) Developer
13 20 (4.57%) Consultant
14 19 (4.34%) Business Analyst
15 16 (3.65%) Python Engineer
16 12 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 12 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
16 12 (2.74%) Python Data Engineer
16 12 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (15.98%) Terraform
2 45 (10.27%) Kafka
3 27 (6.16%) PySpark
4 22 (5.02%) REST
5 16 (3.65%) .NET
6 8 (1.83%) React
7 7 (1.60%) YAML
8 6 (1.37%) OAuth
9 5 (1.14%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.14%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (1.14%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (1.14%) OpenID
10 4 (0.91%) FastAPI
10 4 (0.91%) Pandas
10 4 (0.91%) pytest
10 4 (0.91%) Snowpark
10 4 (0.91%) Spring
10 4 (0.91%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.68%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.31%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.02%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.65%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.42%) Reinsurance
6 14 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.28%) Fixed Income
9 9 (2.05%) Taxonomies
9 9 (2.05%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.60%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.37%) Clustering
12 6 (1.37%) Life Science
13 5 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.14%) Equities
13 5 (1.14%) Replication
14 4 (0.91%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.37%) Linux
2 2 (0.46%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (43.15%) Analytics
2 174 (39.73%) Data Modelling
3 165 (37.67%) Data Engineering
4 152 (34.70%) CI/CD
5 148 (33.79%) Data Pipeline
6 143 (32.65%) ETL
7 141 (32.19%) AI
8 114 (26.03%) Business Intelligence
9 109 (24.89%) Agile
10 95 (21.69%) Stakeholder Management
11 94 (21.46%) Data Architecture
12 91 (20.78%) DevOps
13 88 (20.09%) Data Governance
14 71 (16.21%) Decision-Making
15 70 (15.98%) Data Transformation
16 68 (15.53%) Migration
17 66 (15.07%) Machine Learning
18 64 (14.61%) Validation
19 52 (11.87%) Infrastructure as Code
19 52 (11.87%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 267 (60.96%) SQL
2 227 (51.83%) Python
3 39 (8.90%) Java
4 12 (2.74%) Bash
4 12 (2.74%) R
5 11 (2.51%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.51%) Scala
6 9 (2.05%) C#
7 8 (1.83%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.91%) Bicep
9 4 (0.91%) C++
9 4 (0.91%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.68%) Cypher
10 3 (0.68%) SHACL
11 2 (0.46%) Delphi
11 2 (0.46%) Korn
11 2 (0.46%) LookML
11 2 (0.46%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (5.25%) Degree
2 20 (4.57%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.28%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.83%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.60%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.37%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.23%) ACCA
11 1 (0.23%) CIMA
11 1 (0.23%) CISA
11 1 (0.23%) CISSP
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.23%) PMP
11 1 (0.23%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (28.08%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.94%) GDPR
3 21 (4.79%) QA
4 4 (0.91%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.68%) EMIR
5 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.68%) MiFID
5 3 (0.68%) PMO
5 3 (0.68%) 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 (7.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.05%) Grafana
3 6 (1.37%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.91%) 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 (34.02%) Databricks
2 56 (12.79%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.34%) Google
4 17 (3.88%) Oracle
4 17 (3.88%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.65%) Informatica
6 10 (2.28%) MicroStrategy
7 8 (1.83%) Workday
8 7 (1.60%) Bloomberg
8 7 (1.60%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.60%) Talend
8 7 (1.60%) Teradata
9 6 (1.37%) Denodo
9 6 (1.37%) Foundry
9 6 (1.37%) SAP
10 5 (1.14%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.14%) Confluent
11 4 (0.91%) FactSet
11 4 (0.91%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.68%) Alteryx