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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 176 225
Rank change year-on-year +24 +49 +86
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 303 194 169
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.75% 1.53% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.03% 3.61% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 149 149
10th Percentile £363 £446 £475
25th Percentile £425 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -7.14% +25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £875 £850
90th Percentile £760 - £888
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% 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 £69.00 - -

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 7,519 5,381 6,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.47% 42.48% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,175 3,751 4,935
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.26%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 52 78
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £49.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.13 £60.75
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.87
% change year-on-year +61.08% +26.98% -21.19%

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 April 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 April 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 +17 50 £550 -17.91% 36
West London -25 4 £650 -16.13% 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 73 (24.09%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (5.94%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.30%) Apache
4 6 (1.98%) Confluence
5 3 (0.99%) SAS
6 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (3.30%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (7.92%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.65%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.99%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.99%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.66%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.33%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 165 (54.46%) AWS
2 131 (43.23%) Azure
3 82 (27.06%) Power Platform
4 69 (22.77%) dbt
5 54 (17.82%) GCP
6 43 (14.19%) Amazon S3
7 33 (10.89%) Serverless
8 30 (9.90%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (8.58%) GitHub
11 20 (6.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (6.60%) Dagster
12 16 (5.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (4.62%) Matillion
13 14 (4.62%) Prefect
14 13 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (2.97%) Amazon Kinesis
17 8 (2.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 8 (2.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (27.72%) Data Warehouse
2 76 (25.08%) Power BI
3 42 (13.86%) Tableau
4 35 (11.55%) Snowflake Schema
5 26 (8.58%) Data Lake
6 24 (7.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 24 (7.92%) BigQuery
7 19 (6.27%) Data Vault
8 14 (4.62%) Metadata
9 12 (3.96%) SQL Server
10 10 (3.30%) Looker
11 9 (2.97%) Big Data
12 8 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (2.31%) NoSQL
13 7 (2.31%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.98%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (1.98%) Delta Lake
14 6 (1.98%) KNIME
14 6 (1.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (7.26%) Git
2 17 (5.61%) GitLab
3 15 (4.95%) SpecFlow
4 13 (4.29%) JIRA
5 7 (2.31%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.98%) MLflow
7 3 (0.99%) ERwin
7 3 (0.99%) Selenium
7 3 (0.99%) Snyk
7 3 (0.99%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.99%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.99%) Toad
8 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.66%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.66%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.33%) GCC
9 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 93 (30.69%) Finance
2 75 (24.75%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.58%) Banking
5 19 (6.27%) Retail
6 17 (5.61%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.63%) Marketing
8 10 (3.30%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.31%) Front Office
9 7 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.65%) Legal
12 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.99%) Back Office
13 3 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.99%) Law
13 3 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.66%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 116 (38.28%) Data Engineer
2 68 (22.44%) Snowflake Engineer
3 54 (17.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 48 (15.84%) Architect
5 39 (12.87%) Senior
6 38 (12.54%) Analyst
7 30 (9.90%) Lead
8 25 (8.25%) Data Analyst
8 25 (8.25%) Data Architect
9 24 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (6.60%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (5.28%) Business Analyst
12 16 (5.28%) Lead Data Engineer
12 16 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (4.95%) AWS Data Engineer
14 14 (4.62%) Python Engineer
15 13 (4.29%) Developer
15 13 (4.29%) Tester
16 12 (3.96%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.25%) Kafka
2 16 (5.28%) Playwright
3 11 (3.63%) Pandas
3 11 (3.63%) PySpark
4 7 (2.31%) NumPy
5 6 (1.98%) PyTorch
5 6 (1.98%) React
6 5 (1.65%) .NET
6 5 (1.65%) OAuth
6 5 (1.65%) scikit-learn
7 4 (1.32%) TensorFlow
7 4 (1.32%) Vue
7 4 (1.32%) YAML
8 3 (0.99%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.99%) OpenID
8 3 (0.99%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (0.66%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.66%) FastAPI
9 2 (0.66%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (0.66%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.27%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.96%) Fixed Income
5 11 (3.63%) Equities
6 10 (3.30%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.97%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.31%) Clustering
8 7 (2.31%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.65%) Derivative
11 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.32%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.99%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.99%) Replication
13 2 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.32%) Unix
2 3 (0.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (45.21%) Analytics
2 105 (34.65%) Data Modelling
3 104 (34.32%) Data Engineering
4 98 (32.34%) Business Intelligence
4 98 (32.34%) ETL
5 96 (31.68%) Data Pipeline
6 83 (27.39%) CI/CD
7 76 (25.08%) AI
8 73 (24.09%) Agile
9 66 (21.78%) DevOps
10 57 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (15.18%) Data Governance
12 44 (14.52%) Machine Learning
13 43 (14.19%) Migration
14 42 (13.86%) Data Architecture
15 41 (13.53%) Decision-Making
16 38 (12.54%) Infrastructure as Code
17 37 (12.21%) Data Science
17 37 (12.21%) Performance Tuning
18 36 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 186 (61.39%) SQL
2 175 (57.76%) Python
3 30 (9.90%) Java
4 20 (6.60%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.27%) C#
6 18 (5.94%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.31%) Bash
7 7 (2.31%) R
8 6 (1.98%) Scala
9 5 (1.65%) Korn
10 4 (1.32%) Bicep
11 3 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.99%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.33%) C
12 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (8.25%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.26%) Degree
3 14 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.31%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.98%) SnowPro
7 4 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.32%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.99%) PhD
8 3 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.33%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (21.78%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.60%) GDPR
3 14 (4.62%) QA
4 3 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.99%) SLA
5 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) FATCA
6 1 (0.33%) GAAP
6 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.33%) PMO
6 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 18 (5.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (15.84%) Terraform
2 11 (3.63%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.99%) Grafana
3 3 (0.99%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 93 (30.69%) Databricks
2 35 (11.55%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.62%) Oracle
4 11 (3.63%) Google
5 9 (2.97%) Charles River
5 9 (2.97%) Informatica
5 9 (2.97%) Talend
6 8 (2.64%) MicroStrategy
6 8 (2.64%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.31%) Denodo
8 6 (1.98%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.65%) SimCorp
9 5 (1.65%) Virgin Media
9 5 (1.65%) Workday
10 4 (1.32%) FactSet
10 4 (1.32%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.32%) Murex
10 4 (1.32%) Splunk
11 3 (0.99%) Bloomberg