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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 154 183
Rank change year-on-year +4 +29 +117
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 322 212 240
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.75% 1.75% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.14% 4.09% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 173 219
10th Percentile £363 £451 £506
25th Percentile £431 £515 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £800
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -18.75% +39.13%
75th Percentile £650 £825 £888
90th Percentile £763 £875 -
England median daily rate £544 £586 £725
% change year-on-year -7.25% -19.14% +26.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £79.50 - -

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 7,781 5,185 6,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.31% 42.79% 39.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,377 3,532 5,032
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% -0.95% -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £786 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 58 67
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.27 £17.16
25th Percentile £27.06 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.94 £46.56 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%

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 May 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 May 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 +13 49 £538 -19.78% 15
West London -27 3 £850 +9.68% 3
South London - 1 - - 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 73 (22.67%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.45%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.80%) Apache
4 5 (1.55%) Confluence
5 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (6.52%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.55%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.93%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.93%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.62%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.31%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 177 (54.97%) AWS
2 115 (35.71%) Azure
3 81 (25.16%) Power Platform
4 76 (23.60%) dbt
5 68 (21.12%) GCP
6 46 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 40 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (11.80%) GitHub
9 24 (7.45%) Serverless
10 23 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (6.83%) Dagster
12 21 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (5.28%) Matillion
15 15 (4.66%) Prefect
16 11 (3.42%) Fivetran
17 10 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 10 (3.11%) Datadog
17 10 (3.11%) SaaS
18 9 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) DNS
1 1 (0.31%) Firewall
1 1 (0.31%) SSL
1 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (24.84%) Data Warehouse
2 74 (22.98%) Power BI
3 45 (13.98%) Snowflake Schema
4 44 (13.66%) Tableau
5 37 (11.49%) BigQuery
6 25 (7.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (7.14%) Data Lake
8 20 (6.21%) SQL Server
9 19 (5.90%) Data Vault
10 15 (4.66%) Big Data
11 13 (4.04%) Looker
12 12 (3.73%) Metadata
13 10 (3.11%) NoSQL
14 9 (2.80%) Delta Lake
15 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
16 7 (2.17%) Star Schema
17 6 (1.86%) KNIME
18 5 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
18 5 (1.55%) Semantic Layer
19 4 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (8.07%) Git
2 20 (6.21%) GitLab
3 15 (4.66%) JIRA
4 12 (3.73%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.80%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.86%) MLflow
7 3 (0.93%) Selenium
7 3 (0.93%) Snyk
7 3 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.93%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.93%) Toad
8 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.62%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.62%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.62%) ERwin
9 1 (0.31%) GCC
9 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 122 (37.89%) Finance
2 69 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (11.18%) Banking
5 27 (8.39%) Retail
6 17 (5.28%) Marketing
7 14 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.11%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.48%) Front Office
10 8 (2.48%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.17%) Back Office
12 6 (1.86%) Legal
13 5 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.93%) Advertising
15 3 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 111 (34.47%) Data Engineer
2 71 (22.05%) Snowflake Engineer
3 57 (17.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 50 (15.53%) Architect
5 49 (15.22%) Senior
6 41 (12.73%) Analyst
7 28 (8.70%) Data Analyst
8 27 (8.39%) Data Architect
8 27 (8.39%) Senior Data Engineer
9 26 (8.07%) Lead
10 25 (7.76%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (6.52%) AWS Data Engineer
12 17 (5.28%) Developer
13 16 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (4.35%) Business Analyst
15 13 (4.04%) Snowflake Architect
16 11 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
17 9 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
17 9 (2.80%) Enterprise Architect
17 9 (2.80%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.90%) Kafka
2 12 (3.73%) PySpark
3 10 (3.11%) Playwright
3 10 (3.11%) REST
4 9 (2.80%) .NET
5 6 (1.86%) React
6 5 (1.55%) OAuth
6 5 (1.55%) OpenID
6 5 (1.55%) Vue
7 4 (1.24%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.24%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.93%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.93%) Snowpark
8 3 (0.93%) Spring
8 3 (0.93%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.93%) YAML
9 2 (0.62%) ADO
9 2 (0.62%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.62%) Node.js
9 2 (0.62%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.66%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (3.73%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.11%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.11%) Equities
5 8 (2.48%) Clustering
5 8 (2.48%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.17%) Reinsurance
6 7 (2.17%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.93%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.93%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.93%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.93%) Derivative
10 3 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.62%) Linux
2 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (44.72%) Analytics
2 114 (35.40%) Data Engineering
3 102 (31.68%) Data Modelling
3 102 (31.68%) Data Pipeline
4 101 (31.37%) CI/CD
5 94 (29.19%) Business Intelligence
6 91 (28.26%) ETL
7 86 (26.71%) AI
8 74 (22.98%) DevOps
9 70 (21.74%) Agile
10 53 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (16.15%) Migration
12 49 (15.22%) Data Architecture
13 46 (14.29%) Data Governance
14 44 (13.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (13.66%) Validation
15 42 (13.04%) Machine Learning
16 39 (12.11%) Infrastructure as Code
17 37 (11.49%) Decision-Making
18 35 (10.87%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 189 (58.70%) SQL
2 173 (53.73%) Python
3 43 (13.35%) Java
4 14 (4.35%) C#
5 12 (3.73%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.73%) R
6 9 (2.80%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.17%) Bash
8 5 (1.55%) Scala
9 4 (1.24%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.93%) Bicep
11 2 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.62%) Korn
11 2 (0.62%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.31%) C
12 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (7.76%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.14%) Degree
3 13 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.86%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.86%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.31%) CFA
7 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (20.81%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.83%) GDPR
3 14 (4.35%) QA
4 3 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.93%) SLA
5 2 (0.62%) EMIR
5 2 (0.62%) MiFID
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.31%) FATCA
6 1 (0.31%) GAAP
6 1 (0.31%) IFRS
6 1 (0.31%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.31%) PMO
6 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (6.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (15.53%) Terraform
2 15 (4.66%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.55%) Grafana
3 5 (1.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.31%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 88 (27.33%) Databricks
2 30 (9.32%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.66%) Oracle
4 11 (3.42%) Google
5 9 (2.80%) Informatica
6 8 (2.48%) Denodo
6 8 (2.48%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.17%) Talend
8 6 (1.86%) Charles River
9 5 (1.55%) FactSet
9 5 (1.55%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.55%) SimCorp
9 5 (1.55%) Workday
10 4 (1.24%) Murex
10 4 (1.24%) Splunk
11 3 (0.93%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.93%) Eze Software Group
11 3 (0.93%) Foundry
11 3 (0.93%) SAP