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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 153 171
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 +118
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 337 218 262
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.79% 1.78% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.25% 4.12% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 176 240
10th Percentile £355 £450 £506
25th Percentile £450 £513 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -21.88% +39.13%
75th Percentile £675 £825 £888
90th Percentile £778 £875 -
England median daily rate £550 £580 £725
% change year-on-year -5.17% -20.00% +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 7,929 5,294 6,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.19% 43.24% 39.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,461 3,585 5,081
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 65 69
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.36 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.52 £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 £55.75 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £58.50
England median hourly rate £41.78 £25.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +67.12% +16.50% -38.69%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 £550 -10.20% 24
West London -25 3 £850 +13.33% 4
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 (21.66%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (7.42%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.67%) Apache
4 6 (1.78%) Confluence
5 5 (1.48%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (5.93%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.48%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.89%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.89%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.59%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.30%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 186 (55.19%) AWS
2 113 (33.53%) Azure
3 81 (24.04%) Power Platform
4 76 (22.55%) dbt
5 71 (21.07%) GCP
6 50 (14.84%) Amazon S3
7 39 (11.57%) GitHub
8 37 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (7.72%) Serverless
10 25 (7.42%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (6.53%) Dagster
12 21 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (5.64%) Azure Data Factory
14 18 (5.34%) Matillion
15 14 (4.15%) Prefect
16 13 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
17 12 (3.56%) Fivetran
18 11 (3.26%) SaaS
18 11 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 9 (2.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) DNS
1 1 (0.30%) DSL
1 1 (0.30%) Firewall
1 1 (0.30%) SSL
1 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (23.74%) Data Warehouse
2 74 (21.96%) Power BI
3 45 (13.35%) Tableau
4 44 (13.06%) Snowflake Schema
5 39 (11.57%) BigQuery
6 26 (7.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (7.72%) Data Lake
7 20 (5.93%) Data Vault
8 19 (5.64%) Big Data
8 19 (5.64%) SQL Server
9 14 (4.15%) Metadata
10 13 (3.86%) Looker
11 11 (3.26%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.67%) Delta Lake
12 9 (2.67%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.08%) Star Schema
14 6 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (1.48%) KNIME
15 5 (1.48%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (8.01%) Git
2 24 (7.12%) GitLab
3 16 (4.75%) JIRA
4 12 (3.56%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.37%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.78%) MLflow
7 3 (0.89%) Snyk
7 3 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.89%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.89%) Toad
8 2 (0.59%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.59%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.59%) Selenium
9 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.30%) ERwin
9 1 (0.30%) GCC
9 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 126 (37.39%) Finance
2 73 (21.66%) Social Skills
3 42 (12.46%) Banking
4 35 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (8.61%) Retail
6 18 (5.34%) Marketing
7 14 (4.15%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.97%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.67%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.37%) Back Office
11 8 (2.37%) Front Office
12 7 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.78%) Legal
13 6 (1.78%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.19%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (33.53%) Data Engineer
2 70 (20.77%) Snowflake Engineer
3 57 (16.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 51 (15.13%) Architect
5 50 (14.84%) Senior
6 44 (13.06%) Analyst
7 30 (8.90%) Data Analyst
8 29 (8.61%) AWS Engineer
8 29 (8.61%) Lead
9 28 (8.31%) Senior Data Engineer
10 27 (8.01%) Data Architect
11 21 (6.23%) AWS Data Engineer
12 17 (5.04%) Developer
13 16 (4.75%) Business Analyst
13 16 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (4.45%) DevOps Engineer
15 12 (3.56%) Snowflake Architect
16 11 (3.26%) Consultant
17 9 (2.67%) Data Consultant
17 9 (2.67%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.34%) Kafka
2 12 (3.56%) REST
3 11 (3.26%) PySpark
4 9 (2.67%) .NET
5 8 (2.37%) Playwright
6 7 (2.08%) React
7 5 (1.48%) OAuth
7 5 (1.48%) OpenID
7 5 (1.48%) Vue
7 5 (1.48%) YAML
8 4 (1.19%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.19%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.19%) Snowpark
9 3 (0.89%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.89%) FastAPI
9 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (0.89%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (0.89%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.89%) Spring
9 3 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.54%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.45%) Data Structures
3 14 (4.15%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (3.56%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.97%) Equities
5 10 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.97%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.37%) Clustering
6 8 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.08%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.19%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.89%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.89%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.89%) Derivative
10 3 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.59%) Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (44.21%) Analytics
2 117 (34.72%) Data Engineering
3 108 (32.05%) Data Pipeline
4 106 (31.45%) Data Modelling
5 105 (31.16%) CI/CD
6 96 (28.49%) AI
7 95 (28.19%) ETL
8 93 (27.60%) Business Intelligence
9 74 (21.96%) DevOps
10 70 (20.77%) Agile
11 57 (16.91%) Migration
12 54 (16.02%) Data Architecture
13 51 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
14 50 (14.84%) Data Governance
15 47 (13.95%) Validation
16 45 (13.35%) Infrastructure as Code
16 45 (13.35%) Machine Learning
17 44 (13.06%) Stakeholder Management
18 39 (11.57%) Decision-Making
19 38 (11.28%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 187 (55.49%) SQL
2 177 (52.52%) Python
3 43 (12.76%) Java
4 14 (4.15%) R
5 13 (3.86%) C#
6 11 (3.26%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.67%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.08%) Bash
9 5 (1.48%) Scala
10 4 (1.19%) Bicep
10 4 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.89%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.59%) Korn
13 1 (0.30%) C
13 1 (0.30%) Cypher
13 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.30%) SHACL
13 1 (0.30%) SOQL
13 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (7.12%) Degree
1 24 (7.12%) Security Cleared
2 12 (3.56%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.08%) SnowPro
5 5 (1.48%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.19%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CFA
8 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (21.66%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.82%) GDPR
3 13 (3.86%) QA
4 3 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.89%) SLA
5 2 (0.59%) EMIR
5 2 (0.59%) MiFID
5 2 (0.59%) PMO
6 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.30%) FATCA
6 1 (0.30%) GAAP
6 1 (0.30%) IFRS
6 1 (0.30%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (7.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (16.32%) Terraform
2 19 (5.64%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.78%) Grafana
4 5 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.30%) Ansible
5 1 (0.30%) Argo
5 1 (0.30%) Control-M
5 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 91 (27.00%) Databricks
2 34 (10.09%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.15%) Oracle
3 14 (4.15%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.56%) Google
5 8 (2.37%) Denodo
5 8 (2.37%) Informatica
6 7 (2.08%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.78%) Charles River
7 6 (1.78%) FactSet
7 6 (1.78%) Talend
8 5 (1.48%) MicroStrategy
8 5 (1.48%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.48%) Workday
9 4 (1.19%) Murex
9 4 (1.19%) SAP
9 4 (1.19%) Splunk
10 3 (0.89%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.89%) Eze Software Group
10 3 (0.89%) Foundry