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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 166 223
Rank change year-on-year +9 +57 +83
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 290 205 173
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.68% 1.62% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 3.79% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 159 154
10th Percentile £355 £450 £475
25th Percentile £425 £519 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £670 £700
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -4.29% +21.74%
75th Percentile £638 £838 £850
90th Percentile £755 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +10.13%
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 7,488 5,406 6,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.31% 42.69% 37.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,156 3,750 4,893
10th Percentile £350 £356 £331
25th Percentile £425 £440 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £675
90th Percentile £750 £776 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 52 76
10th Percentile £18.64 £22.27 £17.39
25th Percentile £25.36 £24.66 £21.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £52.96 £54.13 £41.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.13 £61.25
England median hourly rate £43.61 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +64.57% +27.59% -24.47%

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 15 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 15 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 +18 49 £550 -17.91% 14
West London -22 4 £650 -16.13% 6
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 71 (24.48%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (6.21%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.41%) Apache
4 6 (2.07%) Confluence
5 3 (1.03%) SAS
6 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (3.45%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (8.28%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.72%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.03%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.03%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.69%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.34%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 159 (54.83%) AWS
2 124 (42.76%) Azure
3 74 (25.52%) Power Platform
4 66 (22.76%) dbt
5 54 (18.62%) GCP
6 44 (15.17%) Amazon S3
7 32 (11.03%) Serverless
8 30 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (8.97%) GitHub
11 22 (7.59%) Dagster
12 19 (6.55%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (5.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (5.17%) Prefect
15 14 (4.83%) Matillion
16 13 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 8 (2.76%) Amazon Kinesis
19 6 (2.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (27.59%) Data Warehouse
2 68 (23.45%) Power BI
3 40 (13.79%) Tableau
4 35 (12.07%) Snowflake Schema
5 25 (8.62%) BigQuery
6 24 (8.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (7.93%) Data Lake
8 18 (6.21%) Data Vault
9 13 (4.48%) Metadata
9 13 (4.48%) SQL Server
10 9 (3.10%) Big Data
10 9 (3.10%) Looker
11 7 (2.41%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.41%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.07%) Delta Lake
12 6 (2.07%) KNIME
12 6 (2.07%) Star Schema
13 5 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (6.90%) Git
2 17 (5.86%) GitLab
3 15 (5.17%) SpecFlow
4 13 (4.48%) JIRA
5 7 (2.41%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.07%) MLflow
7 3 (1.03%) Selenium
7 3 (1.03%) Snyk
7 3 (1.03%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.03%) Terragrunt
7 3 (1.03%) Toad
8 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.69%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.69%) ERwin
8 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.34%) GCC
9 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 92 (31.72%) Finance
2 71 (24.48%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.28%) Banking
5 20 (6.90%) Retail
6 16 (5.52%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.79%) Marketing
8 10 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.76%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.72%) Front Office
11 5 (1.72%) Legal
11 5 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.03%) Back Office
13 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.03%) Law
13 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (38.62%) Data Engineer
2 66 (22.76%) Snowflake Engineer
3 52 (17.93%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 46 (15.86%) Architect
5 38 (13.10%) Senior
6 36 (12.41%) Analyst
7 30 (10.34%) Lead
8 24 (8.28%) Data Architect
9 23 (7.93%) Data Analyst
10 22 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (7.24%) Senior Data Engineer
12 17 (5.86%) Lead Data Engineer
13 15 (5.17%) AWS Data Engineer
13 15 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (5.17%) Business Analyst
13 15 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (4.48%) Developer
15 11 (3.79%) Snowflake Architect
15 11 (3.79%) Tester
16 10 (3.45%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.62%) Kafka
2 16 (5.52%) Playwright
3 11 (3.79%) PySpark
4 6 (2.07%) OAuth
4 6 (2.07%) Pandas
4 6 (2.07%) PyTorch
4 6 (2.07%) React
5 5 (1.72%) .NET
5 5 (1.72%) scikit-learn
6 4 (1.38%) OpenID
6 4 (1.38%) TensorFlow
6 4 (1.38%) Vue
6 4 (1.38%) YAML
7 3 (1.03%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.03%) NumPy
7 3 (1.03%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (0.69%) Anaconda
8 2 (0.69%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.69%) Model Context Protocol
8 2 (0.69%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.86%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.45%) Fixed Income
3 10 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.10%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.10%) Equities
4 9 (3.10%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.41%) Clustering
5 7 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.03%) Derivative
8 3 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.03%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.03%) Replication
9 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.38%) Unix
2 3 (1.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (45.86%) Analytics
2 102 (35.17%) Data Modelling
3 97 (33.45%) Data Engineering
4 94 (32.41%) Data Pipeline
5 93 (32.07%) ETL
6 90 (31.03%) Business Intelligence
7 82 (28.28%) CI/CD
8 75 (25.86%) AI
9 69 (23.79%) Agile
10 65 (22.41%) DevOps
11 56 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (15.17%) Data Governance
13 43 (14.83%) Machine Learning
13 43 (14.83%) Migration
14 41 (14.14%) Data Architecture
15 39 (13.45%) Decision-Making
16 38 (13.10%) Data Science
16 38 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
17 36 (12.41%) Performance Tuning
18 34 (11.72%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 177 (61.03%) SQL
2 164 (56.55%) Python
3 28 (9.66%) Java
4 19 (6.55%) C#
5 18 (6.21%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.17%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.41%) Bash
7 7 (2.41%) R
8 6 (2.07%) Scala
9 5 (1.72%) Korn
10 4 (1.38%) Bicep
11 3 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.34%) C
12 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (8.62%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.59%) Degree
3 14 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.07%) SnowPro
7 4 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.38%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.03%) PhD
8 3 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (21.03%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.55%) GDPR
3 12 (4.14%) QA
4 3 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.03%) SLA
5 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) FATCA
6 1 (0.34%) GAAP
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 18 (6.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (16.55%) Terraform
2 11 (3.79%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.03%) Grafana
3 3 (1.03%) Kubeflow
3 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 91 (31.38%) Databricks
2 35 (12.07%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.48%) Oracle
4 11 (3.79%) Google
5 9 (3.10%) Charles River
6 8 (2.76%) Denodo
6 8 (2.76%) Informatica
6 8 (2.76%) MicroStrategy
6 8 (2.76%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.76%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.41%) Talend
8 6 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.72%) SimCorp
9 5 (1.72%) Workday
10 4 (1.38%) FactSet
10 4 (1.38%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.38%) Murex
10 4 (1.38%) Splunk
11 3 (1.03%) Foundry
11 3 (1.03%) Virgin Media