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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 155 185
Rank change year-on-year -8 +30 +120
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 306 217 237
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.68% 1.79% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.99% 4.20% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 178 216
10th Percentile £325 £450 £503
25th Percentile £425 £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 £853
90th Percentile £778 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +21.74%
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 7,665 5,164 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.10% 42.67% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,305 3,535 5,006
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 54 67
10th Percentile £20.86 £22.71 £17.16
25th Percentile £26.76 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +11.67% -50.48%
75th Percentile £54.13 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £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 26 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 26 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 +9 49 £538 -19.78% 31
West London -26 4 £700 -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 70 (22.88%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (7.52%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.29%) Apache
4 5 (1.63%) Confluence
5 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.29%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (6.86%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.63%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.98%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.98%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.65%) 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
Cloud Services
1 173 (56.54%) AWS
2 111 (36.27%) Azure
3 74 (24.18%) Power Platform
4 68 (22.22%) dbt
5 65 (21.24%) GCP
6 45 (14.71%) Amazon S3
7 37 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (11.76%) GitHub
9 26 (8.50%) Serverless
10 24 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (7.19%) Dagster
12 20 (6.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (4.90%) Prefect
15 14 (4.58%) Matillion
16 11 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 9 (2.94%) Datadog
18 8 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (2.61%) Fivetran
18 8 (2.61%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 67 (21.90%) Power BI
3 43 (14.05%) Snowflake Schema
4 38 (12.42%) Tableau
5 35 (11.44%) BigQuery
6 24 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (7.19%) Data Lake
8 19 (6.21%) Data Vault
9 18 (5.88%) SQL Server
10 14 (4.58%) Big Data
11 12 (3.92%) Looker
12 11 (3.59%) Metadata
13 9 (2.94%) Delta Lake
14 8 (2.61%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.29%) NoSQL
15 7 (2.29%) Star Schema
16 6 (1.96%) KNIME
17 5 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
17 5 (1.63%) Semantic Layer
17 5 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (7.84%) Git
2 18 (5.88%) GitLab
3 15 (4.90%) JIRA
4 10 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.27%) SpecFlow
5 6 (1.96%) MLflow
6 3 (0.98%) Selenium
6 3 (0.98%) Snyk
6 3 (0.98%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.98%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.98%) Toad
7 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.65%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.65%) ERwin
8 1 (0.33%) GCC
8 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 113 (36.93%) Finance
2 67 (21.90%) Social Skills
3 36 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.78%) Banking
5 26 (8.50%) Retail
6 14 (4.58%) Marketing
7 13 (4.25%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.94%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.29%) Front Office
11 6 (1.96%) Back Office
11 6 (1.96%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.96%) Legal
12 5 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 105 (34.31%) Data Engineer
2 68 (22.22%) Snowflake Engineer
3 55 (17.97%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 49 (16.01%) Architect
5 45 (14.71%) Senior
6 39 (12.75%) Analyst
7 26 (8.50%) Data Analyst
7 26 (8.50%) Data Architect
7 26 (8.50%) Lead
8 24 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (7.52%) Senior Data Engineer
10 19 (6.21%) AWS Data Engineer
11 16 (5.23%) Developer
11 16 (5.23%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (4.58%) Business Analyst
13 13 (4.25%) Snowflake Architect
14 10 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.27%) Tester
15 9 (2.94%) Automation Tester
15 9 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.86%) Kafka
2 12 (3.92%) PySpark
3 11 (3.59%) Playwright
4 9 (2.94%) .NET
5 8 (2.61%) REST
6 6 (1.96%) React
7 5 (1.63%) OAuth
7 5 (1.63%) OpenID
7 5 (1.63%) Vue
8 4 (1.31%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.31%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.98%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.98%) Pandas
9 3 (0.98%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.98%) Snowpark
9 3 (0.98%) Spring
9 3 (0.98%) YAML
10 2 (0.65%) ADO
10 2 (0.65%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.23%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (3.92%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.27%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.27%) Equities
5 8 (2.61%) Clustering
5 8 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.29%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.63%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.98%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.98%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.98%) Derivative
10 3 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.98%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.33%) Linux
1 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (45.10%) Analytics
2 106 (34.64%) Data Engineering
3 97 (31.70%) Data Modelling
4 93 (30.39%) CI/CD
4 93 (30.39%) Data Pipeline
5 90 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
6 85 (27.78%) ETL
7 81 (26.47%) AI
8 70 (22.88%) DevOps
9 65 (21.24%) Agile
10 51 (16.67%) Migration
10 51 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (14.38%) Data Architecture
11 44 (14.38%) Data Governance
12 43 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 43 (14.05%) Validation
13 39 (12.75%) Machine Learning
14 37 (12.09%) Decision-Making
14 37 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (11.11%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 176 (57.52%) SQL
2 165 (53.92%) Python
3 41 (13.40%) Java
4 15 (4.90%) C#
5 13 (4.25%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.59%) R
7 10 (3.27%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.96%) Bash
9 5 (1.63%) Scala
10 3 (0.98%) Bicep
10 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.65%) Korn
11 2 (0.65%) PowerShell
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 23 (7.52%) Degree
1 23 (7.52%) Security Cleared
2 12 (3.92%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.96%) DBS Check
4 6 (1.96%) SnowPro
5 4 (1.31%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.65%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.65%) PhD
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.33%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (21.24%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.86%) GDPR
3 13 (4.25%) QA
4 3 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.98%) SLA
5 2 (0.65%) EMIR
5 2 (0.65%) MiFID
6 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) FATCA
6 1 (0.33%) GAAP
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.33%) PMO
6 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (6.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (15.69%) Terraform
2 14 (4.58%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.31%) Grafana
3 4 (1.31%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 87 (28.43%) Databricks
2 29 (9.48%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.90%) Oracle
4 10 (3.27%) Google
5 8 (2.61%) Informatica
5 8 (2.61%) MuleSoft
5 8 (2.61%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.29%) Denodo
6 7 (2.29%) Talend
7 6 (1.96%) Charles River
8 5 (1.63%) FactSet
8 5 (1.63%) MicroStrategy
8 5 (1.63%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.63%) Workday
9 4 (1.31%) Murex
9 4 (1.31%) Splunk
10 3 (0.98%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.98%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.98%) Eze Software Group
10 3 (0.98%) Foundry