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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 147 117
Rank change year-on-year +7 -30 +129
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 419 241 364
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.09% 1.82% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.07% 4.21% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 194 331
10th Percentile £407 £427 £500
25th Percentile £470 £511 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -23.44% +36.75%
75th Percentile £676 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +125.35% - -

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 8,272 5,730 6,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.23% 43.37% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,666 3,912 4,684
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 94 51
10th Percentile £19.13 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.14 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +3.33% -36.84%
75th Percentile £55.63 £47.50 £44.56
90th Percentile £78.65 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £34.18 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -11.83% -9.09%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +3 54 £575 -8.00% 38
West London -12 9 £500 +0.76% 49
South London - 3 £425 - 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
1 112 (26.73%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 30 (7.16%) Apache
4 9 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.91%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) Luigi
6 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.34%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.48%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.48%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.48%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.24%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 228 (54.42%) AWS
2 170 (40.57%) Azure
3 129 (30.79%) dbt
4 105 (25.06%) Power Platform
5 100 (23.87%) GCP
6 60 (14.32%) GitHub
7 53 (12.65%) Amazon S3
8 45 (10.74%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
10 35 (8.35%) Azure Data Factory
11 33 (7.88%) Serverless
12 28 (6.68%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (5.01%) Dagster
14 19 (4.53%) Fivetran
15 17 (4.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 15 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
17 14 (3.34%) SaaS
18 12 (2.86%) Matillion
18 12 (2.86%) Prefect
19 9 (2.15%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) Broadband
1 2 (0.48%) DSL
1 2 (0.48%) Firewall
1 2 (0.48%) VPN
2 1 (0.24%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.24%) DNS
2 1 (0.24%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.24%) Network Security
2 1 (0.24%) SSH
2 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (34.13%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (24.58%) Power BI
3 53 (12.65%) BigQuery
4 51 (12.17%) Data Lake
5 50 (11.93%) Snowflake Schema
6 43 (10.26%) Tableau
7 38 (9.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (5.97%) Big Data
8 25 (5.97%) SQL Server
9 24 (5.73%) Metadata
10 23 (5.49%) Data Vault
11 18 (4.30%) NoSQL
11 18 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (3.82%) Delta Lake
13 15 (3.58%) Relational Database
14 14 (3.34%) Looker
15 13 (3.10%) Semantic Layer
16 11 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (2.63%) MongoDB
17 9 (2.15%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 45 (10.74%) Git
2 24 (5.73%) GitLab
3 20 (4.77%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.77%) JIRA
4 7 (1.67%) Terragrunt
5 4 (0.95%) Snyk
5 4 (0.95%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.95%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.48%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.48%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.48%) MLflow
6 2 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.48%) Selenium
6 2 (0.48%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 161 (38.42%) Finance
2 116 (27.68%) Social Skills
3 67 (15.99%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (14.80%) Banking
5 39 (9.31%) Retail
6 23 (5.49%) Marketing
7 19 (4.53%) Financial Institution
8 16 (3.82%) Front Office
8 16 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.10%) Legal
10 10 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (2.39%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.15%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.67%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.19%) Back Office
13 5 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.19%) Private Banking
14 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 150 (35.80%) Data Engineer
2 80 (19.09%) Senior
3 76 (18.14%) Snowflake Engineer
4 73 (17.42%) Architect
5 58 (13.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 46 (10.98%) Data Architect
7 45 (10.74%) Analyst
7 45 (10.74%) Senior Data Engineer
8 34 (8.11%) Lead
9 30 (7.16%) Data Analyst
10 25 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (5.25%) Developer
12 20 (4.77%) AWS Data Engineer
13 16 (3.82%) Python Engineer
14 15 (3.58%) Business Analyst
15 14 (3.34%) Consultant
16 13 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (3.10%) Snowflake Architect
17 12 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 12 (2.86%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (14.80%) Terraform
2 38 (9.07%) Kafka
3 22 (5.25%) PySpark
4 21 (5.01%) REST
5 16 (3.82%) .NET
6 9 (2.15%) React
7 7 (1.67%) YAML
8 6 (1.43%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (1.43%) OAuth
9 5 (1.19%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.19%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (1.19%) OpenID
10 4 (0.95%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.95%) Spring
10 4 (0.95%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.95%) Vue
11 3 (0.72%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.72%) Snowpark
11 3 (0.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.75%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.44%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.77%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.82%) AI Agents
5 11 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.63%) Reinsurance
6 10 (2.39%) Fixed Income
6 10 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.39%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.91%) Clustering
7 8 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.43%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.19%) Equities
10 5 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.19%) Life Science
10 5 (1.19%) Replication
10 5 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.19%) Linux
2 3 (0.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (44.15%) Analytics
2 163 (38.90%) Data Engineering
3 158 (37.71%) Data Modelling
4 152 (36.28%) CI/CD
5 148 (35.32%) Data Pipeline
6 137 (32.70%) ETL
7 135 (32.22%) AI
8 116 (27.68%) Business Intelligence
9 104 (24.82%) Agile
10 93 (22.20%) DevOps
11 89 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 85 (20.29%) Data Architecture
13 80 (19.09%) Data Governance
14 64 (15.27%) Machine Learning
15 63 (15.04%) Data Transformation
15 63 (15.04%) Decision-Making
16 62 (14.80%) Migration
17 57 (13.60%) Validation
18 50 (11.93%) Data Science
19 46 (10.98%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 247 (58.95%) SQL
2 221 (52.74%) Python
3 44 (10.50%) Java
4 12 (2.86%) Bash
5 11 (2.63%) R
6 9 (2.15%) C#
6 9 (2.15%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.15%) Scala
7 6 (1.43%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.95%) C++
8 4 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.72%) Bicep
9 3 (0.72%) Cypher
9 3 (0.72%) SHACL
10 2 (0.48%) Delphi
10 2 (0.48%) Korn
10 2 (0.48%) LookML
10 2 (0.48%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (5.25%) Degree
1 22 (5.25%) Security Cleared
2 16 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 8 (1.91%) SnowPro
5 6 (1.43%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.95%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.95%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CBAP
9 1 (0.24%) CISM
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.24%) PMP
9 1 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (26.49%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.97%) GDPR
3 21 (5.01%) QA
4 4 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.72%) EMIR
5 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.72%) MiFID
5 3 (0.72%) PMO
5 3 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.48%) GRC
6 2 (0.48%) SLA
6 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.24%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 31 (7.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.91%) Grafana
3 5 (1.19%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.95%) Control-M
5 2 (0.48%) Ansible
5 2 (0.48%) Argo
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 130 (31.03%) Databricks
2 46 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.25%) Google
4 18 (4.30%) Salesforce
5 17 (4.06%) Informatica
6 13 (3.10%) Oracle
7 9 (2.15%) MicroStrategy
8 8 (1.91%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.67%) Foundry
9 7 (1.67%) Teradata
10 6 (1.43%) Bloomberg
10 6 (1.43%) Denodo
10 6 (1.43%) SAP
11 5 (1.19%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.19%) Talend
11 5 (1.19%) Workday
12 4 (0.95%) FactSet
12 4 (0.95%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.72%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.72%) PagerDuty