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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 147 109
Rank change year-on-year +10 -38 +130
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 431 249 369
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.14% 1.85% 2.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.20% 4.28% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 198 326
10th Percentile £400 £428 £500
25th Percentile £463 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £619 £800
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% -22.66% +34.68%
75th Percentile £675 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +35.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +97.18% - -

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 8,282 5,820 6,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.03% 43.33% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,667 3,960 4,663
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £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 93 94 48
10th Percentile £17.88 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.67% -23.01%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 16 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 16 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 -5 55 £575 -8.00% 75
West London -14 9 £500 +0.76% 48
South London - 3 £425 - 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
1 113 (26.22%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (8.82%) Apache Spark
3 31 (7.19%) Apache
4 10 (2.32%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.86%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) Luigi
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.25%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.46%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.46%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.46%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 231 (53.60%) AWS
2 178 (41.30%) Azure
3 134 (31.09%) dbt
4 107 (24.83%) Power Platform
5 101 (23.43%) GCP
6 66 (15.31%) GitHub
7 55 (12.76%) Amazon S3
8 47 (10.90%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (9.05%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (8.58%) Azure Data Factory
11 33 (7.66%) Serverless
12 28 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (5.10%) Dagster
14 21 (4.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 17 (3.94%) Fivetran
16 16 (3.71%) Amazon EKS
17 14 (3.25%) SaaS
18 12 (2.78%) Matillion
19 11 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
20 10 (2.32%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Broadband
1 2 (0.46%) DSL
1 2 (0.46%) Firewall
1 2 (0.46%) VPN
2 1 (0.23%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.23%) DNS
2 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.23%) SSH
2 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (33.41%) Data Warehouse
2 105 (24.36%) Power BI
3 54 (12.53%) Data Lake
4 53 (12.30%) BigQuery
5 51 (11.83%) Snowflake Schema
6 43 (9.98%) Tableau
7 41 (9.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 28 (6.50%) SQL Server
9 27 (6.26%) Big Data
9 27 (6.26%) Metadata
10 24 (5.57%) Data Vault
11 22 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (4.18%) NoSQL
13 17 (3.94%) Delta Lake
14 15 (3.48%) Relational Database
15 14 (3.25%) Looker
16 13 (3.02%) Semantic Layer
17 12 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
18 11 (2.55%) MongoDB
19 9 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (10.90%) Git
2 23 (5.34%) GitLab
3 19 (4.41%) JIRA
4 18 (4.18%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.62%) Terragrunt
6 5 (1.16%) Snyk
7 4 (0.93%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.93%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.46%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.46%) MLflow
8 2 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.46%) Selenium
8 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
General
1 164 (38.05%) Finance
2 120 (27.84%) Social Skills
3 66 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (14.39%) Banking
5 40 (9.28%) Retail
6 23 (5.34%) Marketing
7 19 (4.41%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.48%) Front Office
10 13 (3.02%) Legal
11 11 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (2.09%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.09%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.39%) Billing
13 6 (1.39%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.16%) Back Office
14 5 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.16%) Private Banking
15 4 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (35.27%) Data Engineer
2 84 (19.49%) Senior
3 76 (17.63%) Architect
4 75 (17.40%) Snowflake Engineer
5 57 (13.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 50 (11.60%) Data Architect
7 49 (11.37%) Senior Data Engineer
8 48 (11.14%) Analyst
9 34 (7.89%) Lead
10 32 (7.42%) Data Analyst
11 25 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (4.87%) Developer
13 20 (4.64%) AWS Data Engineer
14 16 (3.71%) Business Analyst
14 16 (3.71%) Consultant
14 16 (3.71%) Python Engineer
15 13 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (3.02%) Snowflake Architect
16 12 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 12 (2.78%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (15.78%) Terraform
2 39 (9.05%) Kafka
3 28 (6.50%) PySpark
4 21 (4.87%) REST
5 15 (3.48%) .NET
6 8 (1.86%) React
7 7 (1.62%) YAML
8 6 (1.39%) OAuth
9 5 (1.16%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.16%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (1.16%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (1.16%) OpenID
10 4 (0.93%) Pandas
10 4 (0.93%) Spring
10 4 (0.93%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.70%) ADO
11 3 (0.70%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.70%) NumPy
11 3 (0.70%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.31%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.73%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.10%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.71%) AI Agents
5 14 (3.25%) Reinsurance
6 12 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.09%) Fixed Income
8 9 (2.09%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.62%) Taxonomies
10 6 (1.39%) Clustering
10 6 (1.39%) Life Science
10 6 (1.39%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.16%) Replication
12 4 (0.93%) Data Fabric
12 4 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.16%) Linux
2 2 (0.46%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (44.55%) Analytics
2 166 (38.52%) Data Engineering
3 163 (37.82%) Data Modelling
4 155 (35.96%) CI/CD
5 147 (34.11%) Data Pipeline
6 141 (32.71%) AI
6 141 (32.71%) ETL
7 119 (27.61%) Business Intelligence
8 105 (24.36%) Agile
9 95 (22.04%) DevOps
10 92 (21.35%) Stakeholder Management
11 90 (20.88%) Data Architecture
12 82 (19.03%) Data Governance
13 68 (15.78%) Machine Learning
14 67 (15.55%) Data Transformation
14 67 (15.55%) Migration
15 66 (15.31%) Decision-Making
16 63 (14.62%) Validation
17 54 (12.53%) Data Science
18 51 (11.83%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 260 (60.32%) SQL
2 225 (52.20%) Python
3 44 (10.21%) Java
4 12 (2.78%) Bash
4 12 (2.78%) R
5 11 (2.55%) Scala
6 10 (2.32%) C#
6 10 (2.32%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.86%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.93%) Bicep
8 4 (0.93%) C++
8 4 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.70%) Cypher
9 3 (0.70%) SHACL
10 2 (0.46%) Delphi
10 2 (0.46%) Korn
10 2 (0.46%) LookML
10 2 (0.46%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (5.34%) Security Cleared
2 21 (4.87%) Degree
3 15 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (2.55%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.62%) SnowPro
6 6 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.93%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CBAP
10 1 (0.23%) CISM
10 1 (0.23%) CISSP
10 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PMP
10 1 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (26.68%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.57%) GDPR
3 21 (4.87%) QA
4 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.70%) EMIR
5 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.70%) MiFID
5 3 (0.70%) PMO
5 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.70%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.46%) GRC
6 2 (0.46%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (7.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (8.12%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.09%) Grafana
3 6 (1.39%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.93%) Control-M
5 2 (0.46%) Ansible
5 2 (0.46%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (33.18%) Databricks
2 53 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.64%) Google
4 18 (4.18%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.94%) Informatica
6 15 (3.48%) Oracle
7 9 (2.09%) MicroStrategy
8 7 (1.62%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.62%) Talend
8 7 (1.62%) Teradata
9 6 (1.39%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.39%) Denodo
9 6 (1.39%) Foundry
9 6 (1.39%) SAP
10 5 (1.16%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.16%) Workday
11 4 (0.93%) FactSet
11 4 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.70%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.70%) PagerDuty