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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 159 186
Rank change year-on-year +7 +27 +127
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 319 215 239
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.74% 1.78% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.11% 4.15% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 175 218
10th Percentile £325 £453 £506
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 £888
90th Percentile £765 £875 -
England median daily rate £525 £594 £706
% change year-on-year -11.58% -15.87% +22.74%
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 7,765 5,180 6,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.32% 42.87% 38.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,366 3,537 5,025
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £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 89 57 67
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.27 £17.16
25th Percentile £27.00 £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 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%

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 28 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 28 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 +13 49 £538 -19.78% 32
West London -24 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 71 (22.26%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (8.15%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.51%) Apache
4 5 (1.57%) Confluence
5 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.19%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (6.90%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.57%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.94%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.94%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.63%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.31%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 177 (55.49%) AWS
2 115 (36.05%) Azure
3 81 (25.39%) Power Platform
4 73 (22.88%) dbt
5 66 (20.69%) GCP
6 45 (14.11%) Amazon S3
7 39 (12.23%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (11.60%) GitHub
9 26 (8.15%) Serverless
10 24 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (6.90%) Dagster
12 20 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (5.33%) Matillion
14 15 (4.70%) Prefect
15 11 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 11 (3.45%) Fivetran
16 10 (3.13%) SaaS
17 8 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
17 8 (2.51%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (24.76%) Data Warehouse
2 74 (23.20%) Power BI
3 44 (13.79%) Snowflake Schema
3 44 (13.79%) Tableau
4 36 (11.29%) BigQuery
5 25 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 24 (7.52%) Data Lake
7 19 (5.96%) Data Vault
7 19 (5.96%) SQL Server
8 16 (5.02%) Big Data
9 13 (4.08%) Looker
10 12 (3.76%) Metadata
11 10 (3.13%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.82%) Delta Lake
13 8 (2.51%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.19%) Star Schema
15 6 (1.88%) KNIME
16 5 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
16 5 (1.57%) Semantic Layer
17 4 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (7.84%) Git
2 19 (5.96%) GitLab
3 15 (4.70%) JIRA
4 11 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 10 (3.13%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.88%) MLflow
7 3 (0.94%) Selenium
7 3 (0.94%) Snyk
7 3 (0.94%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.94%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.94%) Toad
8 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.63%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.63%) ERwin
9 1 (0.31%) GCC
9 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 119 (37.30%) Finance
2 69 (21.63%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (11.29%) Banking
5 27 (8.46%) Retail
6 17 (5.33%) Marketing
7 14 (4.39%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.82%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.82%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.51%) Front Office
11 6 (1.88%) Back Office
11 6 (1.88%) Legal
12 5 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.94%) Advertising
14 3 (0.94%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (34.17%) Data Engineer
2 70 (21.94%) Snowflake Engineer
3 56 (17.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 50 (15.67%) Architect
5 48 (15.05%) Senior
6 41 (12.85%) Analyst
7 28 (8.78%) Data Analyst
8 27 (8.46%) Data Architect
9 26 (8.15%) Lead
10 25 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
10 25 (7.84%) Senior Data Engineer
11 20 (6.27%) AWS Data Engineer
12 18 (5.64%) Developer
13 16 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (4.39%) Business Analyst
15 13 (4.08%) Snowflake Architect
16 10 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
16 10 (3.13%) Tester
17 9 (2.82%) Automation Tester
17 9 (2.82%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.27%) Kafka
2 12 (3.76%) PySpark
3 11 (3.45%) Playwright
4 9 (2.82%) .NET
4 9 (2.82%) REST
5 6 (1.88%) React
6 5 (1.57%) OAuth
6 5 (1.57%) OpenID
6 5 (1.57%) Vue
7 4 (1.25%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.25%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.94%) GraphQL
8 3 (0.94%) Pandas
8 3 (0.94%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.94%) Snowpark
8 3 (0.94%) Spring
8 3 (0.94%) YAML
9 2 (0.63%) ADO
9 2 (0.63%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.42%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.02%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (3.76%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.76%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.13%) Equities
5 8 (2.51%) Clustering
5 8 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.19%) Reinsurance
6 7 (2.19%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.94%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.94%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.94%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.94%) Derivative
10 3 (0.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.31%) Linux
1 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (44.51%) Analytics
2 113 (35.42%) Data Engineering
3 100 (31.35%) Data Modelling
3 100 (31.35%) Data Pipeline
4 98 (30.72%) CI/CD
5 95 (29.78%) Business Intelligence
6 89 (27.90%) ETL
7 85 (26.65%) AI
8 73 (22.88%) DevOps
9 70 (21.94%) Agile
10 54 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (16.30%) Migration
12 46 (14.42%) Data Architecture
13 45 (14.11%) Data Governance
13 45 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (13.79%) Validation
15 43 (13.48%) Machine Learning
16 37 (11.60%) Decision-Making
16 37 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
17 35 (10.97%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 187 (58.62%) SQL
2 173 (54.23%) Python
3 43 (13.48%) Java
4 15 (4.70%) C#
5 13 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.76%) R
7 10 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.88%) Bash
9 5 (1.57%) Scala
10 4 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.94%) Bicep
12 2 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.63%) Korn
12 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.31%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.31%) C
13 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (7.52%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.21%) Degree
3 13 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.88%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.88%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.25%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.63%) PhD
8 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.31%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (21.00%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.90%) GDPR
3 14 (4.39%) QA
4 3 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.94%) SLA
5 2 (0.63%) EMIR
5 2 (0.63%) MiFID
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.31%) FATCA
6 1 (0.31%) GAAP
6 1 (0.31%) IFRS
6 1 (0.31%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.31%) PMO
6 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (6.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (15.05%) Terraform
2 14 (4.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.25%) Grafana
3 4 (1.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 89 (27.90%) Databricks
2 30 (9.40%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.70%) Oracle
4 10 (3.13%) Google
5 9 (2.82%) Informatica
6 8 (2.51%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.19%) Denodo
7 7 (2.19%) Talend
8 6 (1.88%) Charles River
9 5 (1.57%) FactSet
9 5 (1.57%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.57%) SimCorp
9 5 (1.57%) Workday
10 4 (1.25%) Murex
10 4 (1.25%) Splunk
11 3 (0.94%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.94%) Eze Software Group
11 3 (0.94%) Foundry
11 3 (0.94%) SAP