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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 175 219
Rank change year-on-year +37 +44 +114
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 276 209 171
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.92% 1.49% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.32% 3.61% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 144 140
10th Percentile £325 £466 £463
25th Percentile £429 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £579
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +12.35% +0.62%
75th Percentile £698 £838 £713
90th Percentile £825 £888 £738
England median daily rate £525 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £37.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 - -

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 6,387 5,782 6,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.37% 41.20% 37.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,384 3,881 4,978
10th Percentile £343 £350 £329
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 46 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.76 £17.40
25th Percentile £22.73 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £30.80 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -12.01% +35.42%
75th Percentile £54.88 £47.72 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.92 £64.38 £68.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -0.32%

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 January 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 January 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 +10 34 £575 -14.18% 16
West London -19 2 £553 -11.60% 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 58 (21.01%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (8.33%) Apache
3 18 (6.52%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.09%) Confluence
5 2 (0.72%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) Luigi
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (7.61%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.72%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.72%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.72%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 153 (55.43%) AWS
2 132 (47.83%) Azure
3 67 (24.28%) dbt
4 66 (23.91%) Power Platform
5 46 (16.67%) GCP
6 33 (11.96%) Serverless
7 27 (9.78%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (8.33%) GitHub
9 21 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (5.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (3.62%) SaaS
15 9 (3.26%) Fivetran
16 8 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (2.54%) Amazon EMR
17 7 (2.54%) Matillion
18 5 (1.81%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) Firewall
2 1 (0.36%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (25.36%) Data Warehouse
2 63 (22.83%) Power BI
3 45 (16.30%) Data Lake
4 27 (9.78%) Tableau
5 25 (9.06%) Snowflake Schema
6 22 (7.97%) Data Vault
7 21 (7.61%) Amazon Athena
8 19 (6.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (6.88%) Apache Iceberg
9 17 (6.16%) Apache Arrow
9 17 (6.16%) Apache Ignite
9 17 (6.16%) Dremio
10 16 (5.80%) Big Data
10 16 (5.80%) SQL Server
11 15 (5.43%) Metadata
12 14 (5.07%) Relational Database
13 12 (4.35%) BigQuery
14 10 (3.62%) RDBMS
15 9 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (3.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (6.52%) JIRA
2 17 (6.16%) Git
3 14 (5.07%) GitLab
4 12 (4.35%) ERwin
4 12 (4.35%) SpecFlow
5 10 (3.62%) ER Studio
5 10 (3.62%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.81%) MLflow
7 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.09%) DBeaver
8 3 (1.09%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.72%) Selenium
9 2 (0.72%) TestRail
9 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.36%) Toad
10 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 90 (32.61%) Finance
2 70 (25.36%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.23%) Banking
5 24 (8.70%) Front Office
6 23 (8.33%) Investment Banking
7 14 (5.07%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.26%) Marketing
8 9 (3.26%) Retail
9 6 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Law
12 2 (0.72%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.36%) Games
13 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (28.99%) Data Engineer
2 47 (17.03%) Snowflake Engineer
3 39 (14.13%) Senior
4 34 (12.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 33 (11.96%) Analyst
6 32 (11.59%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (10.87%) Architect
8 28 (10.14%) Lead
9 27 (9.78%) Data Analyst
9 27 (9.78%) Python Engineer
10 21 (7.61%) Developer
11 19 (6.88%) Software Engineer
12 17 (6.16%) AWS Software Engineer
12 17 (6.16%) Java Engineer
12 17 (6.16%) Java Software Engineer
12 17 (6.16%) Python Software Engineer
13 16 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
13 16 (5.80%) Senior Java Engineer
13 16 (5.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 16 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.14%) Pandas
2 21 (7.61%) NumPy
3 18 (6.52%) Kafka
4 17 (6.16%) gRPC
4 17 (6.16%) Protocol Buffers
4 17 (6.16%) SciPy
5 14 (5.07%) Playwright
6 9 (3.26%) PySpark
6 9 (3.26%) PyTorch
7 6 (2.17%) JSON
7 6 (2.17%) Node.js
8 5 (1.81%) React
8 5 (1.81%) scikit-learn
8 5 (1.81%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.45%) .NET
9 4 (1.45%) FHIR
9 4 (1.45%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.45%) REST
10 3 (1.09%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.09%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.70%) Equities
2 24 (8.70%) Fixed Income
3 21 (7.61%) Data Structures
4 20 (7.25%) Derivative
5 19 (6.88%) Hedge funds
6 17 (6.16%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (6.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (6.16%) Pricing Data
7 9 (3.26%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.17%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.81%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.45%) Replication
12 3 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.09%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.09%) Unix
2 2 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (38.77%) Analytics
2 94 (34.06%) Data Modelling
3 91 (32.97%) ETL
4 86 (31.16%) Agile
5 76 (27.54%) Data Engineering
6 71 (25.72%) Business Intelligence
7 67 (24.28%) Data Governance
8 66 (23.91%) Data Pipeline
9 60 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
10 57 (20.65%) CI/CD
11 53 (19.20%) Asset Management
12 52 (18.84%) AI
13 50 (18.12%) DevOps
14 39 (14.13%) Machine Learning
15 38 (13.77%) Migration
16 37 (13.41%) Data Transformation
17 35 (12.68%) Data Science
18 33 (11.96%) Software Engineering
19 30 (10.87%) Data Architecture
20 29 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 170 (61.59%) SQL
2 153 (55.43%) Python
3 41 (14.86%) Java
4 37 (13.41%) TypeScript
5 35 (12.68%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.43%) C#
7 8 (2.90%) R
8 7 (2.54%) Bash
8 7 (2.54%) Korn
9 5 (1.81%) Scala
10 4 (1.45%) Bicep
10 4 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.09%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.36%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.36%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (5.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.07%) Degree
3 10 (3.62%) AWS Certification
3 10 (3.62%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.81%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.81%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.09%) PhD
8 2 (0.72%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.72%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (19.20%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.07%) GDPR
3 12 (4.35%) QA
4 4 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.72%) DICOM
5 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.72%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) GRC
6 1 (0.36%) HL7
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.36%) LOINC
6 1 (0.36%) PMO
6 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (9.78%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (13.41%) Terraform
2 22 (7.97%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.45%) Grafana
4 2 (0.72%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 71 (25.72%) Databricks
2 25 (9.06%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.35%) Oracle
4 9 (3.26%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.90%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.54%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.54%) Sparx
7 6 (2.17%) Charles River
7 6 (2.17%) MicroStrategy
7 6 (2.17%) SAP
7 6 (2.17%) Talend
8 5 (1.81%) Google
8 5 (1.81%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.45%) Guidewire
10 3 (1.09%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.09%) IBM
10 3 (1.09%) Informatica
10 3 (1.09%) Murex
10 3 (1.09%) SimCorp
11 2 (0.72%) Bloomberg