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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 169 224
Rank change year-on-year +30 +55 +108
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 277 216 175
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.94% 1.51% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.38% 3.68% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 151 143
10th Percentile £363 £454 £453
25th Percentile £450 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £579
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +12.35% +0.62%
75th Percentile £700 £850 £700
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 6,329 5,867 6,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.23% 41.01% 37.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,331 3,961 5,081
10th Percentile £344 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 43 63
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.45 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.80 £20.88
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.16% -12.99% +31.96%
75th Percentile £54.31 £49.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.75 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.36 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.87% +26.47% -2.17%

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 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 4 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 +4 34 £625 -2.53% 36
West London -16 2 £553 -11.60% 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 62 (22.38%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (10.11%) Apache
3 18 (6.50%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.08%) Confluence
5 2 (0.72%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) Luigi
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (6.86%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.53%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 151 (54.51%) AWS
2 129 (46.57%) Azure
3 70 (25.27%) dbt
4 66 (23.83%) Power Platform
5 48 (17.33%) GCP
6 32 (11.55%) Serverless
7 26 (9.39%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (8.66%) Amazon S3
9 22 (7.94%) GitHub
10 21 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (6.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (5.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.25%) Fivetran
15 8 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.89%) SaaS
16 7 (2.53%) Amazon EMR
16 7 (2.53%) Matillion
17 5 (1.81%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) Firewall
2 1 (0.36%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (25.63%) Data Warehouse
2 64 (23.10%) Power BI
3 47 (16.97%) Data Lake
4 30 (10.83%) Tableau
5 25 (9.03%) Snowflake Schema
6 24 (8.66%) Amazon Athena
7 22 (7.94%) Apache Iceberg
8 21 (7.58%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (7.22%) Apache Arrow
9 20 (7.22%) Apache Ignite
9 20 (7.22%) Data Vault
9 20 (7.22%) Dremio
10 16 (5.78%) Big Data
10 16 (5.78%) SQL Server
11 14 (5.05%) BigQuery
11 14 (5.05%) Metadata
12 13 (4.69%) Relational Database
13 9 (3.25%) RDBMS
13 9 (3.25%) Star Schema
14 7 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.50%) Git
2 17 (6.14%) JIRA
3 13 (4.69%) GitLab
4 12 (4.33%) ERwin
5 11 (3.97%) SpecFlow
6 10 (3.61%) ER Studio
6 10 (3.61%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (1.44%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.44%) MLflow
8 3 (1.08%) DBeaver
9 2 (0.72%) Selenium
9 2 (0.72%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.72%) TestRail
9 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 88 (31.77%) Finance
2 73 (26.35%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (12.27%) Banking
5 27 (9.75%) Front Office
6 26 (9.39%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.33%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.53%) Marketing
9 7 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.53%) Retail
10 6 (2.17%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Law
12 2 (0.72%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.72%) Portuguese Language
13 1 (0.36%) Games
13 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (27.08%) Data Engineer
2 45 (16.25%) Snowflake Engineer
3 43 (15.52%) Senior
4 33 (11.91%) Analyst
4 33 (11.91%) Architect
4 33 (11.91%) AWS Engineer
5 32 (11.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 30 (10.83%) Python Engineer
7 27 (9.75%) Data Analyst
8 25 (9.03%) Lead
9 23 (8.30%) Developer
10 22 (7.94%) Software Engineer
11 20 (7.22%) AWS Software Engineer
11 20 (7.22%) Java Engineer
11 20 (7.22%) Java Software Engineer
11 20 (7.22%) Python Software Engineer
12 19 (6.86%) Senior Java Engineer
12 19 (6.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 19 (6.86%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (5.78%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.91%) Pandas
2 24 (8.66%) NumPy
3 20 (7.22%) gRPC
3 20 (7.22%) Protocol Buffers
3 20 (7.22%) SciPy
4 17 (6.14%) Kafka
5 13 (4.69%) Playwright
6 8 (2.89%) PySpark
6 8 (2.89%) PyTorch
7 6 (2.17%) Node.js
8 5 (1.81%) JSON
8 5 (1.81%) React
8 5 (1.81%) scikit-learn
9 4 (1.44%) .NET
9 4 (1.44%) FHIR
9 4 (1.44%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.44%) REST
9 4 (1.44%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.08%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.08%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.03%) Equities
1 25 (9.03%) Fixed Income
2 23 (8.30%) Derivative
3 22 (7.94%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.94%) Hedge funds
4 21 (7.58%) Data Structures
5 20 (7.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (7.22%) Pricing Data
6 16 (5.78%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.17%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.81%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.81%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.44%) Replication
11 3 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.08%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.08%) Unix
2 2 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (36.82%) Analytics
2 95 (34.30%) Data Modelling
3 92 (33.21%) ETL
4 88 (31.77%) Agile
5 72 (25.99%) Data Engineering
6 70 (25.27%) Business Intelligence
7 66 (23.83%) Data Governance
8 65 (23.47%) Data Pipeline
9 56 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (19.86%) Asset Management
11 51 (18.41%) CI/CD
12 48 (17.33%) AI
13 46 (16.61%) DevOps
14 37 (13.36%) Data Science
14 37 (13.36%) Data Transformation
15 36 (13.00%) Machine Learning
15 36 (13.00%) Migration
15 36 (13.00%) Software Engineering
16 30 (10.83%) Data Integration
17 29 (10.47%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 172 (62.09%) SQL
2 157 (56.68%) Python
3 40 (14.44%) Java
4 39 (14.08%) JavaScript
4 39 (14.08%) TypeScript
5 14 (5.05%) C#
6 8 (2.89%) R
7 7 (2.53%) Bash
7 7 (2.53%) Korn
8 4 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.44%) Scala
9 3 (1.08%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.72%) Bicep
10 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.36%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.36%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (4.69%) Degree
1 13 (4.69%) Security Cleared
2 10 (3.61%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.25%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.17%) SnowPro
5 5 (1.81%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.44%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.08%) PhD
7 3 (1.08%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.72%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (19.13%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.05%) QA
3 12 (4.33%) GDPR
4 4 (1.44%) 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 24 (8.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (11.19%) Terraform
2 19 (6.86%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.44%) 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 70 (25.27%) Databricks
2 24 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.33%) Oracle
4 8 (2.89%) OpenAI
4 8 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.53%) MuleSoft
5 7 (2.53%) Sparx
6 6 (2.17%) Charles River
6 6 (2.17%) Google
6 6 (2.17%) SAP
7 5 (1.81%) Cloudera
7 5 (1.81%) MicroStrategy
7 5 (1.81%) Virgin Media
8 4 (1.44%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.44%) Informatica
8 4 (1.44%) Talend
9 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.08%) IBM
9 3 (1.08%) Murex
10 2 (0.72%) Citrix