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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 144 125
Rank change year-on-year +3 -19 +117
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 400 253 346
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.99% 1.87% 2.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.80% 4.35% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 205 319
10th Percentile £407 £450 £500
25th Percentile £474 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -21.88% +38.27%
75th Percentile £676 £825 £888
90th Percentile £791 £875 -
England median daily rate £575 £575 £800
% change year-on-year - -28.13% +38.41%
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 8,331 5,817 6,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.39% 42.90% 40.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,682 3,990 4,779
10th Percentile £363 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -3.14% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £658 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 89 52
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.90 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%
75th Percentile £55.63 £43.75 £41.19
90th Percentile £76.93 £68.40 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 51 £575 -6.12% 26
West London -11 8 £700 +40.00% 13
South London - 2 £438 -
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
1 102 (25.50%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.00%) Apache
2 24 (6.00%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.50%) Confluence
3 10 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.25%) Luigi
4 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (4.75%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.25%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.50%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.50%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 220 (55.00%) AWS
2 148 (37.00%) Azure
3 111 (27.75%) dbt
4 104 (26.00%) Power Platform
5 87 (21.75%) GCP
6 55 (13.75%) Amazon S3
7 53 (13.25%) GitHub
8 41 (10.25%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (8.25%) Serverless
10 30 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (7.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 24 (6.00%) Dagster
13 18 (4.50%) Prefect
14 17 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (4.25%) Fivetran
15 14 (3.50%) Matillion
16 13 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (2.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.50%) Broadband
1 2 (0.50%) DSL
1 2 (0.50%) Firewall
1 2 (0.50%) VPN
2 1 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.25%) DNS
2 1 (0.25%) Network Security
2 1 (0.25%) SSH
2 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (31.00%) Data Warehouse
2 101 (25.25%) Power BI
3 52 (13.00%) BigQuery
4 47 (11.75%) Data Lake
4 47 (11.75%) Snowflake Schema
5 45 (11.25%) Tableau
6 36 (9.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (5.75%) Data Vault
7 23 (5.75%) Metadata
7 23 (5.75%) SQL Server
8 22 (5.50%) Big Data
9 16 (4.00%) NoSQL
10 14 (3.50%) Delta Lake
10 14 (3.50%) Semantic Layer
11 13 (3.25%) Looker
11 13 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (3.25%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.50%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (2.00%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 41 (10.25%) Git
2 24 (6.00%) GitLab
3 21 (5.25%) JIRA
4 20 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.50%) MLflow
6 5 (1.25%) Terragrunt
7 4 (1.00%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.00%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.75%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.75%) Snyk
8 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.50%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.25%) ERwin
10 1 (0.25%) GCC
10 1 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 158 (39.50%) Finance
2 113 (28.25%) Social Skills
3 65 (16.25%) Banking
4 57 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (9.25%) Retail
6 22 (5.50%) Marketing
7 19 (4.75%) Financial Institution
8 17 (4.25%) Front Office
9 15 (3.75%) Public Sector
10 14 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (3.25%) Legal
12 10 (2.50%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (2.00%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.50%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.25%) Back Office
15 5 (1.25%) Private Banking
16 4 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 128 (32.00%) Data Engineer
2 73 (18.25%) Architect
2 73 (18.25%) Snowflake Engineer
3 67 (16.75%) Senior
4 57 (14.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 47 (11.75%) Analyst
6 43 (10.75%) Data Architect
7 34 (8.50%) Lead
8 33 (8.25%) Senior Data Engineer
9 29 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
9 29 (7.25%) Data Analyst
10 23 (5.75%) AWS Data Engineer
11 19 (4.75%) Developer
12 17 (4.25%) Business Analyst
13 16 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (3.75%) Python Engineer
15 13 (3.25%) Snowflake Architect
16 12 (3.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 12 (3.00%) Python Data Engineer
17 11 (2.75%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.00%) Kafka
2 19 (4.75%) REST
3 18 (4.50%) PySpark
4 13 (3.25%) .NET
5 8 (2.00%) React
6 6 (1.50%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (1.50%) OAuth
6 6 (1.50%) YAML
7 5 (1.25%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.25%) Langfuse
7 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.25%) OpenID
7 5 (1.25%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.25%) Vue
8 4 (1.00%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.00%) Playwright
8 4 (1.00%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.00%) Spring
8 4 (1.00%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.75%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 60 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.25%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.25%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.75%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.50%) AI Agents
6 10 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.25%) Equities
7 9 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.25%) Reinsurance
8 8 (2.00%) Clustering
9 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.50%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.00%) Derivative
12 4 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.00%) Linux
2 3 (0.75%) Unix
3 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (42.75%) Analytics
2 151 (37.75%) Data Engineering
3 138 (34.50%) Data Modelling
4 137 (34.25%) CI/CD
4 137 (34.25%) Data Pipeline
5 121 (30.25%) ETL
6 116 (29.00%) AI
7 113 (28.25%) Business Intelligence
8 99 (24.75%) Agile
9 90 (22.50%) DevOps
10 82 (20.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 79 (19.75%) Data Architecture
12 73 (18.25%) Data Governance
13 58 (14.50%) Machine Learning
14 57 (14.25%) Decision-Making
15 56 (14.00%) Data Transformation
15 56 (14.00%) Migration
16 55 (13.75%) Validation
17 47 (11.75%) Data Science
18 42 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 225 (56.25%) SQL
2 209 (52.25%) Python
3 44 (11.00%) Java
4 13 (3.25%) R
5 8 (2.00%) Bash
5 8 (2.00%) C#
6 7 (1.75%) Scala
7 6 (1.50%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.50%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.50%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.00%) C++
9 3 (0.75%) Cypher
9 3 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.75%) SHACL
10 2 (0.50%) Bicep
10 2 (0.50%) Delphi
10 2 (0.50%) Korn
10 2 (0.50%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (7.00%) Degree
2 27 (6.75%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.50%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.50%) SnowPro
6 5 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.00%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CBAP
9 1 (0.25%) CFA
9 1 (0.25%) CISM
9 1 (0.25%) CISSP
9 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (24.75%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.00%) GDPR
3 21 (5.25%) QA
4 5 (1.25%) SLA
5 3 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.75%) EMIR
5 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.75%) MiFID
5 3 (0.75%) PMO
5 3 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.25%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (8.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (14.00%) Terraform
2 28 (7.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.50%) Grafana
4 8 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.00%) Control-M
6 2 (0.50%) Argo
7 1 (0.25%) Ansible
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (30.00%) Databricks
2 40 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.50%) Google
4 15 (3.75%) Oracle
4 15 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.50%) Informatica
6 8 (2.00%) Denodo
6 8 (2.00%) MicroStrategy
6 8 (2.00%) Workday
7 7 (1.75%) Charles River
7 7 (1.75%) SAP
7 7 (1.75%) Teradata
8 6 (1.50%) Foundry
8 6 (1.50%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.25%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.25%) FactSet
10 4 (1.00%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.00%) Murex
10 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.00%) Splunk