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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 150 204
Rank change year-on-year -7 +54 +110
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 288 226 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.62% 1.81% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.80% 4.28% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 181 188
10th Percentile £368 £463 £513
25th Percentile £450 £519 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £775
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -16.13% +34.78%
75th Percentile £623 £825 £850
90th Percentile £764 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £600 £670
% change year-on-year -12.50% -10.45% +16.52%
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 7,570 5,284 6,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.57% 42.41% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,227 3,666 4,994
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 53 69
10th Percentile £20.04 £22.58 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -42.94%
75th Percentile £54.81 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.75 £72.50 £57.75
England median hourly rate £46.80 £25.98 £21.00
% change year-on-year +80.17% +23.69% -34.98%

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 8 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 8 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 48 £525 -21.64% 25
West London -26 4 £700 -9.68% 5
South London - 1 - - 3
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 63 (21.88%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (7.64%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.43%) Apache
4 6 (2.08%) Confluence
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (2.78%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (7.64%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.74%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.04%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.04%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.69%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.35%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 160 (55.56%) AWS
2 112 (38.89%) Azure
3 67 (23.26%) Power Platform
4 62 (21.53%) dbt
5 61 (21.18%) GCP
6 42 (14.58%) Amazon S3
7 34 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (11.46%) GitHub
9 24 (8.33%) Serverless
10 22 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (7.29%) Dagster
12 18 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (4.86%) Matillion
13 14 (4.86%) Prefect
14 13 (4.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (2.43%) Fivetran
17 6 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (2.08%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (24.31%) Data Warehouse
2 60 (20.83%) Power BI
3 38 (13.19%) Snowflake Schema
4 31 (10.76%) BigQuery
4 31 (10.76%) Tableau
5 26 (9.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (6.60%) Data Lake
7 17 (5.90%) Data Vault
8 12 (4.17%) Big Data
8 12 (4.17%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.82%) Looker
10 10 (3.47%) Metadata
11 8 (2.78%) Delta Lake
12 7 (2.43%) Star Schema
13 6 (2.08%) KNIME
13 6 (2.08%) Relational Database
14 5 (1.74%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 21 (7.29%) Git
2 18 (6.25%) GitLab
3 15 (5.21%) JIRA
4 12 (4.17%) SpecFlow
5 8 (2.78%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.08%) MLflow
7 3 (1.04%) Selenium
7 3 (1.04%) Snyk
7 3 (1.04%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.04%) Toad
8 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.69%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.69%) ERwin
8 2 (0.69%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.35%) GCC
9 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 97 (33.68%) Finance
2 61 (21.18%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.07%) Banking
5 23 (7.99%) Retail
6 13 (4.51%) Marketing
7 12 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.08%) Front Office
9 6 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.74%) Legal
11 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.04%) Back Office
12 3 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.69%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 103 (35.76%) Data Engineer
2 68 (23.61%) Snowflake Engineer
3 55 (19.10%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 49 (17.01%) Architect
5 38 (13.19%) Senior
6 34 (11.81%) Analyst
7 28 (9.72%) Lead
8 22 (7.64%) AWS Engineer
8 22 (7.64%) Data Architect
8 22 (7.64%) Senior Data Engineer
9 21 (7.29%) Data Analyst
10 16 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (5.21%) AWS Data Engineer
12 13 (4.51%) Business Analyst
12 13 (4.51%) Developer
12 13 (4.51%) Snowflake Architect
13 12 (4.17%) Tester
14 11 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (3.82%) Enterprise Architect
14 11 (3.82%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.64%) Kafka
2 13 (4.51%) Playwright
2 13 (4.51%) PySpark
3 7 (2.43%) .NET
4 6 (2.08%) React
5 5 (1.74%) OAuth
5 5 (1.74%) OpenID
5 5 (1.74%) PyTorch
5 5 (1.74%) Vue
6 4 (1.39%) Pandas
6 4 (1.39%) scikit-learn
6 4 (1.39%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.04%) REST
7 3 (1.04%) Spring
7 3 (1.04%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.69%) ADO
8 2 (0.69%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.69%) Node.js
8 2 (0.69%) NumPy
8 2 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.90%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.82%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.47%) Equities
5 8 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.78%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.43%) Clustering
6 7 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.04%) Derivative
9 3 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.04%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.04%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.04%) Replication
10 2 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.35%) Linux
1 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (44.44%) Analytics
2 101 (35.07%) Data Engineering
3 95 (32.99%) Data Modelling
4 88 (30.56%) CI/CD
4 88 (30.56%) Data Pipeline
5 83 (28.82%) ETL
6 82 (28.47%) Business Intelligence
7 73 (25.35%) AI
8 67 (23.26%) DevOps
9 64 (22.22%) Agile
10 52 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (16.32%) Migration
12 42 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (14.24%) Data Governance
13 41 (14.24%) Machine Learning
14 37 (12.85%) Decision-Making
14 37 (12.85%) Infrastructure as Code
14 37 (12.85%) Validation
15 36 (12.50%) Data Architecture
16 33 (11.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 168 (58.33%) SQL
2 155 (53.82%) Python
3 34 (11.81%) Java
4 16 (5.56%) C#
5 15 (5.21%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.78%) R
8 6 (2.08%) Bash
8 6 (2.08%) Scala
9 4 (1.39%) Bicep
10 3 (1.04%) Korn
10 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.35%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.35%) C
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (7.64%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.94%) Degree
3 11 (3.82%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.74%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.74%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.04%) PhD
7 3 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.35%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (19.79%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.25%) GDPR
3 13 (4.51%) QA
4 3 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.04%) SLA
5 2 (0.69%) EMIR
5 2 (0.69%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) FATCA
6 1 (0.35%) GAAP
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.35%) PMO
6 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (7.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (16.32%) Terraform
2 14 (4.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.04%) Grafana
3 3 (1.04%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.69%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 84 (29.17%) Databricks
2 34 (11.81%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.51%) Oracle
4 11 (3.82%) Google
5 8 (2.78%) Informatica
5 8 (2.78%) MuleSoft
5 8 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.43%) Charles River
6 7 (2.43%) Denodo
6 7 (2.43%) Talend
7 5 (1.74%) SimCorp
7 5 (1.74%) Workday
8 4 (1.39%) FactSet
8 4 (1.39%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.39%) MicroStrategy
8 4 (1.39%) Murex
8 4 (1.39%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.39%) Splunk
9 3 (1.04%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.04%) Foundry