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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 173 267
Rank change year-on-year +25 +94 +58
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 301 196 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 1.47% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.22% 3.50% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 135 111
10th Percentile £363 £471 £475
25th Percentile £425 £563 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £641 £838 £738
90th Percentile £738 £875 £745
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £66.75 - -

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 7,130 5,594 6,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.80% 41.84% 37.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,880 3,813 4,956
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 45 77
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -4.69% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.16 £55.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.25 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.58 £27.38 £21.37
% change year-on-year +37.28% +28.10% -14.52%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +19 45 £575 -14.18% 23
West London -19 3 £650 -14.75% 8
South London -15 1 - - 5
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 64 (21.26%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (6.31%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.65%) Apache
4 5 (1.66%) Confluence
5 3 (1.00%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.33%) Luigi
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 11 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.66%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (8.31%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.00%) BambooHR
2 3 (1.00%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.00%) SimCorp Dimension
2 3 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.66%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.66%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 169 (56.15%) AWS
2 141 (46.84%) Azure
3 77 (25.58%) Power Platform
4 62 (20.60%) dbt
5 52 (17.28%) GCP
6 37 (12.29%) Serverless
7 31 (10.30%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (9.97%) Amazon S3
9 27 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (8.64%) GitHub
11 21 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (4.98%) Matillion
13 14 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (3.65%) SaaS
15 9 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (2.66%) Dagster
16 8 (2.66%) Prefect
17 7 (2.33%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (27.24%) Data Warehouse
2 71 (23.59%) Power BI
3 40 (13.29%) Tableau
4 32 (10.63%) Snowflake Schema
5 31 (10.30%) Data Lake
6 22 (7.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (7.31%) Data Vault
7 19 (6.31%) Metadata
8 18 (5.98%) BigQuery
8 18 (5.98%) SQL Server
9 16 (5.32%) Big Data
10 15 (4.98%) Relational Database
11 11 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (2.99%) Looker
12 9 (2.99%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.66%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (2.66%) KNIME
13 8 (2.66%) NoSQL
13 8 (2.66%) Star Schema
14 7 (2.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 23 (7.64%) Git
2 19 (6.31%) GitLab
3 15 (4.98%) SpecFlow
4 14 (4.65%) JIRA
5 9 (2.99%) ERwin
5 9 (2.99%) MLflow
6 8 (2.66%) ER Studio
7 7 (2.33%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.33%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (1.00%) DBeaver
8 3 (1.00%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.00%) Toad
9 2 (0.66%) Selenium
9 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (28.90%) Finance
2 73 (24.25%) Social Skills
3 42 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.97%) Banking
5 18 (5.98%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.32%) Retail
7 11 (3.65%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.32%) Marketing
9 9 (2.99%) Front Office
10 7 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.00%) Back Office
12 3 (1.00%) Law
12 3 (1.00%) Legal
12 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 98 (32.56%) Data Engineer
2 60 (19.93%) Snowflake Engineer
3 46 (15.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 40 (13.29%) Architect
5 37 (12.29%) Analyst
6 33 (10.96%) Lead
7 31 (10.30%) Senior
8 26 (8.64%) Data Analyst
9 22 (7.31%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (6.98%) Developer
11 18 (5.98%) Python Engineer
11 18 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (5.65%) Data Architect
13 16 (5.32%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (4.98%) Business Analyst
14 15 (4.98%) Lead Data Engineer
15 14 (4.65%) Tester
16 12 (3.99%) Python Data Engineer
17 11 (3.65%) AWS Data Engineer
17 11 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.31%) Kafka
2 17 (5.65%) Playwright
3 15 (4.98%) Pandas
4 12 (3.99%) PyTorch
5 10 (3.32%) PySpark
6 9 (2.99%) NumPy
7 7 (2.33%) scikit-learn
8 6 (1.99%) TensorFlow
9 5 (1.66%) JSON
10 4 (1.33%) .NET
10 4 (1.33%) FastAPI
10 4 (1.33%) gRPC
10 4 (1.33%) Node.js
10 4 (1.33%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (1.33%) React
10 4 (1.33%) REST
10 4 (1.33%) SciPy
11 3 (1.00%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.00%) GraphQL
11 3 (1.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.96%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.64%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (5.65%) Data Structures
4 13 (4.32%) Equities
4 13 (4.32%) Fixed Income
5 12 (3.99%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.66%) Derivative
7 7 (2.33%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.99%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.66%) Clustering
9 5 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.66%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.33%) Pricing Data
10 4 (1.33%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.33%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.33%) Replication
11 3 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.00%) Unix
2 2 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (43.52%) Analytics
2 109 (36.21%) Data Modelling
3 101 (33.55%) ETL
4 92 (30.56%) Data Engineering
5 89 (29.57%) Business Intelligence
6 85 (28.24%) Data Pipeline
7 81 (26.91%) Agile
8 72 (23.92%) CI/CD
9 68 (22.59%) AI
10 61 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
11 58 (19.27%) Data Governance
12 57 (18.94%) DevOps
13 43 (14.29%) Migration
14 42 (13.95%) Machine Learning
15 38 (12.62%) Asset Management
15 38 (12.62%) Data Architecture
15 38 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (11.96%) Infrastructure as Code
17 35 (11.63%) Data Science
17 35 (11.63%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 198 (65.78%) SQL
2 172 (57.14%) Python
3 27 (8.97%) Java
4 24 (7.97%) JavaScript
4 24 (7.97%) TypeScript
5 19 (6.31%) C#
6 9 (2.99%) Bash
7 8 (2.66%) R
8 6 (1.99%) Korn
8 6 (1.99%) Scala
9 4 (1.33%) Bicep
10 3 (1.00%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.33%) C
12 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.65%) Degree
3 12 (3.99%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.66%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.33%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.00%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.00%) PhD
8 1 (0.33%) CFA
8 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (22.92%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.32%) GDPR
2 16 (5.32%) QA
3 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.00%) SLA
4 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) FATCA
5 1 (0.33%) GAAP
5 1 (0.33%) GRC
5 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.33%) IFRS
5 1 (0.33%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.33%) MiFID
5 1 (0.33%) PMO
5 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 33 (10.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (15.61%) Terraform
2 23 (7.64%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.66%) Grafana
4 3 (1.00%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 85 (28.24%) Databricks
2 34 (11.30%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.32%) Oracle
4 10 (3.32%) Charles River
5 9 (2.99%) MuleSoft
5 9 (2.99%) Talend
6 8 (2.66%) Google
6 8 (2.66%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.33%) MicroStrategy
8 5 (1.66%) Informatica
8 5 (1.66%) Murex
8 5 (1.66%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.66%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.33%) Denodo
9 4 (1.33%) FactSet
9 4 (1.33%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.33%) Splunk
9 4 (1.33%) Workday
10 3 (1.00%) Sparx