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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 146 117
Rank change year-on-year +8 -29 +123
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 408 247 358
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.02% 1.84% 2.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.86% 4.26% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 198 332
10th Percentile £406 £430 £500
25th Percentile £471 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -23.44% +35.71%
75th Percentile £688 £825 £888
90th Percentile £776 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +97.18% - -

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 8,399 5,797 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.65% 43.20% 40.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,741 3,967 4,767
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £651 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 90 49
10th Percentile £19.20 £22.95 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.33 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +7.54% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £78.59 £67.95 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -24.24%

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 22 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 22 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 +10 55 £575 -6.12% 15
West London -16 9 £450 -10.00% 44
South London - 2 £438 - 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
1 107 (26.23%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (6.37%) Apache Spark
3 23 (5.64%) Apache
4 10 (2.45%) SharePoint
5 9 (2.21%) Confluence
6 1 (0.25%) Luigi
6 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (4.17%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.23%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.49%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.49%) 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
1 224 (54.90%) AWS
2 153 (37.50%) Azure
3 117 (28.68%) dbt
4 104 (25.49%) Power Platform
5 95 (23.28%) GCP
6 56 (13.73%) Amazon S3
7 52 (12.75%) GitHub
8 39 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (8.33%) Serverless
10 31 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (7.60%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 24 (5.88%) Dagster
13 18 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (4.41%) Prefect
14 17 (4.17%) Fivetran
15 14 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (3.19%) Matillion
17 12 (2.94%) SaaS
17 12 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.49%) Broadband
1 2 (0.49%) DSL
1 2 (0.49%) Firewall
1 2 (0.49%) 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
1 129 (31.62%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (25.00%) Power BI
3 54 (13.24%) BigQuery
4 47 (11.52%) Tableau
5 44 (10.78%) Data Lake
5 44 (10.78%) Snowflake Schema
6 41 (10.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (5.88%) Metadata
7 24 (5.88%) SQL Server
8 22 (5.39%) Big Data
8 22 (5.39%) Data Vault
9 16 (3.92%) NoSQL
10 15 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (3.43%) Looker
11 14 (3.43%) Relational Database
11 14 (3.43%) Semantic Layer
12 11 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (2.70%) Delta Lake
13 10 (2.45%) MongoDB
14 8 (1.96%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 42 (10.29%) Git
2 25 (6.13%) GitLab
3 22 (5.39%) Jenkins
4 20 (4.90%) JIRA
5 6 (1.47%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.98%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.98%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.74%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.74%) Snyk
7 3 (0.74%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.49%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.49%) MLflow
8 2 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.49%) Selenium
9 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.25%) ERwin
9 1 (0.25%) GCC
9 1 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 162 (39.71%) Finance
2 111 (27.21%) Social Skills
3 68 (16.67%) Banking
4 56 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (8.82%) Retail
6 22 (5.39%) Marketing
7 19 (4.66%) Financial Institution
8 17 (4.17%) Front Office
9 15 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.43%) Legal
11 13 (3.19%) Public Sector
12 10 (2.45%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.45%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.96%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.23%) Back Office
15 5 (1.23%) Private Banking
16 4 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (32.84%) Data Engineer
2 76 (18.63%) Architect
3 73 (17.89%) Snowflake Engineer
4 70 (17.16%) Senior
5 57 (13.97%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 48 (11.76%) Analyst
7 45 (11.03%) Data Architect
8 37 (9.07%) Senior Data Engineer
9 33 (8.09%) Lead
10 30 (7.35%) Data Analyst
11 28 (6.86%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (5.39%) AWS Data Engineer
13 19 (4.66%) Developer
14 18 (4.41%) Business Analyst
15 17 (4.17%) Python Engineer
15 17 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (3.43%) Snowflake Architect
17 13 (3.19%) Python Data Engineer
18 12 (2.94%) Consultant
19 11 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (13.48%) Terraform
2 33 (8.09%) Kafka
3 20 (4.90%) PySpark
4 19 (4.66%) REST
5 13 (3.19%) .NET
6 8 (1.96%) React
7 7 (1.72%) YAML
8 6 (1.47%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (1.47%) OAuth
9 5 (1.23%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.23%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (1.23%) OpenID
9 5 (1.23%) Vue
10 4 (0.98%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.98%) Pandas
10 4 (0.98%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.98%) Spring
10 4 (0.98%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.98%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 61 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.11%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.41%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.19%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 11 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.70%) Reinsurance
5 11 (2.70%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.96%) Equities
8 7 (1.72%) Clustering
8 7 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (1.72%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.98%) Data Fabric
10 4 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.98%) Linux
2 3 (0.74%) Unix
3 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (41.67%) Analytics
2 153 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 145 (35.54%) CI/CD
4 141 (34.56%) Data Modelling
5 138 (33.82%) Data Pipeline
6 128 (31.37%) ETL
7 117 (28.68%) AI
8 114 (27.94%) Business Intelligence
9 101 (24.75%) Agile
10 89 (21.81%) DevOps
11 85 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 81 (19.85%) Data Architecture
13 75 (18.38%) Data Governance
14 61 (14.95%) Migration
15 60 (14.71%) Decision-Making
16 59 (14.46%) Data Transformation
17 58 (14.22%) Machine Learning
18 55 (13.48%) Validation
19 44 (10.78%) Data Science
20 42 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 232 (56.86%) SQL
2 214 (52.45%) Python
3 44 (10.78%) Java
4 11 (2.70%) R
5 8 (1.96%) Scala
6 7 (1.72%) Bash
6 7 (1.72%) C#
6 7 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.23%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.98%) C++
9 3 (0.74%) Bicep
9 3 (0.74%) Cypher
9 3 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.74%) SHACL
10 2 (0.49%) Delphi
10 2 (0.49%) Korn
10 2 (0.49%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (6.37%) Degree
2 25 (6.13%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.72%) SnowPro
6 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.98%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CBAP
10 1 (0.25%) CFA
10 1 (0.25%) CISM
10 1 (0.25%) CISSP
10 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (25.25%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.86%) GDPR
3 22 (5.39%) QA
4 5 (1.23%) SLA
5 4 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.74%) EMIR
6 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.74%) MiFID
6 3 (0.74%) PMO
6 3 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.49%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (8.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.70%) Grafana
3 8 (1.96%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.98%) Control-M
5 2 (0.49%) Ansible
5 2 (0.49%) Argo
5 2 (0.49%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 127 (31.13%) Databricks
2 41 (10.05%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.15%) Google
4 16 (3.92%) Informatica
4 16 (3.92%) Salesforce
5 15 (3.68%) Oracle
6 8 (1.96%) Denodo
6 8 (1.96%) MicroStrategy
6 8 (1.96%) Workday
7 7 (1.72%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.72%) SAP
7 7 (1.72%) Teradata
8 6 (1.47%) Charles River
8 6 (1.47%) Foundry
9 5 (1.23%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.23%) FactSet
10 4 (0.98%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.98%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.98%) Splunk
10 4 (0.98%) Talend