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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 151 206
Rank change year-on-year -8 +55 +100
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 287 227 197
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.62% 1.81% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.80% 4.26% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 182 178
10th Percentile £366 £463 £511
25th Percentile £440 £519 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £750
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -13.33% +30.43%
75th Percentile £609 £825 £850
90th Percentile £768 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +13.04%
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 7,552 5,326 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.74% 42.37% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,201 3,706 4,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £444
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 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 52 68
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.42 £17.32
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +20.83% -40.21%
75th Percentile £53.35 £50.00 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.25 £73.13 £59.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +84.31% +22.77% -35.70%

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 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 4 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 +10 47 £525 -21.64% 29
West London -20 5 £675 -12.90% 6
South London - 1 - - 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 64 (22.30%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (7.67%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.44%) Apache
4 6 (2.09%) Confluence
5 2 (0.70%) 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 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (2.79%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (7.32%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.74%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.05%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.05%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.70%) 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
1 158 (55.05%) AWS
2 111 (38.68%) Azure
3 69 (24.04%) Power Platform
4 61 (21.25%) GCP
5 60 (20.91%) dbt
6 41 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 33 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (10.45%) GitHub
9 25 (8.71%) Serverless
10 23 (8.01%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (7.32%) Dagster
12 18 (6.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (5.92%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (4.88%) Matillion
14 14 (4.88%) Prefect
15 13 (4.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 10 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
18 6 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 6 (2.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (24.74%) Data Warehouse
2 62 (21.60%) Power BI
3 36 (12.54%) Snowflake Schema
4 35 (12.20%) Tableau
5 32 (11.15%) BigQuery
6 27 (9.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (7.32%) Data Lake
8 18 (6.27%) Data Vault
9 13 (4.53%) SQL Server
10 12 (4.18%) Big Data
11 11 (3.83%) Looker
12 10 (3.48%) Metadata
13 7 (2.44%) Delta Lake
14 6 (2.09%) KNIME
14 6 (2.09%) Relational Database
14 6 (2.09%) Star Schema
15 5 (1.74%) NoSQL
15 5 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 4 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 21 (7.32%) Git
2 17 (5.92%) GitLab
3 15 (5.23%) JIRA
4 12 (4.18%) SpecFlow
5 8 (2.79%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.09%) MLflow
7 3 (1.05%) Selenium
7 3 (1.05%) Snyk
7 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.05%) Toad
8 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.70%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.70%) ERwin
8 2 (0.70%) 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 96 (33.45%) Finance
2 62 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 31 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.10%) Banking
5 23 (8.01%) Retail
6 13 (4.53%) Marketing
7 12 (4.18%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.14%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.74%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.74%) Front Office
11 5 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.74%) Legal
12 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.05%) Back Office
13 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.70%) Law
14 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.70%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 102 (35.54%) Data Engineer
2 63 (21.95%) Snowflake Engineer
3 51 (17.77%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 48 (16.72%) Architect
5 38 (13.24%) Senior
6 36 (12.54%) Analyst
7 28 (9.76%) Lead
8 23 (8.01%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (7.67%) Data Architect
9 22 (7.67%) Senior Data Engineer
10 21 (7.32%) Data Analyst
11 16 (5.57%) AWS Data Engineer
11 16 (5.57%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (5.23%) Business Analyst
13 14 (4.88%) Developer
14 13 (4.53%) Snowflake Architect
15 12 (4.18%) Tester
16 11 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
16 11 (3.83%) Enterprise Architect
16 11 (3.83%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.01%) Kafka
2 13 (4.53%) Playwright
3 12 (4.18%) PySpark
4 7 (2.44%) .NET
5 6 (2.09%) PyTorch
5 6 (2.09%) React
6 5 (1.74%) OAuth
6 5 (1.74%) OpenID
6 5 (1.74%) Pandas
6 5 (1.74%) scikit-learn
6 5 (1.74%) Vue
7 4 (1.39%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.39%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.05%) NumPy
8 3 (1.05%) REST
8 3 (1.05%) Spring
9 2 (0.70%) ADO
9 2 (0.70%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.70%) Node.js
9 2 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.98%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.27%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.83%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.48%) Equities
5 8 (2.79%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.79%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.44%) Clustering
6 7 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.05%) Derivative
10 3 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.05%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.05%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.05%) Replication
11 2 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.35%) Linux
1 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (44.60%) Analytics
2 96 (33.45%) Data Engineering
3 95 (33.10%) Data Modelling
4 88 (30.66%) Data Pipeline
5 86 (29.97%) CI/CD
6 84 (29.27%) ETL
7 82 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
8 73 (25.44%) AI
9 66 (23.00%) DevOps
10 64 (22.30%) Agile
11 51 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (16.03%) Migration
13 41 (14.29%) Data Governance
13 41 (14.29%) Machine Learning
13 41 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 37 (12.89%) Decision-Making
15 36 (12.54%) Infrastructure as Code
15 36 (12.54%) Validation
16 35 (12.20%) Data Architecture
17 32 (11.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 169 (58.89%) SQL
2 154 (53.66%) Python
3 34 (11.85%) Java
4 17 (5.92%) C#
5 15 (5.23%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.18%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.79%) R
8 6 (2.09%) Bash
8 6 (2.09%) Scala
9 4 (1.39%) Bicep
10 3 (1.05%) Korn
10 3 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.70%) 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 21 (7.32%) Degree
1 21 (7.32%) Security Cleared
2 11 (3.83%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.74%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.74%) SnowPro
5 4 (1.39%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.05%) PhD
6 3 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.35%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (20.56%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.62%) GDPR
3 13 (4.53%) QA
4 3 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.05%) SLA
5 2 (0.70%) EMIR
5 2 (0.70%) 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 (7.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (16.03%) Terraform
2 14 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.05%) Grafana
3 3 (1.05%) Kubeflow
3 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 84 (29.27%) Databricks
2 33 (11.50%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.88%) Oracle
4 12 (4.18%) Google
5 10 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.79%) Informatica
6 8 (2.79%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.44%) Charles River
7 7 (2.44%) Denodo
7 7 (2.44%) Talend
8 5 (1.74%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.74%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.74%) Workday
9 4 (1.39%) FactSet
9 4 (1.39%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.39%) MicroStrategy
9 4 (1.39%) Murex
9 4 (1.39%) Splunk
10 3 (1.05%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.05%) Foundry