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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 150 124
Rank change year-on-year +10 -26 +121
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 405 249 351
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.02% 1.85% 2.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.86% 4.30% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 202 326
10th Percentile £407 £450 £500
25th Percentile £475 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -21.88% +38.27%
75th Percentile £688 £825 £888
90th Percentile £790 £875 -
England median daily rate £575 £555 £800
% change year-on-year +3.60% -30.63% +38.27%
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 8,334 5,789 6,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.51% 43.06% 40.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,701 3,968 4,770
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 88 49
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.85 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.77 £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 £40.94 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £68.85 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.11 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.04% +4.00% -22.86%

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 19 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 19 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 +20 55 £575 -6.12% 15
West London -17 10 £500 - 11
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
1 106 (26.17%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (6.42%) Apache Spark
3 24 (5.93%) Apache
4 10 (2.47%) SharePoint
5 9 (2.22%) Confluence
6 1 (0.25%) Luigi
6 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (4.44%) 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
1 223 (55.06%) AWS
2 151 (37.28%) Azure
3 114 (28.15%) dbt
4 105 (25.93%) Power Platform
5 94 (23.21%) GCP
6 55 (13.58%) Amazon S3
7 52 (12.84%) GitHub
8 40 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (7.90%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (7.90%) Serverless
10 30 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (6.91%) Azure Data Factory
12 24 (5.93%) Dagster
13 18 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (4.44%) Prefect
14 17 (4.20%) Fivetran
15 13 (3.21%) Matillion
16 12 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (2.72%) Datadog
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
1 127 (31.36%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (25.19%) Power BI
3 55 (13.58%) BigQuery
4 47 (11.60%) Tableau
5 45 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
6 44 (10.86%) Data Lake
7 39 (9.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (5.43%) Big Data
8 22 (5.43%) Data Vault
8 22 (5.43%) Metadata
8 22 (5.43%) SQL Server
9 16 (3.95%) NoSQL
10 14 (3.46%) Looker
10 14 (3.46%) Semantic Layer
11 13 (3.21%) Delta Lake
11 13 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (3.21%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.47%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (1.98%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 42 (10.37%) Git
2 24 (5.93%) GitLab
3 21 (5.19%) Jenkins
4 20 (4.94%) JIRA
5 6 (1.48%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.99%) MLflow
6 4 (0.99%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.74%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.74%) Snyk
7 3 (0.74%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.74%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.49%) Claude Code
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
1 161 (39.75%) Finance
2 110 (27.16%) Social Skills
3 67 (16.54%) Banking
4 54 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (9.14%) Retail
6 22 (5.43%) Marketing
7 19 (4.69%) Financial Institution
8 18 (4.44%) Front Office
9 15 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (3.21%) Legal
10 13 (3.21%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (2.22%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.48%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.23%) Back Office
14 5 (1.23%) Private Banking
15 4 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (32.84%) Data Engineer
2 73 (18.02%) Architect
2 73 (18.02%) Snowflake Engineer
3 69 (17.04%) Senior
4 57 (14.07%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 48 (11.85%) Analyst
6 42 (10.37%) Data Architect
7 36 (8.89%) Senior Data Engineer
8 34 (8.40%) Lead
9 30 (7.41%) Data Analyst
10 28 (6.91%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (5.43%) AWS Data Engineer
12 19 (4.69%) Developer
13 18 (4.44%) Business Analyst
14 17 (4.20%) Python Engineer
15 16 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (3.46%) Snowflake Architect
17 13 (3.21%) Python Data Engineer
18 12 (2.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 12 (2.96%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.65%) Kafka
2 20 (4.94%) PySpark
3 19 (4.69%) REST
4 13 (3.21%) .NET
5 8 (1.98%) React
6 6 (1.48%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (1.48%) OAuth
6 6 (1.48%) PyTorch
6 6 (1.48%) YAML
7 5 (1.23%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.23%) Langfuse
7 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.23%) OpenID
7 5 (1.23%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.23%) Vue
8 4 (0.99%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.99%) Pandas
8 4 (0.99%) Spring
8 4 (0.99%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.99%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 64 (15.80%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.20%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.46%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.72%) AI Agents
5 11 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.72%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.22%) Equities
7 9 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.22%) Reinsurance
8 8 (1.98%) Clustering
8 8 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.48%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.23%) Derivative
12 4 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.99%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.99%) Linux
2 3 (0.74%) Unix
3 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (41.73%) Analytics
2 156 (38.52%) Data Engineering
3 142 (35.06%) CI/CD
4 140 (34.57%) Data Modelling
5 138 (34.07%) Data Pipeline
6 124 (30.62%) ETL
7 118 (29.14%) AI
8 115 (28.40%) Business Intelligence
9 100 (24.69%) Agile
10 88 (21.73%) DevOps
11 81 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 78 (19.26%) Data Architecture
13 73 (18.02%) Data Governance
14 60 (14.81%) Machine Learning
15 59 (14.57%) Decision-Making
16 58 (14.32%) Data Transformation
16 58 (14.32%) Migration
17 57 (14.07%) Validation
18 47 (11.60%) Data Science
19 43 (10.62%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 231 (57.04%) SQL
2 215 (53.09%) Python
3 44 (10.86%) Java
4 11 (2.72%) R
5 8 (1.98%) Scala
6 7 (1.73%) C#
7 6 (1.48%) Bash
7 6 (1.48%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.23%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.99%) C++
10 3 (0.74%) Cypher
10 3 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.74%) SHACL
11 2 (0.49%) Bicep
11 2 (0.49%) Delphi
11 2 (0.49%) Korn
11 2 (0.49%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (6.42%) Degree
2 25 (6.17%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.96%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.73%) SnowPro
6 6 (1.48%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.99%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.49%) 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
1 101 (24.94%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.91%) GDPR
3 21 (5.19%) QA
4 5 (1.23%) SLA
5 4 (0.99%) 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 34 (8.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (13.83%) Terraform
2 32 (7.90%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.47%) Grafana
4 8 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.99%) Control-M
6 2 (0.49%) Argo
6 2 (0.49%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.25%) Ansible
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 121 (29.88%) Databricks
2 40 (9.88%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.19%) Google
4 15 (3.70%) Oracle
4 15 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.46%) Informatica
6 8 (1.98%) Denodo
6 8 (1.98%) MicroStrategy
6 8 (1.98%) Workday
7 7 (1.73%) Charles River
7 7 (1.73%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.73%) SAP
7 7 (1.73%) Teradata
8 6 (1.48%) Foundry
9 5 (1.23%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.23%) FactSet
10 4 (0.99%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.99%) Murex
10 4 (0.99%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.99%) Splunk