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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 150 135
Rank change year-on-year +4 -15 +148
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 370 247 329
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.81% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.51% 4.22% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 201 302
10th Percentile £407 £450 £506
25th Percentile £464 £513 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -21.88% +39.13%
75th Percentile £688 £825 £888
90th Percentile £799 £875 -
England median daily rate £568 £575 £800
% change year-on-year -1.30% -28.13% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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 8,212 5,856 6,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.45% 42.92% 40.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,608 3,999 5,047
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 82 62
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.55 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.83 £22.13
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -50.96%
75th Percentile £54.88 £46.56 £40.25
90th Percentile £74.88 £67.31 £65.65
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +23 58 £575 -6.12% 24
West London -17 6 £850 +13.33% 2
South London - 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 83 (22.43%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.49%) Apache Spark
3 18 (4.86%) Apache
4 9 (2.43%) Confluence
4 9 (2.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.27%) Luigi
5 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.62%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (5.95%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.35%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.81%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.54%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.27%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 191 (51.62%) AWS
2 129 (34.86%) Azure
3 98 (26.49%) Power Platform
4 91 (24.59%) dbt
5 85 (22.97%) GCP
6 53 (14.32%) Amazon S3
7 42 (11.35%) GitHub
8 37 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (7.84%) Serverless
10 26 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (7.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 26 (7.03%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (6.22%) Dagster
12 19 (5.14%) Matillion
13 17 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (4.32%) Prefect
15 14 (3.78%) Fivetran
16 12 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (2.97%) Datadog
18 10 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) Broadband
1 2 (0.54%) DSL
2 1 (0.27%) DNS
2 1 (0.27%) Firewall
2 1 (0.27%) SSL
2 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (27.57%) Data Warehouse
2 94 (25.41%) Power BI
3 49 (13.24%) BigQuery
4 47 (12.70%) Snowflake Schema
4 47 (12.70%) Tableau
5 39 (10.54%) Data Lake
6 30 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (5.95%) Big Data
7 22 (5.95%) SQL Server
8 20 (5.41%) Metadata
9 18 (4.86%) Data Vault
10 15 (4.05%) Looker
11 14 (3.78%) NoSQL
12 12 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (3.24%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.70%) Delta Lake
14 9 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (2.43%) MongoDB
15 8 (2.16%) Semantic Layer
16 7 (1.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (9.19%) Git
2 21 (5.68%) GitLab
3 20 (5.41%) JIRA
4 15 (4.05%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.62%) MLflow
6 5 (1.35%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.81%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.81%) Snyk
7 3 (0.81%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.54%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.54%) Selenium
8 2 (0.54%) Toad
9 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.27%) ERwin
9 1 (0.27%) GCC
9 1 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 146 (39.46%) Finance
2 92 (24.86%) Social Skills
3 58 (15.68%) Banking
4 44 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (9.73%) Retail
6 20 (5.41%) Marketing
7 17 (4.59%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.78%) Front Office
9 13 (3.51%) Public Sector
10 12 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (3.24%) Legal
11 9 (2.43%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.16%) Back Office
12 8 (2.16%) Manufacturing
12 8 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.62%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.35%) Retail Banking
15 4 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (1.08%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (32.70%) Data Engineer
2 77 (20.81%) Snowflake Engineer
3 65 (17.57%) Architect
4 60 (16.22%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 53 (14.32%) Senior
6 47 (12.70%) Analyst
7 36 (9.73%) Data Architect
8 29 (7.84%) Data Analyst
9 28 (7.57%) Lead
10 26 (7.03%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (6.76%) Senior Data Engineer
12 21 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (5.41%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (5.14%) Developer
15 18 (4.86%) Business Analyst
16 13 (3.51%) Consultant
17 12 (3.24%) Snowflake Architect
18 11 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
18 11 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
19 10 (2.70%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.49%) Kafka
2 17 (4.59%) REST
3 13 (3.51%) PySpark
4 10 (2.70%) .NET
5 8 (2.16%) React
6 6 (1.62%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (1.62%) YAML
7 5 (1.35%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.35%) Langfuse
7 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.35%) OAuth
7 5 (1.35%) OpenID
7 5 (1.35%) Playwright
7 5 (1.35%) Snowpark
7 5 (1.35%) Vue
8 4 (1.08%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.08%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.08%) Spring
8 4 (1.08%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.81%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 51 (13.78%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.59%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.51%) Fixed Income
4 12 (3.24%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.43%) Clustering
7 9 (2.43%) Equities
7 9 (2.43%) Reinsurance
8 8 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.35%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.35%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.08%) Data Fabric
12 4 (1.08%) Derivative
12 4 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.54%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (44.86%) Analytics
2 135 (36.49%) Data Engineering
3 128 (34.59%) Data Modelling
4 122 (32.97%) Data Pipeline
5 112 (30.27%) CI/CD
6 111 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
7 110 (29.73%) ETL
8 106 (28.65%) AI
9 81 (21.89%) Agile
10 74 (20.00%) DevOps
11 71 (19.19%) Data Architecture
12 65 (17.57%) Data Governance
13 58 (15.68%) Migration
13 58 (15.68%) Stakeholder Management
14 54 (14.59%) Validation
15 52 (14.05%) Machine Learning
16 46 (12.43%) Decision-Making
17 43 (11.62%) Data Science
17 43 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
18 42 (11.35%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 209 (56.49%) SQL
2 196 (52.97%) Python
3 42 (11.35%) Java
4 15 (4.05%) R
5 9 (2.43%) C#
6 7 (1.89%) Bash
6 7 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.89%) Scala
6 7 (1.89%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.35%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.81%) Cypher
8 3 (0.81%) SHACL
9 2 (0.54%) Bicep
9 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.54%) Delphi
9 2 (0.54%) Korn
9 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.54%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.27%) Go
10 1 (0.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 28 (7.57%) Degree
2 23 (6.22%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (2.97%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.16%) SnowPro
6 5 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.08%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CBAP
10 1 (0.27%) CFA
10 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (23.78%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.30%) GDPR
3 15 (4.05%) QA
4 5 (1.35%) SLA
5 3 (0.81%) EMIR
5 3 (0.81%) MiFID
5 3 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.54%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.27%) FATCA
7 1 (0.27%) GAAP
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (6.49%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (13.78%) Terraform
2 19 (5.14%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.70%) Grafana
4 8 (2.16%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.54%) Argo
6 1 (0.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 103 (27.84%) Databricks
2 39 (10.54%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.59%) Google
4 15 (4.05%) Oracle
4 15 (4.05%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.24%) Informatica
6 9 (2.43%) Charles River
7 8 (2.16%) Denodo
8 7 (1.89%) FactSet
9 6 (1.62%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.62%) SAP
9 6 (1.62%) Talend
9 6 (1.62%) Workday
10 5 (1.35%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.35%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.35%) Foundry
10 5 (1.35%) Murex
11 4 (1.08%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (1.08%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.08%) Splunk