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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 157 187
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 +125
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 296 217 226
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.64% 1.77% 1.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 4.17% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 178 206
10th Percentile £325 £454 £513
25th Percentile £425 £516 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £800
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -18.75% +39.13%
75th Percentile £650 £825 £881
90th Percentile £774 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +21.74%
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 7,631 5,205 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.18% 42.54% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,283 3,579 4,996
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 56 69
10th Percentile £20.87 £23.01 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +16.18% -40.91%
75th Percentile £53.94 £47.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.23 £67.50 £57.75
England median hourly rate £41.78 £26.45 £21.37
% change year-on-year +57.96% +23.77% -34.04%

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 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 22 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 +15 48 £525 -21.64% 21
West London -25 4 £700 -9.68% 2
South London - 1 - - 2
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 65 (21.96%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (7.43%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.36%) Apache
4 5 (1.69%) Confluence
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.36%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (7.43%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.69%) BambooHR
3 3 (1.01%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.01%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.68%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.34%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 167 (56.42%) AWS
2 105 (35.47%) Azure
3 70 (23.65%) Power Platform
4 62 (20.95%) dbt
4 62 (20.95%) GCP
5 44 (14.86%) Amazon S3
6 33 (11.15%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (10.81%) GitHub
8 25 (8.45%) Serverless
9 23 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (7.43%) Dagster
11 18 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (4.73%) Matillion
13 14 (4.73%) Prefect
14 11 (3.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (2.70%) Datadog
16 7 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (2.36%) Fivetran
16 7 (2.36%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (22.64%) Data Warehouse
2 63 (21.28%) Power BI
3 39 (13.18%) Snowflake Schema
4 37 (12.50%) Tableau
5 33 (11.15%) BigQuery
6 23 (7.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (6.42%) Data Lake
8 18 (6.08%) SQL Server
9 17 (5.74%) Data Vault
10 13 (4.39%) Big Data
11 12 (4.05%) Looker
12 10 (3.38%) Metadata
13 8 (2.70%) Delta Lake
13 8 (2.70%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.36%) Star Schema
15 6 (2.03%) KNIME
15 6 (2.03%) NoSQL
16 5 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
16 5 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 4 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 23 (7.77%) Git
2 16 (5.41%) GitLab
3 14 (4.73%) JIRA
4 11 (3.72%) SpecFlow
5 8 (2.70%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.03%) MLflow
7 3 (1.01%) Selenium
7 3 (1.01%) Snyk
7 3 (1.01%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.01%) Toad
8 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.68%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.68%) ERwin
8 2 (0.68%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.34%) GCC
9 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 108 (36.49%) Finance
2 62 (20.95%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.15%) Banking
4 32 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.45%) Retail
6 13 (4.39%) Marketing
6 13 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.04%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.36%) Front Office
10 6 (2.03%) Back Office
10 6 (2.03%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.03%) Legal
11 5 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (33.78%) Data Engineer
2 67 (22.64%) Snowflake Engineer
3 54 (18.24%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 49 (16.55%) Architect
5 40 (13.51%) Senior
6 37 (12.50%) Analyst
7 26 (8.78%) Data Architect
7 26 (8.78%) Lead
8 24 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (8.11%) Data Analyst
9 21 (7.09%) Senior Data Engineer
10 19 (6.42%) AWS Data Engineer
11 16 (5.41%) Developer
11 16 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (4.39%) Business Analyst
12 13 (4.39%) Snowflake Architect
13 11 (3.72%) Tester
14 10 (3.38%) Automation Tester
14 10 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
15 9 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.09%) Kafka
2 12 (4.05%) Playwright
3 11 (3.72%) PySpark
4 8 (2.70%) .NET
5 7 (2.36%) REST
6 6 (2.03%) React
7 5 (1.69%) OAuth
7 5 (1.69%) OpenID
7 5 (1.69%) Vue
8 4 (1.35%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.35%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.01%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.01%) Pandas
9 3 (1.01%) scikit-learn
9 3 (1.01%) Snowpark
9 3 (1.01%) Spring
10 2 (0.68%) ADO
10 2 (0.68%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.68%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.85%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.74%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (4.05%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.38%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.38%) Equities
5 8 (2.70%) Clustering
6 7 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.36%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.35%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.01%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.01%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.01%) Derivative
10 3 (1.01%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.68%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.34%) Linux
1 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (43.92%) Analytics
2 100 (33.78%) Data Engineering
3 93 (31.42%) Data Modelling
4 88 (29.73%) CI/CD
5 86 (29.05%) Data Pipeline
6 85 (28.72%) Business Intelligence
7 80 (27.03%) ETL
8 77 (26.01%) AI
9 65 (21.96%) DevOps
10 63 (21.28%) Agile
11 50 (16.89%) Migration
11 50 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (13.85%) Data Architecture
13 41 (13.85%) Data Governance
13 41 (13.85%) Validation
14 37 (12.50%) Machine Learning
15 36 (12.16%) Decision-Making
16 35 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
17 31 (10.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 168 (56.76%) SQL
2 159 (53.72%) Python
3 40 (13.51%) Java
4 16 (5.41%) C#
5 14 (4.73%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.72%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.38%) R
8 5 (1.69%) Bash
8 5 (1.69%) Scala
9 3 (1.01%) Bicep
9 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.68%) Korn
10 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.34%) C
11 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (7.77%) Degree
2 22 (7.43%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.03%) SnowPro
6 5 (1.69%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.35%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.68%) PhD
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.34%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (19.93%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.42%) GDPR
3 12 (4.05%) QA
4 3 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.01%) SLA
5 2 (0.68%) EMIR
5 2 (0.68%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) FATCA
6 1 (0.34%) GAAP
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (6.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (15.20%) Terraform
2 13 (4.39%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.01%) Grafana
3 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 85 (28.72%) Databricks
2 27 (9.12%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.07%) Oracle
4 10 (3.38%) Google
5 8 (2.70%) Informatica
5 8 (2.70%) MuleSoft
5 8 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.36%) Denodo
6 7 (2.36%) Talend
7 6 (2.03%) Charles River
8 5 (1.69%) FactSet
8 5 (1.69%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.69%) Workday
9 4 (1.35%) MicroStrategy
9 4 (1.35%) Murex
10 3 (1.01%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.01%) Eze Software Group
10 3 (1.01%) Foundry
10 3 (1.01%) Splunk