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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 165 227
Rank change year-on-year +24 +62 +110
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 266 210 174
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 1.51% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.28% 3.67% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 145 142
10th Percentile £355 £468 £463
25th Percentile £438 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £579
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +12.35% +0.62%
75th Percentile £695 £850 £706
90th Percentile £825 £888 £738
England median daily rate £525 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £37.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 - -

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 6,210 5,718 6,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.22% 41.07% 37.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,242 3,835 5,041
10th Percentile £348 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 43 66
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.45 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £23.80 £20.69
Median hourly rate £26.40 £30.59 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -13.70% -13.38% +38.91%
75th Percentile £55.44 £44.56 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +4 33 £575 -14.18% 13
West London -18 2 £553 -11.60% 4
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 56 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (8.27%) Apache
3 16 (6.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.13%) Confluence
5 2 (0.75%) SAS
6 1 (0.38%) Luigi
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (7.14%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.75%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.75%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.75%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 145 (54.51%) AWS
2 124 (46.62%) Azure
3 65 (24.44%) dbt
3 65 (24.44%) Power Platform
4 44 (16.54%) GCP
5 32 (12.03%) Serverless
6 26 (9.77%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (9.02%) Amazon S3
8 22 (8.27%) GitHub
9 20 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (6.39%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (5.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.38%) Fivetran
14 9 (3.38%) SaaS
15 8 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
16 7 (2.63%) Matillion
17 5 (1.88%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (25.19%) Data Warehouse
2 63 (23.68%) Power BI
3 44 (16.54%) Data Lake
4 27 (10.15%) Tableau
5 24 (9.02%) Snowflake Schema
6 21 (7.89%) Amazon Athena
7 20 (7.52%) Data Vault
8 19 (7.14%) Apache Iceberg
9 18 (6.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (6.39%) Apache Arrow
10 17 (6.39%) Apache Ignite
10 17 (6.39%) Dremio
11 16 (6.02%) Big Data
11 16 (6.02%) SQL Server
12 14 (5.26%) Metadata
13 13 (4.89%) Relational Database
14 11 (4.14%) BigQuery
15 9 (3.38%) RDBMS
15 9 (3.38%) Star Schema
16 7 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (6.39%) JIRA
2 16 (6.02%) Git
3 13 (4.89%) GitLab
4 12 (4.51%) ERwin
5 11 (4.14%) SpecFlow
6 10 (3.76%) ER Studio
6 10 (3.76%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (1.50%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.50%) MLflow
8 3 (1.13%) DBeaver
9 2 (0.75%) Selenium
9 2 (0.75%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.75%) TestRail
9 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (31.58%) Finance
2 68 (25.56%) Social Skills
3 38 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.65%) Banking
5 24 (9.02%) Front Office
6 23 (8.65%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.51%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.01%) Marketing
10 7 (2.63%) Retail
11 6 (2.26%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.13%) Law
14 2 (0.75%) Digital Health
14 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.38%) Games
15 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.38%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 75 (28.20%) Data Engineer
2 45 (16.92%) Snowflake Engineer
3 37 (13.91%) Senior
4 32 (12.03%) Analyst
4 32 (12.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 31 (11.65%) Architect
6 30 (11.28%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (10.15%) Data Analyst
7 27 (10.15%) Python Engineer
8 26 (9.77%) Lead
9 22 (8.27%) Developer
10 19 (7.14%) Software Engineer
11 17 (6.39%) AWS Software Engineer
11 17 (6.39%) Java Engineer
11 17 (6.39%) Java Software Engineer
11 17 (6.39%) Python Software Engineer
12 16 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (6.02%) Senior Java Engineer
12 16 (6.02%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 16 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.53%) Pandas
2 21 (7.89%) NumPy
3 17 (6.39%) gRPC
3 17 (6.39%) Kafka
3 17 (6.39%) Protocol Buffers
3 17 (6.39%) SciPy
4 13 (4.89%) Playwright
5 8 (3.01%) PySpark
5 8 (3.01%) PyTorch
6 6 (2.26%) Node.js
7 5 (1.88%) JSON
7 5 (1.88%) React
7 5 (1.88%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.50%) .NET
8 4 (1.50%) FHIR
8 4 (1.50%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.50%) REST
8 4 (1.50%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.13%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.13%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.65%) Cloud Native
1 23 (8.65%) Equities
1 23 (8.65%) Fixed Income
2 21 (7.89%) Data Structures
3 20 (7.52%) Derivative
4 19 (7.14%) Hedge funds
5 17 (6.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 17 (6.39%) Pricing Data
6 16 (6.02%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.63%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.26%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.50%) Replication
11 3 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.13%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.13%) Unix
2 2 (0.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (37.97%) Analytics
2 92 (34.59%) Data Modelling
3 88 (33.08%) ETL
4 82 (30.83%) Agile
5 72 (27.07%) Data Engineering
6 70 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
7 65 (24.44%) Data Governance
8 63 (23.68%) Data Pipeline
9 54 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (19.17%) Asset Management
10 51 (19.17%) CI/CD
11 47 (17.67%) AI
12 46 (17.29%) DevOps
13 37 (13.91%) Machine Learning
14 35 (13.16%) Data Transformation
15 34 (12.78%) Data Science
16 33 (12.41%) Migration
17 32 (12.03%) Software Engineering
18 28 (10.53%) Data Architecture
19 27 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 164 (61.65%) SQL
2 149 (56.02%) Python
3 37 (13.91%) Java
4 36 (13.53%) TypeScript
5 34 (12.78%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.26%) C#
7 8 (3.01%) R
8 7 (2.63%) Bash
8 7 (2.63%) Korn
9 4 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.50%) Scala
10 3 (1.13%) Bicep
10 3 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.38%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.38%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (4.89%) Degree
1 13 (4.89%) Security Cleared
2 10 (3.76%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.38%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.88%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.88%) SnowPro
5 4 (1.50%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.13%) PhD
7 2 (0.75%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.75%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (19.17%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.89%) GDPR
3 12 (4.51%) QA
4 4 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.75%) DICOM
5 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.75%) MiFID
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) HL7
6 1 (0.38%) IFRS
6 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.38%) LOINC
6 1 (0.38%) PMO
6 1 (0.38%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (8.65%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (12.41%) Terraform
2 19 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.50%) Grafana
4 2 (0.75%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.38%) Ansible
5 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 68 (25.56%) Databricks
2 24 (9.02%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.51%) Oracle
4 8 (3.01%) OpenAI
4 8 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.63%) MuleSoft
5 7 (2.63%) Sparx
6 6 (2.26%) Charles River
6 6 (2.26%) SAP
7 5 (1.88%) Google
7 5 (1.88%) MicroStrategy
7 5 (1.88%) Virgin Media
8 4 (1.50%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.50%) Talend
9 3 (1.13%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.13%) IBM
9 3 (1.13%) Murex
10 2 (0.75%) GoldenSource
10 2 (0.75%) Informatica
10 2 (0.75%) New Relic