Snowflake Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Snowflake
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Snowflake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 96 101
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +26
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 52 26 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.22% 1.42% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.54% 3.42% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 20 11
10th Percentile £407 £390 £538
25th Percentile £463 £553 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £619 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% -11.61% +16.67%
75th Percentile £703 £650 £731
90th Percentile £790 £730 £738
Central London median daily rate £575 £613 £650
% change year-on-year -6.12% -5.77% +7.44%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 939 761 830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.16% 41.45% 40.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 507 573
10th Percentile £371 £337 £383
25th Percentile £463 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £661 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £762
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +25.93% -10.74%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £84.11 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +6.62% +25.93% -10.74%

Snowflake
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Snowflake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Snowflake job vacancy trend in the City of London

Snowflake
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Snowflake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Snowflake

Snowflake
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake in the City of London

Snowflake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 22 (42.31%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.77%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (9.62%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.92%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 28 (53.85%) AWS
2 19 (36.54%) Azure
2 19 (36.54%) dbt
3 18 (34.62%) Power Platform
4 11 (21.15%) GCP
5 10 (19.23%) Prefect
6 7 (13.46%) Dagster
7 6 (11.54%) Amazon S3
8 5 (9.62%) GitHub
9 3 (5.77%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.85%) Fivetran
10 2 (3.85%) Serverless
11 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (1.92%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (34.62%) Power BI
2 17 (32.69%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (26.92%) Tableau
4 7 (13.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (13.46%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (11.54%) BigQuery
6 5 (9.62%) Looker
7 4 (7.69%) Metadata
8 3 (5.77%) Big Data
8 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (5.77%) MongoDB
8 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
8 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
8 3 (5.77%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
8 3 (5.77%) Star Schema
9 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.85%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.92%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.85%) Git
2 2 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.92%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (48.08%) Finance
2 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
4 8 (15.38%) Banking
5 5 (9.62%) Legal
6 4 (7.69%) Telecoms
7 3 (5.77%) Front Office
8 2 (3.85%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.85%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.92%) Advertising
9 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.92%) Law
9 1 (1.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Data Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) Analyst
3 10 (19.23%) Data Analyst
4 9 (17.31%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Snowflake Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Architect
6 6 (11.54%) Data Architect
6 6 (11.54%) Senior
7 4 (7.69%) Business Analyst
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Business Data Analyst
9 2 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
9 2 (3.85%) Lead
10 1 (1.92%) Financial Analyst
10 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 1 (1.92%) Principal Architect
10 1 (1.92%) Senior Architect
10 1 (1.92%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) Kafka
2 6 (11.54%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) .NET
3 2 (3.85%) PySpark
3 2 (3.85%) Spring
3 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.92%) ADO
4 1 (1.92%) Node.js
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.46%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.69%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.77%) Clustering
4 3 (5.77%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.85%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.92%) Derivative
6 1 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.92%) Equities
6 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.92%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (61.54%) Analytics
2 24 (46.15%) Data Engineering
3 22 (42.31%) Data Modelling
4 21 (40.38%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (36.54%) CI/CD
5 19 (36.54%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (32.69%) AI
7 16 (30.77%) ETL
8 14 (26.92%) Decision-Making
9 12 (23.08%) Data Architecture
10 11 (21.15%) DevOps
11 10 (19.23%) Data Governance
12 8 (15.38%) Asset Management
12 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (15.38%) Validation
13 7 (13.46%) Agile
13 7 (13.46%) Data Transformation
13 7 (13.46%) Migration
13 7 (13.46%) Software Engineering
13 7 (13.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (63.46%) SQL
2 29 (55.77%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) Java
4 2 (3.85%) R
4 2 (3.85%) Scala
5 1 (1.92%) Bash
5 1 (1.92%) Bicep
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) SnowPro
2 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 10 (19.23%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.85%) EMIR
3 2 (3.85%) MiFID
3 2 (3.85%) QA
4 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.92%) SLA
4 1 (1.92%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Grafana
2 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (34.62%) Databricks
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.62%) Workday
4 3 (5.77%) Informatica
4 3 (5.77%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.85%) Google
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle
6 1 (1.92%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.92%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.92%) Denodo
6 1 (1.92%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.92%) SAP
6 1 (1.92%) Splunk