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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 88 104
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 +5
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 52 31 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.32% 1.77% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.63% 4.40% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 23 13
10th Percentile £400 £421 £456
25th Percentile £463 £563 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £706 £681 £725
90th Percentile £775 £718 £738
Central London median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +7.88%

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 924 705 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.23% 40.31% 40.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 490 566
10th Percentile £363 £332 £380
25th Percentile £456 £434 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -1.32%
75th Percentile £660 £667 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.75 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.71 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £61.16 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £88.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%

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 20 September 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 18 (34.62%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (11.54%) Apache Spark
3 4 (7.69%) Apache
4 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Aladdin
1 2 (3.85%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 30 (57.69%) AWS
2 23 (44.23%) Azure
3 15 (28.85%) dbt
4 13 (25.00%) GCP
5 11 (21.15%) Power Platform
6 5 (9.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (9.62%) GitHub
7 4 (7.69%) Dagster
7 4 (7.69%) Prefect
8 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.92%) Matillion
10 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.92%) PaaS
10 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (21.15%) Power BI
3 7 (13.46%) Tableau
4 5 (9.62%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (7.69%) BigQuery
5 4 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 4 (7.69%) Looker
5 4 (7.69%) Metadata
5 4 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 4 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (5.77%) Big Data
6 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.85%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Git
1 3 (5.77%) JIRA
2 2 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.92%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (42.31%) Finance
2 14 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 3 (5.77%) Legal
5 2 (3.85%) Billing
5 2 (3.85%) Front Office
5 2 (3.85%) Marketing
6 1 (1.92%) Advertising
6 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Publishing
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Data Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) Analyst
3 11 (21.15%) Data Analyst
4 10 (19.23%) Architect
5 9 (17.31%) Data Architect
5 9 (17.31%) Snowflake Engineer
6 8 (15.38%) Senior
7 7 (13.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Business Analyst
10 2 (3.85%) Business Data Analyst
10 2 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
11 1 (1.92%) Analytics Manager
11 1 (1.92%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
11 1 (1.92%) Azure Engineer
11 1 (1.92%) Data Analytics Manager
11 1 (1.92%) Platform Engineer
11 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) Kafka
2 6 (11.54%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) Spring
3 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.92%) .NET
4 1 (1.92%) ADO
4 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.92%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.92%) PySpark
4 1 (1.92%) pytest
4 1 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.69%) Reinsurance
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.77%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.85%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.92%) Clustering
6 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.92%) Derivative
6 1 (1.92%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.92%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.92%) Replication
6 1 (1.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (65.38%) Analytics
2 22 (42.31%) Data Engineering
2 22 (42.31%) Data Modelling
3 19 (36.54%) AI
4 18 (34.62%) CI/CD
5 17 (32.69%) Data Pipeline
6 16 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (30.77%) Data Architecture
7 15 (28.85%) Decision-Making
7 15 (28.85%) ETL
8 14 (26.92%) Data Governance
9 11 (21.15%) Agile
10 10 (19.23%) Data Transformation
10 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (17.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (15.38%) Migration
12 8 (15.38%) Software Engineering
12 8 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
13 7 (13.46%) Data Strategy
13 7 (13.46%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 31 (59.62%) SQL
2 25 (48.08%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) Java
4 2 (3.85%) Bash
4 2 (3.85%) LookML
4 2 (3.85%) R
4 2 (3.85%) Scala
5 1 (1.92%) Bicep
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
1 2 (3.85%) SnowPro
2 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.92%) CISA
2 1 (1.92%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.92%) Degree
2 1 (1.92%) GSEC
2 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.92%) PMP
2 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (32.69%) Data Quality
2 7 (13.46%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.85%) EMIR
3 2 (3.85%) MiFID
4 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (38.46%) Databricks
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) Informatica
4 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.85%) Workday
5 1 (1.92%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.92%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle
5 1 (1.92%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.92%) SAP
5 1 (1.92%) Talend