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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 170 254
Rank change year-on-year +19 +84 +56
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 293 198 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 1.47% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.20% 3.54% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 131 114
10th Percentile £325 £469 £475
25th Percentile £416 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £650 £831 £738
90th Percentile £738 £875 £745
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £64.50 - -

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 6,981 5,596 6,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.96% 41.66% 37.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,786 3,784 5,001
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 50 79
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +10.20% -2.56%
75th Percentile £54.25 £58.00 £53.38
90th Percentile £75.17 £74.13 £62.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +45.45% +28.15% -14.16%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 39 £575 -14.18% 17
West London -18 3 £650 -14.75% 8
South London -16 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 54 (18.43%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (6.48%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.75%) Apache
4 5 (1.71%) Confluence
5 3 (1.02%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Luigi
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 10 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.39%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (8.53%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.02%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.02%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.68%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.68%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
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
1 159 (54.27%) AWS
2 142 (48.46%) Azure
3 75 (25.60%) Power Platform
4 56 (19.11%) dbt
5 49 (16.72%) GCP
6 33 (11.26%) Serverless
7 27 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (8.87%) Amazon S3
8 26 (8.87%) GitHub
9 21 (7.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (5.12%) Matillion
11 13 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.75%) SaaS
13 8 (2.73%) Fivetran
14 6 (2.05%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (2.05%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (2.05%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (25.94%) Data Warehouse
2 69 (23.55%) Power BI
3 35 (11.95%) Tableau
4 32 (10.92%) Data Lake
4 32 (10.92%) Snowflake Schema
5 22 (7.51%) Data Vault
6 18 (6.14%) Metadata
6 18 (6.14%) SQL Server
7 17 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (5.46%) Big Data
8 16 (5.46%) BigQuery
9 14 (4.78%) Relational Database
10 11 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (3.07%) RDBMS
12 8 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (2.73%) KNIME
12 8 (2.73%) NoSQL
12 8 (2.73%) Star Schema
13 7 (2.39%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (2.39%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (7.17%) Git
2 16 (5.46%) GitLab
2 16 (5.46%) JIRA
3 15 (5.12%) SpecFlow
4 10 (3.41%) ERwin
5 9 (3.07%) ER Studio
5 9 (3.07%) MLflow
6 8 (2.73%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (1.37%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.02%) DBeaver
8 3 (1.02%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.02%) Toad
9 2 (0.68%) Selenium
9 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (28.67%) Finance
2 70 (23.89%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.33%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.51%) Banking
5 18 (6.14%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.78%) Retail
7 11 (3.75%) Investment Banking
8 9 (3.07%) Front Office
8 9 (3.07%) Marketing
9 7 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Back Office
11 3 (1.02%) Law
11 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.68%) Social Science
13 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (33.45%) Data Engineer
2 60 (20.48%) Snowflake Engineer
3 46 (15.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 37 (12.63%) Analyst
4 37 (12.63%) Architect
5 33 (11.26%) Lead
6 28 (9.56%) Senior
7 27 (9.22%) Data Analyst
8 21 (7.17%) Developer
9 19 (6.48%) AWS Engineer
10 18 (6.14%) Data Architect
10 18 (6.14%) Python Engineer
11 16 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (5.12%) Lead Data Engineer
13 14 (4.78%) Business Analyst
13 14 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (4.78%) Tester
14 12 (4.10%) Python Data Engineer
15 11 (3.75%) Data Modeller
15 11 (3.75%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.17%) Kafka
2 17 (5.80%) Playwright
3 15 (5.12%) Pandas
4 12 (4.10%) PyTorch
5 9 (3.07%) NumPy
5 9 (3.07%) PySpark
6 7 (2.39%) scikit-learn
7 6 (2.05%) TensorFlow
8 5 (1.71%) JSON
9 4 (1.37%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.37%) gRPC
9 4 (1.37%) Node.js
9 4 (1.37%) Protocol Buffers
9 4 (1.37%) React
9 4 (1.37%) REST
9 4 (1.37%) SciPy
10 3 (1.02%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.02%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.02%) Spark Streaming
10 3 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.60%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.83%) Data Structures
3 19 (6.48%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (4.44%) Equities
4 13 (4.44%) Fixed Income
5 12 (4.10%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.73%) Derivative
7 6 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.05%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.71%) Clustering
8 5 (1.71%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.37%) Pricing Data
9 4 (1.37%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.37%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.37%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.37%) Replication
10 3 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.02%) Unix
2 2 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (44.37%) Analytics
2 107 (36.52%) Data Modelling
3 97 (33.11%) ETL
4 87 (29.69%) Data Engineering
5 85 (29.01%) Business Intelligence
6 83 (28.33%) Data Pipeline
7 80 (27.30%) Agile
8 67 (22.87%) AI
9 66 (22.53%) CI/CD
10 62 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
11 58 (19.80%) Data Governance
12 54 (18.43%) DevOps
13 43 (14.68%) Machine Learning
14 41 (13.99%) Asset Management
15 38 (12.97%) Migration
16 37 (12.63%) Data Science
17 35 (11.95%) Data Architecture
17 35 (11.95%) Data Transformation
17 35 (11.95%) Infrastructure as Code
17 35 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 192 (65.53%) SQL
2 163 (55.63%) Python
3 27 (9.22%) Java
4 24 (8.19%) JavaScript
4 24 (8.19%) TypeScript
5 19 (6.48%) C#
6 9 (3.07%) Bash
7 8 (2.73%) R
8 6 (2.05%) Korn
8 6 (2.05%) Scala
9 4 (1.37%) Bicep
10 3 (1.02%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.34%) C
12 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (6.83%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.80%) Degree
3 11 (3.75%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.73%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.71%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.02%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.02%) PhD
8 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (22.53%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.12%) QA
3 12 (4.10%) GDPR
4 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.34%) FATCA
6 1 (0.34%) GAAP
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.34%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (9.90%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (15.02%) Terraform
2 23 (7.85%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.02%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.68%) Grafana
Vendors
1 80 (27.30%) Databricks
2 30 (10.24%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.46%) Oracle
4 10 (3.41%) Charles River
4 10 (3.41%) Talend
5 9 (3.07%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.73%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.39%) Google
7 7 (2.39%) MicroStrategy
7 7 (2.39%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.71%) Informatica
8 5 (1.71%) Murex
8 5 (1.71%) SAP
8 5 (1.71%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.71%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.37%) Denodo
9 4 (1.37%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.37%) Sparx
10 3 (1.02%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.02%) FactSet