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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 177 260
Rank change year-on-year +26 +83 +55
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 291 189 138
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.40% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.24% 3.36% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 125 115
10th Percentile £325 £457 £475
25th Percentile £414 £550 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +11.61%
75th Percentile £658 £825 £738
90th Percentile £744 £888 £745
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -1.79%
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 6,870 5,621 6,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.93% 41.49% 37.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,704 3,775 5,050
10th Percentile £348 £355 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
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 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 51 80
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £57.25 £53.56
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £62.63
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 20 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 20 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 +11 39 £550 -13.39% 16
West London -21 3 £650 -13.33% 4
South London -14 1 - - 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 53 (18.21%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (6.87%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.12%) Apache
4 4 (1.37%) Confluence
5 3 (1.03%) 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 9 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.06%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (8.25%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.03%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.03%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.69%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.34%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 158 (54.30%) AWS
2 139 (47.77%) Azure
3 74 (25.43%) Power Platform
4 57 (19.59%) dbt
5 47 (16.15%) GCP
6 34 (11.68%) Serverless
7 28 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (9.28%) Amazon S3
9 26 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (8.93%) GitHub
10 21 (7.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (5.15%) Matillion
12 14 (4.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (3.78%) SaaS
14 9 (3.09%) Fivetran
15 7 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
16 6 (2.06%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (24.74%) Data Warehouse
2 69 (23.71%) Power BI
3 35 (12.03%) Tableau
4 32 (11.00%) Data Lake
4 32 (11.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 23 (7.90%) Data Vault
6 17 (5.84%) Metadata
7 16 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (5.50%) Big Data
8 15 (5.15%) SQL Server
9 14 (4.81%) BigQuery
9 14 (4.81%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (3.09%) RDBMS
12 8 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (2.75%) KNIME
12 8 (2.75%) Star Schema
13 7 (2.41%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (2.41%) Delta Lake
13 7 (2.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 19 (6.53%) Git
2 16 (5.50%) GitLab
2 16 (5.50%) JIRA
3 14 (4.81%) SpecFlow
4 10 (3.44%) ERwin
5 9 (3.09%) ER Studio
5 9 (3.09%) MLflow
6 8 (2.75%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (1.37%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.03%) DBeaver
8 3 (1.03%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.03%) Toad
9 2 (0.69%) Selenium
9 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 82 (28.18%) Finance
2 69 (23.71%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.56%) Banking
5 16 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.81%) Retail
7 13 (4.47%) Investment Banking
8 11 (3.78%) Front Office
9 8 (2.75%) Marketing
10 7 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.03%) Back Office
13 3 (1.03%) Law
14 2 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.69%) Social Science
15 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (32.65%) Data Engineer
2 60 (20.62%) Snowflake Engineer
3 45 (15.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 37 (12.71%) Analyst
4 37 (12.71%) Architect
5 34 (11.68%) Lead
6 30 (10.31%) Senior
7 27 (9.28%) Data Analyst
8 21 (7.22%) Developer
9 19 (6.53%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (5.84%) Data Architect
10 17 (5.84%) Python Engineer
11 16 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (5.15%) Lead Data Engineer
13 14 (4.81%) Business Analyst
14 13 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (4.47%) Tester
15 11 (3.78%) Data Modeller
15 11 (3.78%) Senior Data Engineer
16 10 (3.44%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.87%) Kafka
2 16 (5.50%) Playwright
3 15 (5.15%) Pandas
4 11 (3.78%) PyTorch
5 9 (3.09%) NumPy
5 9 (3.09%) PySpark
6 6 (2.06%) JSON
6 6 (2.06%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.72%) gRPC
7 5 (1.72%) Node.js
7 5 (1.72%) Protocol Buffers
7 5 (1.72%) React
7 5 (1.72%) SciPy
7 5 (1.72%) TensorFlow
8 4 (1.37%) .NET
8 4 (1.37%) FastAPI
8 4 (1.37%) REST
9 3 (1.03%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.03%) Snowpark
9 3 (1.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.03%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.53%) Data Protection Act
2 19 (6.53%) Data Structures
3 13 (4.47%) Equities
3 13 (4.47%) Fixed Income
4 11 (3.78%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.09%) Derivative
6 7 (2.41%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.72%) Pricing Data
8 5 (1.72%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.72%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.37%) Clustering
9 4 (1.37%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.37%) Replication
10 3 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.03%) Unix
2 2 (0.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (43.30%) Analytics
2 107 (36.77%) Data Modelling
3 94 (32.30%) ETL
4 85 (29.21%) Data Engineering
5 83 (28.52%) Business Intelligence
6 80 (27.49%) Agile
7 79 (27.15%) Data Pipeline
8 65 (22.34%) AI
8 65 (22.34%) CI/CD
9 62 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
10 57 (19.59%) Data Governance
11 53 (18.21%) DevOps
12 42 (14.43%) Asset Management
13 41 (14.09%) Machine Learning
14 38 (13.06%) Migration
15 36 (12.37%) Data Science
16 34 (11.68%) Data Architecture
16 34 (11.68%) Data Transformation
16 34 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
16 34 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 188 (64.60%) SQL
2 160 (54.98%) Python
3 30 (10.31%) Java
4 25 (8.59%) JavaScript
4 25 (8.59%) TypeScript
5 18 (6.19%) C#
6 9 (3.09%) Bash
7 8 (2.75%) R
8 7 (2.41%) Korn
9 4 (1.37%) Bicep
9 4 (1.37%) Scala
10 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (6.19%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.84%) Degree
3 11 (3.78%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.09%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.41%) SnowPro
6 5 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.03%) PhD
9 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (20.96%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.47%) QA
3 11 (3.78%) GDPR
4 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.69%) 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%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (9.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (15.12%) Terraform
2 22 (7.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.69%) Grafana
3 2 (0.69%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 77 (26.46%) Databricks
2 29 (9.97%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.47%) Oracle
4 10 (3.44%) Talend
5 9 (3.09%) Charles River
5 9 (3.09%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.75%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.41%) MicroStrategy
7 7 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.72%) Google
8 5 (1.72%) Informatica
8 5 (1.72%) Murex
8 5 (1.72%) SAP
8 5 (1.72%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.72%) Sparx
8 5 (1.72%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.37%) Guidewire
10 3 (1.03%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.03%) Eze Software Group
10 3 (1.03%) FactSet