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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 180 239
Rank change year-on-year +36 +59 +92
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 289 188 150
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.93% 1.40% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.35% 3.35% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 125 127
10th Percentile £325 £457 £470
25th Percentile £414 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +5.96%
75th Percentile £663 £813 £725
90th Percentile £750 £888 £740
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +1.55%

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 6,645 5,611 6,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.30% 41.69% 37.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,549 3,723 5,124
10th Percentile £347 £354 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £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 95 48 77
10th Percentile £18.09 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £21.23 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.65 £32.75 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +7.38% +3.39%
75th Percentile £55.88 £56.50 £53.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £69.38 £61.00
England median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +30.58% +24.15% -11.40%

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 10 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 10 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 +10 38 £525 -10.64% 13
West London -17 2 £553 +8.87% 2
South London -8 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 (18.34%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (6.92%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.84%) Apache
4 3 (1.04%) Confluence
4 3 (1.04%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.35%) Luigi
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 8 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.73%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (7.96%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.69%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.69%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.69%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.69%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 156 (53.98%) AWS
2 136 (47.06%) Azure
3 73 (25.26%) Power Platform
4 60 (20.76%) dbt
5 50 (17.30%) GCP
6 33 (11.42%) Serverless
7 28 (9.69%) Amazon S3
7 28 (9.69%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (8.30%) GitHub
9 22 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (4.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (4.50%) Matillion
12 12 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.46%) SaaS
14 9 (3.11%) Fivetran
15 8 (2.77%) Amazon EMR
16 7 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 5 (1.73%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (24.57%) Data Warehouse
2 68 (23.53%) Power BI
3 34 (11.76%) Tableau
4 32 (11.07%) Data Lake
5 30 (10.38%) Snowflake Schema
6 24 (8.30%) Data Vault
7 18 (6.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (5.54%) Big Data
8 16 (5.54%) Metadata
9 14 (4.84%) SQL Server
10 13 (4.50%) BigQuery
10 13 (4.50%) Relational Database
11 12 (4.15%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (3.46%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (3.11%) RDBMS
14 8 (2.77%) Apache Arrow
14 8 (2.77%) Apache Ignite
14 8 (2.77%) KNIME
14 8 (2.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (6.92%) Git
2 18 (6.23%) JIRA
3 16 (5.54%) GitLab
4 13 (4.50%) SpecFlow
5 11 (3.81%) ERwin
6 10 (3.46%) ER Studio
7 9 (3.11%) PowerDesigner
8 5 (1.73%) MLflow
9 4 (1.38%) Jenkins
10 3 (1.04%) DBeaver
10 3 (1.04%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.69%) Selenium
11 2 (0.69%) TestRail
11 2 (0.69%) Toad
11 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 82 (28.37%) Finance
2 69 (23.88%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.30%) Banking
5 15 (5.19%) Front Office
5 15 (5.19%) Investment Banking
6 14 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.15%) Retail
8 8 (2.77%) Marketing
9 7 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.04%) Law
13 2 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.35%) Back Office
14 1 (0.35%) Publishing
14 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (32.53%) Data Engineer
2 60 (20.76%) Snowflake Engineer
3 45 (15.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 37 (12.80%) Analyst
5 35 (12.11%) Architect
6 31 (10.73%) Lead
7 30 (10.38%) Senior
8 29 (10.03%) Data Analyst
9 23 (7.96%) Developer
10 22 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (6.92%) Python Engineer
12 17 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
13 16 (5.54%) Data Architect
14 14 (4.84%) Data Modeller
15 13 (4.50%) Business Analyst
15 13 (4.50%) Lead Data Engineer
16 12 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (4.15%) Tester
17 11 (3.81%) Azure Data Engineer
18 10 (3.46%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.27%) Kafka
2 18 (6.23%) Pandas
3 15 (5.19%) Playwright
4 12 (4.15%) NumPy
5 9 (3.11%) PySpark
5 9 (3.11%) PyTorch
6 8 (2.77%) gRPC
6 8 (2.77%) Protocol Buffers
6 8 (2.77%) SciPy
7 6 (2.08%) JSON
7 6 (2.08%) Node.js
8 5 (1.73%) React
8 5 (1.73%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.38%) .NET
9 4 (1.38%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.38%) REST
9 4 (1.38%) scikit-learn
10 3 (1.04%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.04%) OAuth
10 3 (1.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.07%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.27%) Data Structures
3 18 (6.23%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (5.19%) Equities
4 15 (5.19%) Fixed Income
5 11 (3.81%) Derivative
5 11 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.46%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.77%) Pricing Data
8 6 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.08%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.38%) Clustering
9 4 (1.38%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.38%) Replication
9 4 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.04%) Unix
2 2 (0.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (41.87%) Analytics
2 107 (37.02%) Data Modelling
3 96 (33.22%) ETL
4 83 (28.72%) Agile
4 83 (28.72%) Business Intelligence
4 83 (28.72%) Data Engineering
5 74 (25.61%) Data Pipeline
6 64 (22.15%) CI/CD
6 64 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (21.11%) Data Governance
8 60 (20.76%) AI
9 49 (16.96%) DevOps
10 44 (15.22%) Asset Management
11 40 (13.84%) Migration
12 38 (13.15%) Machine Learning
13 35 (12.11%) Data Science
14 34 (11.76%) Data Transformation
14 34 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (11.42%) Data Architecture
16 32 (11.07%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 185 (64.01%) SQL
2 157 (54.33%) Python
3 34 (11.76%) Java
4 29 (10.03%) TypeScript
5 27 (9.34%) JavaScript
6 17 (5.88%) C#
7 7 (2.42%) Bash
7 7 (2.42%) Korn
7 7 (2.42%) R
8 5 (1.73%) Scala
9 4 (1.38%) Bicep
9 4 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.04%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.35%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.35%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (5.54%) Degree
1 16 (5.54%) Security Cleared
2 11 (3.81%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.11%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.42%) SnowPro
5 4 (1.38%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.38%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.04%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.04%) PhD
7 2 (0.69%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (21.45%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.84%) QA
3 13 (4.50%) GDPR
4 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) FATCA
6 1 (0.35%) GAAP
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) PMO
6 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (9.34%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (14.19%) Terraform
2 21 (7.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.04%) Grafana
4 2 (0.69%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 76 (26.30%) Databricks
2 28 (9.69%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.50%) Oracle
4 10 (3.46%) Talend
5 9 (3.11%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.77%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.42%) Charles River
7 7 (2.42%) MicroStrategy
8 6 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.08%) Sparx
9 5 (1.73%) Informatica
9 5 (1.73%) SAP
9 5 (1.73%) Virgin Media
10 4 (1.38%) Google
10 4 (1.38%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.38%) Murex
10 4 (1.38%) SimCorp
11 3 (1.04%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.69%) FactSet
12 2 (0.69%) Vermilion