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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 185 251
Rank change year-on-year +34 +66 +65
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 291 186 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 1.39% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.29% 3.35% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 124 118
10th Percentile £325 £464 £475
25th Percentile £413 £559 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £623
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +4.33% +11.25%
75th Percentile £661 £838 £738
90th Percentile £746 £888 £745
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £57.25 - -

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 6,785 5,550 6,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.08% 41.46% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,650 3,715 5,087
10th Percentile £347 £355 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
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 99 49 79
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.07 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 £31.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% +3.28% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £55.75 £53.63
90th Percentile £70.50 £68.75 £62.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.08
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.58% -11.70%

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 17 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 17 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 +14 40 £550 -13.39% 14
West London -21 2 £553 -26.33% 5
South London -12 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 51 (17.53%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (6.87%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.12%) Apache
4 3 (1.03%) Confluence
4 3 (1.03%) SAS
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.34%) Luigi
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 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 6 (2.06%) 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%) Eagle PACE
5 1 (0.34%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.34%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 156 (53.61%) AWS
2 139 (47.77%) Azure
3 74 (25.43%) Power Platform
4 58 (19.93%) dbt
5 50 (17.18%) GCP
6 32 (11.00%) Serverless
7 27 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (8.93%) Amazon S3
9 24 (8.25%) GitHub
10 23 (7.90%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (6.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (5.15%) Matillion
13 13 (4.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (3.78%) SaaS
15 9 (3.09%) Fivetran
16 7 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
17 6 (2.06%) Collibra
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%) Snowflake Schema
5 29 (9.97%) Data Lake
6 24 (8.25%) Data Vault
7 17 (5.84%) Metadata
8 16 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (5.50%) Big Data
9 14 (4.81%) BigQuery
9 14 (4.81%) SQL Server
10 13 (4.47%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (3.09%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.75%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (2.75%) KNIME
13 8 (2.75%) Star Schema
14 7 (2.41%) Looker
14 7 (2.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (6.87%) Git
2 18 (6.19%) JIRA
3 16 (5.50%) GitLab
4 14 (4.81%) SpecFlow
5 11 (3.78%) ERwin
6 10 (3.44%) ER Studio
7 9 (3.09%) PowerDesigner
8 6 (2.06%) MLflow
9 4 (1.37%) Jenkins
10 3 (1.03%) DBeaver
10 3 (1.03%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.03%) Toad
11 2 (0.69%) Selenium
11 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.34%) TestRail
12 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (28.52%) Finance
2 67 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.56%) Banking
5 15 (5.15%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.47%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.12%) Front Office
7 12 (4.12%) Retail
8 8 (2.75%) Marketing
9 7 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.03%) Back Office
11 3 (1.03%) Law
12 2 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.34%) Publishing
13 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (32.65%) Data Engineer
2 60 (20.62%) Snowflake Engineer
3 45 (15.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 38 (13.06%) Analyst
5 36 (12.37%) Architect
6 32 (11.00%) Lead
7 29 (9.97%) Senior
8 28 (9.62%) Data Analyst
9 23 (7.90%) Developer
10 19 (6.53%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (6.19%) Python Engineer
12 17 (5.84%) Data Architect
13 16 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (4.81%) Business Analyst
14 14 (4.81%) Data Modeller
14 14 (4.81%) Lead Data Engineer
15 13 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (4.47%) Tester
16 11 (3.78%) Senior Data Engineer
17 10 (3.44%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.87%) Kafka
2 16 (5.50%) Pandas
2 16 (5.50%) Playwright
3 10 (3.44%) NumPy
4 9 (3.09%) PySpark
4 9 (3.09%) PyTorch
5 6 (2.06%) gRPC
5 6 (2.06%) JSON
5 6 (2.06%) Node.js
5 6 (2.06%) Protocol Buffers
5 6 (2.06%) SciPy
6 5 (1.72%) React
6 5 (1.72%) TensorFlow
7 4 (1.37%) .NET
7 4 (1.37%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.37%) REST
7 4 (1.37%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.03%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.03%) OAuth
8 3 (1.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.65%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.22%) Data Structures
3 19 (6.53%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (4.47%) Equities
4 13 (4.47%) Fixed Income
5 11 (3.78%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.09%) Derivative
7 8 (2.75%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.06%) Pricing Data
8 6 (2.06%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.37%) Clustering
10 4 (1.37%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.37%) Replication
11 3 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.03%) Unix
2 2 (0.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (43.64%) Analytics
2 108 (37.11%) Data Modelling
3 97 (33.33%) ETL
4 84 (28.87%) Data Engineering
5 83 (28.52%) Business Intelligence
6 82 (28.18%) Agile
7 77 (26.46%) Data Pipeline
8 65 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (21.99%) CI/CD
10 62 (21.31%) AI
11 60 (20.62%) Data Governance
12 49 (16.84%) DevOps
13 43 (14.78%) Asset Management
14 39 (13.40%) Migration
15 38 (13.06%) Machine Learning
16 35 (12.03%) Data Transformation
17 34 (11.68%) Data Architecture
18 33 (11.34%) Data Science
19 32 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
19 32 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 189 (64.95%) SQL
2 157 (53.95%) Python
3 31 (10.65%) Java
4 27 (9.28%) TypeScript
5 26 (8.93%) JavaScript
6 18 (6.19%) C#
7 8 (2.75%) Bash
8 7 (2.41%) Korn
8 7 (2.41%) R
9 4 (1.37%) Bicep
9 4 (1.37%) Scala
10 3 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (6.19%) Degree
2 17 (5.84%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.78%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.75%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.41%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.03%) PhD
8 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (21.99%) 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 26 (8.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (14.09%) Terraform
2 21 (7.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.03%) Grafana
4 2 (0.69%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 78 (26.80%) Databricks
2 29 (9.97%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.47%) Oracle
4 10 (3.44%) Talend
5 9 (3.09%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.75%) Charles River
6 8 (2.75%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.41%) MicroStrategy
7 7 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.06%) Sparx
9 5 (1.72%) Google
9 5 (1.72%) Informatica
9 5 (1.72%) SAP
9 5 (1.72%) SimCorp
9 5 (1.72%) Virgin Media
10 4 (1.37%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.37%) Murex
11 3 (1.03%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.03%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.03%) FactSet