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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 101 109
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 +44
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 39 17 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.03% 0.93% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.89% 2.26% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 7 22
10th Percentile £390 £442 £514
25th Percentile £466 £489 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £616
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -6.58% +6.12%
75th Percentile £681 £613 £715
90th Percentile £733 £618 £745
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £621
% change year-on-year -6.38% -5.39% +10.89%

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 797 751 912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.55% 40.99% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 472 657
10th Percentile £327 £400 £363
25th Percentile £417 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £740
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £27.83 - £12.75
25th Percentile £35.88 £46.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +150.00% -55.81%
75th Percentile £49.83 £48.75 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.19 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -15.04% +84.21% -24.00%

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 12 February 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 10 (25.64%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 25 (64.10%) AWS
2 14 (35.90%) Azure
3 10 (25.64%) dbt
4 9 (23.08%) GCP
5 7 (17.95%) Power Platform
6 5 (12.82%) Amazon S3
6 5 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (12.82%) Serverless
7 4 (10.26%) Matillion
8 3 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (7.69%) SaaS
9 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (5.13%) Fivetran
10 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.56%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (2.56%) Dagster
10 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
10 1 (2.56%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (17.95%) Power BI
3 6 (15.38%) Tableau
4 5 (12.82%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.56%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.56%) Looker
5 1 (2.56%) Metadata
5 1 (2.56%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (2.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.56%) Selenium
3 1 (2.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 17 (43.59%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Front Office
4 3 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Law
5 2 (5.13%) Marketing
5 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Lead
3 7 (17.95%) Architect
3 7 (17.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Snowflake Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Data Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Data Modeller
6 2 (5.13%) Principal Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Data Model Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Integration Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Node.js
2 4 (10.26%) .NET
2 4 (10.26%) Kafka
3 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.69%) React
4 2 (5.13%) Playwright
5 1 (2.56%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.56%) Middleware
5 1 (2.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Equities
2 2 (5.13%) Fixed Income
2 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.56%) Clustering
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Replication
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) Data Modelling
2 16 (41.03%) Analytics
2 16 (41.03%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (38.46%) Data Engineering
4 12 (30.77%) AI
4 12 (30.77%) ETL
5 11 (28.21%) Asset Management
5 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
6 10 (25.64%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (23.08%) Data Governance
7 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (20.51%) Machine Learning
8 8 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (17.95%) Agile
10 6 (15.38%) Data Integration
10 6 (15.38%) Data Science
10 6 (15.38%) Visualisation
11 5 (12.82%) Business Strategy
11 5 (12.82%) Generative AI
11 5 (12.82%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) SQL
2 20 (51.28%) Python
3 5 (12.82%) Java
3 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.56%) C#
5 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
1 3 (7.69%) SnowPro
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.26%) GDPR
3 3 (7.69%) QA
4 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Databricks
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) Guidewire
4 2 (5.13%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.13%) SimCorp
4 2 (5.13%) Vermilion
5 1 (2.56%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.56%) Talend
5 1 (2.56%) Workday
5 1 (2.56%) Yardi