Snowflake Engineer Contracts

Snowflake Engineer
UK

The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 638 802
Rank change year-on-year +89 +164 -99
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 41 48 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.086% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.091% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 32 31
10th Percentile £437 £375 £475
25th Percentile £453 £491 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -3.41% -
75th Percentile £563 £628 £663
90th Percentile £610 £683 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £350 £675
% change year-on-year +39.29% -48.15% +28.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,530 52,517 83,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,076 36,648 58,643
10th Percentile £280 £313 £316
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +2.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,932 1,488 1,934
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.99%

Snowflake Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Snowflake Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Snowflake Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Snowflake Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake Engineer over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snowflake Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 June 2024. 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
England +86 30 £510 -3.77% 10
Work from Home +105 19 £464 -12.37% 5
UK excluding London +48 19 £488 +39.29% 6
London +65 12 £525 -1.41% 4
Scotland - 8 £453 -
North of England +30 6 £510 +45.71% 2
North West +15 6 £510 +85.45% 2
Midlands - 3 £488 - 3
East Midlands - 2 - -
East of England +6 1 £625 -
South West +3 1 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £488 - 3

Snowflake Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, Snowflake Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Snowflake Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (85.37%) Snowflake
2 25 (60.98%) AWS
3 23 (56.10%) ETL
4 21 (51.22%) Python
4 21 (51.22%) Data Engineering
5 20 (48.78%) SQL
6 19 (46.34%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (43.90%) Azure
8 17 (41.46%) Apache Airflow
9 14 (34.15%) Data Modelling
10 13 (31.71%) Java
11 12 (29.27%) dbt
12 11 (26.83%) Terraform
13 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
13 10 (24.39%) DevOps
13 10 (24.39%) Databricks
13 10 (24.39%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (21.95%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (21.95%) Docker
15 8 (19.51%) DataOps
15 8 (19.51%) MLOps
15 8 (19.51%) GitOps
15 8 (19.51%) Scala
15 8 (19.51%) Computer Science
15 8 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
16 7 (17.07%) Platform Engineering
16 7 (17.07%) Amazon S3
16 7 (17.07%) Scrum
16 7 (17.07%) Serverless

Snowflake Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (41.46%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (14.63%) Apache
2 6 (14.63%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 35 (85.37%) Snowflake
2 25 (60.98%) AWS
3 18 (43.90%) Azure
4 12 (29.27%) dbt
5 7 (17.07%) Amazon S3
5 7 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (17.07%) Serverless
6 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
7 5 (12.20%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (12.20%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (12.20%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (9.76%) Fivetran
8 4 (9.76%) Matillion
9 2 (4.88%) GCP
9 2 (4.88%) GitHub
10 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.44%) Azure API Management
10 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (24.39%) Snowflake Schema
2 9 (21.95%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (14.63%) Power BI
4 5 (12.20%) Big Data
5 4 (9.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
5 4 (9.76%) Tableau
6 2 (4.88%) Data Vault
6 2 (4.88%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.44%) Flink
7 1 (2.44%) Neo4j
7 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Git
2 5 (12.20%) JIRA
General
1 5 (12.20%) Manufacturing
1 5 (12.20%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (9.76%) Finance
3 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) JSON
1 5 (12.20%) XML
2 2 (4.88%) Kafka
3 1 (2.44%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) ETL
2 21 (51.22%) Data Engineering
3 19 (46.34%) Data Pipeline
4 14 (34.15%) Data Modelling
5 10 (24.39%) DevOps
6 8 (19.51%) Computer Science
6 8 (19.51%) DataOps
6 8 (19.51%) GitOps
6 8 (19.51%) MLOps
7 7 (17.07%) Analytics
7 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
7 7 (17.07%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (17.07%) Scrum
8 6 (14.63%) Agile
8 6 (14.63%) OO
8 6 (14.63%) OOP
8 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
9 5 (12.20%) Data Management
9 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (51.22%) Python
2 20 (48.78%) SQL
3 13 (31.71%) Java
4 8 (19.51%) Scala
5 5 (12.20%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.44%) Degree
1 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
1 1 (2.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) Terraform
2 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.44%) Control-M
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
3 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Databricks
2 6 (14.63%) Informatica
3 5 (12.20%) Talend
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.44%) FactSet