Snowflake Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Snowflake Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 114 128
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 -
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 5 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.27% 0.39% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.42% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 8
10th Percentile £493 £488 £498
25th Percentile £538 £525 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -2.46% -
75th Percentile £606 £613 £617
90th Percentile £640 £620 £621
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £594
% change year-on-year - -3.20% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,713 1,923 2,344
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 92.99% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 1,182 1,685
10th Percentile £328 £363 £350
25th Percentile £424 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £57.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +130.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £55.25 £132.40 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +37.25% -24.44%

Snowflake Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Snowflake Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Snowflake Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Snowflake Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Snowflake Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Snowflake Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Snowflake Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Engineer in the City of London

Snowflake Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, Snowflake Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Snowflake Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Apache
4 2 (40.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) dbt
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (40.00%) SnowPro
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (20.00%) Databricks
5 1 (20.00%) DataOps
5 1 (20.00%) DBS Check

Snowflake Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (40.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) dbt
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) DataOps
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SnowPro
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Workday