Snowflake Data Engineer Contracts in England

Snowflake Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Snowflake Data Engineer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 514 618
Rank change year-on-year +70 +104 +123
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Data Engineer 41 28 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.075% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.081% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 22
10th Percentile £404 £463 £375
25th Percentile £436 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £544
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -5.98% -1.14%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £625 £638 £774
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Snowflake Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake Data Engineer in England

Snowflake Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Snowflake Data Engineer in England

Snowflake Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Data Engineer in England

Snowflake Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snowflake Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +48 21 £525 - 18
South West +53 8 £488 - 5
Midlands +26 5 £420 -18.05% 2
South East - 4 £380 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £420 -
North of England +15 2 - - 11
North West +13 2 - - 7
East Midlands +11 2 £420 -18.05% 1
East of England +30 1 - - 1
Snowflake Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Snowflake Data 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 across the England region featuring Snowflake Data Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (95.12%) Snowflake
2 26 (63.41%) Python
3 23 (56.10%) SQL
4 20 (48.78%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (48.78%) AWS
5 16 (39.02%) dbt
5 16 (39.02%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (29.27%) Azure
6 12 (29.27%) Data Modelling
6 12 (29.27%) ETL
7 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
8 10 (24.39%) Analytics
9 9 (21.95%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (21.95%) Matillion
10 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (19.51%) Migration
11 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
12 6 (14.63%) Data Engineering
13 5 (12.20%) Data Migration
14 4 (9.76%) Performance Tuning
14 4 (9.76%) Finance
14 4 (9.76%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (9.76%) RBAC
14 4 (9.76%) Data Structures
14 4 (9.76%) Data Strategy
15 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
15 3 (7.32%) Decision-Making
15 3 (7.32%) Continuous Deployment
15 3 (7.32%) Thought Leadership
15 3 (7.32%) GCP

Snowflake Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (21.95%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 39 (95.12%) Snowflake
2 20 (48.78%) AWS
3 16 (39.02%) dbt
4 12 (29.27%) Azure
5 9 (21.95%) Matillion
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (7.32%) GCP
6 3 (7.32%) GitHub
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.44%) Collibra
8 1 (2.44%) Fivetran
8 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.44%) OCI
8 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (48.78%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.76%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.44%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Power BI
General
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Marketing
3 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) Kafka
1 2 (4.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Clustering
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (29.27%) Data Modelling
2 12 (29.27%) ETL
3 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
4 10 (24.39%) Analytics
5 8 (19.51%) Migration
5 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (14.63%) Data Engineering
7 5 (12.20%) Data Migration
8 4 (9.76%) Data Strategy
8 4 (9.76%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (9.76%) RBAC
9 3 (7.32%) Continuous Deployment
9 3 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (7.32%) Data Integration
9 3 (7.32%) Data Security
9 3 (7.32%) Data Transformation
9 3 (7.32%) Decision-Making
9 3 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (7.32%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (63.41%) Python
2 23 (56.10%) SQL
3 3 (7.32%) Bash
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
1 3 (7.32%) GDPR
1 3 (7.32%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Databricks
2 2 (4.88%) Talend
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) Virgin Media