Snowflake Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Snowflake Engineer
UK > England

The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 445 499
Rank change year-on-year -62 +54 +62
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 111 61 34
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.22% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.24% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 55 28
10th Percentile £425 £409 £452
25th Percentile £516 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -6.67% +4.99%
75th Percentile £669 £875 £625
90th Percentile £738 - £645
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +9.52% +2.44% -6.82%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 42,152 25,459 31,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 91.68% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,638 16,519 20,588
10th Percentile £329 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,102 1,306 1,856
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.67 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.79 £21.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.08% -42.22% +4.65%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

Snowflake Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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 England.

Snowflake Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Snowflake Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Snowflake Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Snowflake Engineer job vacancies in England

Snowflake Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Engineer in England

Snowflake 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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
London -14 86 £575 -4.17% 11
North of England - 10 £600 - 3
Midlands -48 7 £600 +42.86%
West Midlands -54 7 £600 +43.71%
North West - 6 £600 - 3
Yorkshire - 4 - -
East of England -13 2 £380 -
South West -43 2 - -
South East -74 1 £525 +38.16% 3
Snowflake Engineer
UK

Snowflake Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 August 2026, 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 England region featuring Snowflake Engineer in the job title.

1 93 (83.78%) Snowflake
2 73 (65.77%) SQL
3 64 (57.66%) Python
4 62 (55.86%) AWS
5 52 (46.85%) Data Engineering
5 52 (46.85%) dbt
6 46 (41.44%) Data Modelling
7 45 (40.54%) Data Pipeline
8 39 (35.14%) Data Warehouse
9 37 (33.33%) Azure
9 37 (33.33%) CI/CD
9 37 (33.33%) ETL
10 35 (31.53%) Analytics
10 35 (31.53%) Apache Airflow
11 34 (30.63%) Snowflake Schema
12 29 (26.13%) Data Quality
13 21 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (18.02%) Amazon S3
14 20 (18.02%) DevOps
14 20 (18.02%) Migration
14 20 (18.02%) Performance Tuning
15 19 (17.12%) Git
15 19 (17.12%) Power Platform
16 18 (16.22%) Agile
16 18 (16.22%) GCP
17 17 (15.32%) Power BI
17 17 (15.32%) Terraform
18 14 (12.61%) Data Ingestion
18 14 (12.61%) Dimensional Modelling
19 13 (11.71%) Data Transformation

Snowflake Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 35 (31.53%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.31%) Apache
Business Applications
1 8 (7.21%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (83.78%) Snowflake
2 62 (55.86%) AWS
3 52 (46.85%) dbt
4 37 (33.33%) Azure
5 20 (18.02%) Amazon S3
6 19 (17.12%) Power Platform
7 18 (16.22%) GCP
8 13 (11.71%) GitHub
9 10 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (9.01%) Dagster
9 10 (9.01%) Fivetran
10 9 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (8.11%) Serverless
11 8 (7.21%) Matillion
12 7 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (5.41%) Prefect
14 4 (3.60%) Amazon Kinesis
15 3 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 2 (1.80%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (35.14%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (30.63%) Snowflake Schema
3 17 (15.32%) Power BI
4 8 (7.21%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.31%) Data Vault
6 6 (5.41%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (4.50%) Star Schema
8 4 (3.60%) Metadata
8 4 (3.60%) Tableau
9 3 (2.70%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.90%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.90%) QlikView
11 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (17.12%) Git
2 3 (2.70%) GitLab
3 2 (1.80%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.80%) Snyk
3 2 (1.80%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (32.43%) Finance
2 18 (16.22%) Banking
3 15 (13.51%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.31%) Financial Institution
6 6 (5.41%) Front Office
6 6 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.60%) Retail
8 1 (0.90%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.71%) Kafka
2 5 (4.50%) OAuth
2 5 (4.50%) OpenID
3 1 (0.90%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.90%) Jinja
3 1 (0.90%) PySpark
3 1 (0.90%) REST
3 1 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.41%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.91%) Clustering
3 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.80%) Derivative
5 2 (1.80%) Equities
5 2 (1.80%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.80%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.90%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.90%) Life Science
6 1 (0.90%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.85%) Data Engineering
2 46 (41.44%) Data Modelling
3 45 (40.54%) Data Pipeline
4 37 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 37 (33.33%) ETL
5 35 (31.53%) Analytics
6 21 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (18.02%) DevOps
7 20 (18.02%) Migration
7 20 (18.02%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (16.22%) Agile
9 14 (12.61%) Data Ingestion
9 14 (12.61%) Dimensional Modelling
10 13 (11.71%) Data Transformation
10 13 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (10.81%) Data Architecture
11 12 (10.81%) Data Science
11 12 (10.81%) RBAC
11 12 (10.81%) Validation
12 11 (9.91%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 73 (65.77%) SQL
2 64 (57.66%) Python
3 8 (7.21%) Java
4 3 (2.70%) C#
5 2 (1.80%) Bash
5 2 (1.80%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.90%) Bicep
6 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (6.31%) SnowPro
2 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.80%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.90%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (26.13%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.70%) QA
3 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.90%) GDPR
4 1 (0.90%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (15.32%) Terraform
2 3 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (8.11%) Informatica
2 7 (6.31%) Google
2 7 (6.31%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.50%) Databricks
3 5 (4.50%) Denodo
4 2 (1.80%) Charles River
4 2 (1.80%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.80%) Murex
5 1 (0.90%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.90%) eFront
5 1 (0.90%) SAP
5 1 (0.90%) Talend