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 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 481 490
Rank change year-on-year -39 +9 +63
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 107 36 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 32 32
10th Percentile £450 £408 £500
25th Percentile £513 £448 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £538 £625
90th Percentile £738 £599 £636
UK median daily rate £556 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +8.54% -6.82% -4.35%

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 42,644 25,339 30,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 91.32% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,474 16,339 19,303
10th Percentile £325 £280 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,406 1,355 1,524
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.71 £14.66
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -41.51% -0.76%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -27 86 £575 +9.52% 28
North of England -62 8 £600 +74.42% 1
North West -53 4 £600 +74.42% 1
Yorkshire - 4 - -
East of England - 4 £380 - 2
South West -44 2 £650 +36.84% 4
Midlands -45 2 - -
West Midlands -46 2 - -
South East -62 1 £525 - 8
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 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 95 (88.79%) Snowflake
2 71 (66.36%) SQL
3 63 (58.88%) AWS
4 57 (53.27%) Python
5 53 (49.53%) dbt
6 52 (48.60%) Data Engineering
7 51 (47.66%) Data Pipeline
8 50 (46.73%) Data Modelling
9 39 (36.45%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (33.64%) ETL
11 33 (30.84%) Analytics
12 32 (29.91%) Apache Airflow
12 32 (29.91%) CI/CD
13 31 (28.97%) Azure
13 31 (28.97%) Data Quality
14 30 (28.04%) Snowflake Schema
15 22 (20.56%) Amazon S3
16 19 (17.76%) Agile
17 18 (16.82%) DevOps
17 18 (16.82%) Git
17 18 (16.82%) Terraform
18 17 (15.89%) Data Transformation
18 17 (15.89%) Migration
18 17 (15.89%) Performance Optimisation
19 16 (14.95%) Power BI
19 16 (14.95%) Power Platform
20 15 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
20 15 (14.02%) Performance Tuning
21 14 (13.08%) Data Ingestion
21 14 (13.08%) GitHub

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 32 (29.91%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.54%) Apache
Business Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 95 (88.79%) Snowflake
2 63 (58.88%) AWS
3 53 (49.53%) dbt
4 31 (28.97%) Azure
5 22 (20.56%) Amazon S3
6 16 (14.95%) Power Platform
7 14 (13.08%) GitHub
8 12 (11.21%) GCP
9 11 (10.28%) Serverless
10 10 (9.35%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (8.41%) Fivetran
12 8 (7.48%) Dagster
13 7 (6.54%) Matillion
14 6 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (4.67%) Prefect
16 3 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 2 (1.87%) AWS Step Functions
17 2 (1.87%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (36.45%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (28.04%) Snowflake Schema
3 16 (14.95%) Power BI
4 8 (7.48%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.61%) Data Lake
5 6 (5.61%) Data Vault
6 4 (3.74%) Star Schema
7 3 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.80%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.80%) Looker
7 3 (2.80%) Metadata
7 3 (2.80%) Tableau
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.87%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.93%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (16.82%) Git
2 3 (2.80%) GitLab
3 2 (1.87%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.87%) Snyk
3 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.93%) Claude Code
General
1 37 (34.58%) Finance
2 19 (17.76%) Banking
2 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.54%) Financial Institution
4 7 (6.54%) Front Office
5 4 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.74%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (3.74%) Retail
6 1 (0.93%) Legal
6 1 (0.93%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.82%) Terraform
2 13 (12.15%) Kafka
3 5 (4.67%) OAuth
3 5 (4.67%) OpenID
4 1 (0.93%) .NET
4 1 (0.93%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.93%) PySpark
4 1 (0.93%) REST
4 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.82%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.54%) Clustering
3 4 (3.74%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.87%) Derivative
4 2 (1.87%) Equities
4 2 (1.87%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.87%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (48.60%) Data Engineering
2 51 (47.66%) Data Pipeline
3 50 (46.73%) Data Modelling
4 36 (33.64%) ETL
5 33 (30.84%) Analytics
6 32 (29.91%) CI/CD
7 19 (17.76%) Agile
8 18 (16.82%) DevOps
9 17 (15.89%) Data Transformation
9 17 (15.89%) Migration
9 17 (15.89%) Performance Optimisation
10 15 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (14.02%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (13.08%) Data Ingestion
12 12 (11.21%) AI
12 12 (11.21%) Dimensional Modelling
12 12 (11.21%) Event-Driven
13 11 (10.28%) Data Architecture
13 11 (10.28%) Data Integration
13 11 (10.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 71 (66.36%) SQL
2 57 (53.27%) Python
3 8 (7.48%) Java
4 2 (1.87%) C#
4 2 (1.87%) LookML
5 1 (0.93%) Bash
5 1 (0.93%) Bicep
5 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (6.54%) SnowPro
2 4 (3.74%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.80%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.87%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (28.97%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.80%) QA
3 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (7.48%) Informatica
2 7 (6.54%) Databricks
3 5 (4.67%) Denodo
3 5 (4.67%) Google
3 5 (4.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.87%) Charles River
4 2 (1.87%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.87%) Murex
5 1 (0.93%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.93%) eFront
5 1 (0.93%) SAP
5 1 (0.93%) Talend