Snowflake Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Snowflake Engineer
UK > England

The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 416 520
Rank change year-on-year -63 +104 +107
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 100 59 29
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.24% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.26% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 51 27
10th Percentile £400 £360 £450
25th Percentile £425 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +7.84% -9.33%
75th Percentile £625 £875 £588
90th Percentile £718 - £638
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -11.11%

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 35,993 22,652 34,626
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.87% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,660 15,166 23,117
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,393 844 2,319
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.18 £20.29 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.25%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £34.00
% change year-on-year +25.94% -6.59% -23.65%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -20 81 £575 -13.21% 3
South West -28 6 £420 -16.00% 1
North of England -67 6 £344 - 1
North West -31 5 £344 -
West Midlands -58 5 £600 +42.86% 4
Midlands -69 5 £600 +42.86% 4
South East -60 1 £525 +45.83% 3
Yorkshire - 1 £488 - 1
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 April 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 81 (81.00%) Snowflake
2 59 (59.00%) Python
3 56 (56.00%) SQL
4 53 (53.00%) Analytics
5 48 (48.00%) AWS
6 46 (46.00%) Data Engineering
7 39 (39.00%) Data Modelling
7 39 (39.00%) ETL
8 37 (37.00%) Azure
9 35 (35.00%) Data Pipeline
10 33 (33.00%) CI/CD
10 33 (33.00%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (33.00%) dbt
11 31 (31.00%) Apache Airflow
12 30 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
13 26 (26.00%) Snowflake Schema
14 24 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (20.00%) Data Quality
15 20 (20.00%) DevOps
16 16 (16.00%) AI
16 16 (16.00%) Amazon S3
16 16 (16.00%) Git
17 15 (15.00%) GCP
17 15 (15.00%) Power Platform
18 14 (14.00%) Data Science
18 14 (14.00%) Matillion
19 13 (13.00%) Agile
19 13 (13.00%) Kafka
20 12 (12.00%) Data Governance
21 11 (11.00%) AWS Lambda

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 31 (31.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 81 (81.00%) Snowflake
2 48 (48.00%) AWS
3 37 (37.00%) Azure
4 33 (33.00%) dbt
5 16 (16.00%) Amazon S3
6 15 (15.00%) GCP
6 15 (15.00%) Power Platform
7 14 (14.00%) Matillion
8 11 (11.00%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (11.00%) Serverless
9 10 (10.00%) GitHub
10 8 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (8.00%) Dagster
11 7 (7.00%) Prefect
12 5 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (3.00%) Fivetran
15 2 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 2 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (33.00%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (26.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 10 (10.00%) Power BI
4 8 (8.00%) Data Vault
5 6 (6.00%) Tableau
6 5 (5.00%) Star Schema
7 4 (4.00%) Data Lake
8 3 (3.00%) Metadata
9 2 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.00%) Looker
9 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.00%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.00%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.00%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (16.00%) Git
2 7 (7.00%) GitLab
3 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.00%) Snyk
4 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (14.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.00%) Finance
3 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.00%) Banking
5 3 (3.00%) Retail
6 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.00%) Kafka
2 5 (5.00%) OAuth
3 4 (4.00%) Pandas
4 3 (3.00%) OpenID
5 2 (2.00%) Anaconda
5 2 (2.00%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.00%) PySpark
6 1 (1.00%) Jinja
6 1 (1.00%) JSON
6 1 (1.00%) Matplotlib
6 1 (1.00%) NumPy
6 1 (1.00%) RESTful
6 1 (1.00%) Seaborn
6 1 (1.00%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.00%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (1.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Clustering
2 10 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.00%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.00%) Life Science
6 1 (1.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (53.00%) Analytics
2 46 (46.00%) Data Engineering
3 39 (39.00%) Data Modelling
3 39 (39.00%) ETL
4 35 (35.00%) Data Pipeline
5 33 (33.00%) CI/CD
6 30 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
7 24 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (20.00%) DevOps
9 16 (16.00%) AI
10 14 (14.00%) Data Science
11 13 (13.00%) Agile
12 12 (12.00%) Data Governance
13 11 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (11.00%) Cost Optimisation
13 11 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (11.00%) Performance Optimisation
14 10 (10.00%) Data Transformation
14 10 (10.00%) Dimensional Modelling
15 9 (9.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 59 (59.00%) Python
2 56 (56.00%) SQL
3 8 (8.00%) Java
4 5 (5.00%) Korn
4 5 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 4 (4.00%) C#
6 3 (3.00%) Bash
6 3 (3.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (4.00%) SnowPro
2 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.00%) GDPR
2 2 (2.00%) QA
3 1 (1.00%) GxP
3 1 (1.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (11.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (7.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.00%) Databricks
2 5 (5.00%) Denodo
2 5 (5.00%) Talend
3 4 (4.00%) Google
3 4 (4.00%) Informatica
4 2 (2.00%) Oracle
4 2 (2.00%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.00%) MicroStrategy