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 22 April 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 409 517
Rank change year-on-year -77 +108 +107
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 101 63 28
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.26% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.28% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 55 26
10th Percentile £400 £361 £447
25th Percentile £425 £456 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £588
90th Percentile £725 - £638
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 36,606 22,740 34,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.70% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,935 15,170 22,849
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,477 874 2,387
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.33 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.79 £19.21 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% -7.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £30.20 £35.00
% change year-on-year +39.90% -13.71% -22.22%

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 22 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 22 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 -9 81 £575 -3.16% 3
North of England -63 7 £344 - 3
South West -38 6 £420 -14.94%
North West -38 6 £344 - 3
West Midlands -55 5 £600 +42.86% 2
Midlands -65 5 £600 +42.86% 3
South East -56 1 £525 +45.83% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £488 -
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 79 (78.22%) Snowflake
2 62 (61.39%) SQL
3 59 (58.42%) Python
4 51 (50.50%) Analytics
5 49 (48.51%) AWS
6 42 (41.58%) Data Modelling
7 40 (39.60%) Data Engineering
8 39 (38.61%) dbt
9 37 (36.63%) Azure
9 37 (36.63%) ETL
10 34 (33.66%) CI/CD
10 34 (33.66%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (32.67%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (31.68%) Apache Airflow
12 32 (31.68%) Snowflake Schema
13 29 (28.71%) Performance Tuning
14 21 (20.79%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (20.79%) Data Quality
14 21 (20.79%) DevOps
15 16 (15.84%) AI
15 16 (15.84%) Amazon S3
15 16 (15.84%) Git
16 15 (14.85%) GCP
16 15 (14.85%) Matillion
17 13 (12.87%) Data Governance
17 13 (12.87%) Data Science
17 13 (12.87%) Kafka
17 13 (12.87%) Terraform
18 12 (11.88%) Agile
18 12 (11.88%) Power Platform

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 (31.68%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.98%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 79 (78.22%) Snowflake
2 49 (48.51%) AWS
3 39 (38.61%) dbt
4 37 (36.63%) Azure
5 16 (15.84%) Amazon S3
6 15 (14.85%) GCP
6 15 (14.85%) Matillion
7 12 (11.88%) Power Platform
8 10 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (9.90%) Dagster
8 10 (9.90%) GitHub
9 9 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (8.91%) Serverless
10 8 (7.92%) Prefect
11 5 (4.95%) Fivetran
12 4 (3.96%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
14 1 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (32.67%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (31.68%) Snowflake Schema
3 9 (8.91%) Data Vault
4 7 (6.93%) Power BI
5 5 (4.95%) Star Schema
5 5 (4.95%) Tableau
6 3 (2.97%) Metadata
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.98%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.99%) Looker
8 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (15.84%) Git
2 6 (5.94%) GitLab
3 2 (1.98%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.98%) Snyk
3 2 (1.98%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.99%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (14.85%) Finance
2 11 (10.89%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.93%) Banking
5 5 (4.95%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.96%) Retail
7 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.87%) Kafka
2 6 (5.94%) OAuth
3 5 (4.95%) OpenID
4 2 (1.98%) PySpark
4 2 (1.98%) YAML
5 1 (0.99%) Anaconda
5 1 (0.99%) Jinja
5 1 (0.99%) JSON
5 1 (0.99%) Pandas
5 1 (0.99%) RESTful
5 1 (0.99%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.89%) Clustering
3 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.97%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.99%) Life Science
5 1 (0.99%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (50.50%) Analytics
2 42 (41.58%) Data Modelling
3 40 (39.60%) Data Engineering
4 37 (36.63%) ETL
5 34 (33.66%) CI/CD
5 34 (33.66%) Data Pipeline
6 29 (28.71%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (20.79%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (20.79%) DevOps
8 16 (15.84%) AI
9 13 (12.87%) Data Governance
9 13 (12.87%) Data Science
10 12 (11.88%) Agile
11 11 (10.89%) Cost Optimisation
11 11 (10.89%) Dimensional Modelling
11 11 (10.89%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (10.89%) RBAC
12 10 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (9.90%) Data Transformation
12 10 (9.90%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 62 (61.39%) SQL
2 59 (58.42%) Python
3 9 (8.91%) Java
4 5 (4.95%) PL/SQL
5 4 (3.96%) C#
5 4 (3.96%) Korn
6 3 (2.97%) Bash
6 3 (2.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (3.96%) SnowPro
2 2 (1.98%) DBS Check
2 2 (1.98%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.98%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.99%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.98%) QA
3 1 (0.99%) GDPR
3 1 (0.99%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (1.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (12.87%) Terraform
2 1 (0.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (6.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.94%) Denodo
3 4 (3.96%) Google
3 4 (3.96%) Talend
4 3 (2.97%) Databricks
4 3 (2.97%) Informatica
5 1 (0.99%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle
5 1 (0.99%) Virgin Media