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 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 486 486
Rank change year-on-year -42 0 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 110 35 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 29 32
10th Percentile £450 £408 £500
25th Percentile £513 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £681 £538 £625
90th Percentile £738 £605 £636
UK median daily rate £575 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +11.65% -6.36% -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 42,725 25,379 30,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.37% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,394 16,363 19,081
10th Percentile £325 £278 £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 £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 3,515 1,370 1,471
10th Percentile £14.91 £13.75 £14.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +73.38% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.99 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 20 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 20 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 -16 87 £575 +9.52% 28
North of England -59 8 £600 +74.42% 4
East of England - 5 £380 -
North West -44 4 £600 +74.42% 4
Yorkshire - 4 - -
South West -36 3 £650 +36.84% 3
West Midlands -48 2 - -
Midlands -52 2 - -
South East -61 1 £525 - 8
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 98 (89.09%) Snowflake
2 74 (67.27%) SQL
3 64 (58.18%) AWS
4 57 (51.82%) Python
5 55 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
5 55 (50.00%) dbt
6 54 (49.09%) Data Engineering
7 52 (47.27%) Data Modelling
8 38 (34.55%) Data Warehouse
9 35 (31.82%) ETL
10 33 (30.00%) Analytics
11 32 (29.09%) Data Quality
12 31 (28.18%) CI/CD
13 30 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
14 29 (26.36%) Azure
15 28 (25.45%) Snowflake Schema
16 21 (19.09%) Agile
16 21 (19.09%) Amazon S3
17 19 (17.27%) Git
17 19 (17.27%) Performance Optimisation
18 18 (16.36%) Data Transformation
18 18 (16.36%) Migration
18 18 (16.36%) Terraform
19 16 (14.55%) DevOps
20 15 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
21 14 (12.73%) GitHub
21 14 (12.73%) Power BI
21 14 (12.73%) Power Platform
22 13 (11.82%) Event-Driven
23 12 (10.91%) Business Intelligence

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 30 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.36%) Apache
Business Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 98 (89.09%) Snowflake
2 64 (58.18%) AWS
3 55 (50.00%) dbt
4 29 (26.36%) Azure
5 21 (19.09%) Amazon S3
6 14 (12.73%) GitHub
6 14 (12.73%) Power Platform
7 12 (10.91%) Serverless
8 10 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (8.18%) GCP
10 8 (7.27%) Dagster
11 7 (6.36%) Fivetran
12 6 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (5.45%) Matillion
13 3 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (2.73%) Prefect
14 2 (1.82%) Azure Databricks
14 2 (1.82%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (34.55%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (25.45%) Snowflake Schema
3 14 (12.73%) Power BI
4 8 (7.27%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.36%) Data Lake
6 6 (5.45%) Data Vault
7 3 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.73%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.73%) Looker
7 3 (2.73%) Metadata
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.82%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.82%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.91%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.91%) QlikView
9 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (17.27%) Git
2 3 (2.73%) GitLab
3 2 (1.82%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.82%) Snyk
3 2 (1.82%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.91%) Claude Code
General
1 39 (35.45%) Finance
2 21 (19.09%) Social Skills
3 20 (18.18%) Banking
4 11 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.36%) Financial Institution
5 7 (6.36%) Front Office
6 4 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.64%) Retail
7 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.91%) Legal
7 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.91%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.36%) Terraform
2 12 (10.91%) Kafka
3 5 (4.55%) OAuth
3 5 (4.55%) OpenID
4 1 (0.91%) .NET
4 1 (0.91%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.91%) PySpark
4 1 (0.91%) REST
4 1 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.55%) Clustering
3 4 (3.64%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.82%) Derivative
4 2 (1.82%) Equities
4 2 (1.82%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.82%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.91%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.91%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 54 (49.09%) Data Engineering
3 52 (47.27%) Data Modelling
4 35 (31.82%) ETL
5 33 (30.00%) Analytics
6 31 (28.18%) CI/CD
7 21 (19.09%) Agile
8 19 (17.27%) Performance Optimisation
9 18 (16.36%) Data Transformation
9 18 (16.36%) Migration
10 16 (14.55%) DevOps
11 15 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (11.82%) Event-Driven
13 12 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (10.91%) Data Ingestion
13 12 (10.91%) Data Integration
14 11 (10.00%) Data Architecture
14 11 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 10 (9.09%) Dimensional Modelling
15 10 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 74 (67.27%) SQL
2 57 (51.82%) Python
3 7 (6.36%) Java
4 2 (1.82%) C#
4 2 (1.82%) LookML
5 1 (0.91%) Bash
5 1 (0.91%) Bicep
5 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (4.55%) SnowPro
2 4 (3.64%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.73%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.82%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (29.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.73%) QA
3 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (7.27%) Databricks
2 7 (6.36%) Informatica
3 5 (4.55%) Denodo
4 4 (3.64%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.73%) Google
6 2 (1.82%) Charles River
6 2 (1.82%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.82%) Murex
7 1 (0.91%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.91%) eFront
7 1 (0.91%) SAP
7 1 (0.91%) Talend