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 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 464 528
Rank change year-on-year -26 +64 +204
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 47 53 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 34 45
10th Percentile £435 £349 £434
25th Percentile £484 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £646 £673
UK median daily rate £531 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.41% -4.35% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,774 28,440 36,203
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 92.96% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,810 17,495 24,926
10th Percentile £283 £300 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -1.78% -2.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,680 1,030 1,405
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +43.93%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 38 £600 +9.09% 1
North of England -40 3 £344 -
North West -19 2 £344 -
West Midlands -23 2 £415 -
Midlands -33 2 £415 -
East of England -16 1 £500 -16.67%
South East - 1 £525 -
Yorkshire - 1 £488 -
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, 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 45 (95.74%) Snowflake
2 32 (68.09%) Python
3 29 (61.70%) Data Engineering
3 29 (61.70%) SQL
4 28 (59.57%) Analytics
5 24 (51.06%) Data Modelling
6 23 (48.94%) AWS
7 20 (42.55%) Data Pipeline
8 19 (40.43%) Azure
8 19 (40.43%) ETL
9 16 (34.04%) CI/CD
10 14 (29.79%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (27.66%) Apache Airflow
12 12 (25.53%) dbt
12 12 (25.53%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (23.40%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (21.28%) Agile
14 10 (21.28%) DevOps
15 9 (19.15%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (19.15%) Serverless
16 7 (14.89%) Amazon S3
16 7 (14.89%) Data Governance
16 7 (14.89%) Data Science
16 7 (14.89%) Data Transformation
16 7 (14.89%) GitHub
16 7 (14.89%) Korn
16 7 (14.89%) Power BI
16 7 (14.89%) Power Platform
17 6 (12.77%) Azure Data Factory
17 6 (12.77%) Data Lake

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 13 (27.66%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 45 (95.74%) Snowflake
2 23 (48.94%) AWS
3 19 (40.43%) Azure
4 12 (25.53%) dbt
5 9 (19.15%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (19.15%) Serverless
6 7 (14.89%) Amazon S3
6 7 (14.89%) GitHub
6 7 (14.89%) Power Platform
7 6 (12.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (12.77%) GCP
8 4 (8.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (4.26%) Dagster
10 2 (4.26%) Matillion
10 2 (4.26%) Prefect
11 1 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.79%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (14.89%) Power BI
3 6 (12.77%) Data Lake
3 6 (12.77%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (4.26%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (4.26%) Looker
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.13%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.13%) Metadata
5 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) GitLab
2 5 (10.64%) Git
3 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.13%) Selenium
4 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (14.89%) Finance
1 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Banking
4 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Advertising
5 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.13%) Front Office
5 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.13%) Marketing
5 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Kafka
1 4 (8.51%) Pandas
2 2 (4.26%) Anaconda
2 2 (4.26%) GraphQL
2 2 (4.26%) OAuth
2 2 (4.26%) PySpark
3 1 (2.13%) FHIR
3 1 (2.13%) Matplotlib
3 1 (2.13%) NumPy
3 1 (2.13%) Playwright
3 1 (2.13%) Puppeteer
3 1 (2.13%) RESTful
3 1 (2.13%) Seaborn
3 1 (2.13%) Snowpark
3 1 (2.13%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) Clustering
3 3 (6.38%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Derivative
5 1 (2.13%) Equities
5 1 (2.13%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.13%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (61.70%) Data Engineering
2 28 (59.57%) Analytics
3 24 (51.06%) Data Modelling
4 20 (42.55%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (40.43%) ETL
6 16 (34.04%) CI/CD
7 12 (25.53%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (23.40%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (21.28%) Agile
9 10 (21.28%) DevOps
10 7 (14.89%) Data Governance
10 7 (14.89%) Data Science
10 7 (14.89%) Data Transformation
11 6 (12.77%) Performance Optimisation
12 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (10.64%) Data Architecture
12 5 (10.64%) Data Security
12 5 (10.64%) Design Patterns
13 4 (8.51%) Cost Optimisation
14 3 (6.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (68.09%) Python
2 29 (61.70%) SQL
3 7 (14.89%) Korn
4 2 (4.26%) Java
4 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.13%) Bash
5 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) SnowPro
2 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.13%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) GDPR
2 3 (6.38%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Databricks
2 3 (6.38%) SAP
3 2 (4.26%) Denodo
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.13%) Charles River
4 1 (2.13%) Informatica
4 1 (2.13%) Murex
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) RedGate
4 1 (2.13%) Talend
4 1 (2.13%) Workday