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 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 417 513
Rank change year-on-year -62 +96 +110
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 103 64 28
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.26% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.28% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 57 27
10th Percentile £400 £406 £450
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +3.92% -6.21%
75th Percentile £605 £875 £588
90th Percentile £716 - £638
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £505
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -8.18%

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 37,510 22,588 34,189
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.59% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,386 15,045 22,708
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -1.75% -2.10% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,561 914 2,433
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.89 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.90 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% -15.34% -17.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.82
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.72% -20.55% -18.89%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -7 84 £556 -6.32% 5
South West -36 6 £420 -13.85%
North West -38 6 £344 - 2
North of England -56 6 £344 - 5
West Midlands -54 5 £600 +42.86% 3
Midlands -70 5 £600 +42.86% 4
South East -55 1 £525 +45.83% 2
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 (78.64%) Snowflake
2 62 (60.19%) SQL
3 58 (56.31%) Python
4 52 (50.49%) AWS
5 47 (45.63%) Analytics
6 44 (42.72%) Data Engineering
7 42 (40.78%) Data Modelling
8 37 (35.92%) Azure
8 37 (35.92%) dbt
9 34 (33.01%) Data Pipeline
10 33 (32.04%) CI/CD
10 33 (32.04%) ETL
11 32 (31.07%) Snowflake Schema
12 31 (30.10%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (28.16%) Apache Airflow
14 27 (26.21%) Performance Tuning
15 21 (20.39%) Data Quality
15 21 (20.39%) DevOps
16 20 (19.42%) Business Intelligence
17 18 (17.48%) Amazon S3
18 17 (16.50%) GCP
19 16 (15.53%) AI
19 16 (15.53%) Git
20 15 (14.56%) Matillion
21 14 (13.59%) Terraform
22 13 (12.62%) GitHub
23 12 (11.65%) Data Governance
23 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
23 12 (11.65%) Kafka
23 12 (11.65%) 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 29 (28.16%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.94%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 81 (78.64%) Snowflake
2 52 (50.49%) AWS
3 37 (35.92%) Azure
3 37 (35.92%) dbt
4 18 (17.48%) Amazon S3
5 17 (16.50%) GCP
6 15 (14.56%) Matillion
7 13 (12.62%) GitHub
8 12 (11.65%) Power Platform
9 11 (10.68%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (8.74%) Dagster
11 7 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (6.80%) Prefect
11 7 (6.80%) Serverless
12 5 (4.85%) Fivetran
12 5 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.88%) Amazon Kinesis
14 2 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
15 1 (0.97%) AWS CodePipeline
15 1 (0.97%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (31.07%) Snowflake Schema
2 31 (30.10%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (9.71%) Data Vault
4 7 (6.80%) Power BI
5 5 (4.85%) Star Schema
5 5 (4.85%) Tableau
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.91%) Metadata
8 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.97%) Looker
9 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.97%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (15.53%) Git
2 5 (4.85%) GitLab
3 2 (1.94%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.94%) Snyk
3 2 (1.94%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.97%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (15.53%) Finance
2 12 (11.65%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.77%) Banking
4 5 (4.85%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (4.85%) Retail
5 4 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.97%) Front Office
6 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.97%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.65%) Kafka
2 5 (4.85%) OAuth
2 5 (4.85%) OpenID
3 2 (1.94%) PySpark
3 2 (1.94%) YAML
4 1 (0.97%) Anaconda
4 1 (0.97%) Jinja
4 1 (0.97%) JSON
4 1 (0.97%) Pandas
4 1 (0.97%) RESTful
4 1 (0.97%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.62%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.71%) Clustering
3 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) Life Science
5 1 (0.97%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (45.63%) Analytics
2 44 (42.72%) Data Engineering
3 42 (40.78%) Data Modelling
4 34 (33.01%) Data Pipeline
5 33 (32.04%) CI/CD
5 33 (32.04%) ETL
6 27 (26.21%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (20.39%) DevOps
8 20 (19.42%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (15.53%) AI
10 12 (11.65%) Data Governance
10 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (11.65%) RBAC
11 11 (10.68%) Agile
11 11 (10.68%) Data Science
11 11 (10.68%) Dimensional Modelling
12 10 (9.71%) Cost Optimisation
12 10 (9.71%) Migration
12 10 (9.71%) Performance Optimisation
13 9 (8.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 62 (60.19%) SQL
2 58 (56.31%) Python
3 8 (7.77%) Java
4 4 (3.88%) Bash
4 4 (3.88%) C#
4 4 (3.88%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.91%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.94%) Korn
7 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (2.91%) Security Cleared
1 3 (2.91%) SnowPro
2 2 (1.94%) DBS Check
2 2 (1.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.97%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.97%) GDPR
2 1 (0.97%) GxP
2 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (13.59%) Terraform
2 2 (1.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (5.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.85%) Denodo
3 4 (3.88%) Google
3 4 (3.88%) Talend
4 3 (2.91%) Databricks
4 3 (2.91%) Informatica
5 1 (0.97%) eFront
5 1 (0.97%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle