Snowflake Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Snowflake Engineer
UK > England

The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in England is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 411 518
Rank change year-on-year -73 +107 +134
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 93 60 30
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.24% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.26% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 51 28
10th Percentile £400 £350 £453
25th Percentile £424 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +7.84% -13.19%
75th Percentile £625 £875 £588
90th Percentile £700 - £638
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -5.45% +7.84% -13.19%

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 34,460 22,787 34,959
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.04% 93.03% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,776 15,097 23,367
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 791 2,280
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.16 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.46 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.61
90th Percentile £76.58 £76.25 £71.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £33.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.54% -23.53%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 74 £550 -15.38% 5
South West -25 6 £420 -16.00% 1
North of England -64 6 £344 -
North West -25 5 £344 -
West Midlands -60 5 £600 +42.86% 4
Midlands -61 5 £600 +42.86% 4
East of England -22 1 £500 -9.09%
Yorkshire - 1 £488 -
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 March 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 75 (80.65%) Snowflake
2 55 (59.14%) Python
3 54 (58.06%) SQL
4 52 (55.91%) Analytics
5 46 (49.46%) Data Engineering
6 43 (46.24%) AWS
7 38 (40.86%) Data Modelling
8 36 (38.71%) ETL
9 35 (37.63%) Azure
10 33 (35.48%) Data Pipeline
11 32 (34.41%) CI/CD
12 31 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (31.18%) dbt
14 28 (30.11%) Performance Tuning
15 24 (25.81%) Apache Airflow
16 23 (24.73%) Business Intelligence
16 23 (24.73%) Snowflake Schema
17 20 (21.51%) DevOps
18 18 (19.35%) Data Quality
19 15 (16.13%) AI
19 15 (16.13%) Power Platform
20 14 (15.05%) Amazon S3
20 14 (15.05%) GCP
20 14 (15.05%) Matillion
21 13 (13.98%) AWS Lambda
21 13 (13.98%) Git
21 13 (13.98%) Serverless
22 12 (12.90%) Agile
22 12 (12.90%) Data Governance
22 12 (12.90%) Data Science

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 24 (25.81%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.15%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 75 (80.65%) Snowflake
2 43 (46.24%) AWS
3 35 (37.63%) Azure
4 29 (31.18%) dbt
5 15 (16.13%) Power Platform
6 14 (15.05%) Amazon S3
6 14 (15.05%) GCP
6 14 (15.05%) Matillion
7 13 (13.98%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (13.98%) Serverless
8 11 (11.83%) GitHub
9 7 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (6.45%) Prefect
11 5 (5.38%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (5.38%) Dagster
12 4 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (3.23%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (24.73%) Snowflake Schema
3 10 (10.75%) Power BI
4 6 (6.45%) Data Vault
4 6 (6.45%) Tableau
5 5 (5.38%) Star Schema
6 4 (4.30%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.30%) Metadata
7 2 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.15%) Looker
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.08%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.08%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (13.98%) Git
2 8 (8.60%) GitLab
3 2 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.08%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (17.20%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.75%) Finance
3 9 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.45%) Banking
5 3 (3.23%) Retail
6 2 (2.15%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.08%) Front Office
7 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.08%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.83%) Kafka
2 4 (4.30%) Pandas
3 3 (3.23%) OAuth
3 3 (3.23%) PySpark
4 2 (2.15%) Anaconda
4 2 (2.15%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.08%) FHIR
5 1 (1.08%) Jinja
5 1 (1.08%) JSON
5 1 (1.08%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.08%) NumPy
5 1 (1.08%) OpenID
5 1 (1.08%) RESTful
5 1 (1.08%) Seaborn
5 1 (1.08%) Snowpark
5 1 (1.08%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.83%) Cloud Native
1 11 (11.83%) Clustering
2 5 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.30%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.08%) Derivative
5 1 (1.08%) Equities
5 1 (1.08%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.08%) Life Science
5 1 (1.08%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (55.91%) Analytics
2 46 (49.46%) Data Engineering
3 38 (40.86%) Data Modelling
4 36 (38.71%) ETL
5 33 (35.48%) Data Pipeline
6 32 (34.41%) CI/CD
7 28 (30.11%) Performance Tuning
8 23 (24.73%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (21.51%) DevOps
10 15 (16.13%) AI
11 12 (12.90%) Agile
11 12 (12.90%) Data Governance
11 12 (12.90%) Data Science
12 11 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (11.83%) Performance Optimisation
13 10 (10.75%) Data Transformation
13 10 (10.75%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (9.68%) Cost Optimisation
14 9 (9.68%) Migration
14 9 (9.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 55 (59.14%) Python
2 54 (58.06%) SQL
3 6 (6.45%) Java
3 6 (6.45%) Korn
4 5 (5.38%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.23%) Bash
5 3 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.15%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (4.30%) SnowPro
2 2 (2.15%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.15%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.35%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.23%) QA
3 2 (2.15%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) GxP
4 1 (1.08%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (7.53%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.38%) Talend
3 4 (4.30%) Databricks
3 4 (4.30%) Google
3 4 (4.30%) Informatica
4 3 (3.23%) Denodo
5 2 (2.15%) Oracle
5 2 (2.15%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.08%) Charles River
6 1 (1.08%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.08%) Murex
6 1 (1.08%) RedGate