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 30 August 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 471 488
Rank change year-on-year -33 +17 +62
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 112 37 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 33 33
10th Percentile £458 £410 £478
25th Percentile £525 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £659 £588 £625
90th Percentile £730 £840 £635
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +9.52% -2.33% -6.52%

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 42,495 25,403 30,688
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.55% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,539 16,406 19,727
10th Percentile £325 £281 £302
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,263 1,363 1,634
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.20 £17.33 £20.74
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -14 89 £575 +9.00% 9
North of England - 8 £600 -
West Midlands -39 6 £600 +44.58%
Midlands -47 6 £600 +43.71%
North West - 4 £600 -
Yorkshire - 4 - -
South West -44 2 - -
East of England - 2 £380 - 2
South East -61 1 £525 - 7
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 August 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 95 (84.82%) Snowflake
2 74 (66.07%) SQL
3 63 (56.25%) AWS
4 61 (54.46%) Python
5 54 (48.21%) Data Engineering
6 53 (47.32%) dbt
7 49 (43.75%) Data Modelling
8 48 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
9 42 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (34.82%) ETL
11 35 (31.25%) Analytics
12 34 (30.36%) Apache Airflow
12 34 (30.36%) Azure
13 32 (28.57%) CI/CD
14 31 (27.68%) Data Quality
14 31 (27.68%) Snowflake Schema
15 22 (19.64%) Amazon S3
16 21 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
17 20 (17.86%) DevOps
18 18 (16.07%) Agile
18 18 (16.07%) Migration
18 18 (16.07%) Power BI
18 18 (16.07%) Power Platform
19 17 (15.18%) Git
20 16 (14.29%) GCP
20 16 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
20 16 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
20 16 (14.29%) Terraform
21 15 (13.39%) Data Transformation
21 15 (13.39%) Kafka

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 34 (30.36%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.36%) Apache
Business Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 95 (84.82%) Snowflake
2 63 (56.25%) AWS
3 53 (47.32%) dbt
4 34 (30.36%) Azure
5 22 (19.64%) Amazon S3
6 18 (16.07%) Power Platform
7 16 (14.29%) GCP
8 13 (11.61%) GitHub
9 11 (9.82%) Serverless
10 10 (8.93%) Fivetran
11 9 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (8.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (7.14%) Dagster
12 8 (7.14%) Matillion
13 6 (5.36%) Prefect
14 5 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
16 3 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 2 (1.79%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (27.68%) Snowflake Schema
3 18 (16.07%) Power BI
4 8 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.25%) Data Vault
6 6 (5.36%) Data Lake
6 6 (5.36%) Star Schema
7 4 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.57%) Metadata
7 4 (3.57%) Tableau
8 3 (2.68%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.68%) Looker
9 2 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.79%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.89%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.89%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 17 (15.18%) Git
2 3 (2.68%) GitLab
3 2 (1.79%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.79%) Snyk
3 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.89%) Claude Code
General
1 38 (33.93%) Finance
2 20 (17.86%) Banking
3 17 (15.18%) Social Skills
4 11 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 7 (6.25%) Front Office
6 6 (5.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.57%) Retail
8 1 (0.89%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.29%) Terraform
2 15 (13.39%) Kafka
3 5 (4.46%) OAuth
3 5 (4.46%) OpenID
4 1 (0.89%) .NET
4 1 (0.89%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.89%) Jinja
4 1 (0.89%) PySpark
4 1 (0.89%) REST
4 1 (0.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.18%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.04%) Clustering
3 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.79%) Derivative
4 2 (1.79%) Equities
4 2 (1.79%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.79%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.89%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.89%) Life Science
5 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (48.21%) Data Engineering
2 49 (43.75%) Data Modelling
3 48 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 39 (34.82%) ETL
5 35 (31.25%) Analytics
6 32 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 21 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (17.86%) DevOps
9 18 (16.07%) Agile
9 18 (16.07%) Migration
10 16 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
10 16 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (13.39%) Data Transformation
12 14 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
13 13 (11.61%) Dimensional Modelling
14 12 (10.71%) AI
14 12 (10.71%) Event-Driven
15 11 (9.82%) Data Integration
15 11 (9.82%) Validation
16 10 (8.93%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 74 (66.07%) SQL
2 61 (54.46%) Python
3 8 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (1.79%) C#
4 2 (1.79%) LookML
5 1 (0.89%) Bash
5 1 (0.89%) Bicep
5 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (6.25%) SnowPro
2 4 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.68%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.79%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (27.68%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.68%) QA
3 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.89%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (2.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (8.04%) Informatica
2 7 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.36%) Databricks
3 6 (5.36%) Google
4 5 (4.46%) Denodo
5 2 (1.79%) Charles River
5 2 (1.79%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.79%) Murex
6 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.89%) eFront
6 1 (0.89%) SAP
6 1 (0.89%) Talend