Snowflake Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Snowflake Engineer
UK > England

The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in England is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 440 520
Rank change year-on-year -34 +80 +166
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 75 48 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.18% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.19% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 31 34
10th Percentile £381 £300 £441
25th Percentile £410 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £591
90th Percentile £700 £650 £621
UK median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -8.33%

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 29,794 24,851 34,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 92.97% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,017 15,358 23,541
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
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 1,844 750 1,852
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% -8.98% +9.86%
75th Percentile £63.32 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £38.10
% change year-on-year -14.72% -14.69% +9.53%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +10 62 £531 -3.41% 14
North of England -57 5 £344 - 4
South West -14 4 £420 +8.39% 2
North West -28 4 £344 - 2
East of England -15 1 £500 -9.09% 6
Midlands -47 1 £415 - 3
West Midlands -49 1 £415 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £488 - 1
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 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 68 (90.67%) Snowflake
2 45 (60.00%) Analytics
3 41 (54.67%) SQL
4 40 (53.33%) Python
5 38 (50.67%) Data Engineering
6 32 (42.67%) Data Modelling
7 30 (40.00%) AWS
8 27 (36.00%) Azure
8 27 (36.00%) Data Pipeline
8 27 (36.00%) ETL
9 23 (30.67%) CI/CD
10 21 (28.00%) Performance Tuning
11 19 (25.33%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (24.00%) Apache Airflow
12 18 (24.00%) dbt
13 15 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (20.00%) DevOps
13 15 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
14 13 (17.33%) Matillion
15 12 (16.00%) Data Quality
15 12 (16.00%) Power Platform
16 11 (14.67%) Agile
16 11 (14.67%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (14.67%) Serverless
17 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 10 (13.33%) Data Science
17 10 (13.33%) Git
17 10 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
18 9 (12.00%) AI
18 9 (12.00%) Amazon S3

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 18 (24.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 68 (90.67%) Snowflake
2 30 (40.00%) AWS
3 27 (36.00%) Azure
4 18 (24.00%) dbt
5 13 (17.33%) Matillion
6 12 (16.00%) Power Platform
7 11 (14.67%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (14.67%) Serverless
8 9 (12.00%) Amazon S3
8 9 (12.00%) GitHub
9 7 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (9.33%) GCP
10 6 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (5.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (5.33%) Prefect
12 3 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (2.67%) Dagster
13 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
14 1 (1.33%) Alation
14 1 (1.33%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (25.33%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 9 (12.00%) Power BI
4 5 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.00%) Data Vault
5 3 (4.00%) Looker
5 3 (4.00%) Metadata
6 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.67%) Tableau
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.33%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Git
2 8 (10.67%) GitLab
3 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.33%) Selenium
4 1 (1.33%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.67%) Finance
4 5 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (2.67%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.67%) Retail
6 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.33%) Front Office
6 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.33%) Kafka
2 4 (5.33%) Pandas
3 2 (2.67%) Anaconda
3 2 (2.67%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.67%) OAuth
3 2 (2.67%) PySpark
4 1 (1.33%) FHIR
4 1 (1.33%) JSON
4 1 (1.33%) Matplotlib
4 1 (1.33%) NumPy
4 1 (1.33%) Playwright
4 1 (1.33%) Puppeteer
4 1 (1.33%) RESTful
4 1 (1.33%) Seaborn
4 1 (1.33%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.33%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.00%) Clustering
3 5 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.33%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.33%) Derivative
6 1 (1.33%) Equities
6 1 (1.33%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (60.00%) Analytics
2 38 (50.67%) Data Engineering
3 32 (42.67%) Data Modelling
4 27 (36.00%) Data Pipeline
4 27 (36.00%) ETL
5 23 (30.67%) CI/CD
6 21 (28.00%) Performance Tuning
7 15 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (20.00%) DevOps
8 11 (14.67%) Agile
9 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (13.33%) Data Science
9 10 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (12.00%) AI
10 9 (12.00%) Cost Optimisation
10 9 (12.00%) Data Governance
10 9 (12.00%) Data Transformation
10 9 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (9.33%) Design Patterns
11 7 (9.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (54.67%) SQL
2 40 (53.33%) Python
3 7 (9.33%) Korn
4 4 (5.33%) Java
4 4 (5.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.67%) Bash
5 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.33%) C#
6 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.00%) SnowPro
2 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) GDPR
2 3 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (5.33%) Databricks
1 4 (5.33%) Talend
2 3 (4.00%) SAP
3 2 (2.67%) Denodo
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle
3 2 (2.67%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.33%) Charles River
4 1 (1.33%) Informatica
4 1 (1.33%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.33%) Murex
4 1 (1.33%) RedGate
4 1 (1.33%) Workday