Snowflake Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Snowflake Engineer
UK > England

The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 413 517
Rank change year-on-year -59 +104 +144
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 88 59 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.24% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.26% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 47 29
10th Percentile £400 £345 £456
25th Percentile £418 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £510
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +17.65% -11.30%
75th Percentile £616 £875 £588
90th Percentile £689 - £628
UK median daily rate £515 £569 £510
% change year-on-year -9.45% +11.52% -11.30%

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 33,332 23,040 35,329
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 93.07% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,054 15,071 23,616
10th Percentile £308 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,175 758 2,288
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.44 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.41 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +7.69% -23.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.61
90th Percentile £75.79 £77.50 £71.78
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £33.20 £32.69
% change year-on-year +5.42% +1.56% -22.84%

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 10 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 10 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 -6 72 £525 -22.22% 6
North of England -56 6 £344 -
North West -30 5 £344 -
South West -28 4 £420 -16.00% 1
West Midlands -59 4 £600 +42.86% 2
Midlands -65 4 £600 +42.86% 2
East of England -32 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 10 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 70 (79.55%) Snowflake
2 51 (57.95%) Python
2 51 (57.95%) SQL
3 48 (54.55%) Analytics
4 43 (48.86%) Data Engineering
5 36 (40.91%) Data Modelling
6 35 (39.77%) AWS
7 33 (37.50%) ETL
8 31 (35.23%) Data Pipeline
9 30 (34.09%) Azure
9 30 (34.09%) CI/CD
10 26 (29.55%) dbt
10 26 (29.55%) Performance Tuning
11 25 (28.41%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (22.73%) Apache Airflow
12 20 (22.73%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (20.45%) DevOps
14 15 (17.05%) Data Quality
15 13 (14.77%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (14.77%) Git
15 13 (14.77%) Power Platform
15 13 (14.77%) Serverless
16 12 (13.64%) Agile
16 12 (13.64%) AI
16 12 (13.64%) Matillion
17 11 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 11 (12.50%) Data Transformation
17 11 (12.50%) GitHub
17 11 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation

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 20 (22.73%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.27%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 70 (79.55%) Snowflake
2 35 (39.77%) AWS
3 30 (34.09%) Azure
4 26 (29.55%) dbt
5 13 (14.77%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (14.77%) Power Platform
5 13 (14.77%) Serverless
6 12 (13.64%) Matillion
7 11 (12.50%) GitHub
8 10 (11.36%) Amazon S3
9 8 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (9.09%) GCP
10 4 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (4.55%) Dagster
10 4 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (3.41%) Prefect
12 2 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (1.14%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (28.41%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (22.73%) Snowflake Schema
3 8 (9.09%) Power BI
4 5 (5.68%) Data Lake
4 5 (5.68%) Data Vault
5 4 (4.55%) Metadata
6 3 (3.41%) Tableau
7 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.27%) Looker
7 2 (2.27%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.14%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.14%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (14.77%) Git
2 8 (9.09%) GitLab
3 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.14%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (10.23%) Finance
3 6 (6.82%) Banking
4 3 (3.41%) Retail
5 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.14%) Front Office
6 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.14%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.95%) Kafka
2 4 (4.55%) Pandas
3 3 (3.41%) PySpark
4 2 (2.27%) Anaconda
4 2 (2.27%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.27%) OAuth
5 1 (1.14%) FHIR
5 1 (1.14%) Jinja
5 1 (1.14%) JSON
5 1 (1.14%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.14%) NumPy
5 1 (1.14%) RESTful
5 1 (1.14%) Seaborn
5 1 (1.14%) Snowpark
5 1 (1.14%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.23%) Clustering
3 5 (5.68%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.14%) Derivative
6 1 (1.14%) Equities
6 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.14%) Life Science
6 1 (1.14%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (54.55%) Analytics
2 43 (48.86%) Data Engineering
3 36 (40.91%) Data Modelling
4 33 (37.50%) ETL
5 31 (35.23%) Data Pipeline
6 30 (34.09%) CI/CD
7 26 (29.55%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (20.45%) DevOps
9 12 (13.64%) Agile
9 12 (13.64%) AI
10 11 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (12.50%) Data Transformation
10 11 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (11.36%) Cost Optimisation
11 10 (11.36%) Data Science
11 10 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (10.23%) Data Governance
12 9 (10.23%) Migration
13 8 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (57.95%) Python
1 51 (57.95%) SQL
2 6 (6.82%) Korn
3 5 (5.68%) Java
3 5 (5.68%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.41%) Bash
4 3 (3.41%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.14%) Degree
2 1 (1.14%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.41%) QA
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) GxP
4 1 (1.14%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.68%) Talend
2 4 (4.55%) Databricks
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.27%) Denodo
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle
3 2 (2.27%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.14%) Charles River
4 1 (1.14%) Google
4 1 (1.14%) Informatica
4 1 (1.14%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.14%) Murex
4 1 (1.14%) RedGate
4 1 (1.14%) SAP