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 19 July 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 442 508
Rank change year-on-year -71 +66 +66
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 114 63 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.23% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.25% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 57 33
10th Percentile £413 £409 £463
25th Percentile £510 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -1.55%
75th Percentile £656 £875 £625
90th Percentile £738 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £510
% change year-on-year +9.52% +2.94% -4.81%

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 41,658 25,184 33,519
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.89% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,450 16,385 22,036
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,985 1,243 2,292
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.87 £18.00
Median hourly rate £45.50 £27.50 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +65.45% -31.80% -8.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.03 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +72.96% -37.13% -6.98%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -26 89 £575 -3.16% 5
North of England - 10 £600 - 1
Midlands -47 7 £600 +42.86% 1
West Midlands -56 7 £600 +43.71%
North West - 6 £600 - 1
Yorkshire - 4 - -
East of England -15 2 £380 -
South West -44 2 - -
South East -73 1 £525 +38.16% 1
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 96 (84.21%) Snowflake
2 75 (65.79%) SQL
3 66 (57.89%) Python
4 63 (55.26%) AWS
5 51 (44.74%) Data Engineering
6 49 (42.98%) dbt
7 47 (41.23%) Data Modelling
8 46 (40.35%) Data Pipeline
9 41 (35.96%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (34.21%) Azure
11 37 (32.46%) Analytics
11 37 (32.46%) CI/CD
11 37 (32.46%) ETL
12 34 (29.82%) Apache Airflow
13 33 (28.95%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (22.81%) Data Quality
15 24 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
16 22 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
17 21 (18.42%) Amazon S3
18 20 (17.54%) DevOps
18 20 (17.54%) Migration
18 20 (17.54%) Power Platform
19 19 (16.67%) GCP
19 19 (16.67%) Git
20 17 (14.91%) Power BI
20 17 (14.91%) Terraform
21 16 (14.04%) Agile
22 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
22 14 (12.28%) Kafka
23 13 (11.40%) Data Transformation

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 (29.82%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.51%) Apache
Business Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 96 (84.21%) Snowflake
2 63 (55.26%) AWS
3 49 (42.98%) dbt
4 39 (34.21%) Azure
5 21 (18.42%) Amazon S3
6 20 (17.54%) Power Platform
7 19 (16.67%) GCP
8 12 (10.53%) GitHub
9 11 (9.65%) Matillion
10 10 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (7.89%) Dagster
11 9 (7.89%) Fivetran
11 9 (7.89%) Serverless
12 8 (7.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (4.39%) Prefect
15 4 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
16 3 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 2 (1.75%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (35.96%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (28.95%) Snowflake Schema
3 17 (14.91%) Power BI
4 8 (7.02%) Data Vault
5 7 (6.14%) SQL Server
6 6 (5.26%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (4.39%) Star Schema
7 5 (4.39%) Tableau
8 3 (2.63%) Metadata
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.75%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.88%) Looker
10 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.88%) QlikView
10 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.88%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (2.63%) GitLab
3 2 (1.75%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.75%) Snyk
3 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (30.70%) Finance
2 17 (14.91%) Banking
3 15 (13.16%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.14%) Financial Institution
5 6 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (4.39%) Front Office
6 5 (4.39%) Retail
7 4 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.28%) Kafka
2 5 (4.39%) OAuth
2 5 (4.39%) OpenID
3 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.88%) Jinja
3 1 (0.88%) PySpark
3 1 (0.88%) REST
3 1 (0.88%) Snowpark
3 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.77%) Clustering
3 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.75%) Derivative
5 2 (1.75%) Equities
5 2 (1.75%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.75%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Life Science
6 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (44.74%) Data Engineering
2 47 (41.23%) Data Modelling
3 46 (40.35%) Data Pipeline
4 37 (32.46%) Analytics
4 37 (32.46%) CI/CD
4 37 (32.46%) ETL
5 24 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
6 22 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (17.54%) DevOps
7 20 (17.54%) Migration
8 16 (14.04%) Agile
9 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (11.40%) Data Transformation
10 13 (11.40%) Dimensional Modelling
11 12 (10.53%) AI
11 12 (10.53%) Data Science
11 12 (10.53%) RBAC
11 12 (10.53%) Validation
12 11 (9.65%) Event-Driven
12 11 (9.65%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 75 (65.79%) SQL
2 66 (57.89%) Python
3 9 (7.89%) Java
4 3 (2.63%) C#
5 2 (1.75%) Bash
5 2 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.88%) Bicep
6 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (6.14%) SnowPro
2 4 (3.51%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.75%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.75%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (3.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (14.91%) Terraform
2 3 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (7.02%) Informatica
2 7 (6.14%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.26%) Google
4 5 (4.39%) Denodo
5 3 (2.63%) Databricks
6 2 (1.75%) Charles River
6 2 (1.75%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.75%) Murex
6 2 (1.75%) Talend
7 1 (0.88%) eFront
7 1 (0.88%) SAP