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 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 478 548
Rank change year-on-year -5 +70 +199
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 36 48 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 32 46
10th Percentile £408 £500 £428
25th Percentile £463 £505 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £604
90th Percentile £603 £636 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,406 30,639 39,817
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 92.99% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,389 19,101 27,778
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £401 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,371 1,479 1,365
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.81 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £54.88 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Snowflake Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Snowflake Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake Engineer 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 -7 25 £525 -4.55% 3
South West +21 4 £475 -17.39%
Midlands -14 3 £415 -14.87% 2
West Midlands -6 2 £415 -14.87% 2
East Midlands -6 1 £420 -
North West -8 1 £344 -37.45% 1
North of England -26 1 £344 -37.45% 1
South East - 1 £525 - 2
Snowflake Engineer
UK

Snowflake Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Snowflake Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Snowflake Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (97.22%) Snowflake
2 21 (58.33%) Python
2 21 (58.33%) AWS
3 16 (44.44%) Analytics
3 16 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (38.89%) dbt
5 13 (36.11%) Data Engineering
6 11 (30.56%) SQL
6 11 (30.56%) Data Modelling
7 10 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (25.00%) Azure
9 8 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (22.22%) ETL
10 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
11 6 (16.67%) Matillion
11 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (16.67%) GCP
11 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
12 5 (13.89%) Marketing
12 5 (13.89%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (13.89%) Data Strategy
12 5 (13.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (13.89%) Power Platform
12 5 (13.89%) Power BI
13 4 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (11.11%) Data Science
13 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
13 4 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
13 4 (11.11%) Project Planning

Snowflake Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 35 (97.22%) Snowflake
2 21 (58.33%) AWS
3 14 (38.89%) dbt
4 9 (25.00%) Azure
5 6 (16.67%) GCP
5 6 (16.67%) Matillion
6 5 (13.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (13.89%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.78%) Dagster
8 1 (2.78%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (13.89%) Power BI
2 5 (13.89%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.78%) Looker
4 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 5 (13.89%) Marketing
2 4 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Banking
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Advertising
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) Playwright
2 1 (2.78%) Puppeteer
2 1 (2.78%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.56%) Clustering
3 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Analytics
2 13 (36.11%) Data Engineering
3 11 (30.56%) Data Modelling
4 9 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (22.22%) ETL
6 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
7 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.89%) Data Strategy
9 4 (11.11%) Business Development
9 4 (11.11%) Data Governance
9 4 (11.11%) Data Science
9 4 (11.11%) Data Transformation
9 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
9 4 (11.11%) Project Planning
9 4 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
10 3 (8.33%) Data Ingestion
10 3 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
11 2 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) Python
2 11 (30.56%) SQL
3 1 (2.78%) Java
3 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.78%) Korn
3 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.78%) Scala
3 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) SnowPro
2 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Databricks
1 3 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Workday