Snowflake Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Snowflake Engineer
UK > England

The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 434 523
Rank change year-on-year -50 +89 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 114 63 33
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.25% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.27% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 57 29
10th Percentile £400 £406 £456
25th Percentile £463 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -1.18%
75th Percentile £631 £875 £600
90th Percentile £713 - £628
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £510
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -4.23%

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 39,906 22,978 35,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.28% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,562 15,111 22,827
10th Percentile £325 £294 £290
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,811 1,028 2,703
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.56 £29.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.09% -26.58% -12.22%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £44.94 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +63.40% -26.67% -16.67%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -24 91 £575 -4.17% 6
North of England - 8 £344 - 2
North West - 8 £344 - 1
South West -30 6 £420 -16.00%
West Midlands -55 5 £600 +42.86% 1
Midlands -56 5 £600 +42.86% 2
East of England -33 1 £380 -
South East -67 1 £525 +38.16% 4
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 92 (80.70%) Snowflake
2 67 (58.77%) SQL
3 60 (52.63%) Python
4 59 (51.75%) AWS
5 45 (39.47%) Data Engineering
5 45 (39.47%) dbt
6 42 (36.84%) Analytics
6 42 (36.84%) Data Modelling
7 38 (33.33%) Azure
7 38 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
8 36 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (31.58%) Snowflake Schema
9 32 (28.07%) Apache Airflow
10 30 (26.32%) CI/CD
10 30 (26.32%) ETL
11 23 (20.18%) Performance Tuning
12 22 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (18.42%) Data Quality
14 19 (16.67%) DevOps
15 18 (15.79%) Amazon S3
16 17 (14.91%) GCP
16 17 (14.91%) Git
16 17 (14.91%) Power Platform
17 15 (13.16%) AI
17 15 (13.16%) Migration
18 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
18 14 (12.28%) Terraform
19 13 (11.40%) Kafka
19 13 (11.40%) Matillion
20 12 (10.53%) 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 32 (28.07%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.75%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (80.70%) Snowflake
2 59 (51.75%) AWS
3 45 (39.47%) dbt
4 38 (33.33%) Azure
5 18 (15.79%) Amazon S3
6 17 (14.91%) GCP
6 17 (14.91%) Power Platform
7 13 (11.40%) Matillion
8 12 (10.53%) GitHub
9 10 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.89%) Dagster
11 7 (6.14%) Fivetran
11 7 (6.14%) Prefect
12 4 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.51%) Serverless
13 2 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (1.75%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
1 36 (31.58%) Snowflake Schema
2 12 (10.53%) Power BI
3 10 (8.77%) Data Vault
4 5 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.39%) Star Schema
4 5 (4.39%) Tableau
5 3 (2.63%) Metadata
6 2 (1.75%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.75%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.88%) Looker
7 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.88%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 17 (14.91%) Git
2 5 (4.39%) GitLab
3 2 (1.75%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.75%) Snyk
3 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 28 (24.56%) Finance
2 13 (11.40%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.53%) Banking
4 7 (6.14%) Retail
5 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.51%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.88%) Front Office
7 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.40%) Kafka
2 5 (4.39%) OAuth
2 5 (4.39%) OpenID
3 2 (1.75%) YAML
4 1 (0.88%) Jinja
4 1 (0.88%) JSON
4 1 (0.88%) PySpark
4 1 (0.88%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.04%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.65%) Clustering
3 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.63%) Data Structures
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%) Life Science
6 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.47%) Data Engineering
2 42 (36.84%) Analytics
2 42 (36.84%) Data Modelling
3 38 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 30 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 30 (26.32%) ETL
5 23 (20.18%) Performance Tuning
6 22 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (16.67%) DevOps
8 15 (13.16%) AI
8 15 (13.16%) Migration
9 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (10.53%) Data Transformation
11 11 (9.65%) Data Science
11 11 (9.65%) Dimensional Modelling
11 11 (9.65%) RBAC
12 10 (8.77%) Validation
13 9 (7.89%) Data Governance
13 9 (7.89%) Event-Driven
14 8 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 67 (58.77%) SQL
2 60 (52.63%) Python
3 11 (9.65%) Java
4 4 (3.51%) C#
4 4 (3.51%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.63%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.75%) Bash
7 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (5.26%) SnowPro
2 2 (1.75%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.88%) Degree
3 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.42%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.88%) GDPR
2 1 (0.88%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (3.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (12.28%) Terraform
2 3 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (4.39%) Denodo
1 5 (4.39%) Informatica
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.51%) Google
3 3 (2.63%) Talend
4 2 (1.75%) Databricks
4 2 (1.75%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.88%) eFront
5 1 (0.88%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.88%) SAP