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 12 July 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 443 512
Rank change year-on-year -58 +69 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 114 63 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.23% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.25% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 57 32
10th Percentile £412 £405 £463
25th Percentile £505 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £638 £875 £625
90th Percentile £718 - -
UK median daily rate £563 £525 £510
% change year-on-year +7.14% +2.94% -4.36%

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 41,673 25,107 34,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.03% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,526 16,352 22,396
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £420 £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 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,985 1,216 2,460
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.77 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.98 £17.22
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -29.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.89 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.59
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £26.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +64.15% -33.00% -8.02%

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 12 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 12 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 -7 92 £575 -3.16% 6
Midlands -43 7 £600 +42.86% 3
West Midlands -56 7 £600 +43.71% 1
North of England - 6 £600 - 2
North West - 6 £600 - 1
South West -40 3 £420 -16.00%
East of England -22 2 £380 -
South East -72 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 12 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 94 (82.46%) Snowflake
2 75 (65.79%) SQL
3 68 (59.65%) Python
4 63 (55.26%) AWS
5 48 (42.11%) Data Modelling
6 47 (41.23%) Data Engineering
6 47 (41.23%) dbt
7 43 (37.72%) Data Pipeline
8 40 (35.09%) Data Warehouse
9 39 (34.21%) Analytics
9 39 (34.21%) Azure
10 37 (32.46%) ETL
11 34 (29.82%) CI/CD
11 34 (29.82%) Snowflake Schema
12 32 (28.07%) Apache Airflow
13 23 (20.18%) Performance Tuning
14 22 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (18.42%) Amazon S3
15 21 (18.42%) Data Quality
16 20 (17.54%) DevOps
16 20 (17.54%) Power Platform
17 17 (14.91%) GCP
17 17 (14.91%) Power BI
18 16 (14.04%) Git
18 16 (14.04%) Migration
18 16 (14.04%) Terraform
19 14 (12.28%) AI
19 14 (12.28%) Kafka
20 13 (11.40%) Data Transformation
20 13 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code

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 6 (5.26%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 94 (82.46%) Snowflake
2 63 (55.26%) AWS
3 47 (41.23%) dbt
4 39 (34.21%) Azure
5 21 (18.42%) Amazon S3
6 20 (17.54%) Power Platform
7 17 (14.91%) GCP
8 12 (10.53%) GitHub
9 9 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.89%) Dagster
9 9 (7.89%) Matillion
10 8 (7.02%) Serverless
11 7 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (6.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (6.14%) Fivetran
12 5 (4.39%) Prefect
13 4 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 2 (1.75%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (35.09%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (29.82%) Snowflake Schema
3 17 (14.91%) Power BI
4 10 (8.77%) Data Vault
5 5 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.39%) Star Schema
5 5 (4.39%) Tableau
6 4 (3.51%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.63%) Metadata
7 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.88%) Looker
9 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.88%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (14.04%) 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 34 (29.82%) Finance
2 16 (14.04%) Banking
3 14 (12.28%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.14%) Financial Institution
4 7 (6.14%) Retail
5 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (4.39%) Front Office
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 2 (1.75%) YAML
4 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.88%) Jinja
4 1 (0.88%) JSON
4 1 (0.88%) PySpark
4 1 (0.88%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.54%) 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 48 (42.11%) Data Modelling
2 47 (41.23%) Data Engineering
3 43 (37.72%) Data Pipeline
4 39 (34.21%) Analytics
5 37 (32.46%) ETL
6 34 (29.82%) CI/CD
7 23 (20.18%) Performance Tuning
8 22 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (17.54%) DevOps
10 16 (14.04%) Migration
11 14 (12.28%) AI
12 13 (11.40%) Data Transformation
12 13 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (10.53%) Agile
13 12 (10.53%) Dimensional Modelling
14 11 (9.65%) Data Governance
14 11 (9.65%) Event-Driven
14 11 (9.65%) RBAC
14 11 (9.65%) Validation
15 10 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 75 (65.79%) SQL
2 68 (59.65%) Python
3 11 (9.65%) Java
4 4 (3.51%) C#
5 3 (2.63%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.75%) Bash
6 2 (1.75%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.88%) Bicep
7 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (6.14%) SnowPro
2 2 (1.75%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
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 16 (14.04%) Terraform
2 3 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.39%) Denodo
2 5 (4.39%) Informatica
3 4 (3.51%) Google
4 3 (2.63%) Databricks
4 3 (2.63%) Talend
5 2 (1.75%) Charles River
5 2 (1.75%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.75%) Murex
6 1 (0.88%) eFront
6 1 (0.88%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.88%) SAP