Snowflake Engineer Contract Job Trends in England
Snowflake Engineer
UK > England
The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 528 | 479 | 479 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -49 | 0 | +59 |
| Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer | 103 | 38 | 50 |
| As % of all contract jobs in England | 0.22% | 0.13% | 0.16% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.24% | 0.15% | 0.17% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 65 | 28 | 32 |
| 10th Percentile | £428 | £408 | £500 |
| 25th Percentile | £500 | £472 | £506 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £600 | £520 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +15.38% | -5.45% | -3.93% |
| 75th Percentile | £688 | £591 | £625 |
| 90th Percentile | £738 | £663 | £636 |
| UK median daily rate | £556 | £515 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | +8.01% | -6.36% | -4.35% |
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.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title | 42,761 | 25,748 | 29,713 |
| % of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title | 91.89% | 91.14% | 93.09% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 25,144 | 16,559 | 18,127 |
| 10th Percentile | £325 | £281 | £300 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £403 | £413 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £513 | £525 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +2.44% | -2.38% | -2.78% |
| 75th Percentile | £638 | £625 | £638 |
| 90th Percentile | £738 | £725 | £750 |
| UK median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 3,817 | 1,470 | 1,228 |
| 10th Percentile | £14.45 | £13.84 | £15.10 |
| 25th Percentile | £20.00 | £17.30 | £21.25 |
| Median hourly rate | £41.71 | £25.15 | £43.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +65.84% | -41.51% | -6.89% |
| 75th Percentile | £68.00 | £50.94 | £68.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £80.00 | £70.00 | £75.00 |
| UK median hourly rate | £41.06 | £25.15 | £40.33 |
| % change year-on-year | +63.26% | -37.63% | -10.39% |
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 Daily Rate Trend 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 18 October 2026.
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 18 October 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 | -48 | 75 | £600 | +11.63% | 24 |
| North of England | -49 | 8 | £500 | +45.35% | 4 |
| East of England | -20 | 6 | £365 | -27.00% | |
| South West | -37 | 6 | £650 | +36.84% | 1 |
| North West | -42 | 4 | £500 | +45.35% | 3 |
| Yorkshire | - | 4 | - | - | 1 |
| Midlands | -42 | 3 | £520 | +25.30% | 2 |
| West Midlands | -49 | 3 | £520 | +25.30% | 2 |
| South East | -58 | 1 | - | - | 4 |
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Snowflake Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England
For the 6 months to 18 October 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.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snowflake | 88.3% | 91 |
| 2 | SQL | 67.0% | 69 |
| 3 | AWS | 58.3% | 60 |
| 4 | Data Engineering | 57.3% | 59 |
| 5 | Data Pipeline | 56.3% | 58 |
| 6 | Data Modelling | 51.5% | 53 |
| 7 | dbt | 50.5% | 52 |
| 8 | Python | 48.5% | 50 |
| 9 | Data Warehouse | 35.9% | 37 |
| 10 | Analytics | 34.0% | 35 |
| 11 | Data Quality | 33.0% | 34 |
| 12 | ETL | 31.1% | 32 |
| 13 | CI/CD | 26.2% | 27 |
| 14 | Apache Airflow | 25.2% | 26 |
| 15 | Agile | 23.3% | 24 |
| 15 | Performance Optimisation | 23.3% | 24 |
| 17 | Azure | 22.3% | 23 |
| 18 | Amazon S3 | 21.4% | 22 |
| 19 | Git | 19.4% | 20 |
| 20 | Data Transformation | 17.5% | 18 |
| 20 | Migration | 17.5% | 18 |
| 20 | Snowflake Schema | 17.5% | 18 |
| 23 | Data Integration | 14.6% | 15 |
| 23 | Event-Driven | 14.6% | 15 |
| 23 | Performance Tuning | 14.6% | 15 |
| 23 | Terraform | 14.6% | 15 |
| 27 | Power BI | 13.6% | 14 |
| 27 | Power Platform | 13.6% | 14 |
| 27 | Serverless | 13.6% | 14 |
| 30 | Data Ingestion | 12.6% | 13 |
Snowflake Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Data Engineer | 80.6% | 83 |
| 2 | Snowflake Data Engineer | 79.6% | 82 |
| 3 | AWS Engineer | 26.2% | 27 |
| 4 | AWS Data Engineer | 24.3% | 25 |
| 5 | Senior Data Engineer | 20.4% | 21 |
| 6 | Azure Engineer | 6.8% | 7 |
| 6 | Python Data Engineer | 6.8% | 7 |
| 8 | Azure Data Engineer | 5.8% | 6 |
| 8 | Kafka Engineer | 5.8% | 6 |
| 10 | Lead Data Engineer | 2.9% | 3 |
| 11 | DevOps Engineer | 1.9% | 2 |
| 11 | Infrastructure Engineer | 1.9% | 2 |
| 11 | Integration Engineer | 1.9% | 2 |
| 11 | Java Engineer | 1.9% | 2 |
| 11 | Snowflake Developer | 1.9% | 2 |
| 11 | SQL Developer | 1.9% | 2 |
| 17 | AWS DevOps Engineer | 1.0% | 1 |
| 17 | Azure Developer | 1.0% | 1 |
| 17 | Business Intelligence Developer | 1.0% | 1 |
| 17 | Cloud Engineer | 1.0% | 1 |