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 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 412 508
Rank change year-on-year -80 +96 +88
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 110 64 29
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.27% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.29% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 59 25
10th Percentile £401 £393 £444
25th Percentile £434 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £875 £588
90th Percentile £713 - £633
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £505
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -4.94%

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 38,786 22,186 34,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.34% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,000 14,689 22,539
10th Percentile £322 £293 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,713 917 2,538
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.43% -21.79% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.95 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -19 90 £556 -6.32% 1
North West - 7 £344 -
North of England - 7 £344 - 1
South West -39 6 £420 -13.85%
Midlands -58 5 £600 +42.86%
West Midlands -64 5 £600 +42.86%
South East -68 1 £525 +45.83%
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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 88 (80.00%) Snowflake
2 64 (58.18%) SQL
3 59 (53.64%) AWS
4 58 (52.73%) Python
5 45 (40.91%) Data Engineering
6 44 (40.00%) Analytics
6 44 (40.00%) dbt
7 41 (37.27%) Data Modelling
8 36 (32.73%) Azure
8 36 (32.73%) Data Pipeline
8 36 (32.73%) Snowflake Schema
9 35 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (29.09%) Apache Airflow
11 30 (27.27%) ETL
12 29 (26.36%) CI/CD
13 24 (21.82%) Performance Tuning
14 21 (19.09%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (17.27%) Data Quality
16 18 (16.36%) Amazon S3
16 18 (16.36%) DevOps
16 18 (16.36%) GCP
17 17 (15.45%) Git
18 15 (13.64%) AI
18 15 (13.64%) Matillion
18 15 (13.64%) Power Platform
19 14 (12.73%) Migration
19 14 (12.73%) Terraform
20 13 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
20 13 (11.82%) Kafka
21 12 (10.91%) GitHub

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 (29.09%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.82%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 88 (80.00%) Snowflake
2 59 (53.64%) AWS
3 44 (40.00%) dbt
4 36 (32.73%) Azure
5 18 (16.36%) Amazon S3
5 18 (16.36%) GCP
6 15 (13.64%) Matillion
6 15 (13.64%) Power Platform
7 12 (10.91%) GitHub
8 10 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (8.18%) Dagster
10 7 (6.36%) Prefect
11 6 (5.45%) Fivetran
12 5 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.64%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (3.64%) Serverless
14 3 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
15 1 (0.91%) Alation
15 1 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (32.73%) Snowflake Schema
2 35 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (9.09%) Data Vault
3 10 (9.09%) Power BI
4 5 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.55%) Star Schema
4 5 (4.55%) Tableau
5 3 (2.73%) Metadata
5 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.91%) Looker
7 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 17 (15.45%) Git
2 4 (3.64%) GitLab
3 2 (1.82%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.82%) Snyk
3 2 (1.82%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.91%) Terragrunt
General
1 24 (21.82%) Finance
2 14 (12.73%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.00%) Banking
4 6 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.45%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (5.45%) Retail
5 4 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.73%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.91%) Front Office
7 1 (0.91%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.82%) Kafka
2 5 (4.55%) OAuth
2 5 (4.55%) OpenID
3 2 (1.82%) YAML
4 1 (0.91%) Jinja
4 1 (0.91%) JSON
4 1 (0.91%) PySpark
4 1 (0.91%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.45%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.09%) Clustering
3 4 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.73%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) Life Science
5 1 (0.91%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.91%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.91%) Data Engineering
2 44 (40.00%) Analytics
3 41 (37.27%) Data Modelling
4 36 (32.73%) Data Pipeline
5 30 (27.27%) ETL
6 29 (26.36%) CI/CD
7 24 (21.82%) Performance Tuning
8 21 (19.09%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (16.36%) DevOps
10 15 (13.64%) AI
11 14 (12.73%) Migration
12 13 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (10.91%) RBAC
14 11 (10.00%) Data Science
14 11 (10.00%) Dimensional Modelling
15 10 (9.09%) Data Transformation
15 10 (9.09%) Validation
16 9 (8.18%) Cost Optimisation
16 9 (8.18%) Data Governance
16 9 (8.18%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 64 (58.18%) SQL
2 58 (52.73%) Python
3 10 (9.09%) Java
4 4 (3.64%) C#
4 4 (3.64%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.73%) Bash
5 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (3.64%) SnowPro
2 2 (1.82%) DBS Check
2 2 (1.82%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.91%) Degree
3 1 (0.91%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.91%) GDPR
2 1 (0.91%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (2.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (12.73%) Terraform
2 2 (1.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (4.55%) Denodo
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.64%) Google
2 4 (3.64%) Informatica
2 4 (3.64%) Talend
3 2 (1.82%) Databricks
4 1 (0.91%) eFront
4 1 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle