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 25 October 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 25 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 537 | 482 | 471 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -55 | -11 | +66 |
| Contract Snowflake Engineer jobs | 103 | 42 | 52 |
| As % of all contract jobs in England | 0.22% | 0.15% | 0.17% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.24% | 0.16% | 0.18% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 66 | 31 | 33 |
| 10th Percentile | £431 | £408 | £490 |
| 25th Percentile | £500 | £478 | £506 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £600 | £525 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +14.29% | -4.55% | -3.93% |
| 75th Percentile | £684 | £594 | £625 |
| 90th Percentile | £738 | £663 | £648 |
| UK median daily rate | £550 | £515 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | +6.80% | -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 adverts in England matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.
| 6 months to 25 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract job adverts in England matching a recognised job title | 42,574 | 25,995 | 29,290 |
| % of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title | 91.74% | 91.15% | 93.05% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 25,063 | 16,689 | 17,879 |
| 10th Percentile | £325 | £280 | £300 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £403 | £413 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £510 | £525 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +2.94% | -2.86% | -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 | 3,832 | 1,500 | 1,161 |
| 10th Percentile | £14.25 | £13.85 | £15.10 |
| 25th Percentile | £19.78 | £17.36 | £21.25 |
| Median hourly rate | £41.63 | £25.15 | £42.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +65.54% | -40.82% | -7.37% |
| 75th Percentile | £68.00 | £50.00 | £67.50 |
| 90th Percentile | £80.00 | £70.00 | £75.00 |
| UK median hourly rate | £41.00 | £25.15 | £40.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +63.02% | -37.13% | -10.11% |
Snowflake Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in England
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract Snowflake Engineer job postings 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 Snowflake Engineer jobs in England over the 6 months to 25 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 Snowflake Engineer jobs within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | -34 | 76 | £600 | +4.35% | 25 |
| North of England | -67 | 7 | £400 | +16.28% | 8 |
| East of England | -12 | 6 | £365 | -27.00% | |
| South West | -29 | 6 | £650 | +76.27% | 3 |
| Yorkshire | -35 | 4 | - | - | 1 |
| West Midlands | -33 | 3 | £520 | +25.30% | 1 |
| Midlands | -38 | 3 | £520 | +25.30% | 1 |
| North West | -44 | 3 | £400 | +16.28% | 7 |
| South East | -56 | 1 | - | - | 8 |
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Snowflake Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England
For the 6 months to 25 October 2026, Snowflake Engineer contract job ads cited 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 Snowflake Engineer job ads across the England region.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snowflake | 89.3% | 92 |
| 2 | SQL | 68.0% | 70 |
| 3 | AWS | 59.2% | 61 |
| 3 | Data Engineering | 59.2% | 61 |
| 5 | Data Pipeline | 58.3% | 60 |
| 6 | dbt | 52.4% | 54 |
| 7 | Data Modelling | 51.5% | 53 |
| 8 | Python | 49.5% | 51 |
| 9 | Analytics | 36.9% | 38 |
| 9 | Data Warehouse | 36.9% | 38 |
| 11 | ETL | 34.0% | 35 |
| 12 | Data Quality | 33.0% | 34 |
| 13 | CI/CD | 29.1% | 30 |
| 14 | Apache Airflow | 27.2% | 28 |
| 15 | Performance Optimisation | 24.3% | 25 |
| 16 | Agile | 23.3% | 24 |
| 16 | Amazon S3 | 23.3% | 24 |
| 18 | Azure | 22.3% | 23 |
| 19 | Git | 18.4% | 19 |
| 20 | Data Transformation | 17.5% | 18 |
| 20 | Migration | 17.5% | 18 |
| 22 | Snowflake Schema | 16.5% | 17 |
| 22 | Terraform | 16.5% | 17 |
| 24 | Performance Tuning | 15.5% | 16 |
| 24 | Serverless | 15.5% | 16 |
| 26 | Data Integration | 14.6% | 15 |
| 26 | Event-Driven | 14.6% | 15 |
| 26 | GitHub | 14.6% | 15 |
| 29 | AWS Lambda | 13.6% | 14 |
| 29 | Power BI | 13.6% | 14 |
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 | 25.2% | 26 |
| 4 | AWS Data Engineer | 23.3% | 24 |
| 5 | Senior Data Engineer | 21.4% | 22 |
| 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 |