Snowflake Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Snowflake Engineer
UK > England

The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 437 514
Rank change year-on-year -35 +77 +169
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 63 48 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.19% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 30 33
10th Percentile £400 £300 £431
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £593
90th Percentile £700 £651 £621
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.91% -4.35% -4.17%

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 29,075 25,046 33,347
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.55% 92.89% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,572 15,525 22,655
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,766 759 1,526
10th Percentile £14.46 £15.73 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -19.54% +24.29%
75th Percentile £61.18 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -19.08% -23.53% +21.43%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -10 51 £575 +4.55% 13
North of England -38 5 £344 - 1
North West -21 4 £344 - 1
South West -18 3 £420 +8.39% 2
East of England -20 1 £500 -9.09%
West Midlands -34 1 £415 - 1
Midlands -37 1 £415 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £488 -
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 January 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 57 (90.48%) Snowflake
2 38 (60.32%) Analytics
3 36 (57.14%) Data Engineering
4 33 (52.38%) Python
4 33 (52.38%) SQL
5 25 (39.68%) Data Modelling
6 24 (38.10%) AWS
7 23 (36.51%) Azure
8 21 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
8 21 (33.33%) ETL
9 19 (30.16%) CI/CD
10 16 (25.40%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (25.40%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
11 15 (23.81%) dbt
12 13 (20.63%) DevOps
13 12 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (19.05%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (15.87%) Agile
15 9 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (14.29%) Data Science
15 9 (14.29%) Power Platform
15 9 (14.29%) Serverless
16 8 (12.70%) Data Quality
16 8 (12.70%) GitHub
16 8 (12.70%) Matillion
17 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3
17 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
17 7 (11.11%) Data Governance
17 7 (11.11%) Git

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 15 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.76%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 57 (90.48%) Snowflake
2 24 (38.10%) AWS
3 23 (36.51%) Azure
4 15 (23.81%) dbt
5 9 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 9 (14.29%) Serverless
6 8 (12.70%) GitHub
6 8 (12.70%) Matillion
7 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 6 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (9.52%) GCP
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (6.35%) Prefect
10 3 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.17%) Dagster
11 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.59%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (1.59%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.40%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (19.05%) Snowflake Schema
3 7 (11.11%) Power BI
4 6 (9.52%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.17%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.17%) Looker
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.59%) Metadata
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Git
2 6 (9.52%) GitLab
3 2 (3.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.59%) Selenium
4 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (6.35%) Banking
4 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.59%) Front Office
5 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.59%) Marketing
5 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) Kafka
2 4 (6.35%) Pandas
3 2 (3.17%) Anaconda
3 2 (3.17%) GraphQL
3 2 (3.17%) OAuth
3 2 (3.17%) PySpark
4 1 (1.59%) FHIR
4 1 (1.59%) Matplotlib
4 1 (1.59%) NumPy
4 1 (1.59%) Playwright
4 1 (1.59%) Puppeteer
4 1 (1.59%) RESTful
4 1 (1.59%) Seaborn
4 1 (1.59%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.59%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.94%) Clustering
2 5 (7.94%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.76%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) Derivative
5 1 (1.59%) Equities
5 1 (1.59%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.59%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (60.32%) Analytics
2 36 (57.14%) Data Engineering
3 25 (39.68%) Data Modelling
4 21 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 21 (33.33%) ETL
5 19 (30.16%) CI/CD
6 16 (25.40%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (20.63%) DevOps
8 12 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (15.87%) Agile
10 9 (14.29%) Data Science
11 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (11.11%) Data Governance
11 7 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
12 6 (9.52%) AI
12 6 (9.52%) Cost Optimisation
12 6 (9.52%) Data Transformation
12 6 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
13 5 (7.94%) Data Security
13 5 (7.94%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 33 (52.38%) Python
1 33 (52.38%) SQL
2 7 (11.11%) Korn
3 4 (6.35%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.17%) Bash
4 2 (3.17%) Java
5 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.76%) SnowPro
2 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.76%) GDPR
2 3 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (6.35%) Databricks
2 3 (4.76%) SAP
3 2 (3.17%) Denodo
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle
3 2 (3.17%) Talend
3 2 (3.17%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.59%) Charles River
4 1 (1.59%) Informatica
4 1 (1.59%) Murex
4 1 (1.59%) RedGate
4 1 (1.59%) Workday