Snowflake Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Snowflake Engineer
UK > England

The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in England is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 446 508
Rank change year-on-year -29 +62 +171
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 77 45 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 28 39
10th Percentile £381 £300 £456
25th Percentile £410 £483 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +7.32% -14.58%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £685 £650 £621
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

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 30,294 24,680 35,343
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 93.03% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,296 15,229 23,868
10th Percentile £300 £300 £274
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 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,883 736 2,011
10th Percentile £14.82 £15.91 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.24
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.11% +4.29%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £62.48
90th Percentile £70.94 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -10.96% +4.29%

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 31 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 31 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 -7 64 £523 -5.00% 13
North of England -49 5 £344 -
South West -17 4 £420 +8.39% 1
North West -26 4 £344 -
East of England -14 1 £500 -9.09%
West Midlands -43 1 £415 - 2
Midlands -44 1 £415 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £488 -
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 69 (89.61%) Snowflake
2 47 (61.04%) Analytics
3 43 (55.84%) Python
3 43 (55.84%) SQL
4 40 (51.95%) Data Engineering
5 32 (41.56%) AWS
5 32 (41.56%) Data Modelling
6 29 (37.66%) Azure
6 29 (37.66%) ETL
7 28 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
8 23 (29.87%) CI/CD
9 22 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (25.97%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (24.68%) dbt
12 18 (23.38%) Apache Airflow
13 15 (19.48%) DevOps
13 15 (19.48%) Snowflake Schema
14 14 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (16.88%) Matillion
16 12 (15.58%) Data Quality
17 11 (14.29%) Agile
17 11 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (14.29%) Power Platform
17 11 (14.29%) Serverless
18 10 (12.99%) AI
18 10 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
18 10 (12.99%) Data Science
18 10 (12.99%) Data Transformation
18 10 (12.99%) Git
18 10 (12.99%) Performance Optimisation

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 18 (23.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.60%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 69 (89.61%) Snowflake
2 32 (41.56%) AWS
3 29 (37.66%) Azure
4 19 (24.68%) dbt
5 13 (16.88%) Matillion
6 11 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 11 (14.29%) Serverless
7 9 (11.69%) Amazon S3
7 9 (11.69%) GitHub
8 8 (10.39%) GCP
9 7 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (7.79%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (5.19%) Prefect
12 3 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (2.60%) Dagster
13 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
14 1 (1.30%) Alation
14 1 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.97%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (19.48%) Snowflake Schema
3 8 (10.39%) Power BI
4 5 (6.49%) Data Lake
5 4 (5.19%) Data Vault
6 3 (3.90%) Metadata
7 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.60%) Looker
7 2 (2.60%) Tableau
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.30%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Git
2 8 (10.39%) GitLab
3 2 (2.60%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.30%) Selenium
4 1 (1.30%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.09%) Finance
4 5 (6.49%) Banking
5 3 (3.90%) Retail
6 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Front Office
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Marketing
7 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) Kafka
2 4 (5.19%) Pandas
3 2 (2.60%) Anaconda
3 2 (2.60%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.60%) OAuth
3 2 (2.60%) PySpark
3 2 (2.60%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.30%) FHIR
4 1 (1.30%) JSON
4 1 (1.30%) Matplotlib
4 1 (1.30%) NumPy
4 1 (1.30%) Playwright
4 1 (1.30%) Puppeteer
4 1 (1.30%) RESTful
4 1 (1.30%) Seaborn
4 1 (1.30%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.79%) Clustering
3 5 (6.49%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.19%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) Derivative
6 1 (1.30%) Equities
6 1 (1.30%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.30%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (61.04%) Analytics
2 40 (51.95%) Data Engineering
3 32 (41.56%) Data Modelling
4 29 (37.66%) ETL
5 28 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
6 23 (29.87%) CI/CD
7 22 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (19.48%) DevOps
9 14 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (14.29%) Agile
11 10 (12.99%) AI
11 10 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (12.99%) Data Science
11 10 (12.99%) Data Transformation
11 10 (12.99%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (11.69%) Cost Optimisation
12 9 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (10.39%) Data Governance
14 7 (9.09%) Design Patterns
14 7 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (55.84%) Python
1 43 (55.84%) SQL
2 7 (9.09%) Korn
3 5 (6.49%) Java
4 4 (5.19%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.60%) Bash
7 1 (1.30%) C#
7 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (3.90%) SnowPro
2 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.30%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.58%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.90%) QA
3 2 (2.60%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.49%) Talend
2 4 (5.19%) Databricks
3 3 (3.90%) SAP
4 2 (2.60%) Denodo
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle
4 2 (2.60%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.30%) Charles River
5 1 (1.30%) Informatica
5 1 (1.30%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.30%) Murex
5 1 (1.30%) RedGate
5 1 (1.30%) Workday