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 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 419 520
Rank change year-on-year -78 +101 +72
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 111 65 30
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.26% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.29% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 59 26
10th Percentile £400 £393 £447
25th Percentile £425 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £875 £588
90th Percentile £713 - £631
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -5.88%

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 39,453 22,713 34,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.34% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,315 14,934 22,760
10th Percentile £325 £294 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,782 1,000 2,654
10th Percentile £15.89 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.99% -26.49% -12.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +54.10% -26.13% -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -16 89 £550 -7.37% 4
North West - 8 £344 -
North of England - 8 £344 -
South West -23 6 £420 -13.85%
West Midlands -49 5 £600 +42.86%
Midlands -55 5 £600 +42.86%
East of England -27 1 £380 -
South East -66 1 £525 +38.16%
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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 89 (80.18%) Snowflake
2 64 (57.66%) SQL
3 60 (54.05%) AWS
4 59 (53.15%) Python
5 46 (41.44%) Data Engineering
6 45 (40.54%) dbt
7 43 (38.74%) Analytics
8 42 (37.84%) Data Modelling
9 37 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
9 37 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
10 36 (32.43%) Azure
10 36 (32.43%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (28.83%) Apache Airflow
12 30 (27.03%) CI/CD
12 30 (27.03%) ETL
13 23 (20.72%) Performance Tuning
14 22 (19.82%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (18.02%) Data Quality
16 19 (17.12%) DevOps
17 18 (16.22%) Amazon S3
18 17 (15.32%) GCP
18 17 (15.32%) Git
19 16 (14.41%) Power Platform
20 15 (13.51%) AI
21 14 (12.61%) Infrastructure as Code
21 14 (12.61%) Matillion
21 14 (12.61%) Migration
21 14 (12.61%) Terraform
22 13 (11.71%) Kafka
23 12 (10.81%) 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 (28.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.80%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 89 (80.18%) Snowflake
2 60 (54.05%) AWS
3 45 (40.54%) dbt
4 36 (32.43%) Azure
5 18 (16.22%) Amazon S3
6 17 (15.32%) GCP
7 16 (14.41%) Power Platform
8 14 (12.61%) Matillion
9 12 (10.81%) GitHub
10 10 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (8.11%) Dagster
12 7 (6.31%) Fivetran
12 7 (6.31%) Prefect
13 4 (3.60%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.60%) Serverless
14 2 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 2 (1.80%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
2 36 (32.43%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (9.91%) Power BI
4 10 (9.01%) Data Vault
5 5 (4.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.50%) Star Schema
5 5 (4.50%) Tableau
6 3 (2.70%) Metadata
7 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.90%) Looker
8 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.90%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 17 (15.32%) Git
2 5 (4.50%) GitLab
3 2 (1.80%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.80%) Snyk
3 2 (1.80%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.90%) Terragrunt
General
1 24 (21.62%) Finance
2 14 (12.61%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.91%) Banking
4 7 (6.31%) Retail
5 6 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.90%) Front Office
8 1 (0.90%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.71%) Kafka
2 5 (4.50%) OAuth
2 5 (4.50%) OpenID
3 2 (1.80%) YAML
4 1 (0.90%) Jinja
4 1 (0.90%) JSON
4 1 (0.90%) PySpark
4 1 (0.90%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.41%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.91%) Clustering
3 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.90%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.90%) Life Science
5 1 (0.90%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.90%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.44%) Data Engineering
2 43 (38.74%) Analytics
3 42 (37.84%) Data Modelling
4 37 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 30 (27.03%) CI/CD
5 30 (27.03%) ETL
6 23 (20.72%) Performance Tuning
7 22 (19.82%) Business Intelligence
8 19 (17.12%) DevOps
9 15 (13.51%) AI
10 14 (12.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (12.61%) Migration
11 11 (9.91%) Data Science
11 11 (9.91%) Data Transformation
11 11 (9.91%) Dimensional Modelling
11 11 (9.91%) RBAC
12 10 (9.01%) Validation
13 9 (8.11%) Data Governance
13 9 (8.11%) Event-Driven
14 8 (7.21%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 64 (57.66%) SQL
2 59 (53.15%) Python
3 11 (9.91%) Java
4 4 (3.60%) C#
4 4 (3.60%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.70%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.80%) Bash
7 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (5.41%) SnowPro
2 2 (1.80%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.90%) Degree
3 1 (0.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.02%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.90%) GDPR
2 1 (0.90%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (12.61%) Terraform
2 3 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (4.50%) Denodo
1 5 (4.50%) Informatica
1 5 (4.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.60%) Google
3 3 (2.70%) Talend
4 2 (1.80%) Databricks
4 2 (1.80%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.90%) eFront
5 1 (0.90%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.90%) SAP