Snowflake Data Engineer Contracts in London

Snowflake Data Engineer
England > London

The median Snowflake Data Engineer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 380 464
Rank change year-on-year +48 +84 +105
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Data Engineer 21 11 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.062% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.066% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 21
10th Percentile £455 - £370
25th Percentile £487 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £638
90th Percentile £628 £700 £775
England median daily rate £500 £511 £544
% change year-on-year -2.20% -5.98% -1.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Snowflake Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Snowflake Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake Data Engineer in London

Snowflake Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Snowflake Data Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Snowflake Data Engineer in London

Snowflake Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Data Engineer in London

Snowflake Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snowflake Data Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London +4 1 £475 -17.39% 8
Snowflake Data Engineer
England

Snowflake Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Snowflake Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Snowflake Data Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (90.48%) Snowflake
2 15 (71.43%) Python
3 14 (66.67%) dbt
4 12 (57.14%) SQL
4 12 (57.14%) AWS
5 9 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (33.33%) Azure
7 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
8 4 (19.05%) Migration
8 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
9 3 (14.29%) Analytics
9 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
9 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 3 (14.29%) ETL
10 2 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (9.52%) E-Commerce
10 2 (9.52%) Data Migration
10 2 (9.52%) Finance
10 2 (9.52%) Data Architecture
10 2 (9.52%) Visualisation
10 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
10 2 (9.52%) Data Engineering
10 2 (9.52%) Data Strategy
10 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (9.52%) Data Transformation
10 2 (9.52%) Docker

Snowflake Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 19 (90.48%) Snowflake
2 14 (66.67%) dbt
3 12 (57.14%) AWS
4 7 (33.33%) Azure
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (4.76%) Fivetran
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub
7 1 (4.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (4.76%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
2 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
2 4 (19.05%) Migration
3 3 (14.29%) Analytics
3 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 3 (14.29%) ETL
4 2 (9.52%) Data Architecture
4 2 (9.52%) Data Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) Data Migration
4 2 (9.52%) Data Strategy
4 2 (9.52%) Data Transformation
4 2 (9.52%) E-Commerce
4 2 (9.52%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (9.52%) Visualisation
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science
5 1 (4.76%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (4.76%) Data Integration
5 1 (4.76%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) Python
2 12 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Databricks
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle