Snowflake Engineer Contracts in London

Snowflake Engineer
England > London

The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 357 436
Rank change year-on-year +21 +79 +128
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 39 19 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 17 28
10th Percentile £476 £407 £426
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.30% +2.92%
75th Percentile £875 £625 £638
90th Percentile - £640 £754
England median daily rate £525 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.66% -6.83%

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 12,674 15,337 22,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 94.20% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,579 10,876 16,694
10th Percentile £326 £346 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 199 243
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.80 £18.55
25th Percentile £22.86 £22.00 £23.88
Median hourly rate £29.54 £33.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% -11.81% +12.78%
75th Percentile £50.50 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%

Snowflake Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake Engineer in London

Snowflake Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Snowflake Engineer in London

Snowflake Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake Engineer in London over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Engineer in London

Snowflake 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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 4 August 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 -6 1 £575 -2.13%
Snowflake Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, Snowflake 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 32 (82.05%) Python
2 32 (82.05%) AWS
3 30 (76.92%) dbt
4 28 (71.79%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (61.54%) SQL
6 19 (48.72%) Finance
7 18 (46.15%) Apache
8 17 (43.59%) Java
8 17 (43.59%) Software Engineering
8 17 (43.59%) Apache Iceberg
9 16 (41.03%) Apache Arrow
9 16 (41.03%) PySpark
9 16 (41.03%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (41.03%) Dremio
9 16 (41.03%) Investment Banking
9 16 (41.03%) Agile
9 16 (41.03%) Banking
9 16 (41.03%) Asset Management
9 16 (41.03%) Data Management
9 16 (41.03%) Hedge funds
9 16 (41.03%) Front Office
9 16 (41.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (41.03%) Fixed Income
9 16 (41.03%) Equities
9 16 (41.03%) Derivative
10 7 (17.95%) Azure
10 7 (17.95%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (15.38%) CI/CD

Snowflake 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 28 (71.79%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (46.15%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 32 (82.05%) AWS
3 30 (76.92%) dbt
4 7 (17.95%) Azure
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.13%) GCP
6 2 (5.13%) GitHub
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.56%) Dagster
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.56%) IaaS
7 1 (2.56%) Matillion
7 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) Apache Iceberg
2 16 (41.03%) Amazon Athena
2 16 (41.03%) Apache Arrow
2 16 (41.03%) Dremio
3 7 (17.95%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.56%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.56%) Looker
5 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) GitLab
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 19 (48.72%) Finance
2 16 (41.03%) Banking
2 16 (41.03%) Front Office
2 16 (41.03%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Marketing
3 1 (2.56%) Retail
3 1 (2.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (41.03%) PySpark
2 2 (5.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 16 (41.03%) Derivative
1 16 (41.03%) Equities
1 16 (41.03%) Fixed Income
1 16 (41.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 16 (41.03%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Software Engineering
2 16 (41.03%) Agile
2 16 (41.03%) Asset Management
2 16 (41.03%) Data Management
3 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 6 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (12.82%) Analytics
4 5 (12.82%) Data Engineering
5 3 (7.69%) Data Modelling
5 3 (7.69%) ETL
5 3 (7.69%) Visualisation
6 2 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (5.13%) Data Strategy
6 2 (5.13%) Decision-Making
6 2 (5.13%) DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) Machine Learning
6 2 (5.13%) Mentoring
6 2 (5.13%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (2.56%) Data Ingestion
7 1 (2.56%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 32 (82.05%) Python
2 24 (61.54%) SQL
3 17 (43.59%) Java
4 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Databricks
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft