Snowflake Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Snowflake Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Snowflake Data Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, 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 313 387 457
Rank change year-on-year +74 +70 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Data Engineer 23 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.058% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.062% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 0
10th Percentile £356 £453 -
25th Percentile £410 £480 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% - -
75th Percentile £506 £517 -
90th Percentile £610 £600 -
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Snowflake Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Snowflake Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Snowflake Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Snowflake Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South West +53 8 £488 - 5
Midlands +26 5 £420 -18.05% 2
Scotland +15 5 £475 +4.86% 1
South East - 4 £380 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £420 -
North of England +15 2 - - 11
North West +13 2 - - 7
East Midlands +11 2 £420 -18.05% 1
East of England +30 1 - - 1
Snowflake Data Engineer
UK

Snowflake Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Snowflake Data Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 14 (60.87%) Python
2 14 (60.87%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (52.17%) SQL
4 11 (47.83%) AWS
5 10 (43.48%) ETL
6 9 (39.13%) Matillion
7 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
7 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
7 8 (34.78%) Analytics
8 7 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
9 5 (21.74%) Azure
10 4 (17.39%) Migration
10 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
11 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (13.04%) RBAC
11 3 (13.04%) Data Migration
11 3 (13.04%) Data Security
11 3 (13.04%) Bash
11 3 (13.04%) HIPAA
11 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (13.04%) GCP
11 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (13.04%) GDPR
11 3 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
12 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
12 2 (8.70%) Decision-Making

Snowflake Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 11 (47.83%) AWS
3 9 (39.13%) Matillion
4 5 (21.74%) Azure
5 3 (13.04%) GCP
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) Collibra
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (60.87%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.35%) Big Data
4 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Marketing
2 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) ETL
2 8 (34.78%) Analytics
2 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
2 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
3 7 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (17.39%) Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (13.04%) Data Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Data Security
6 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (13.04%) RBAC
7 2 (8.70%) Data Integration
7 2 (8.70%) Data Strategy
7 2 (8.70%) Decision-Making
7 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.70%) Product Analysis
7 2 (8.70%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 12 (52.17%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
1 3 (13.04%) HIPAA
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Databricks
1 2 (8.70%) Talend
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Virgin Media