Snowflake Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Snowflake Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £463, 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 312 382 456
Rank change year-on-year +70 +74 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 24 17 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.082% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.088% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 1
10th Percentile £346 £447 -
25th Percentile £403 £453 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £485 £275
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +76.36% -59.26%
75th Percentile £502 £515 £288
90th Percentile £608 £559 -
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake Engineer in the UK excluding London

Snowflake Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Snowflake Engineer in the UK excluding London

Snowflake Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Engineer in the UK excluding London

Snowflake 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 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 - 6
Midlands +26 5 £420 -18.05% 2
Scotland +10 5 £475 +4.86% 1
South East - 5 £360 - 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 Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Snowflake Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 15 (62.50%) Python
2 15 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (54.17%) SQL
4 12 (50.00%) AWS
5 10 (41.67%) ETL
6 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 9 (37.50%) Matillion
7 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (33.33%) Data Modelling
7 8 (33.33%) Analytics
8 7 (29.17%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (25.00%) Azure
10 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (20.83%) Migration
10 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
11 4 (16.67%) GDPR
11 4 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
11 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (16.67%) GCP
11 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (16.67%) Data Security
11 4 (16.67%) Data Migration
11 4 (16.67%) HIPAA
11 4 (16.67%) Bash
11 4 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (16.67%) RBAC
11 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
12 3 (12.50%) Product Analysis
12 3 (12.50%) Requirements Management

Snowflake 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 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 12 (50.00%) AWS
3 9 (37.50%) Matillion
4 6 (25.00%) Azure
5 4 (16.67%) GCP
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.17%) Collibra
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.17%) Big Data
4 1 (4.17%) Power BI
4 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) ETL
2 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) Analytics
3 8 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (29.17%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
5 5 (20.83%) Migration
6 4 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 4 (16.67%) Data Security
6 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (16.67%) RBAC
7 3 (12.50%) Data Management
7 3 (12.50%) Product Analysis
7 3 (12.50%) Requirements Management
8 2 (8.33%) Business Development
8 2 (8.33%) Data Integration
8 2 (8.33%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Python
2 13 (54.17%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) GDPR
1 4 (16.67%) HIPAA
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Databricks
1 2 (8.33%) Talend
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Virgin Media