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 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 379 426
Rank change year-on-year +68 +47 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 24 18 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.087% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.095% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 2
10th Percentile £332 £447 £279
25th Percentile £390 £453 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £485 £350
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +38.57% -48.15%
75th Percentile £513 £515 £391
90th Percentile £603 £594 £411
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £531
% change year-on-year +3.96% -4.94% -3.41%

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 11,802 19,038 21,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.39% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,509 11,591 14,985
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 2,364 1,082
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.78% -17.38% +87.50%

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 29 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 29 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 +52 10 £488 -15.22%
Scotland +7 5 £475 +4.86%
South East - 5 £360 - 3
Midlands +13 3 £420 - 1
East Midlands +7 2 £420 - 1
East of England +31 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £420 -
Snowflake Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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
3 14 (58.33%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (54.17%) AWS
5 12 (50.00%) SQL
6 10 (41.67%) Matillion
7 9 (37.50%) ETL
8 8 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
9 7 (29.17%) Data Modelling
9 7 (29.17%) Azure
9 7 (29.17%) Analytics
10 6 (25.00%) Data Engineering
10 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (20.83%) GCP
11 5 (20.83%) Migration
11 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (16.67%) RBAC
12 4 (16.67%) Data Migration
12 4 (16.67%) Bash
12 4 (16.67%) Data Security
12 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
12 4 (16.67%) HIPAA
12 4 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
12 4 (16.67%) GDPR
13 3 (12.50%) Data Strategy
13 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
13 3 (12.50%) Telecoms

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 13 (54.17%) AWS
3 10 (41.67%) Matillion
4 7 (29.17%) Azure
5 5 (20.83%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.17%) Collibra
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (58.33%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (4.17%) Big Data
4 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (12.50%) Marketing
1 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Kafka
1 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) ETL
2 8 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (29.17%) Analytics
3 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 7 (29.17%) Data Modelling
4 6 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
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 Strategy
7 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 3 (12.50%) Product Analysis
7 3 (12.50%) Project Planning
7 3 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Python
2 12 (50.00%) 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
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Virgin Media