Snowflake Data Engineer Contracts

Snowflake Data Engineer
UK

The median Snowflake Data Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500, 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 474 548 682
Rank change year-on-year +74 +134 +131
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Data Engineer 46 34 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.078% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.084% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 32 23
10th Percentile £407 £453 £380
25th Percentile £450 £472 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £569 £588 £638
90th Percentile £625 £636 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £510 -
% change year-on-year -6.86% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Snowflake Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Data Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 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
England +70 41 £500 -2.20% 34
UK excluding London +74 23 £475 -6.86% 20
London +48 21 £525 - 17
Work from Home +43 17 £500 - 26
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 - - 9
North West +13 2 - - 7
East Midlands +11 2 £420 -18.05% 1
East of England +30 1 - - 1

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

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 featuring Snowflake Data Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (95.65%) Snowflake
2 31 (67.39%) Python
3 25 (54.35%) AWS
4 24 (52.17%) SQL
5 21 (45.65%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (36.96%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (34.78%) dbt
8 13 (28.26%) ETL
9 12 (26.09%) Azure
9 12 (26.09%) Data Modelling
9 12 (26.09%) CI/CD
10 11 (23.91%) Analytics
11 10 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
12 9 (19.57%) Matillion
12 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
13 8 (17.39%) Data Engineering
13 8 (17.39%) Migration
14 5 (10.87%) Data Migration
14 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making
15 4 (8.70%) RBAC
15 4 (8.70%) Data Strategy
15 4 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
15 4 (8.70%) Data Structures
15 4 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
15 4 (8.70%) Finance
15 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
15 4 (8.70%) Snowflake Schema
16 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
16 3 (6.52%) Data Security

Snowflake Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 44 (95.65%) Snowflake
2 25 (54.35%) AWS
3 16 (34.78%) dbt
4 12 (26.09%) Azure
5 9 (19.57%) Matillion
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.52%) GCP
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.17%) Collibra
8 1 (2.17%) Fivetran
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.17%) OCI
8 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (45.65%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.70%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.17%) Big Data
5 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.17%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Marketing
3 2 (4.35%) Retail
3 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.17%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) Kafka
1 2 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (2.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Clustering
3 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Data Pipeline
2 13 (28.26%) ETL
3 12 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 12 (26.09%) Data Modelling
4 11 (23.91%) Analytics
5 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.39%) Data Engineering
6 8 (17.39%) Migration
7 5 (10.87%) Data Migration
7 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making
8 4 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (8.70%) Data Strategy
8 4 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (8.70%) RBAC
9 3 (6.52%) Continuous Deployment
9 3 (6.52%) Data Integration
9 3 (6.52%) Data Security
9 3 (6.52%) Data Transformation
9 3 (6.52%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (67.39%) Python
2 24 (52.17%) SQL
3 3 (6.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (2.17%) Degree
1 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
1 1 (2.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) GDPR
2 3 (6.52%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.52%) Databricks
2 2 (4.35%) Talend
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle
3 1 (2.17%) Virgin Media