Snowflake Engineer Contracts

Snowflake Engineer
UK

The median Snowflake Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525, 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 453 542 678
Rank change year-on-year +89 +136 +132
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 67 40 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.092% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.099% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 38 25
10th Percentile £406 £437 £370
25th Percentile £463 £455 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £875 £556 £638
90th Percentile - £629 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £485 £275
% change year-on-year -4.64% +76.36% -59.26%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Snowflake Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Engineer in the UK

Snowflake 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 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 +90 62 £530 +3.92% 33
London +67 41 £600 +14.29% 16
Work from Home +50 27 £525 +13.15% 25
UK excluding London +70 24 £463 -4.64% 20
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 - - 8
North West +13 2 - - 7
East Midlands +11 2 £420 -18.05% 1
East of England +30 1 - - 1

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

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 featuring Snowflake Engineer in the job title.

1 65 (97.01%) Snowflake
2 51 (76.12%) Python
3 44 (65.67%) AWS
4 43 (64.18%) SQL
5 33 (49.25%) dbt
6 26 (38.81%) Apache Airflow
7 25 (37.31%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (31.34%) Finance
9 19 (28.36%) Data Management
10 18 (26.87%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (25.37%) CI/CD
11 17 (25.37%) Software Engineering
11 17 (25.37%) Agile
11 17 (25.37%) Java
11 17 (25.37%) Apache
11 17 (25.37%) PySpark
11 17 (25.37%) Azure
12 16 (23.88%) Hedge funds
12 16 (23.88%) Investment Banking
12 16 (23.88%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (23.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (23.88%) Fixed Income
12 16 (23.88%) Equities
12 16 (23.88%) Front Office
12 16 (23.88%) Banking
12 16 (23.88%) Asset Management
12 16 (23.88%) Derivative
12 16 (23.88%) Apache Arrow
12 16 (23.88%) Dremio
12 16 (23.88%) Apache Iceberg

Snowflake 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 26 (38.81%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (25.37%) Apache
3 2 (2.99%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 65 (97.01%) Snowflake
2 44 (65.67%) AWS
3 33 (49.25%) dbt
4 17 (25.37%) Azure
5 9 (13.43%) Matillion
6 6 (8.96%) GCP
7 5 (7.46%) GitHub
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.49%) Collibra
10 1 (1.49%) Fivetran
10 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.49%) IaaS
10 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.49%) OCI
10 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (37.31%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (23.88%) Amazon Athena
2 16 (23.88%) Apache Arrow
2 16 (23.88%) Apache Iceberg
2 16 (23.88%) Dremio
3 5 (7.46%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.49%) Big Data
6 1 (1.49%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) GitLab
2 1 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 21 (31.34%) Finance
2 16 (23.88%) Banking
2 16 (23.88%) Front Office
2 16 (23.88%) Investment Banking
3 8 (11.94%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Marketing
5 2 (2.99%) Retail
6 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.49%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.37%) PySpark
2 3 (4.48%) Kafka
3 2 (2.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.88%) Derivative
1 16 (23.88%) Equities
1 16 (23.88%) Fixed Income
1 16 (23.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 16 (23.88%) Hedge funds
2 4 (5.97%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.97%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.49%) Clustering
4 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.36%) Data Management
2 18 (26.87%) Data Pipeline
3 17 (25.37%) Agile
3 17 (25.37%) CI/CD
3 17 (25.37%) Software Engineering
4 16 (23.88%) Asset Management
5 15 (22.39%) ETL
6 13 (19.40%) Analytics
6 13 (19.40%) Data Modelling
7 10 (14.93%) Data Engineering
7 10 (14.93%) Migration
7 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (8.96%) Data Migration
8 6 (8.96%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (7.46%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (7.46%) Data Security
9 5 (7.46%) Decision-Making
9 5 (7.46%) RBAC
10 4 (5.97%) Continuous Deployment
10 4 (5.97%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 51 (76.12%) Python
2 43 (64.18%) SQL
3 17 (25.37%) Java
4 4 (5.97%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (2.99%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.49%) Degree
2 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.49%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.97%) GDPR
1 4 (5.97%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.46%) Terraform
2 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (5.97%) Databricks
2 2 (2.99%) Talend
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle
3 1 (1.49%) Virgin Media