Hybrid/Remote Snowflake Data Engineer Contract Job Trends

Snowflake Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Snowflake Data Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 313 380
Rank change year-on-year +27 +67 +204
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Data Engineer 17 19 24
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.18% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 22
10th Percentile £408 £458 £463
25th Percentile £425 £506 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £624
90th Percentile £644 £638 £686
UK median daily rate £513 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.87% - -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,070 11,455 18,169
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 93.40% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,927 7,235 12,804
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 231 402
10th Percentile £14.00 £20.00 £16.67
25th Percentile £20.50 £27.78 £24.98
Median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% -14.85% +5.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +66.48%

Snowflake Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Snowflake Data Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Snowflake Data Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Snowflake Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Snowflake Data Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Snowflake Data Engineer job vacancies

Snowflake Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Snowflake Data Engineer over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Snowflake Data Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Snowflake Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, Snowflake Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Snowflake Data Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (82.35%) Snowflake
2 10 (58.82%) Data Engineering
3 9 (52.94%) Analytics
3 9 (52.94%) Python
4 8 (47.06%) AWS
4 8 (47.06%) SQL
5 7 (41.18%) Azure
5 7 (41.18%) Data Modelling
6 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (29.41%) dbt
7 5 (29.41%) ETL
7 5 (29.41%) GCP
8 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
8 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
9 3 (17.65%) Data Science
9 3 (17.65%) Databricks
10 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
10 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
10 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
10 2 (11.76%) DAMA DMBOK
10 2 (11.76%) Data Development
10 2 (11.76%) Data Ingestion
10 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
10 2 (11.76%) Data Management
10 2 (11.76%) Data Transformation
10 2 (11.76%) GraphQL

Snowflake Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) Snowflake
2 8 (47.06%) AWS
3 7 (41.18%) Azure
4 5 (29.41%) dbt
4 5 (29.41%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (11.76%) Matillion
5 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.88%) Dagster
6 1 (5.88%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Advertising
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Data Engineering
2 9 (52.94%) Analytics
3 7 (41.18%) Data Modelling
4 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (29.41%) ETL
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Data Science
7 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
7 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (11.76%) DAMA DMBOK
7 2 (11.76%) Data Development
7 2 (11.76%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (11.76%) Data Management
7 2 (11.76%) Data Transformation
7 2 (11.76%) Information Security
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Scala
3 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SnowPro
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) Workday