Snowflake Data Engineer Jobs

Snowflake Data Engineer
UK

The median Snowflake Data Engineer salary in the UK is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary 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 687 885 947
Rank change year-on-year +198 +62 +223
Permanent jobs requiring a Snowflake Data Engineer 5 11 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.011% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.012% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 41
10th Percentile £55,375 £54,500 £45,759
25th Percentile £55,938 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -14.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £76,563 £66,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £79,375 £73,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.83% -8.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Data Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +168 5 £68,750 +14.58% 38
London +111 4 £72,500 +11.54% 19
UK excluding London +202 1 £57,500 -4.17% 22
Work from Home +194 1 £72,500 +11.54% 26
North of England +78 1 £57,500 -4.17% 11
Yorkshire - 1 £57,500 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Snowflake Data Engineer 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 permanent job ads featuring Snowflake Data Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 4 (80.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Law
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (60.00%) Power BI
3 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (60.00%) dbt
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Technology Enablement
4 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Parquet
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (40.00%) Databricks
4 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) Finance

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 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (60.00%) dbt
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (20.00%) Datadog
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Power BI
3 2 (40.00%) Parquet
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (20.00%) Big Data
4 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Law
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
1 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Enablement
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SnowPro
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks