Snowflake Engineer Jobs

Snowflake Engineer
UK

The median Snowflake Engineer salary in the UK is £115,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 676 871 934
Rank change year-on-year +195 +63 +258
Permanent jobs requiring a Snowflake Engineer 42 13 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.013% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.014% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 40 11 41
10th Percentile £70,750 - £45,759
25th Percentile £107,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% -14.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £148,750 £67,500 £90,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -12.41% -0.36%

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 50,627 94,635 91,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.71% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 26,942 67,569 57,579
10th Percentile £29,444 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Snowflake Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Snowflake Engineer over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Snowflake Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Snowflake Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 21 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 +194 42 £115,000 +91.67% 33
London +157 37 £115,000 +24.32% 17
Work from Home +130 19 £115,000 +76.92% 11
UK excluding London +169 5 £62,500 +4.17% 18
North of England +36 2 £89,000 +48.33% 9
Yorkshire - 2 £89,000 - 7
South East +87 1 £57,500 - 2
South West - 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £67,500 - 2
Midlands - 1 £67,500 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, Snowflake 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (95.24%) Snowflake
2 38 (90.48%) SQL
3 37 (88.10%) Python
3 37 (88.10%) AWS
4 36 (85.71%) dbt
4 36 (85.71%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (83.33%) Finance
6 34 (80.95%) Agile
7 33 (78.57%) Apache
8 32 (76.19%) Apache Iceberg
8 32 (76.19%) Apache Arrow
8 32 (76.19%) Dremio
8 32 (76.19%) Amazon Athena
8 32 (76.19%) PySpark
8 32 (76.19%) Java
8 32 (76.19%) Fixed Income
8 32 (76.19%) Banking
8 32 (76.19%) Equities
8 32 (76.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 32 (76.19%) Asset Management
8 32 (76.19%) Data Management
8 32 (76.19%) Investment Banking
8 32 (76.19%) Software Engineering
8 32 (76.19%) Derivative
8 32 (76.19%) Hedge funds
8 32 (76.19%) Front Office
9 8 (19.05%) Data Modelling
10 6 (14.29%) ETL
10 6 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (9.52%) Business Intelligence

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 36 (85.71%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (78.57%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (95.24%) Snowflake
2 37 (88.10%) AWS
3 36 (85.71%) dbt
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.14%) Azure
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.76%) Serverless
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.38%) Datadog
6 1 (2.38%) GCP
6 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (76.19%) Amazon Athena
1 32 (76.19%) Apache Arrow
1 32 (76.19%) Apache Iceberg
1 32 (76.19%) Dremio
2 6 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.76%) Parquet
5 2 (4.76%) Power BI
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.38%) Big Data
6 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.38%) Metadata
6 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.38%) Star Schema
General
1 35 (83.33%) Finance
2 32 (76.19%) Banking
2 32 (76.19%) Front Office
2 32 (76.19%) Investment Banking
3 4 (9.52%) Law
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (76.19%) PySpark
2 2 (4.76%) JSON
2 2 (4.76%) RESTful
2 2 (4.76%) XML
3 1 (2.38%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.38%) Kafka
3 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (76.19%) Derivative
1 32 (76.19%) Equities
1 32 (76.19%) Fixed Income
1 32 (76.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 32 (76.19%) Hedge funds
2 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.38%) Clustering
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (80.95%) Agile
2 32 (76.19%) Asset Management
2 32 (76.19%) Data Management
2 32 (76.19%) Software Engineering
3 8 (19.05%) Data Modelling
4 6 (14.29%) ETL
5 4 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (7.14%) Data Engineering
6 3 (7.14%) Data Governance
6 3 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (7.14%) DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Analytics
7 2 (4.76%) CI/CD
7 2 (4.76%) Data Integration
7 2 (4.76%) Data Strategy
7 2 (4.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (4.76%) System Integration Testing
7 2 (4.76%) Technology Enablement
7 2 (4.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 38 (90.48%) SQL
2 37 (88.10%) Python
3 32 (76.19%) Java
4 2 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
1 1 (2.38%) Degree
1 1 (2.38%) SnowPro
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.38%) Databricks
2 1 (2.38%) Informatica
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle