Snowflake Data Engineer Contracts

Snowflake Data Engineer
UK

The median Snowflake Data Engineer daily rate in the UK is £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 644 806
Rank change year-on-year +101 +162 -151
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Data Engineer 33 40 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.070% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.074% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 32
10th Percentile £453 £400 £475
25th Percentile £469 £506 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -4.44% -2.17%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £647
90th Percentile £625 £768 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 - £675

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Data Engineer
Top 11 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 16 May 2024. 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 +104 27 £513 -3.53% 8
Work from Home +114 14 £500 -8.05% 8
UK excluding London +62 12 £510 - 1
London +84 11 £525 -1.18% 7
North of England +29 6 £510 -
North West +22 6 £510 -
Scotland - 3 £453 -
East of England +10 1 £625 -
South West +10 1 £575 -
East Midlands - 1 £513 -
Midlands - 1 £513 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 27 (81.82%) Snowflake
2 22 (66.67%) ETL
3 19 (57.58%) SQL
4 18 (54.55%) AWS
5 17 (51.52%) Python
6 16 (48.48%) Data Engineering
7 14 (42.42%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (36.36%) Data Modelling
9 10 (30.30%) Azure
9 10 (30.30%) dbt
10 9 (27.27%) Java
11 7 (21.21%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (21.21%) Informatica
11 7 (21.21%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (21.21%) Amazon S3
11 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
11 7 (21.21%) Serverless
11 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (18.18%) Apache Spark
12 6 (18.18%) Terraform
12 6 (18.18%) Git
12 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
12 6 (18.18%) Talend
12 6 (18.18%) Analytics
12 6 (18.18%) Scrum
12 6 (18.18%) Agile
12 6 (18.18%) OOP
12 6 (18.18%) OO
12 6 (18.18%) Apache

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 12 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (18.18%) Apache
2 6 (18.18%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 27 (81.82%) Snowflake
2 18 (54.55%) AWS
3 10 (30.30%) Azure
3 10 (30.30%) dbt
4 7 (21.21%) Amazon S3
4 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (21.21%) Serverless
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
7 3 (9.09%) Matillion
8 2 (6.06%) Fivetran
8 2 (6.06%) GCP
9 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (3.03%) Azure API Management
9 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (21.21%) Snowflake Schema
2 5 (15.15%) Big Data
3 4 (12.12%) Power BI
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.06%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.06%) Data Vault
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.06%) Tableau
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.03%) Flink
5 1 (3.03%) Neo4j
5 1 (3.03%) Pentaho
5 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.03%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) JIRA
General
1 5 (15.15%) Manufacturing
1 5 (15.15%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) JSON
1 5 (15.15%) XML
2 2 (6.06%) Kafka
3 1 (3.03%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) ETL
2 16 (48.48%) Data Engineering
3 14 (42.42%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (36.36%) Data Modelling
5 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
6 6 (18.18%) Agile
6 6 (18.18%) Analytics
6 6 (18.18%) OO
6 6 (18.18%) OOP
6 6 (18.18%) Scrum
6 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 5 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
7 5 (15.15%) Data Integration
7 5 (15.15%) Data Management
7 5 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (15.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
8 4 (12.12%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) SQL
2 17 (51.52%) Python
3 9 (27.27%) Java
4 5 (15.15%) C#
5 4 (12.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
1 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Informatica
2 6 (18.18%) Talend
3 5 (15.15%) Databricks
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.03%) FactSet