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 in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 659 806
Rank change year-on-year +110 +147 -100
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Data Engineer 35 38 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.068% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.072% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 25 30
10th Percentile £453 £390 £473
25th Percentile £466 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £675
90th Percentile £625 £668 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +28.57%

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK

Snowflake Data Engineer
Top 12 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 12 June 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 +80 29 £510 -4.00% 3
Work from Home +113 16 £500 -5.88% 1
UK excluding London +38 14 £510 - 1
London +65 11 £525 -1.18% 2
North of England +20 6 £510 -
North West +18 6 £510 -
Scotland - 3 £453 -
Midlands - 3 £488 - 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
East of England +5 1 £625 -
South West +2 1 £575 -
West Midlands - 1 £488 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 29 (82.86%) Snowflake
2 22 (62.86%) ETL
3 20 (57.14%) SQL
4 19 (54.29%) AWS
5 16 (45.71%) Python
5 16 (45.71%) Data Engineering
6 14 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (40.00%) Data Modelling
7 13 (37.14%) Azure
8 12 (34.29%) dbt
8 12 (34.29%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (28.57%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (22.86%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (22.86%) Java
11 7 (20.00%) Analytics
11 7 (20.00%) Amazon S3
11 7 (20.00%) Serverless
11 7 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
12 6 (17.14%) Power Platform
12 6 (17.14%) Power BI
12 6 (17.14%) Apache Spark
12 6 (17.14%) Terraform
12 6 (17.14%) Git
12 6 (17.14%) OOP
12 6 (17.14%) OO
12 6 (17.14%) Apache
12 6 (17.14%) Informatica
12 6 (17.14%) Scrum
12 6 (17.14%) Agile

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 (34.29%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (17.14%) Apache
2 6 (17.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 29 (82.86%) Snowflake
2 19 (54.29%) AWS
3 13 (37.14%) Azure
4 12 (34.29%) dbt
5 7 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 7 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (20.00%) Serverless
6 6 (17.14%) Power Platform
7 5 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (11.43%) Fivetran
8 4 (11.43%) Matillion
9 2 (5.71%) GCP
9 2 (5.71%) GitHub
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
10 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) Snowflake Schema
2 8 (22.86%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (17.14%) Power BI
4 5 (14.29%) Big Data
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
5 4 (11.43%) Tableau
6 2 (5.71%) Data Vault
6 2 (5.71%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.86%) Flink
7 1 (2.86%) Neo4j
7 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 5 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) JSON
1 5 (14.29%) XML
2 2 (5.71%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) ETL
2 16 (45.71%) Data Engineering
3 14 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 14 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (20.00%) Analytics
4 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (17.14%) Agile
5 6 (17.14%) OO
5 6 (17.14%) OOP
5 6 (17.14%) Scrum
5 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
6 5 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 5 (14.29%) Data Management
6 5 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 4 (11.43%) Data Ingestion
7 4 (11.43%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) SQL
2 16 (45.71%) Python
3 8 (22.86%) Java
4 5 (14.29%) C#
5 3 (8.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
1 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
1 1 (2.86%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Terraform
2 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Informatica
2 5 (14.29%) Databricks
2 5 (14.29%) Talend
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) FactSet