Snowflake Contracts

Snowflake
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Snowflake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Snowflake over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 456 467
Rank change year-on-year +163 +11 +31
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 347 276 441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.46% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.48% 1.25% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 191 334
10th Percentile £415 £406 £401
25th Percentile £475 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £688
90th Percentile £888 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -13.64% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.95
25th Percentile £51.25 - £53.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £57.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £62.00
90th Percentile - - £63.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Snowflake is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Snowflake
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Snowflake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Snowflake.

Daily rate trend for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Snowflake.

Hourly rate trend for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snowflake within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +151 300 £638 +10.87% 183
London +82 189 £725 +23.40% 103
Work from Home +125 134 £800 +39.13% 111
UK excluding London +144 127 £475 -13.64% 117
North of England +58 40 £500 -2.44% 33
South East +48 40 £500 -13.04% 6
North West +39 33 £500 +11.11% 21
Scotland +55 26 £450 -18.18% 20
Midlands +28 9 £513 +32.26% 28
West Midlands +34 6 £550 +69.23% 25
East of England +20 6 £450 -23.40% 1
North East +24 5 £431 -28.17% 10
Wales - 4 £550 - 6
East Midlands +19 3 £513 +13.89% 3
South West +19 2 £400 -9.60% 4
Yorkshire +18 2 - - 2

Snowflake
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 98 (28.24%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (20.17%) Apache
3 20 (5.76%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.88%) SAS
5 2 (0.58%) Confluence
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (4.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.86%) Endur
3 2 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.58%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.29%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 212 (61.10%) AWS
2 97 (27.95%) dbt
3 85 (24.50%) Azure
4 69 (19.88%) Power Platform
5 59 (17.00%) GCP
6 26 (7.49%) Amazon S3
7 21 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (6.05%) Serverless
8 18 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (5.19%) Amazon EMR
9 16 (4.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.75%) Power Automate
11 12 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.46%) Matillion
12 11 (3.17%) OCI
13 10 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (2.31%) Collibra
14 8 (2.31%) Fivetran
15 6 (1.73%) Amazon ELB
15 6 (1.73%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.44%) FTP
2 4 (1.15%) AMQP
2 4 (1.15%) Modbus
2 4 (1.15%) MQTT
3 2 (0.58%) DMZ
3 2 (0.58%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (32.85%) Data Lake
2 90 (25.94%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (21.04%) Amazon Athena
4 69 (19.88%) Power BI
5 68 (19.60%) Apache Arrow
5 68 (19.60%) Dremio
6 66 (19.02%) Tableau
7 58 (16.71%) Apache Ignite
8 31 (8.93%) SQL Server
9 30 (8.65%) Big Data
10 24 (6.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (3.46%) Snowflake Schema
11 12 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (2.88%) BigQuery
14 9 (2.59%) DynamoDB
14 9 (2.59%) NoSQL
14 9 (2.59%) Relational Database
15 8 (2.31%) Ataccama
15 8 (2.31%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 16 (4.61%) ERwin
2 15 (4.32%) Git
3 14 (4.03%) ER Studio
4 12 (3.46%) JIRA
5 7 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (1.73%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.44%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.86%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.58%) kappa
10 1 (0.29%) GitLab
10 1 (0.29%) Maven
10 1 (0.29%) Subversion
10 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 132 (38.04%) Finance
2 65 (18.73%) Banking
3 59 (17.00%) Front Office
4 58 (16.71%) Investment Banking
5 57 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (15.56%) Social Skills
7 24 (6.92%) Legal
8 15 (4.32%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (3.75%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.59%) Retail
11 8 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.31%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.44%) Automotive
13 4 (1.15%) Marketing
14 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.86%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.58%) Back Office
16 1 (0.29%) Law
16 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 75 (21.61%) Data Engineer
2 72 (20.75%) Lead
3 61 (17.58%) Analyst
4 59 (17.00%) Architect
5 54 (15.56%) AWS Engineer
6 48 (13.83%) Senior
7 39 (11.24%) Data Analyst
8 38 (10.95%) Developer
8 38 (10.95%) Software Engineer
9 33 (9.51%) Data Architect
10 28 (8.07%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 23 (6.63%) Python Engineer
11 23 (6.63%) Solutions Architect
12 21 (6.05%) Java Engineer
13 19 (5.48%) Java Software Engineer
14 18 (5.19%) Python Software Engineer
14 18 (5.19%) Software Developer
15 17 (4.90%) Lead Developer
15 17 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (4.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (19.60%) gRPC
1 68 (19.60%) Protocol Buffers
2 59 (17.00%) Pandas
3 58 (16.71%) NumPy
3 58 (16.71%) SciPy
4 11 (3.17%) Kafka
4 11 (3.17%) PySpark
5 9 (2.59%) XML
6 8 (2.31%) JSON
7 7 (2.02%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.86%) Web Services
9 2 (0.58%) ADO
9 2 (0.58%) Django
9 2 (0.58%) HTML
9 2 (0.58%) IDoc
9 2 (0.58%) JMS
9 2 (0.58%) Middleware
9 2 (0.58%) REST
9 2 (0.58%) Swagger
9 2 (0.58%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 72 (20.75%) Hedge funds
2 60 (17.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (16.71%) Derivative
3 58 (16.71%) Equities
3 58 (16.71%) Fixed Income
4 22 (6.34%) Credit Risk
5 11 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.88%) Clustering
7 8 (2.31%) IoT
8 6 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.15%) Pricing Data
10 3 (0.86%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.86%) PKI
10 3 (0.86%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.58%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.44%) Unix
2 4 (1.15%) Linux
3 3 (0.86%) Windows
3 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (28.53%) Agile
2 89 (25.65%) Analytics
3 76 (21.90%) ETL
4 75 (21.61%) Asset Management
5 74 (21.33%) Software Engineering
6 69 (19.88%) Data Modelling
7 68 (19.60%) Investment Management
8 62 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (17.58%) Business Intelligence
10 55 (15.85%) DevOps
11 53 (15.27%) Data Engineering
12 47 (13.54%) Data Pipeline
13 43 (12.39%) Data Integration
14 40 (11.53%) Data Governance
15 34 (9.80%) Data Analysis
16 33 (9.51%) Actionable Insight
17 32 (9.22%) Decision-Making
17 32 (9.22%) Line Management
17 32 (9.22%) Migration
18 29 (8.36%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 164 (47.26%) Python
2 123 (35.45%) SQL
3 99 (28.53%) Java
4 71 (20.46%) JavaScript
5 60 (17.29%) TypeScript
6 28 (8.07%) Scala
7 16 (4.61%) Go
8 8 (2.31%) Bash
9 7 (2.02%) C#
9 7 (2.02%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.73%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.15%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.58%) ABAP
12 2 (0.58%) C
12 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.58%) R
12 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.29%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.29%) Julia
13 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (8.07%) Degree
2 5 (1.44%) AWS Certification
2 5 (1.44%) SC Cleared
2 5 (1.44%) Security Cleared
3 3 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.86%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (15.85%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.32%) QA
3 3 (0.86%) IFRS
3 3 (0.86%) IFRS 17
3 3 (0.86%) ISO 22301
3 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.86%) Solvency II
4 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.29%) GxP
System Software
1 24 (6.92%) Docker
2 3 (0.86%) HDFS
3 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (11.24%) Terraform
2 37 (10.66%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.03%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.59%) Grafana
5 7 (2.02%) Ansible
6 6 (1.73%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.29%) Control-M
Vendors
1 43 (12.39%) Databricks
2 40 (11.53%) Alteryx
3 25 (7.20%) Informatica
3 25 (7.20%) Oracle
4 19 (5.48%) Microsoft
5 17 (4.90%) Talend
6 14 (4.03%) Sparx
7 13 (3.75%) SAP
8 11 (3.17%) Dataiku
9 9 (2.59%) Splunk
10 7 (2.02%) Cloudera
10 7 (2.02%) Google
10 7 (2.02%) Trillium
11 5 (1.44%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.86%) Guidewire
13 2 (0.58%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.58%) Murex
13 2 (0.58%) OpenLink
13 2 (0.58%) Optimizely
13 2 (0.58%) webMethods