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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 456 462
Rank change year-on-year +186 +6 +40
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 371 259 428
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.45% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.68% 1.22% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 183 326
10th Percentile £425 £413 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £688
90th Percentile £888 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -15.56% +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 13,842 21,188 33,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.76% 38.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,830 15,319 24,772
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 340 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.73%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.63
% change year-on-year -29.12% +27.39% -1.88%

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 14 May 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 14 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 +166 317 £700 +21.74% 234
London +105 215 £800 +39.13% 139
Work from Home +146 164 £800 +39.13% 121
UK excluding London +135 119 £475 -15.56% 143
North of England +54 42 £475 +5.56% 42
South East +42 38 £500 -13.04% 12
North West +50 32 £500 +11.11% 24
Scotland +57 24 £453 -17.64% 23
Yorkshire +25 6 £444 - 4
East of England +15 6 £450 -37.93% 2
Midlands +24 4 £550 +22.22% 30
North East +15 4 £528 -12.00% 14
Wales - 4 £550 - 2
West Midlands +22 3 £563 +15.38% 30
East Midlands +17 1 £513 +13.89%
South West +7 1 £575 +18.56% 8

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
1 143 (38.54%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (28.57%) Apache
3 21 (5.66%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.70%) SAS
5 3 (0.81%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (2.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.08%) Endur
3 3 (0.81%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.54%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 247 (66.58%) AWS
2 137 (36.93%) dbt
3 83 (22.37%) Azure
4 66 (17.79%) GCP
5 65 (17.52%) Power Platform
6 39 (10.51%) Amazon S3
7 28 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (7.55%) Serverless
8 24 (6.47%) Amazon EMR
9 23 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.50%) Power Automate
12 10 (2.70%) Matillion
13 8 (2.16%) Collibra
13 8 (2.16%) Fivetran
13 8 (2.16%) GitHub
13 8 (2.16%) OCI
14 7 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.35%) FTP
2 2 (0.54%) AMQP
2 2 (0.54%) Modbus
2 2 (0.54%) MQTT
3 1 (0.27%) DMZ
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (37.47%) Data Lake
2 112 (30.19%) Amazon Athena
3 99 (26.68%) Apache Arrow
3 99 (26.68%) Dremio
4 85 (22.91%) Data Warehouse
5 83 (22.37%) Apache Ignite
6 65 (17.52%) Power BI
7 60 (16.17%) Tableau
8 37 (9.97%) Big Data
9 28 (7.55%) SQL Server
10 24 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (3.77%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
15 8 (2.16%) Ataccama
15 8 (2.16%) Data Mining
15 8 (2.16%) DynamoDB
15 8 (2.16%) MySQL
16 7 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (6.47%) Git
2 14 (3.77%) JIRA
3 13 (3.50%) ERwin
4 11 (2.96%) ER Studio
5 7 (1.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (1.62%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.62%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.81%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.54%) kappa
10 1 (0.27%) GitLab
10 1 (0.27%) Maven
10 1 (0.27%) Subversion
10 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 161 (43.40%) Finance
2 89 (23.99%) Banking
3 84 (22.64%) Front Office
4 83 (22.37%) Investment Banking
5 55 (14.82%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (13.75%) Social Skills
7 23 (6.20%) Legal
8 14 (3.77%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (2.96%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.43%) Retail
12 8 (2.16%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.08%) Marketing
14 3 (0.81%) Automotive
14 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.54%) Back Office
16 1 (0.27%) Dutch Language
16 1 (0.27%) Law
16 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 87 (23.45%) Lead
2 71 (19.14%) AWS Engineer
3 69 (18.60%) Data Engineer
4 63 (16.98%) Analyst
5 60 (16.17%) Architect
6 59 (15.90%) Senior
7 54 (14.56%) Software Engineer
8 42 (11.32%) Developer
9 40 (10.78%) Data Analyst
10 33 (8.89%) Python Engineer
11 31 (8.36%) Java Engineer
12 29 (7.82%) Data Architect
12 29 (7.82%) Java Software Engineer
12 29 (7.82%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (7.55%) Python Software Engineer
14 27 (7.28%) AWS Software Engineer
14 27 (7.28%) Senior Software Engineer
14 27 (7.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 24 (6.47%) Software Developer
16 23 (6.20%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (26.68%) gRPC
1 99 (26.68%) Protocol Buffers
2 85 (22.91%) Pandas
3 83 (22.37%) NumPy
3 83 (22.37%) SciPy
4 17 (4.58%) PySpark
5 11 (2.96%) Kafka
6 9 (2.43%) XML
7 7 (1.89%) JSON
8 6 (1.62%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (0.81%) HTML
9 3 (0.81%) IDoc
9 3 (0.81%) Middleware
10 2 (0.54%) ADO
10 2 (0.54%) Django
10 2 (0.54%) JMS
10 2 (0.54%) React
10 2 (0.54%) REST
10 2 (0.54%) Swagger
10 2 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 102 (27.49%) Hedge funds
2 84 (22.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 83 (22.37%) Derivative
3 83 (22.37%) Equities
3 83 (22.37%) Fixed Income
4 22 (5.93%) Credit Risk
5 16 (4.31%) Clustering
6 11 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.16%) Pricing Data
8 6 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.62%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.62%) IoT
9 4 (1.08%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.81%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.81%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.81%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.54%) PKI
11 2 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.35%) Unix
2 3 (0.81%) Linux
2 3 (0.81%) Windows
2 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (34.50%) Agile
2 105 (28.30%) Asset Management
3 100 (26.95%) Software Engineering
4 88 (23.72%) Analytics
5 87 (23.45%) Investment Management
6 73 (19.68%) Data Modelling
6 73 (19.68%) ETL
7 63 (16.98%) DevOps
8 58 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
10 55 (14.82%) Data Engineering
11 52 (14.02%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (11.86%) Line Management
13 39 (10.51%) Data Integration
14 35 (9.43%) Data Governance
14 35 (9.43%) Migration
15 32 (8.63%) CI/CD
15 32 (8.63%) Decision-Making
16 31 (8.36%) Greeks
17 30 (8.09%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 202 (54.45%) Python
2 127 (34.23%) Java
3 124 (33.42%) SQL
4 100 (26.95%) JavaScript
5 85 (22.91%) TypeScript
6 33 (8.89%) Scala
7 23 (6.20%) Go
8 11 (2.96%) Bash
9 8 (2.16%) C#
10 7 (1.89%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.08%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.81%) ABAP
12 3 (0.81%) C
12 3 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.27%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.27%) R
14 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (7.55%) Degree
2 4 (1.08%) AWS Certification
3 3 (0.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (0.81%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.27%) PhD
5 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (16.71%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.04%) QA
3 3 (0.81%) IFRS
3 3 (0.81%) IFRS 17
3 3 (0.81%) ISO 22301
3 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.81%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.27%) GxP
System Software
1 24 (6.47%) Docker
2 3 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.81%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 49 (13.21%) Terraform
2 46 (12.40%) Kubernetes
3 21 (5.66%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.43%) Ansible
5 8 (2.16%) Grafana
6 6 (1.62%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.27%) Control-M
Vendors
1 41 (11.05%) Databricks
2 38 (10.24%) Alteryx
3 21 (5.66%) Microsoft
4 20 (5.39%) Informatica
4 20 (5.39%) Oracle
5 13 (3.50%) SAP
6 11 (2.96%) Sparx
6 11 (2.96%) Talend
7 10 (2.70%) Dataiku
7 10 (2.70%) Splunk
8 7 (1.89%) Ab Initio
8 7 (1.89%) Trillium
9 6 (1.62%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.35%) Google
11 4 (1.08%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.81%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.81%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.81%) Triple Point
12 3 (0.81%) webMethods