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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 450 469
Rank change year-on-year +188 +19 +29
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 372 260 420
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.45% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.67% 1.22% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 184 320
10th Percentile £425 £413 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £688
90th Percentile £888 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% -1.82%
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 13,934 21,306 33,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.80% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,402 24,532
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 £633 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 346 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +55.90% -0.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.09% +23.10% -

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 10 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 10 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 +149 318 £675 +17.39% 194
London +110 211 £775 +34.78% 118
Work from Home +140 157 £800 +39.13% 108
UK excluding London +133 123 £475 -13.64% 108
North of England +64 43 £475 +5.56% 31
South East +42 38 £500 -13.04% 9
North West +46 33 £500 +11.11% 18
Scotland +58 24 £453 -17.64% 16
Midlands +28 7 £513 +13.89% 22
Yorkshire +23 6 £444 - 5
East of England +17 6 £450 -37.93% 2
North East +19 4 £528 -12.00% 8
West Midlands +19 4 £550 +12.82% 22
Wales - 4 £550 - 2
East Midlands +23 3 £513 +13.89%
South West +15 1 £575 +18.56% 9

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
1 134 (36.02%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (26.61%) Apache
3 21 (5.65%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.69%) 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 12 (3.23%) 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
1 244 (65.59%) AWS
2 128 (34.41%) dbt
3 86 (23.12%) Azure
4 67 (18.01%) Power Platform
5 65 (17.47%) GCP
6 39 (10.48%) Amazon S3
7 29 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (7.80%) Serverless
8 25 (6.72%) Amazon EMR
9 23 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.49%) Power Automate
12 12 (3.23%) Matillion
13 9 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.42%) OCI
14 8 (2.15%) Collibra
14 8 (2.15%) Fivetran
14 8 (2.15%) GitHub
15 7 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.34%) 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
1 136 (36.56%) Data Lake
2 103 (27.69%) Amazon Athena
3 91 (24.46%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (24.19%) Apache Arrow
4 90 (24.19%) Dremio
5 76 (20.43%) Apache Ignite
6 67 (18.01%) Power BI
7 62 (16.67%) Tableau
8 35 (9.41%) Big Data
9 30 (8.06%) SQL Server
10 27 (7.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (2.42%) DynamoDB
15 9 (2.42%) Relational Database
16 8 (2.15%) Data Mining
16 8 (2.15%) MySQL
16 8 (2.15%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (6.45%) Git
2 14 (3.76%) ERwin
2 14 (3.76%) JIRA
3 12 (3.23%) ER Studio
4 7 (1.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.61%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.81%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.54%) kappa
9 1 (0.27%) GitLab
9 1 (0.27%) Maven
9 1 (0.27%) Subversion
9 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 156 (41.94%) Finance
2 82 (22.04%) Banking
3 77 (20.70%) Front Office
4 76 (20.43%) Investment Banking
5 57 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (13.71%) Social Skills
7 23 (6.18%) Legal
8 14 (3.76%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (2.96%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.42%) Retail
11 8 (2.15%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.08%) Automotive
12 4 (1.08%) Marketing
13 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.81%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.54%) Back Office
15 1 (0.27%) Dutch Language
15 1 (0.27%) Law
15 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 84 (22.58%) Lead
2 76 (20.43%) Data Engineer
3 68 (18.28%) AWS Engineer
4 63 (16.94%) Analyst
5 59 (15.86%) Architect
6 57 (15.32%) Senior
7 50 (13.44%) Software Engineer
8 41 (11.02%) Developer
9 40 (10.75%) Data Analyst
10 31 (8.33%) Python Engineer
11 30 (8.06%) Data Architect
12 29 (7.80%) Java Engineer
13 28 (7.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 27 (7.26%) Java Software Engineer
14 27 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (6.99%) Python Software Engineer
16 25 (6.72%) AWS Software Engineer
16 25 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
17 22 (5.91%) Software Developer
18 21 (5.65%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (24.19%) gRPC
1 90 (24.19%) Protocol Buffers
2 78 (20.97%) Pandas
3 76 (20.43%) NumPy
3 76 (20.43%) SciPy
4 17 (4.57%) PySpark
5 11 (2.96%) Kafka
6 9 (2.42%) XML
7 7 (1.88%) JSON
8 6 (1.61%) 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 93 (25.00%) Hedge funds
2 77 (20.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 76 (20.43%) Derivative
3 76 (20.43%) Equities
3 76 (20.43%) Fixed Income
4 22 (5.91%) Credit Risk
5 14 (3.76%) Clustering
6 11 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.15%) Pricing Data
8 6 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.61%) 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 (1.34%) Unix
2 3 (0.81%) Linux
2 3 (0.81%) Windows
2 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (32.53%) Agile
2 96 (25.81%) Asset Management
3 93 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 89 (23.92%) Analytics
5 82 (22.04%) Investment Management
6 78 (20.97%) ETL
7 75 (20.16%) Data Modelling
8 61 (16.40%) DevOps
9 59 (15.86%) Business Intelligence
10 58 (15.59%) Data Engineering
10 58 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (14.78%) Data Pipeline
12 43 (11.56%) Data Integration
13 40 (10.75%) Line Management
14 36 (9.68%) Data Governance
15 35 (9.41%) Migration
16 32 (8.60%) CI/CD
16 32 (8.60%) Decision-Making
17 31 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
17 31 (8.33%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 196 (52.69%) Python
2 130 (34.95%) SQL
3 120 (32.26%) Java
4 91 (24.46%) JavaScript
5 78 (20.97%) TypeScript
6 35 (9.41%) Scala
7 21 (5.65%) Go
8 11 (2.96%) Bash
9 8 (2.15%) C#
10 7 (1.88%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.08%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.81%) ABAP
12 3 (0.81%) C
12 3 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.54%) R
13 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.27%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.27%) Julia
14 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (7.80%) Degree
2 5 (1.34%) AWS Certification
2 5 (1.34%) SC Cleared
2 5 (1.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
3 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.54%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (15.86%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.03%) 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 (6.45%) Docker
2 3 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.81%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 47 (12.63%) Terraform
2 44 (11.83%) Kubernetes
3 19 (5.11%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.42%) Ansible
5 8 (2.15%) Grafana
6 6 (1.61%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.27%) Control-M
Vendors
1 42 (11.29%) Databricks
2 38 (10.22%) Alteryx
3 24 (6.45%) Informatica
4 23 (6.18%) Oracle
5 21 (5.65%) Microsoft
6 16 (4.30%) Talend
7 14 (3.76%) SAP
8 12 (3.23%) Sparx
9 10 (2.69%) Dataiku
9 10 (2.69%) Splunk
10 7 (1.88%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.88%) Trillium
11 6 (1.61%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.61%) Google
12 4 (1.08%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.81%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.81%) OpenLink
13 3 (0.81%) Triple Point
13 3 (0.81%) webMethods