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

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 456 481
Rank change year-on-year +204 +25 +6
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 396 263 420
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.46% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.86% 1.27% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 189 319
10th Percentile £419 £423 £405
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
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 13,864 20,673 33,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.49% 36.43% 38.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,879 14,948 24,606
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 331 393
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.64% +63.64% -
75th Percentile £40.00 £66.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £26.48 £20.00
% change year-on-year -33.08% +32.40% +2.56%

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 26 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 26 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 +177 342 £700 +21.74% 324
London +133 237 £800 +39.13% 230
Work from Home +151 180 £800 +39.13% 133
UK excluding London +124 123 £475 -15.56% 236
North of England +63 42 £475 +5.56% 39
South East +38 39 £444 -22.83% 95
North West +49 32 £500 +11.11% 22
Scotland +49 24 £453 -17.64% 26
Midlands +29 6 £550 +18.92% 32
Yorkshire +20 6 £444 +4.41% 2
East of England +11 6 £450 -37.93% 4
East Midlands +17 4 - - 1
North East +15 4 £528 -12.00% 15
Wales - 4 £550 - 1
West Midlands +14 2 £550 +15.79% 31
South West +8 2 £600 +23.71% 7

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
1 160 (40.40%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (30.30%) Apache
3 23 (5.81%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.53%) SAS
5 3 (0.76%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (2.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.01%) Endur
3 3 (0.76%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 269 (67.93%) AWS
2 156 (39.39%) dbt
3 95 (23.99%) Azure
4 73 (18.43%) Power Platform
5 72 (18.18%) GCP
6 40 (10.10%) Amazon S3
7 27 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (6.82%) Serverless
8 25 (6.31%) Amazon EMR
9 24 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.28%) Power Automate
12 12 (3.03%) Fivetran
12 12 (3.03%) GitHub
13 11 (2.78%) Matillion
14 8 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.77%) Collibra
15 7 (1.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.26%) FTP
2 2 (0.51%) AMQP
2 2 (0.51%) Modbus
2 2 (0.51%) MQTT
3 1 (0.25%) DMZ
3 1 (0.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (38.64%) Data Lake
2 125 (31.57%) Amazon Athena
3 112 (28.28%) Apache Arrow
3 112 (28.28%) Dremio
4 94 (23.74%) Apache Ignite
5 91 (22.98%) Data Warehouse
6 73 (18.43%) Power BI
7 67 (16.92%) Tableau
8 46 (11.62%) Big Data
9 30 (7.58%) SQL Server
10 28 (7.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (2.02%) Data Mining
14 8 (2.02%) DynamoDB
15 7 (1.77%) Hadoop
15 7 (1.77%) MySQL
15 7 (1.77%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 26 (6.57%) Git
2 13 (3.28%) JIRA
3 12 (3.03%) ERwin
4 10 (2.53%) ER Studio
5 7 (1.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (1.52%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.01%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.76%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.51%) kappa
10 1 (0.25%) GitLab
10 1 (0.25%) Maven
10 1 (0.25%) Subversion
10 1 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 174 (43.94%) Finance
2 100 (25.25%) Banking
3 95 (23.99%) Front Office
4 94 (23.74%) Investment Banking
5 53 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (12.88%) Social Skills
7 23 (5.81%) Legal
8 14 (3.54%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.78%) Retail
10 10 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.52%) Marketing
13 3 (0.76%) Automotive
13 3 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.76%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.51%) Back Office
15 1 (0.25%) Dutch Language
15 1 (0.25%) Law
15 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (22.73%) Lead
2 79 (19.95%) AWS Engineer
3 76 (19.19%) Data Engineer
4 70 (17.68%) Senior
5 64 (16.16%) Analyst
6 62 (15.66%) Software Engineer
7 59 (14.90%) Architect
8 44 (11.11%) Developer
9 41 (10.35%) Data Analyst
10 39 (9.85%) Python Engineer
11 37 (9.34%) Java Engineer
12 35 (8.84%) Java Software Engineer
13 34 (8.59%) Python Software Engineer
13 34 (8.59%) Snowflake Engineer
14 33 (8.33%) AWS Software Engineer
14 33 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
15 31 (7.83%) Solutions Architect
16 28 (7.07%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 26 (6.57%) Data Architect
17 26 (6.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (28.28%) gRPC
1 112 (28.28%) Protocol Buffers
2 97 (24.49%) Pandas
3 94 (23.74%) NumPy
3 94 (23.74%) SciPy
4 18 (4.55%) PySpark
5 13 (3.28%) Kafka
6 9 (2.27%) XML
7 7 (1.77%) Apache NiFi
7 7 (1.77%) JSON
8 3 (0.76%) HTML
8 3 (0.76%) IDoc
8 3 (0.76%) Middleware
9 2 (0.51%) ADO
9 2 (0.51%) Django
9 2 (0.51%) JMS
9 2 (0.51%) Matplotlib
9 2 (0.51%) pytest
9 2 (0.51%) REST
9 2 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 114 (28.79%) Hedge funds
2 95 (23.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 94 (23.74%) Derivative
3 94 (23.74%) Equities
3 94 (23.74%) Fixed Income
4 22 (5.56%) Credit Risk
5 18 (4.55%) Clustering
6 12 (3.03%) Pricing Data
7 11 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.52%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.52%) IoT
10 4 (1.01%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.76%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.76%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.76%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.26%) Unix
2 3 (0.76%) Linux
2 3 (0.76%) Windows
2 3 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (35.35%) Agile
2 118 (29.80%) Asset Management
3 114 (28.79%) Software Engineering
4 95 (23.99%) Investment Management
5 92 (23.23%) Analytics
6 80 (20.20%) Data Modelling
7 75 (18.94%) ETL
8 64 (16.16%) DevOps
9 60 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
10 59 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (13.89%) Data Engineering
12 54 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
13 48 (12.12%) Line Management
14 38 (9.60%) Data Governance
14 38 (9.60%) Data Integration
15 35 (8.84%) CI/CD
16 34 (8.59%) Greeks
16 34 (8.59%) Migration
17 32 (8.08%) Decision-Making
18 31 (7.83%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 219 (55.30%) Python
2 140 (35.35%) Java
3 135 (34.09%) SQL
4 113 (28.54%) JavaScript
5 96 (24.24%) TypeScript
6 30 (7.58%) Scala
7 25 (6.31%) Go
8 13 (3.28%) Bash
9 8 (2.02%) C#
10 6 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.52%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.76%) ABAP
12 3 (0.76%) C
12 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.25%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.25%) R
14 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (8.59%) Degree
2 5 (1.26%) SC Cleared
2 5 (1.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
3 4 (1.01%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.25%) PhD
5 1 (0.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.79%) QA
3 3 (0.76%) IFRS
3 3 (0.76%) IFRS 17
3 3 (0.76%) ISO 22301
3 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.76%) Solvency II
4 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (6.82%) Docker
2 3 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (13.13%) Kubernetes
1 52 (13.13%) Terraform
2 24 (6.06%) Prometheus
3 9 (2.27%) Ansible
3 9 (2.27%) Grafana
4 6 (1.52%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 46 (11.62%) Databricks
2 38 (9.60%) Alteryx
3 22 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 18 (4.55%) Informatica
4 18 (4.55%) Oracle
5 14 (3.54%) SAP
6 11 (2.78%) Splunk
7 10 (2.53%) Sparx
8 9 (2.27%) Cloudera
8 9 (2.27%) Dataiku
9 8 (2.02%) Talend
10 7 (1.77%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.77%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.77%) Trillium
11 5 (1.26%) Google
12 4 (1.01%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.76%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.76%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.76%) Triple Point
13 3 (0.76%) webMethods