Snowflake Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Snowflake
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Snowflake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Snowflake over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 211 344
Rank change year-on-year +57 +133 +46
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 157 141 128
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.59% 0.93% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.98% 2.56% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 129 88
10th Percentile £413 £429 £400
25th Percentile £500 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £800 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +39.13% -
75th Percentile £825 £850 £700
90th Percentile £888 £888 £764
UK median daily rate £585 £610 £575
% change year-on-year -4.10% +6.09% -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Snowflake falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,944 5,504 10,118
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.84% 36.13% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,892 3,952 7,445
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 87 127
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.45
25th Percentile £25.25 £16.82 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -51.85% +96.36%
75th Percentile £70.63 £46.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £66.25 £75.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Snowflake
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Snowflake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Snowflake trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Snowflake
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Snowflake.

Snowflake daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Snowflake
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Snowflake over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Snowflake daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Snowflake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 61 (38.85%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (28.66%) Apache
3 4 (2.55%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.64%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 98 (62.42%) AWS
2 73 (46.50%) dbt
3 58 (36.94%) Azure
4 40 (25.48%) GCP
5 32 (20.38%) Power Platform
6 18 (11.46%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (10.83%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (10.83%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (10.83%) Dagster
8 10 (6.37%) GitHub
9 7 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.55%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.55%) Matillion
10 4 (2.55%) SaaS
11 3 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.91%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.27%) Apigee
12 2 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.18%) DNS
1 5 (3.18%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.55%) Firewall
2 4 (2.55%) VPN
3 2 (1.27%) Network Security
4 1 (0.64%) DHCP
4 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.64%) NAS
4 1 (0.64%) SAN
4 1 (0.64%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (29.30%) Data Lake
1 46 (29.30%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (26.75%) Amazon Athena
3 41 (26.11%) Apache Iceberg
3 41 (26.11%) Dremio
4 39 (24.84%) Apache Arrow
5 32 (20.38%) Power BI
6 31 (19.75%) Apache Ignite
7 12 (7.64%) Tableau
8 10 (6.37%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (5.73%) Hadoop
10 6 (3.82%) BigQuery
10 6 (3.82%) NoSQL
11 5 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (3.18%) Data Vault
11 5 (3.18%) MongoDB
11 5 (3.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (2.55%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.91%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.91%) ERwin
2 3 (1.91%) Git
2 3 (1.91%) JIRA
3 2 (1.27%) GitLab
3 2 (1.27%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.64%) JUnit
4 1 (0.64%) MLflow
4 1 (0.64%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 74 (47.13%) Finance
2 48 (30.57%) Banking
3 42 (26.75%) Front Office
4 41 (26.11%) Investment Banking
5 32 (20.38%) Social Skills
6 9 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.18%) Marketing
10 4 (2.55%) Retail
11 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.27%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.64%) Advertising
12 1 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.64%) Local Government
12 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (32.48%) AWS Engineer
2 44 (28.03%) Data Engineer
3 39 (24.84%) AWS Software Engineer
3 39 (24.84%) Software Engineer
4 36 (22.93%) Senior
5 30 (19.11%) Java Engineer
6 29 (18.47%) Java Software Engineer
6 29 (18.47%) Snowflake Engineer
7 27 (17.20%) Python Engineer
8 24 (15.29%) Architect
8 24 (15.29%) Python Software Engineer
9 23 (14.65%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (13.38%) Developer
11 20 (12.74%) Senior Java Engineer
11 20 (12.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 19 (12.10%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 17 (10.83%) Data Architect
13 17 (10.83%) Snowflake Developer
14 10 (6.37%) Lead
15 9 (5.73%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.75%) gRPC
1 31 (19.75%) NumPy
1 31 (19.75%) Pandas
1 31 (19.75%) Protocol Buffers
1 31 (19.75%) SciPy
2 26 (16.56%) PySpark
3 11 (7.01%) Kafka
4 3 (1.91%) REST
5 2 (1.27%) .NET
5 2 (1.27%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.64%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.64%) Flask
6 1 (0.64%) Keras
6 1 (0.64%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.64%) pytest
6 1 (0.64%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.64%) React
6 1 (0.64%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.64%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.64%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 41 (26.11%) Equities
1 41 (26.11%) Fixed Income
2 39 (24.84%) Derivative
2 39 (24.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 39 (24.84%) Hedge funds
3 14 (8.92%) Pricing Data
4 8 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.55%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.27%) Clustering
7 2 (1.27%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.27%) Replication
8 1 (0.64%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.27%) Linux
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.64%) Solaris
2 1 (0.64%) Unix
2 1 (0.64%) Windows
2 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (31.21%) Agile
1 49 (31.21%) Asset Management
2 43 (27.39%) Software Engineering
3 41 (26.11%) ETL
4 37 (23.57%) Analytics
5 34 (21.66%) Data Pipeline
5 34 (21.66%) Migration
6 32 (20.38%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (20.38%) Data Modelling
7 24 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (14.01%) Investment Management
9 21 (13.38%) CI/CD
10 20 (12.74%) Data Engineering
11 19 (12.10%) Data Management
12 18 (11.46%) Data Architecture
13 17 (10.83%) Decision-Making
14 16 (10.19%) Data Governance
14 16 (10.19%) DevOps
15 14 (8.92%) Data Integration
16 13 (8.28%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 87 (55.41%) Python
2 75 (47.77%) SQL
3 43 (27.39%) Java
4 34 (21.66%) JavaScript
5 31 (19.75%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.18%) C#
7 3 (1.91%) R
7 3 (1.91%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.64%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.64%) Bash
8 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.64%) Go
8 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.64%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 8 (5.10%) Degree
2 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
2 2 (1.27%) PMP
3 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (0.64%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.64%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.55%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.27%) QA
4 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (5.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (8.92%) Terraform
2 8 (5.10%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.64%) Ansible
4 1 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.64%) Netcool
4 1 (0.64%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 17 (10.83%) Databricks
2 8 (5.10%) Google
3 5 (3.18%) Oracle
4 4 (2.55%) Informatica
4 4 (2.55%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.91%) SAP
5 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.27%) Cribl.io
6 2 (1.27%) IBM
6 2 (1.27%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.27%) Sparx
6 2 (1.27%) Sybase
6 2 (1.27%) Talend
6 2 (1.27%) Teradata
6 2 (1.27%) Workday
7 1 (0.64%) Cisco
7 1 (0.64%) Conga
7 1 (0.64%) Criteo
7 1 (0.64%) Serena
7 1 (0.64%) VMware