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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 456 470
Rank change year-on-year +176 +14 +39
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 358 264 438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.45% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.55% 1.21% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 183 333
10th Percentile £421 £413 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £688
90th Percentile £888 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -17.39% +6.48% -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 14,016 21,833 34,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.85% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,964 15,782 24,942
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 £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 349 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.07%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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 3 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 15 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 3 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 +166 308 £650 +13.04% 196
London +96 197 £750 +30.43% 116
Work from Home +133 141 £800 +39.13% 119
UK excluding London +134 127 £475 -17.39% 119
North of England +59 43 £475 +5.56% 30
South East +37 39 £500 -13.04% 9
North West +41 33 £500 +11.11% 18
Scotland +59 26 £450 -18.18% 19
Midlands +33 9 £513 +13.89% 28
West Midlands +28 6 £550 +12.82% 26
East of England +18 6 £450 -37.93% 2
Yorkshire +23 5 £450 - 3
North East +22 5 £431 -28.17% 9
Wales - 4 £550 - 5
East Midlands +22 3 £513 +13.89% 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
1 113 (31.56%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (22.91%) Apache
3 20 (5.59%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.79%) SAS
5 2 (0.56%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (3.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.84%) Endur
3 2 (0.56%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.56%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 225 (62.85%) AWS
2 109 (30.45%) dbt
3 85 (23.74%) Azure
4 68 (18.99%) Power Platform
5 63 (17.60%) GCP
6 31 (8.66%) Amazon S3
7 22 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (6.15%) Serverless
8 18 (5.03%) Amazon EMR
9 16 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.63%) Power Automate
11 12 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.35%) Matillion
12 10 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (2.79%) OCI
13 8 (2.23%) Collibra
13 8 (2.23%) Fivetran
14 7 (1.96%) GitHub
15 6 (1.68%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.40%) FTP
2 4 (1.12%) AMQP
2 4 (1.12%) Modbus
2 4 (1.12%) MQTT
3 2 (0.56%) DMZ
3 2 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (34.92%) Data Lake
2 86 (24.02%) Data Warehouse
3 85 (23.74%) Amazon Athena
4 79 (22.07%) Apache Arrow
4 79 (22.07%) Dremio
5 68 (18.99%) Power BI
6 67 (18.72%) Apache Ignite
7 65 (18.16%) Tableau
8 33 (9.22%) Big Data
9 32 (8.94%) SQL Server
10 21 (5.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (3.63%) Snowflake Schema
12 12 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (2.79%) Relational Database
15 9 (2.51%) BigQuery
15 9 (2.51%) DynamoDB
15 9 (2.51%) NoSQL
16 8 (2.23%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (5.31%) Git
2 15 (4.19%) ERwin
3 13 (3.63%) ER Studio
3 13 (3.63%) JIRA
4 7 (1.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (1.68%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.68%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.84%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.56%) kappa
8 1 (0.28%) GitLab
8 1 (0.28%) Maven
8 1 (0.28%) Subversion
8 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 144 (40.22%) Finance
2 74 (20.67%) Banking
3 68 (18.99%) Front Office
4 67 (18.72%) Investment Banking
5 57 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (14.53%) Social Skills
7 24 (6.70%) Legal
8 15 (4.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (3.63%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.51%) Retail
11 8 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.40%) Automotive
13 4 (1.12%) Marketing
14 3 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.84%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.56%) Back Office
16 1 (0.28%) Dutch Language
16 1 (0.28%) Law
16 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (21.23%) Lead
2 75 (20.95%) Data Engineer
3 61 (17.04%) Analyst
3 61 (17.04%) AWS Engineer
4 60 (16.76%) Architect
5 53 (14.80%) Senior
6 44 (12.29%) Software Engineer
7 39 (10.89%) Data Analyst
7 39 (10.89%) Developer
8 32 (8.94%) Data Architect
9 27 (7.54%) Python Engineer
9 27 (7.54%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 25 (6.98%) Java Engineer
10 25 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (6.42%) Java Software Engineer
12 22 (6.15%) Python Software Engineer
13 21 (5.87%) AWS Software Engineer
13 21 (5.87%) Senior Software Engineer
14 20 (5.59%) Software Developer
15 19 (5.31%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (22.07%) gRPC
1 79 (22.07%) Protocol Buffers
2 68 (18.99%) Pandas
3 67 (18.72%) NumPy
3 67 (18.72%) SciPy
4 10 (2.79%) Kafka
4 10 (2.79%) PySpark
5 9 (2.51%) XML
6 8 (2.23%) JSON
7 7 (1.96%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.84%) Web Services
9 2 (0.56%) ADO
9 2 (0.56%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.56%) Django
9 2 (0.56%) HTML
9 2 (0.56%) IDoc
9 2 (0.56%) JMS
9 2 (0.56%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.56%) REST
9 2 (0.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 83 (23.18%) Hedge funds
2 69 (19.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 67 (18.72%) Derivative
3 67 (18.72%) Equities
3 67 (18.72%) Fixed Income
4 22 (6.15%) Credit Risk
5 12 (3.35%) Clustering
6 11 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.23%) IoT
8 6 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.68%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.68%) Pricing Data
9 5 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.84%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.84%) PKI
11 3 (0.84%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.40%) Linux
1 5 (1.40%) Unix
2 4 (1.12%) Windows
2 4 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (30.17%) Agile
2 89 (24.86%) Analytics
3 86 (24.02%) Asset Management
4 84 (23.46%) Software Engineering
5 75 (20.95%) Investment Management
6 72 (20.11%) ETL
7 70 (19.55%) Data Modelling
8 63 (17.60%) Business Intelligence
9 60 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (16.48%) DevOps
11 53 (14.80%) Data Engineering
12 47 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
13 45 (12.57%) Data Integration
14 38 (10.61%) Data Governance
15 36 (10.06%) Line Management
16 35 (9.78%) Migration
17 32 (8.94%) Actionable Insight
17 32 (8.94%) CI/CD
17 32 (8.94%) Data Analysis
17 32 (8.94%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 178 (49.72%) Python
2 125 (34.92%) SQL
3 110 (30.73%) Java
4 82 (22.91%) JavaScript
5 69 (19.27%) TypeScript
6 29 (8.10%) Scala
7 19 (5.31%) Go
8 11 (3.07%) Bash
9 7 (1.96%) C#
9 7 (1.96%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.68%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.56%) ABAP
12 2 (0.56%) C
12 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.56%) R
12 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.28%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.28%) Julia
13 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (8.66%) Degree
2 5 (1.40%) AWS Certification
2 5 (1.40%) SC Cleared
2 5 (1.40%) Security Cleared
3 3 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (15.92%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.47%) QA
3 3 (0.84%) IFRS
3 3 (0.84%) IFRS 17
3 3 (0.84%) ISO 22301
3 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.84%) Solvency II
4 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.28%) GxP
System Software
1 25 (6.98%) Docker
2 3 (0.84%) HDFS
3 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (12.01%) Terraform
2 41 (11.45%) Kubernetes
3 16 (4.47%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.51%) Grafana
5 8 (2.23%) Ansible
6 6 (1.68%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.28%) Control-M
Vendors
1 43 (12.01%) Databricks
2 40 (11.17%) Alteryx
3 26 (7.26%) Informatica
4 24 (6.70%) Oracle
5 19 (5.31%) Microsoft
6 17 (4.75%) Talend
7 13 (3.63%) SAP
7 13 (3.63%) Sparx
8 11 (3.07%) Dataiku
9 9 (2.51%) Splunk
10 7 (1.96%) Cloudera
10 7 (1.96%) Trillium
11 6 (1.68%) Google
12 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.84%) Guidewire
14 2 (0.56%) MuleSoft
14 2 (0.56%) OpenLink
14 2 (0.56%) Optimizely
14 2 (0.56%) Triple Point
14 2 (0.56%) webMethods