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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 431 478
Rank change year-on-year +185 +47 +18
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 409 270 419
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 0.48% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.93% 1.32% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 194 320
10th Percentile £415 £425 £405
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 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -17.39% +5.50% -0.91%
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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +168 354 £706 +22.74% 214
London +130 244 £800 +39.13% 133
Work from Home +154 191 £800 +39.13% 84
UK excluding London +109 126 £475 -17.39% 110
North of England +53 43 £475 +5.56% 29
South East +34 39 £444 -22.83% 14
North West +44 33 £500 +11.11% 19
Scotland +51 24 £453 -22.89% 15
Midlands +24 7 £519 +12.16% 25
Yorkshire +22 6 £444 +4.41% 1
East of England +4 6 £450 -37.93%
North East +15 4 £528 -12.00% 9
East Midlands +14 4 - - 2
Wales - 4 £550 - 1
West Midlands +13 3 £519 +9.21% 23
South West +5 3 £575 +18.56% 4

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
1 172 (42.05%) Apache Airflow
2 131 (32.03%) Apache
3 23 (5.62%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.44%) SAS
5 3 (0.73%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.98%) Endur
3 3 (0.73%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 276 (67.48%) AWS
2 168 (41.08%) dbt
3 99 (24.21%) Azure
4 77 (18.83%) GCP
5 75 (18.34%) Power Platform
6 41 (10.02%) Amazon S3
7 27 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (6.60%) Serverless
8 25 (6.11%) Amazon EMR
9 24 (5.87%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.18%) Matillion
11 13 (3.18%) Power Automate
12 12 (2.93%) Fivetran
12 12 (2.93%) GitHub
13 8 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.71%) Collibra
14 7 (1.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.22%) FTP
2 2 (0.49%) AMQP
2 2 (0.49%) Modbus
2 2 (0.49%) MQTT
3 1 (0.24%) DMZ
3 1 (0.24%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (39.12%) Data Lake
2 135 (33.01%) Amazon Athena
3 121 (29.58%) Apache Arrow
3 121 (29.58%) Dremio
4 103 (25.18%) Apache Ignite
5 92 (22.49%) Data Warehouse
6 75 (18.34%) Power BI
7 68 (16.63%) Tableau
8 48 (11.74%) Big Data
9 30 (7.33%) SQL Server
10 29 (7.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
12 15 (3.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (1.96%) Data Mining
15 7 (1.71%) DynamoDB
15 7 (1.71%) Hadoop
15 7 (1.71%) MySQL
15 7 (1.71%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 26 (6.36%) Git
2 13 (3.18%) JIRA
3 11 (2.69%) ERwin
4 9 (2.20%) ER Studio
5 7 (1.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (1.47%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.47%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.98%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.73%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.49%) kappa
10 1 (0.24%) GitLab
10 1 (0.24%) Maven
10 1 (0.24%) Subversion
10 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 184 (44.99%) Finance
2 109 (26.65%) Banking
3 104 (25.43%) Front Office
4 103 (25.18%) Investment Banking
5 54 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (12.22%) Social Skills
7 23 (5.62%) Legal
8 14 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (2.69%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.69%) Retail
10 10 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.96%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.47%) Marketing
13 3 (0.73%) Automotive
13 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.73%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.49%) Back Office
15 1 (0.24%) Dutch Language
15 1 (0.24%) Law
15 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 94 (22.98%) Lead
2 82 (20.05%) AWS Engineer
3 80 (19.56%) Data Engineer
4 74 (18.09%) Senior
5 68 (16.63%) Software Engineer
6 65 (15.89%) Analyst
7 59 (14.43%) Architect
8 45 (11.00%) Developer
9 43 (10.51%) Python Engineer
10 42 (10.27%) Data Analyst
11 41 (10.02%) Java Engineer
12 39 (9.54%) Java Software Engineer
13 38 (9.29%) Python Software Engineer
14 37 (9.05%) AWS Software Engineer
14 37 (9.05%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (8.56%) Snowflake Engineer
16 33 (8.07%) Solutions Architect
17 29 (7.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 27 (6.60%) Software Developer
19 26 (6.36%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (29.58%) gRPC
1 121 (29.58%) Protocol Buffers
2 107 (26.16%) Pandas
3 104 (25.43%) NumPy
4 103 (25.18%) SciPy
5 19 (4.65%) PySpark
6 12 (2.93%) Kafka
7 9 (2.20%) XML
8 7 (1.71%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (1.71%) JSON
9 3 (0.73%) HTML
9 3 (0.73%) IDoc
9 3 (0.73%) Middleware
10 2 (0.49%) ADO
10 2 (0.49%) Django
10 2 (0.49%) Matplotlib
10 2 (0.49%) pytest
10 2 (0.49%) React
10 2 (0.49%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 122 (29.83%) Hedge funds
2 103 (25.18%) Derivative
2 103 (25.18%) Equities
2 103 (25.18%) Fixed Income
2 103 (25.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 22 (5.38%) Credit Risk
4 18 (4.40%) Clustering
5 14 (3.42%) Pricing Data
6 11 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.22%) IoT
10 4 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.73%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.73%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.49%) PKI
12 2 (0.49%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.22%) Unix
2 3 (0.73%) Linux
2 3 (0.73%) Windows
2 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (36.43%) Agile
2 126 (30.81%) Asset Management
3 123 (30.07%) Software Engineering
4 100 (24.45%) Investment Management
5 95 (23.23%) Analytics
6 84 (20.54%) Data Modelling
7 79 (19.32%) ETL
8 64 (15.65%) DevOps
9 62 (15.16%) Business Intelligence
10 60 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (13.69%) Data Engineering
11 56 (13.69%) Data Pipeline
12 52 (12.71%) Line Management
13 40 (9.78%) Data Governance
14 37 (9.05%) Data Integration
14 37 (9.05%) Greeks
15 35 (8.56%) CI/CD
16 34 (8.31%) Migration
17 32 (7.82%) Decision-Making
18 31 (7.58%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 230 (56.23%) Python
2 148 (36.19%) Java
3 141 (34.47%) SQL
4 122 (29.83%) JavaScript
5 105 (25.67%) TypeScript
6 31 (7.58%) Scala
7 25 (6.11%) Go
8 13 (3.18%) Bash
9 8 (1.96%) C#
9 8 (1.96%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.47%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.73%) ABAP
12 3 (0.73%) C
12 3 (0.73%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.24%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.24%) R
14 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (8.56%) Degree
2 5 (1.22%) SC Cleared
2 5 (1.22%) Security Cleared
3 4 (0.98%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.24%) PhD
6 1 (0.24%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (17.60%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.67%) QA
3 3 (0.73%) IFRS
3 3 (0.73%) IFRS 17
3 3 (0.73%) ISO 22301
3 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.73%) Solvency II
4 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (6.85%) Docker
2 3 (0.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.73%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 53 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 52 (12.71%) Terraform
3 24 (5.87%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.20%) Ansible
4 9 (2.20%) Grafana
5 6 (1.47%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.24%) Control-M
Vendors
1 45 (11.00%) Databricks
2 38 (9.29%) Alteryx
3 23 (5.62%) Microsoft
4 18 (4.40%) Informatica
5 17 (4.16%) Oracle
6 14 (3.42%) SAP
7 11 (2.69%) Cloudera
7 11 (2.69%) Splunk
8 9 (2.20%) Dataiku
8 9 (2.20%) Sparx
9 8 (1.96%) Ab Initio
9 8 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.96%) Talend
10 7 (1.71%) Trillium
11 6 (1.47%) Google
11 6 (1.47%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.73%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.73%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.73%) Triple Point
12 3 (0.73%) webMethods