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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 442 481
Rank change year-on-year +183 +39 +12
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 380 262 429
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 0.46% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.75% 1.25% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 185 324
10th Percentile £425 £413 £401
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 £575
% change year-on-year -17.39% - +4.55%
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 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
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% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

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 20 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 20 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 +164 325 £700 +21.74% 290
London +125 222 £800 +39.13% 178
Work from Home +145 172 £800 +39.13% 136
UK excluding London +121 120 £475 -17.39% 192
North of England +59 42 £475 +5.56% 48
South East +44 39 £481 -16.30% 32
North West +38 32 £500 +11.11% 22
Scotland +59 24 £453 -17.64% 29
Yorkshire +23 6 £444 - 5
East of England +11 6 £450 -37.93% 2
North East +16 4 £528 -12.00% 21
Wales - 4 £550 - 1
West Midlands +20 3 £563 +18.42% 38
Midlands +15 3 £563 +21.62% 38
South West +7 2 £600 +23.71% 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
1 152 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 113 (29.74%) Apache
3 21 (5.53%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.63%) SAS
5 3 (0.79%) Confluence
6 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (2.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.05%) Endur
3 3 (0.79%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 254 (66.84%) AWS
2 145 (38.16%) dbt
3 86 (22.63%) Azure
4 72 (18.95%) GCP
5 66 (17.37%) Power Platform
6 40 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 27 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (7.11%) Serverless
8 25 (6.58%) Amazon EMR
9 24 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (3.42%) Power Automate
13 11 (2.89%) Matillion
14 8 (2.11%) Collibra
14 8 (2.11%) Fivetran
14 8 (2.11%) GitHub
14 8 (2.11%) OCI
15 7 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.32%) FTP
2 2 (0.53%) AMQP
2 2 (0.53%) Modbus
2 2 (0.53%) MQTT
3 1 (0.26%) DMZ
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (38.68%) Data Lake
2 120 (31.58%) Amazon Athena
3 107 (28.16%) Apache Arrow
3 107 (28.16%) Dremio
4 89 (23.42%) Apache Ignite
5 86 (22.63%) Data Warehouse
6 66 (17.37%) Power BI
7 59 (15.53%) Tableau
8 40 (10.53%) Big Data
9 27 (7.11%) SQL Server
10 24 (6.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (3.68%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (2.11%) Ataccama
13 8 (2.11%) Data Mining
13 8 (2.11%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.84%) MySQL
14 7 (1.84%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 25 (6.58%) Git
2 14 (3.68%) JIRA
3 13 (3.42%) ERwin
4 11 (2.89%) ER Studio
5 7 (1.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (1.58%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.58%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.05%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.79%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.53%) kappa
10 1 (0.26%) GitLab
10 1 (0.26%) Maven
10 1 (0.26%) Subversion
10 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 169 (44.47%) Finance
2 95 (25.00%) Banking
3 90 (23.68%) Front Office
4 89 (23.42%) Investment Banking
5 55 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (13.42%) Social Skills
7 23 (6.05%) Legal
8 14 (3.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (2.89%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.37%) Retail
11 8 (2.11%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.32%) Marketing
13 4 (1.05%) Automotive
14 3 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.53%) Back Office
16 1 (0.26%) Dutch Language
16 1 (0.26%) Law
16 1 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (23.42%) Lead
2 74 (19.47%) AWS Engineer
3 68 (17.89%) Data Engineer
4 63 (16.58%) Analyst
4 63 (16.58%) Senior
5 62 (16.32%) Architect
6 58 (15.26%) Software Engineer
7 44 (11.58%) Developer
8 40 (10.53%) Data Analyst
9 36 (9.47%) Python Engineer
10 34 (8.95%) Java Engineer
11 32 (8.42%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (8.42%) Snowflake Engineer
12 31 (8.16%) Python Software Engineer
12 31 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (7.63%) AWS Software Engineer
13 29 (7.63%) Data Architect
13 29 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
14 26 (6.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 26 (6.84%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (28.16%) gRPC
1 107 (28.16%) Protocol Buffers
2 91 (23.95%) Pandas
3 89 (23.42%) NumPy
3 89 (23.42%) SciPy
4 16 (4.21%) PySpark
5 12 (3.16%) Kafka
6 9 (2.37%) XML
7 7 (1.84%) Apache NiFi
7 7 (1.84%) JSON
8 3 (0.79%) HTML
8 3 (0.79%) IDoc
8 3 (0.79%) Middleware
9 2 (0.53%) ADO
9 2 (0.53%) Django
9 2 (0.53%) JMS
9 2 (0.53%) React
9 2 (0.53%) REST
9 2 (0.53%) Swagger
9 2 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 109 (28.68%) Hedge funds
2 90 (23.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 89 (23.42%) Derivative
3 89 (23.42%) Equities
3 89 (23.42%) Fixed Income
4 22 (5.79%) Credit Risk
5 18 (4.74%) Clustering
6 11 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.63%) Pricing Data
8 6 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.58%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.58%) IoT
9 4 (1.05%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.79%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.79%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.79%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.53%) PKI
11 2 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.32%) Unix
2 3 (0.79%) Linux
2 3 (0.79%) Windows
2 3 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (34.74%) Agile
2 113 (29.74%) Asset Management
3 108 (28.42%) Software Engineering
4 90 (23.68%) Investment Management
5 89 (23.42%) Analytics
6 74 (19.47%) Data Modelling
6 74 (19.47%) ETL
7 65 (17.11%) DevOps
8 59 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (14.74%) Business Intelligence
10 55 (14.47%) Data Engineering
11 53 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
12 48 (12.63%) Line Management
13 39 (10.26%) Data Integration
14 35 (9.21%) Data Governance
14 35 (9.21%) Migration
15 34 (8.95%) CI/CD
16 32 (8.42%) Decision-Making
17 31 (8.16%) Greeks
18 30 (7.89%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 211 (55.53%) Python
2 135 (35.53%) Java
3 126 (33.16%) SQL
4 108 (28.42%) JavaScript
5 91 (23.95%) TypeScript
6 31 (8.16%) Scala
7 25 (6.58%) Go
8 12 (3.16%) Bash
9 8 (2.11%) C#
10 6 (1.58%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.79%) ABAP
12 3 (0.79%) C
12 3 (0.79%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.26%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.26%) R
14 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (7.63%) Degree
2 4 (1.05%) AWS Certification
2 4 (1.05%) SC Cleared
2 4 (1.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (0.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.26%) PhD
5 1 (0.26%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (16.32%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.95%) QA
3 3 (0.79%) IFRS
3 3 (0.79%) IFRS 17
3 3 (0.79%) ISO 22301
3 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.79%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 25 (6.58%) Docker
2 3 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (13.42%) Terraform
2 50 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 24 (6.32%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.37%) Ansible
4 9 (2.37%) Grafana
5 6 (1.58%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.26%) Control-M
Vendors
1 44 (11.58%) Databricks
2 38 (10.00%) Alteryx
3 22 (5.79%) Microsoft
4 20 (5.26%) Oracle
5 19 (5.00%) Informatica
6 13 (3.42%) SAP
7 11 (2.89%) Sparx
7 11 (2.89%) Splunk
8 10 (2.63%) Talend
9 9 (2.37%) Dataiku
10 7 (1.84%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.84%) Trillium
11 6 (1.58%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.32%) Google
13 4 (1.05%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.79%) Guidewire
14 3 (0.79%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.79%) OpenLink
14 3 (0.79%) Triple Point
14 3 (0.79%) webMethods