Snowflake: market
Snowflake is a cloud analytical warehouse with separated storage and compute: a SQL interface, on-demand scaling and minimal administration. We track 3 564 open positions listing Snowflake, 3 476 of them fresh. The demand core is data and analytics engineers building dbt data models, ingestion via Fivetran or Airflow and BI-ready marts. Most of the demand comes from Data, Analytics Engineer and Architect roles. It most often appears next to SQL, Python and AWS. 44% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Snowflake demand.
The Snowflake market currently has 3,564 open roles, 3,476 of them freshly observed. Median salary $11,250/mo. Observed candidate pool — 110.
44% of Snowflake postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 315 of 3564 jobs; remote share from 2909 with a stated format; 3476 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Snowflake postings appeared each week since 10 Aug, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 121
New sources connected: 17 Aug +16 · 24 Aug +9 · 31 Aug +11 · 7 Sept +8 · 14 Sept +8 · 21 Sept +22 · 28 Sept +5 · 5 Oct +3 · 12 Oct +8
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses. A posting belongs to the technology by its stack tag; the series starts on 10 Aug 2026 — earlier tags were assigned differently and are not comparable. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Snowflake salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Snowflake postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Snowflake postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 3,564 |
| Observed supply | 110 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $5,253, one in ten over $19,375. Half the market falls between $7,166 and $15,416. Sample: 315.
The range histogram for Snowflake postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 1,227 |
| PL | 471 |
| GB | 294 |
| IN | 249 |
| CA | 136 |
| DE | 118 |
| FR | 60 |
| BR | 42 |
| ES | 41 |
| IE | 39 |
The top country for Snowflake demand is the US (1 227 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Snowflake most often appears next to SQL, Python and AWS. dbt next to Snowflake is the signature of the analytics-engineer profession.
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| Data | 1,617 |
| Analytics Engineer | 282 |
| Architect | 223 |
| ML/AI | 214 |
| DevOps | 133 |
| Fullstack | 131 |
| AI Engineer | 112 |
| Product | 104 |
| Backend | 82 |
| PM | 69 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 1,321 |
| principal | 303 |
| lead | 212 |
| middle | 115 |
| junior | 31 |
Senior-and-above is about 93% of 1 982 graded Snowflake postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 1,343 employers. The largest accounts for 5.0%, the top ten for 21.6%; the remaining 78.4% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 5.0% |
| top-3 | 11.7% |
| top-10 | 21.6% |
| long tail | 78.4% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 86 sources; the largest accounts for 24.9% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Snowflake postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- Data Engineer V - US · US · $13,819
- Senior/Lead Java Fullstack Engineer · IN
- Lead/ Senior Java Fullstack Engineer _ Mumbai · IN
- Data Analyst Senior SQL / Snowflake – CRM & Analytics (H/F) · FR
- Associate Director, Data Enablement & Operations - Patient Services & Value & Access · US · $11,938
- Sr. Manager, Patient Services Analytics & Insights, Rare Disease · US · $9,375
- Senior Data Engineer (Banking, Snowflake, BigData) · PL
- DevOps Engineer · PL
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-23
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Snowflake market — short answers from the same data slice.
Which roles need Snowflake?
Data and analytics engineers first of all; analysts — as the SQL warehouse behind reports; data architects — for platform design and access governance.
What should I learn alongside Snowflake?
Advanced SQL, dbt for modeling, one orchestrator (Airflow, Dagster), ingestion (Fivetran, Snowpipe), cloud basics at the storage and IAM level, Python for non-standard tasks.
Snowflake or Databricks?
Snowflake is stronger as a SQL warehouse with simple operations, Databricks — as a data engineering and ML platform on Spark. They often appear side by side in postings, and knowing one eases the move to the other.
How big is the Snowflake market?
The slice tracks 3 564 open Snowflake positions; the market skews experienced — the warehouse is usually entrusted to people who have already built data models.