Snowflake: Markt
Snowflake is a cloud analytical warehouse with separated storage and compute: a SQL interface, on-demand scaling and minimal administration. We track 3 739 open positions listing Snowflake, 3 484 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.
Der Markt für Snowflake hat derzeit 3.739 offene Rollen, davon 3.484 frisch beobachtet. Median salary $11.375/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 405 of 3739 jobs; remote share from 3049 with a stated format; 3484 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Snowflake postings appeared each week since Aug 10, 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: 129
New sources connected: Aug 17 +16 · Aug 24 +9 · Aug 31 +11 · Sep 7 +8 · Sep 14 +8 · Sep 21 +22 · Sep 28 +5 · Oct 5 +3 · Oct 12 +8 · Oct 19 +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.
Nachfrage und beobachtetes Angebot
| Offene Nachfrage | 3.739 |
| Beobachtetes Angebot | 110 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Gehaltsverteilung
Jeder Zehnte verdient unter $5.500, jeder Zehnte über $19.125. Die Hälfte des Markts liegt zwischen $7.472 und $15.387. Stichprobe: 405.
The range histogram for Snowflake postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Geografie der Nachfrage
| Land | Stellen |
|---|---|
| US | 1.325 |
| PL | 488 |
| GB | 289 |
| IN | 257 |
| CA | 149 |
| DE | 116 |
| FR | 58 |
| BR | 45 |
| ES | 45 |
| MX | 39 |
The top country for Snowflake demand is the US (1 325 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Wird zusammen verwendet mit
Snowflake most often appears next to SQL, Python and AWS. dbt next to Snowflake is the signature of the analytics-engineer profession.
Rollen, die sie nutzen
| Rolle | Stellen |
|---|---|
| Data | 1.478 |
| Analytics Engineer | 307 |
| Architect | 295 |
| ML/AI | 247 |
| Product | 158 |
| Fullstack | 153 |
| Backend | 128 |
| AI Engineer | 127 |
| DevOps | 102 |
| PM | 98 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Nachfrage nach Level
| Level | Stellen |
|---|---|
| senior | 1.399 |
| principal | 318 |
| lead | 250 |
| middle | 115 |
| junior | 57 |
Senior-and-above is about 92% of 2 139 graded Snowflake postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Arbeitgeber
Die Nachfrage verteilt sich auf 1.457 Arbeitgeber. Der größte steht für 4.1 %, die Top Ten für 19.8 %; die übrigen 80.2 % sind Long Tail.
| Anteil | Wert |
|---|---|
| Top-1 | 4.1% |
| Top-3 | 10.5% |
| Top-10 | 19.8% |
| Long Tail | 80.2% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Wo Zorky diesen Markt sieht
Beobachtet in 86 Quellen; die größte steht für 24.3 % — dieser Markt hängt nicht an einem einzigen Kanal.
Snowflake postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Neueste Ausschreibungen
- GTM Operations Analyst – Analytics & Automation
- Phantom · RU
- Technical Product Manager (Data / SaaS)
- AI Product Manager (Data & AI Transformation) · TH
- Database Developer · PL
- Data Scientist · US
- Principal Data Engineer
- Senior Data Engineer · US
Benachbarte Märkte
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
So wird gemessen
- Stelle
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Beobachteter Kandidat
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchbarer Kandidat
- not counted yet
- Fenster
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
Über die Daten
- Einige Aufschlüsselungen sind ausgeblendet: Die Datenabdeckung reicht noch nicht aus.
- Statistiken erscheinen nur, wo die Stichprobe eine Qualitätsschwelle passiert.
- Ein fehlender Block bedeutet nicht den Wert null.
Derzeit ausgeblendete Aufschlüsselungen: 7.
Datenstand 2026-10-27
Häufig gestellte Fragen
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 3 739 open Snowflake positions; the market skews experienced — the warehouse is usually entrusted to people who have already built data models.