Snowflake: market
Snowflake is a cloud analytical warehouse with separated storage and compute: a SQL interface, on-demand scaling and minimal administration. We track 3 369 open positions listing Snowflake, 3 245 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. 47% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Snowflake demand.
The Snowflake market currently has 3,369 open roles, 3,245 of them freshly observed. Median salary $10,625/mo. Observed candidate pool — 109.
47% of Snowflake postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 234 of 3369 jobs; remote share from 2709 with a stated format; 3245 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 3,369 |
| Observed supply | 109 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $5,249, one in ten over $18,885. Half the market falls between $6,875 and $15,351. Sample: 234.
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 | 1,194 |
| PL | 430 |
| GB | 274 |
| IN | 224 |
| CA | 120 |
| DE | 109 |
| FR | 52 |
| BR | 51 |
| IE | 37 |
| ES | 36 |
The top country for Snowflake demand is the US (1 194 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 | 1,534 |
| Analytics Engineer | 295 |
| Architect | 211 |
| ML/AI | 187 |
| DevOps | 130 |
| Fullstack | 117 |
| AI Engineer | 102 |
| Product | 93 |
| Backend | 82 |
| PM | 59 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 1,218 |
| principal | 277 |
| lead | 191 |
| middle | 103 |
| junior | 26 |
Senior-and-above is about 93% of 1 815 graded Snowflake postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 1,245 employers. The largest accounts for 5.7%, the top ten for 23.1%; the remaining 76.9% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 5.7% |
| top-3 | 12.6% |
| top-10 | 23.1% |
| long tail | 76.9% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 81 sources; the largest accounts for 26.0% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Snowflake postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- IT Analyst · SE
- Senior Data Mesh Platforms Engineer · PL
- Senior Software Engineer – Python/React/Data · PL · $8,875
- Fraud Strategy Associate · BR
- Senior AI Engineer (Snowflake Cortex AI) · PL
- AI Engineer (GenAI / Agentic Platform) · PL
- Strategic Real Estate, Growth Strategy Associate · US
- Data Engineer (Mid Level) · IN
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 2026-10-20
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 3 369 open Snowflake positions; the market skews experienced — the warehouse is usually entrusted to people who have already built data models.