Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

snowflake

860 live US technical postings name snowflake in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 860 postings naming snowflake that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Engineer42%
  2. 2Software Engineer23.4%
  3. 3Data Scientist10%
  4. 4Data Analyst8.1%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer5.5%
  6. 6AI Engineer3.3%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer2.4%
  8. 8Backend Engineer1.9%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where snowflake is named
n = 525
10th
$130k
25th
$153k
Median
$184k
75th
$214k
90th
$244k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY18%
  2. 2Remote16.7%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA14.9%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA3.4%
  5. 5Washington, DC2.6%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.2%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.1%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.