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Snowflake freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

0.4% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name Snowflake – 224 projects, rank 224 of the 250 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 0.6% (+0.4 percentage points from the month before). Snowflake is asked for most often in Data Engineer projects: they make up 74% of the engineering projects with Snowflake.

By . Data: 52,106 listings on German IT freelance project boards, May 2026 – October 2026. Published , last updated .

Is Snowflake required or nice to have?

56% of the listings with Snowflake name it as a required skill. That is less often than for most skills of this overview (median 69%). 32% name it as nice to have, 13% without a clear mark.

Snowflake demand by month

Share of listings with Snowflake per month of first publication, with the number of projects under each month; months with fewer than 1,000 projects are left out. Single months fluctuate.

  1. June 202624 of 7,653 projects0.3%
  2. July 202643 of 9,884 projects0.4%
  3. August 202645 of 10,216 projects0.4%
  4. September 202628 of 10,958 projects0.3%
  5. October 202684 of 13,054 projects0.6%

Skills asked for together with Snowflake

The 15 skills that listings with Snowflake name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for Snowflake, i.e. asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall; the tick shows the share across all projects.

Under each skill: its share across all projects.

  1. SQLall projects 4.8%55%
  2. Data Modelingall projects 3.6%34%
  3. dbtall projects 0.3%29%
  4. CI/CDall projects 9.2%28%
  5. Pythonall projects 6.9%28%
  6. Data Engineeringall projects 1.3%24%
  7. ETLall projects 1.4%24%
  8. Power BIall projects 1.9%24%
  9. Data Warehouseall projects 0.8%23%
  10. Data Governanceall projects 1%18%
  11. Data Architectureall projects 0.9%17%
  12. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%16%
  13. Jiraall projects 8.5%14%
  14. Airflowall projects 0.3%14%
  15. Data Analyticsall projects 1.9%13%

Typical for Snowflake – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are dbt (29%), Airflow (14%), Data Warehouse (23%), Data Architecture (17%), Data Engineering (24%), Data Governance (18%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Agile Methods (16%), Jira (14%).

Roles asking for Snowflake

72% of the projects with Snowflake are engineering projects (162 projects) – projects that build software or technical systems; the rest are e.g. consulting, project management or IT operations. The bars show the roles with the most of those projects and their share of them; 2.5% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name Snowflake, and how often as required.

  1. Data Engineerin 8.5% of the role's projects · required 71%74%
  2. ML / AI Engineerin 1.9% of the role's projects · required 47%10%

Skills related to Snowflake

Skills of this overview that are asked for together with Snowflake much more often than chance would predict.

How to use the data

If Snowflake is in your profile, the blue skills often belong with it – name them if you have them. Projectmatch automatically matches new projects against your profile and shows for each project which of the required skills your profile covers. Browse current Snowflake projects or try it now.

All skills compared: Most in-demand IT skills in German freelance projects. Which skills form clusters: Which skills belong together? Which skills are in particular demand in Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt and other cities: IT freelance projects by city. How Snowflake compares with its alternatives: PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server: databases in demand.

Method

An AI model reads the requested skills from each project description, and a project's role from its title and skills; the figures are updated monthly. Details: method of the IT skills analysis.