Spark SQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark SQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Spark SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spark SQL over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 426 495
Rank change year-on-year +37 +69 -59
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 12 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.056% 0.018% 0.030%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.45% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £315 - £309
25th Percentile £319 £600 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +44.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £395 £700 £591
90th Percentile £420 - £619
UK median daily rate £493 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -17.83% - +8.11%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Spark SQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,661 3,340 5,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.48% 14.72% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,857 2,374 3,802
10th Percentile £314 £325 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 106 125
10th Percentile £13.72 £21.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £31.84 £20.75
Median hourly rate £34.47 £56.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.48% +62.71% +41.02%
75th Percentile £49.54 £73.74 £56.25
90th Percentile £71.50 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Spark SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Spark SQL in the UK excluding London

Spark SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spark SQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Spark SQL in the UK excluding London

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spark SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spark SQL in the UK excluding London

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spark SQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +22 7 £400 -33.33% 5
Scotland - 5 £339 -
Yorkshire - 5 £425 - 2
North West - 2 £350 - 3
Spark SQL
UK

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (91.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (25.00%) Apache
2 3 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Run
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Apache Hive
1 8 (66.67%) Big Data
2 5 (41.67%) Impala
2 5 (41.67%) MySQL
3 4 (33.33%) BigQuery
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (25.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (8.33%) Azkaban
5 1 (8.33%) DataStage
5 1 (8.33%) Metadata
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) RStudio
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Investment Banking
4 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Database Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (25.00%) PySpark
3 2 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Virtual Team
2 2 (16.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (25.00%) Data Science
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 2 (16.67%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (8.33%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Shell Script
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (25.00%) Scala
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
1 3 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Google
2 5 (41.67%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) Cloudera