SPARQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SPARQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SPARQL over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 679 783
Rank change year-on-year +102 +104 -95
Contract jobs citing SPARQL 6 17 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.029% 0.066%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.047% 0.084% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 44
10th Percentile - £459 £504
25th Percentile - £538 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £588 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% -16.07% +19.66%
75th Percentile £542 £639 £746
90th Percentile £559 £650 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £425 -
% change year-on-year +25.41% - -

All Programming Languages
UK

SPARQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,664 20,218 31,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.62% 34.76% 36.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,004 14,576 23,300
10th Percentile £350 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £763 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 464 514
10th Percentile £33.63 £26.16 £19.64
25th Percentile £46.48 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +16.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.96 £78.00 £73.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +21.95%

SPARQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SPARQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SPARQL in the UK

SPARQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SPARQL.

Daily rate trend for SPARQL in the UK

SPARQL
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SPARQL within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 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
England +95 6 £533 -7.30% 2
UK excluding London +73 4 £533 +25.41% 2
South West - 4 £533 - 2
Work from Home +113 3 £533 -11.17% 1
London +79 2 - -

SPARQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) GitHub
1 6 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Apache Jena
1 6 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
1 6 (100.00%) PostGIS
1 6 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) React
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes