Spark SQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

Apache Spark SQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Spark SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spark SQL over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 466 595
Rank change year-on-year +131 +129 -156
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 6 2 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.008% 0.046%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.21% 0.042% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile - £663 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +45.95% -11.90%
75th Percentile - £688 £600
90th Percentile - - £800
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +2.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Spark SQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,887 4,781 9,514
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.15% 19.06% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,125 3,489 6,911
10th Percentile £356 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 83 83
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.20 £19.20
25th Percentile £22.61 £41.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +39.28% +50.55%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £60.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -33.13% +39.80% +59.07%

Spark SQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spark SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Spark SQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spark SQL.

Spark SQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 Spark
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) dbt
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Big Data
1 5 (83.33%) Delta Lake
2 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (33.33%) Data Hub
4 1 (16.67%) Azkaban
4 1 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) RStudio
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) PySpark
2 2 (33.33%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Scala
3 3 (50.00%) R
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Databricks
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Bloomberg