SPARQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SPARQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SPARQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 824 959 1187
Rank change year-on-year +135 +228 -291
Permanent jobs citing SPARQL 72 11 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.011% 0.029%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.22% 0.024% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile - £66,625 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £67,188 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £87,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +52.17% +13.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £103,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £110,500 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SPARQL.

Salary trend for SPARQL in the UK

SPARQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SPARQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SPARQL in the UK

SPARQL
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SPARQL within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +75 71 £60,000 -20.00% 1
Scotland +1 65 - -
England +110 7 £60,000 -40.00% 1
East of England +18 6 £60,000 -20.00% 1
Work from Home +93 3 £75,000 -14.29%
London +132 1 £75,000 -28.57%

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 4 (5.56%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 65 (90.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (90.28%) Metadata
2 4 (5.56%) GIS
2 4 (5.56%) Spatial Data
2 4 (5.56%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 67 (93.06%) Git
2 65 (90.28%) Artifactory
2 65 (90.28%) Bitbucket
2 65 (90.28%) Jenkins
General
1 67 (93.06%) Law
2 65 (90.28%) Finance
2 65 (90.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 65 (90.28%) Marketing
3 7 (9.72%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.56%) Local Government
5 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (93.06%) Software Engineer
2 65 (90.28%) Lead
2 65 (90.28%) Lead Software Engineer
3 42 (58.33%) Senior
3 42 (58.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (5.56%) Data Engineer
4 4 (5.56%) Data Science Engineer
5 1 (1.39%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (95.83%) RESTful
2 65 (90.28%) JSON
2 65 (90.28%) JSON-LD
2 65 (90.28%) LDAP
2 65 (90.28%) OpenID
2 65 (90.28%) SAML
2 65 (90.28%) Web Services
2 65 (90.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (95.83%) Reference Data
2 65 (90.28%) Enterprise Cloud
2 65 (90.28%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.56%) Linked Data
4 3 (4.17%) Semantic Web
5 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (98.61%) Software Engineering
2 70 (97.22%) Data Modelling
2 70 (97.22%) RDF
3 68 (94.44%) Ontologies
4 66 (91.67%) Test Automation
5 65 (90.28%) Agile
5 65 (90.28%) Architectural Design
5 65 (90.28%) CI/CD
5 65 (90.28%) Community of Practice
5 65 (90.28%) Continuous Delivery
5 65 (90.28%) Data Pipeline
5 65 (90.28%) Data Transformation
5 65 (90.28%) Identity Access Management
5 65 (90.28%) Information Architecture
5 65 (90.28%) Operational Stability
5 65 (90.28%) Roadmaps
5 65 (90.28%) SDLC
5 65 (90.28%) Use Case
6 5 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (5.56%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 65 (90.28%) Go
1 65 (90.28%) Prolog
2 3 (4.17%) Python
3 2 (2.78%) C#
3 2 (2.78%) Java
3 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.78%) SHACL
3 2 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (9.72%) Degree
2 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.39%) PhD
System Software
1 65 (90.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.78%) Interwoven