Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Apache Spark SQL
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.33% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.68% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £433 - -
90th Percentile £437 - -
South East median daily rate £425 - -

All Database & BI Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 163 207 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.06% 16.98% 17.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 137 166
10th Percentile £349 £406 £390
25th Percentile £450 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £517 £581
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -11.02% +1.04%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £638 £650 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 16
10th Percentile £31.11 - £31.00
25th Percentile £66.44 - £46.45
Median hourly rate £81.96 - £61.60
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.97%
75th Percentile £86.13 - -
90th Percentile £92.13 - £64.73
South East median hourly rate £38.25 £13.50 £51.59
% change year-on-year +183.33% -73.83% +5.29%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spark SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. 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
Reading - 6 £425 - 2
Spark SQL
South East

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Databricks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Military
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Financial Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Review
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Databricks