Spark SQL Contracts in Central London

Apache Spark SQL
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 132 169
Rank change year-on-year +4 +37 +28
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.050% 0.041% 0.078%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.23% 0.19% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £719 £713 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% +31.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £756 £738 £575
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -15.16%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 426 530 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.33% 21.67% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 360 520
10th Percentile £404 £411 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £685 £696 £725
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
London median daily rate £552 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £30.18 - £43.13
25th Percentile £31.85 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £67.34 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.94 - -
London median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Spark SQL in Central London

Spark SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spark SQL in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Spark SQL in Central London

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +8 1 £738 +1.72%
Spark SQL
London

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Impala
1 1 (100.00%) Sqoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) HDFS