Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Apache Spark SQL
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.12% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £535 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 - -
75th Percentile £555 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £545 - £339

All Database & BI Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 149 152 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.46% 23.00% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 89 102
10th Percentile £355 £395 £363
25th Percentile £413 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £454
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +7.44% -7.40%
75th Percentile £519 £525 £542
90th Percentile £643 £591 £656
Scotland median daily rate £425 £472 £450
% change year-on-year -9.96% +4.89% -8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £64.00 - -
90th Percentile £65.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £20.62
% change year-on-year -9.09% +166.80% -41.10%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
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%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft