Spark SQL Contracts in England

Apache Spark SQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 471 519 639
Rank change year-on-year +48 +120 +105
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 14 23 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.062% 0.028%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.30% 0.37% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 9
10th Percentile £363 £458 £525
25th Percentile £434 £488 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £641 £694 £688
90th Percentile £788 £755 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Spark SQL in England

Spark SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Spark SQL in England

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spark SQL in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spark SQL in England

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +28 8 £500 -9.09% 20
South East - 4 £459 - 3
Midlands - 2 £425 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £375 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
Spark SQL
UK

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (57.14%) Apache Spark
2 4 (28.57%) Apache
3 2 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) dbt
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (35.71%) Apache Hive
2 5 (35.71%) Big Data
2 5 (35.71%) Data Lake
2 5 (35.71%) Hadoop
3 4 (28.57%) MongoDB
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (21.43%) BigQuery
4 3 (21.43%) Impala
5 2 (14.29%) MySQL
5 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 2 (14.29%) Sqoop
6 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (7.14%) HBase
6 1 (7.14%) Metadata
6 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Big Data Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Hadoop Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (78.57%) PySpark
2 4 (28.57%) Kafka
3 2 (14.29%) JDBC
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.14%) boto
4 1 (7.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (85.71%) ETL
3 9 (64.29%) Data Engineering
4 6 (42.86%) Data Integration
5 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (28.57%) Agile
6 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
6 4 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (21.43%) Data Management
7 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
7 3 (21.43%) Data Science
7 3 (21.43%) Data Security
7 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
7 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
8 2 (14.29%) High Availability
8 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
2 12 (85.71%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
4 2 (14.29%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) SAP