SPARQL Contracts in England

SPARQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SPARQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SPARQL 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 476 - 637
Rank change year-on-year - - +107
Contract jobs citing SPARQL 9 0 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% - 0.032%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% - 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 13
10th Percentile £396 - £468
25th Percentile £449 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £469 - £645
90th Percentile £493 - £670
UK median daily rate £463 - £610
% change year-on-year - - -12.86%

All Programming Languages
England

SPARQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

SPARQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SPARQL in England

SPARQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SPARQL in England

SPARQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for SPARQL in England

SPARQL
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 SPARQL 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
North West - 6 £463 -
North of England - 6 £463 -
London - 3 £450 - 3
SPARQL
UK

SPARQL
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) dbt
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon Neptune
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Airbyte
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Scala Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Scala Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) RDF
2 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 6 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (66.67%) ETL
2 6 (66.67%) Open Source
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Digital Twin
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Release Management
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Scala
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes