Sparx Contracts in England

Sparx
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Sparx products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sparx over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sparx Systems.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 470 533
Rank change year-on-year -15 +63 +120
Contract jobs citing Sparx 22 58 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.079% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.17% 0.40% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 47 49
10th Percentile - £450 £545
25th Percentile £513 £469 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -17.24% +8.21%
75th Percentile £733 £738 £764
90th Percentile £738 £825 £795
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £725
% change year-on-year -4.17% -17.24% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 19
10th Percentile - £56.67 £55.05
25th Percentile - £56.94 £56.49
Median hourly rate - £57.44 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year - +0.19% -4.45%
75th Percentile - £61.75 £70.00
90th Percentile - £64.30 £80.00
UK median hourly rate - £57.44 £57.33
% change year-on-year - +0.19% -4.45%

All Vendors
England

Sparx falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,072 14,516 19,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.21% 43.64% 43.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,265 9,258 12,966
10th Percentile £275 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £716 £734 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 659 754 568
10th Percentile £14.69 £13.69 £15.15
25th Percentile £17.52 £15.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -14.29% +55.56%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.60 £58.88
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.25 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -13.28% -26.77% +80.00%

Sparx
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Sparx in England

Sparx
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Sparx in England

Sparx
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sparx in England over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sparx in England

Sparx
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sparx in England.

Hourly rate trend for Sparx in England

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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 Sparx within the England region over the 6 months to 15 August 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 -3 15 £600 +4.35% 13
South East +21 5 £675 +5.88% 6
South West +23 2 £538 -13.31% 13
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Sparx
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 3 (13.64%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Smallworld
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (59.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Snowflake
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.09%) Collibra
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (27.27%) Metadata
3 5 (22.73%) Data Lake
4 3 (13.64%) Apache Hive
4 3 (13.64%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (13.64%) Power BI
4 3 (13.64%) Tableau
5 2 (9.09%) Data Vault
5 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 2 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (9.09%) Star Schema
6 1 (4.55%) Big Data
6 1 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (4.55%) GIS
6 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.55%) OLAP
6 1 (4.55%) OLTP
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) ERwin
2 2 (9.09%) MSI
3 1 (4.55%) PowerDesigner
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Architect
2 7 (31.82%) Data Modeller
3 5 (22.73%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Data Architect
5 3 (13.64%) Data Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 3 (13.64%) Security Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.09%) SQL Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) SQL Data Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Data Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Management Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Taxonomies
2 2 (9.09%) Life Science
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Data Modelling
2 9 (40.91%) Data Architecture
3 8 (36.36%) Logical Data Model
4 7 (31.82%) Data Governance
4 7 (31.82%) Physical Data Model
4 7 (31.82%) TOGAF
5 6 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (22.73%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (18.18%) Conceptual Models
7 4 (18.18%) Data Management
7 4 (18.18%) Data Strategy
7 4 (18.18%) ETL
7 4 (18.18%) Metadata Management
7 4 (18.18%) Ontologies
7 4 (18.18%) UML
8 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (13.64%) Data Flow Diagram
8 3 (13.64%) Migration
8 3 (13.64%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) Magik
3 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.64%) GDPR
3 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (9.09%) NIST
4 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.55%) GxP
4 1 (4.55%) IFRS
4 1 (4.55%) IFRS 9
4 1 (4.55%) ISO 20022
4 1 (4.55%) MiFID
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Workday
3 1 (4.55%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) Informatica