Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Apache Spark SQL
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 79 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.14% 0.25% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.53% 1.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £370 -
Scotland median daily rate - £370 -

All Database & BI Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 187 161 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.79% 20.28% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 107 120
10th Percentile £313 £319 £313
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £498 £538
90th Percentile £570 £589 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £458 £483
% change year-on-year -1.64% -5.28% -0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £36.50 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £19.59 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.95% -62.69% +50.00%
75th Percentile £46.25 £23.67 £53.75
90th Percentile £48.50 £26.12 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £23.05 £21.64
% change year-on-year +127.82% +6.49% -27.87%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Spark SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Spark SQL

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks