Spark SQL Contracts in London

Apache Spark SQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 370 461
Rank change year-on-year +29 +91 +101
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 9 34 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.071% 0.19% 0.044%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.33% 0.85% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 7
10th Percentile £424 £409 £442
25th Percentile £441 £435 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -13.04% -15.13%
75th Percentile £791 £575 £631
90th Percentile £796 £745 £680
England median daily rate £475 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +5.56% -25.00% -4.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,737 4,003 5,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.74% 22.78% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,918 2,983 3,682
10th Percentile £385 £375 £400
25th Percentile £449 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -2.54%
75th Percentile £713 £718 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 33 47
10th Percentile £24.80 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £39.31 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £61.19 £54.13 £82.75
90th Percentile £80.75 £71.40 £90.00
England median hourly rate £33.50 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.26% -30.43% +43.21%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Spark SQL in London

Spark SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Spark SQL in London

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spark SQL in London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spark SQL in London

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Central London +5 2 - - 6
West London - 1 £775 -
Spark SQL
England

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (55.56%) Apache Spark
2 3 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) dbt
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Run
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (11.11%) Prefect
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 6 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (33.33%) Apache Hive
2 3 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (11.11%) Big Data
4 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
4 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
4 1 (11.11%) Metadata
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) PySpark
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 3 (33.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Data Modelling
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (55.56%) ETL
4 4 (44.44%) Analytics
4 4 (44.44%) Data Science
4 4 (44.44%) Data Transformation
4 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 3 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (33.33%) Data Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (33.33%) Data Management
5 3 (33.33%) Use Case
6 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
7 1 (11.11%) Information Security
7 1 (11.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Foundry
1 4 (44.44%) Palantir
2 3 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) Google