SPARQL Contract Job Trends in London

SPARQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London citing SPARQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 7 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	455	369	378
Rank change year-on-year	-86	+9	+43
Contract jobs citing SPARQL	13	2	3
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.064%	0.014%	0.019%
As % of the Programming Languages category	0.20%	0.037%	0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted	5	2	1
10^th Percentile	£513	£464	-
25^th Percentile	£575	£467	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£650	£478	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+36.13%	-4.50%	-18.37%
75^th Percentile	£725	£486	£550
90^th Percentile	£740	£487	-
England median daily rate	£638	£475	£508
% change year-on-year	+34.21%	-6.40%	-17.14%

All Programming Languages
London

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

	6 months to 7 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing coding skills	6,546	5,334	6,115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	32.21%	38.35%	39.03%
Number of daily rates quoted	4,488	3,584	4,184
10^th Percentile	£375	£370	£368
25^th Percentile	£440	£430	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£565
Median % change year-on-year	-	-2.65%	-3.83%
75^th Percentile	£668	£675	£700
90^th Percentile	£751	£800	£825
England median daily rate	£525	£514	£538
% change year-on-year	+2.14%	-4.37%	-2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted	51	70	40
10^th Percentile	£30.00	£22.99	£34.81
25^th Percentile	£36.25	£31.83	£40.06
Median hourly rate	£50.00	£44.95	£48.50
Median % change year-on-year	+11.24%	-7.32%	-11.82%
75^th Percentile	£58.13	£63.06	£69.31
90^th Percentile	£73.00	£87.50	£97.50
England median hourly rate	£65.00	£62.50	£65.00
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-3.85%	+4.00%

SPARQL Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SPARQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

SPARQL Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SPARQL.

SPARQL Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SPARQL in London over the 6 months to 7 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SPARQL in London

SPARQL Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 7 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing SPARQL also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing SPARQL.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	RDF	100.0%	13
2	AI	92.3%	12
3	Ontologies	84.6%	11
4	Neo4j	69.2%	9
4	Python	69.2%	9
6	Data Pipeline	61.5%	8
6	LLM	61.5%	8
8	Amazon Neptune	53.8%	7
8	Azure	53.8%	7
8	Data Engineering	53.8%	7
8	Stardog	53.8%	7
12	AI Transformation	46.2%	6
12	CI/CD	46.2%	6
12	Cypher	46.2%	6
12	Decision-Making	46.2%	6
12	Metadata	46.2%	6
12	SQL	46.2%	6
12	TigerGraph	46.2%	6
12	Workflow	46.2%	6
20	Accessibility	38.5%	5
20	AWS	38.5%	5
20	Data Quality	38.5%	5
20	ETL	38.5%	5
20	Fund Management	38.5%	5
20	Gremlin	38.5%	5
20	Information Management	38.5%	5
20	JSON	38.5%	5
20	JSON-LD	38.5%	5
20	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	38.5%	5
20	SHACL	38.5%	5

SPARQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	69.2%	9
2	Cypher	46.2%	6
2	SQL	46.2%	6
4	Gremlin	38.5%	5
4	SHACL	38.5%	5
6	Bash	23.1%	3
6	Shell Script	23.1%	3
8	Java	15.4%	2