SPARQL Contract Job Trends in London

SPARQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SPARQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 381 431
Rank change year-on-year +21 +50 +136
Contract jobs citing SPARQL 2 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.015% 0.018% 0.041%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.039% 0.046% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £464 - £538
25th Percentile £467 £450 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -18.37% -8.58%
75th Percentile £486 £550 £642
90th Percentile £487 - £696
England median daily rate £438 £533 £613
% change year-on-year -17.92% -12.98% -8.58%

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 requiring coding skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,186 6,553 8,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.57% 40.23% 37.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,566 4,698 6,182
10th Percentile £372 £364 £400
25th Percentile £426 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 42 72
10th Percentile £26.71 £25.32 £25.80
25th Percentile £33.25 £33.99 £39.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -20.83% +13.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.45 £72.13
90th Percentile £87.00 £78.50 £86.40
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%

SPARQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SPARQL in London

SPARQL
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SPARQL

SPARQL
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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) Luigi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Neo4j
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Informatics
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Health Informatics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality