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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 353 389
Rank change year-on-year -50 +36 +90
Contract jobs citing SPARQL 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.011% 0.024% 0.011%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.035% 0.061% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £321 - -
25th Percentile £353 £449 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% - -
75th Percentile £478 £519 -
90th Percentile £514 £560 -
England median daily rate £462 £463 £533
% change year-on-year -0.05% -13.23% -7.30%

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 5,648 4,946 6,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.71% 39.33% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,802 3,489 4,897
10th Percentile £363 £380 £381
25th Percentile £431 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £834 £825
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 31 51
10th Percentile £32.66 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.25 £34.13 £40.79
Median hourly rate £58.94 £43.00 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +37.06% -16.91% -13.75%
75th Percentile £73.00 £60.13 £63.52
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SPARQL in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SPARQL in London

SPARQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Jena
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform