Sparx Contract Job Trends in London

Sparx
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of Sparx products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sparx over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sparx Systems.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 366 369
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 +118
Contract jobs citing Sparx 29 12 46
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.080% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.43% 0.18% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 37
10th Percentile £418 £389 £503
25th Percentile £513 £423 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -17.24% +16.56%
75th Percentile £674 £671 £738
90th Percentile £700 £750 £775
England median daily rate £680 £595 £672
% change year-on-year +14.29% -11.46% +8.04%

All Vendors
London

Sparx falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,793 6,591 7,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.15% 44.15% 40.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,423 4,113 5,199
10th Percentile £340 £313 £300
25th Percentile £424 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £761
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 69 105
10th Percentile £17.69 £19.66 £16.91
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% -8.00% +45.86%
75th Percentile £41.94 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £66.00 £83.10 £86.40
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.52 £45.94
% change year-on-year -23.00% -33.57% +74.25%

Sparx
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Sparx job vacancy trend in London

Sparx
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Sparx

Sparx
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sparx in London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sparx in London

Sparx
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Sparx.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Sparx

Sparx
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 Sparx within the London region over the 6 months to 23 December 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 £625 - 2
Sparx
England

Sparx
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (89.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) Snowflake
3 5 (17.24%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) Collibra
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) Metadata
2 8 (27.59%) Snowflake Schema
3 7 (24.14%) Data Vault
4 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.90%) Apache Hive
5 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
5 2 (6.90%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (3.45%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.45%) Power BI
6 1 (3.45%) Spatial Data
6 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (48.28%) ERwin
2 11 (37.93%) PowerDesigner
3 10 (34.48%) JIRA
4 7 (24.14%) ER Studio
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Data Modeller
2 10 (34.48%) Architect
3 6 (20.69%) Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Security Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Geospatial Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) JSON
1 2 (6.90%) XML
2 1 (3.45%) JAAS
2 1 (3.45%) JSSE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Data Structures
2 7 (24.14%) Reinsurance
3 5 (17.24%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (13.79%) Reference Data
5 3 (10.34%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (10.34%) Contract for Difference
5 3 (10.34%) Taxonomies
6 2 (6.90%) Wiki
7 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Data Modelling
2 12 (41.38%) Data Governance
2 12 (41.38%) Logical Data Model
3 11 (37.93%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) Conceptual Models
4 10 (34.48%) Physical Data Model
4 10 (34.48%) UML
5 8 (27.59%) TOGAF
6 7 (24.14%) Data Architecture
6 7 (24.14%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (24.14%) Metadata Management
6 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.69%) Analytics
7 6 (20.69%) Data Lineage
7 6 (20.69%) Data Transformation
7 6 (20.69%) Kanban
7 6 (20.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (20.69%) Scrum
8 5 (17.24%) Data Strategy
8 5 (17.24%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
2 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 7 (24.14%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (41.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) IFRS
2 1 (3.45%) IFRS 9
2 1 (3.45%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.45%) MiFID
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) BiZZdesign
2 2 (6.90%) IBM
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) WSO2