Spark SQL Contracts in the Midlands

Apache Spark SQL
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £373 - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile £478 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -2.04%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 416 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 15.09% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 308 412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.53
25th Percentile £17.00 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.87% -26.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £27.49 £32.93
90th Percentile £20.90 £40.50 £47.54
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Spark SQL in the Midlands

Spark SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Spark SQL in the Midlands

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
West Midlands - 1 £375 - 1
Spark SQL
England

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) HBase
1 1 (50.00%) Impala
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks