Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Apache Spark SQL
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.033% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £500 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +11.11% -16.28% -11.89%

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 534 410 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.44% 15.54% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 260 291
10th Percentile £362 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £386 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £31.15 £18.28 £11.39
25th Percentile £33.88 £20.19 £11.67
Median hourly rate £34.98 £28.22 £17.05
Median % change year-on-year +23.98% +65.46% -7.82%
75th Percentile £36.00 £34.20 £25.56
90th Percentile £56.40 £34.68 £28.85
England median hourly rate £44.25 £33.93 £47.90
% change year-on-year +30.42% -29.16% -0.10%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spark SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Spark SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Spark SQL

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 20 November 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 £600 -
Spark SQL
England

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks