Sparx Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Sparx
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 14 April 2026, 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
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 114 -
Rank change year-on-year -60 - -
Contract jobs citing Sparx 8 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.20% 0.10% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.42% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £398 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile £663 - -
England median daily rate £700 £600 £725
% change year-on-year +16.67% -17.24% +11.54%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,894 894 1,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 46.36% 46.66% 42.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 605 738
10th Percentile £263 £200 £213
25th Percentile £388 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +1.05% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £698
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 36 81
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.59 £10.93
25th Percentile £16.28 £13.81 £12.75
Median hourly rate £24.41 £18.36 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year +33.00% +17.62% -21.98%
75th Percentile £34.42 £29.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £74.00 £33.38 £45.50
England median hourly rate £27.80 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.32% +27.78% -41.56%

Sparx
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Sparx job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Sparx
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Sparx

Sparx
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sparx in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sparx in the Midlands

Sparx
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 Sparx within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 April 2026. 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
West Midlands -58 5 £625 -3.85% 1
East Midlands - 3 £402 -
Sparx
England

Sparx
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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) Data Vault
2 1 (12.50%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ERwin
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modeller
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Business Design Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) ArchiMate
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (50.00%) BPMN
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) GAP Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Target Operating Model
3 3 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Financial Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (37.50%) Virgin Media