Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in the North East

Apache Spark SQL
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.27% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £450 £539
% change year-on-year +16.67% -16.47% -10.21%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 42 45 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 11.14% 14.71% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £366 £349 £363
25th Percentile £425 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year +9.21% +8.08% -20.09%
75th Percentile £659 £587 £543
90th Percentile £750 £642 £591
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.76%
England median hourly rate £45.00 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +18.42% -17.71% -7.73%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in the North East

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £625 - 1
Spark SQL
England

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
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%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks