Spark SQL Contracts in the North of England

Apache Spark SQL
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Spark SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spark SQL over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 - 241
Rank change year-on-year - - -60
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.063% - 0.028%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.45% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £405 - -
25th Percentile £413 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £438 - £638
90th Percentile £445 - -
England median daily rate £550 £688 £613
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.24% +11.36%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

Spark SQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 671 873 1,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.16% 14.88% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 630 979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £647 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 45
10th Percentile £11.50 £35.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.44 £39.90 £17.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £49.29 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.77% +79.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile - £65.10 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £41.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +41.18% +66.00%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Spark SQL in the North of England

Spark SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spark SQL in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Spark SQL in the North of England

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire - 3 £425 - 1
Spark SQL
England

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Hive
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Scala
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudera