Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Apache Spark SQL
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.41% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £518 £450 £540
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% -10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 35 41 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.52% 21.24% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 18
10th Percentile £374 £415 £185
25th Percentile £400 £463 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year +9.21% -3.80% -1.25%
75th Percentile £645 £538 £500
90th Percentile £826 £560 £516
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £12.08
25th Percentile - - £13.55
Median hourly rate - £22.48 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - +40.50% -
75th Percentile - - £16.06
90th Percentile - - £16.10
UK median hourly rate £47.61 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +50.93% -31.69% -7.64%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 5 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
County Antrim - 1 £463 -
Spark SQL
UK

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Impala
1 1 (100.00%) Sqoop
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) HDFS