Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Apache Spark SQL
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.60% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £550 - -

All Database & BI Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 10 13 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 6.02% 14.44% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 18
10th Percentile £293 £323 £233
25th Percentile £350 £406 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £419 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -14.10% +1.83%
75th Percentile £475 £556 £569
90th Percentile £610 £700 £606
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £32.32
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.92%
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £63.15 £52.78
% change year-on-year -41.41% +19.65% +32.77%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
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
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft