Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in Reading

Apache Spark SQL
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.55% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £433 - -
90th Percentile £437 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £425 - -

All Database & BI Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 103 112 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 9.44% 18.95% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 77 129
10th Percentile £425 £435 £385
25th Percentile £493 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £638 £656 £663
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £517 £581
% change year-on-year +6.38% -11.02% +1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 8
10th Percentile £66.25 - £39.95
25th Percentile £73.63 - £48.18
Median hourly rate £82.41 - £61.60
75th Percentile £87.00 - -
90th Percentile £92.50 - £62.54
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.96 - £61.60
% change year-on-year - - -17.97%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in Reading

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Databricks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Military
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Financial Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Review
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Databricks