Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Apache Spark SQL
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 115 137
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.063% 0.12% 0.042%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.31% 0.61% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £370 -
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £550
% change year-on-year +3.09% -11.82% -10.20%

All Database & BI Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 324 329 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.47% 20.05% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 210 311
10th Percentile £313 £322 £363
25th Percentile £375 £385 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £458 £483
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -5.28% -0.92%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile £30.25 - £18.93
25th Percentile £50.00 £19.59 £19.95
Median hourly rate £52.50 £23.05 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +127.82% +6.49% -27.87%
75th Percentile £64.00 £27.91 £37.70
90th Percentile £65.00 £28.19 £47.33
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £38.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +37.06% -9.87% -25.26%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in Scotland

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Spark SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Spark SQL

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. 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
Glasgow +6 1 - - 2
Spark SQL
UK

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 Data Factory
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks