SPARQL Contract Job Trends in Scotland

SPARQL
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring SPARQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SPARQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.067% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £478 £450 £613
% change year-on-year +6.23% -26.61% -2.78%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

SPARQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 519 609 711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.93% 37.99% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 329 448
10th Percentile £323 £350 £400
25th Percentile £407 £409 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £511
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -8.15% +4.74%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £580 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 13
10th Percentile £52.63 £19.59 £30.80
25th Percentile £54.69 £21.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £59.36 £22.44 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +164.57% -62.91% +7.86%
75th Percentile £67.00 £31.88 £61.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.50 £77.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

SPARQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

SPARQL job vacancy trend in Scotland

SPARQL
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 SPARQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 January 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 - 1 - - 3
SPARQL
UK

SPARQL
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle