Spanish Language Contract Job Trends in the South East

Spanish Language
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Spanish Language in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spanish Language over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 161 169
Rank change year-on-year -46 +8 +41
Contract jobs citing Spanish Language 17 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.26% 0.057% 0.15%
As % of the General category 0.49% 0.098% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £404
25th Percentile £463 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.00%
75th Percentile £488 - £550
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £416 £445
% change year-on-year +20.19% -6.52% -15.24%

All General Skills
South East

Spanish Language falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,488 2,043 2,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.74% 58.67% 51.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,809 1,278 1,324
10th Percentile £263 £200 £213
25th Percentile £413 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £608
90th Percentile £725 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 183 183
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £17.04 £14.42 £27.38
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +98.73% -67.10% +9.24%
75th Percentile £67.50 £40.83 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.32 £77.00 £77.40
England median hourly rate £30.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +22.86% -34.02% +27.07%

Spanish Language
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spanish Language relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Spanish Language job vacancy trend in the South East

Spanish Language
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spanish Language.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spanish Language

Spanish Language
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spanish Language.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spanish Language

Spanish Language
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spanish Language within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Hampshire -17 16 - - 1
Berkshire -26 1 £475 - 3
Thames Valley -42 1 £475 - 5
Spanish Language
England

Spanish Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (5.88%) CICS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (94.12%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (94.12%) French Language
1 16 (94.12%) Retail
1 16 (94.12%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Banking
2 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) 2nd Line Support
1 16 (94.12%) 2nd Line Technical Support
1 16 (94.12%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
1 1 (5.88%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (94.12%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (94.12%) Customer Experience
2 16 (94.12%) Customer Service
3 1 (5.88%) Agile
3 1 (5.88%) API Integration
3 1 (5.88%) Batch Processing
3 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity
3 1 (5.88%) Capacity Management
3 1 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (5.88%) Change Management
3 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
3 1 (5.88%) Database Security
3 1 (5.88%) DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) COBOL
2 1 (5.88%) JCL
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) RACF
1 1 (5.88%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Broadcom
1 1 (5.88%) IBM