Spark SQL Contracts in the South East

Apache Spark SQL
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Spark SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spark SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £430 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 - -
75th Percentile £485 - -
90th Percentile £499 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -2.04%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 411 608 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.65% 10.94% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 374 606
10th Percentile £333 £319 £317
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £684
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 39
10th Percentile £23.24 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.40 £21.55 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%
75th Percentile £49.38 £67.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £76.44
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Spark SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Spark SQL in the South East

Spark SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spark SQL in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Spark SQL in the South East

Spark SQL
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 Spark SQL within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Berkshire - 4 £459 -
Thames Valley - 4 £459 -
Spark SQL
England

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (50.00%) Big Data
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) PySpark
2 2 (50.00%) JDBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL