Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in the South West

Apache Spark SQL
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.053% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £530 - -
England median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -16.67%

All Database & BI Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 367 215 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.79% 10.99% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 150 244
10th Percentile £334 £312 £366
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £523
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.09% -5.00%
75th Percentile £631 £575 £625
90th Percentile £738 £650 £683
England median daily rate £505 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 15 15
10th Percentile £14.85 £27.15 -
25th Percentile £19.25 - £17.50
Median hourly rate £41.71 £65.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.83% +116.67% -60.00%
75th Percentile £54.20 £70.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £63.06 £74.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £44.25 £36.25
% change year-on-year -12.99% +22.07% -34.09%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in the South West

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Spark SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Spark SQL

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spark SQL in the South West over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spark SQL in the South West

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Somerset - 1 £350 - 1
Wiltshire - 1 £500 -
Spark SQL
England

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (50.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modeller
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) ETL Development
2 1 (50.00%) Lakehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks