Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Apache Spark SQL
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 2.33% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £417 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - -
75th Percentile £442 - -
90th Percentile £447 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £431 £375 -
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -

All Database & BI Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 11 9 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 12.79% 14.29% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 11
10th Percentile £306 £268 £325
25th Percentile £356 £331 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £375
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% -26.47%
75th Percentile £459 £550 £463
90th Percentile £575 £565 £525
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £48.75 £18.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +170.83% -55.56% +64.47%

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 5 April 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
Uttoxeter - 2 £431 -
Spark SQL
West Midlands

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft