Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark SQL
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.046% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £550 - -

All Database & BI Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 279 271 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.73% 16.04% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 176 232
10th Percentile £317 £325 £315
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £653
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 20
10th Percentile - £34.67 £22.40
25th Percentile - £41.25 £30.35
Median hourly rate - £63.15 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £64.95 £67.50
90th Percentile - £65.62 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £63.15 £52.78
% change year-on-year -41.41% +19.65% +32.77%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Oxfordshire - 1 £550 - 4
Spark SQL
South East

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft