Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Apache Spark SQL
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.30% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £625 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 35 37 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 10.54% 17.13% 19.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 24
10th Percentile £361 £345 £304
25th Percentile £419 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £463 £420
Median % change year-on-year +17.57% +10.12% -23.64%
75th Percentile £728 £576 £491
90th Percentile £750 £647 £540
North East median daily rate £544 £475 £443
% change year-on-year +14.47% +7.34% -19.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £36.00 - £46.18
% change year-on-year - - -5.76%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Spark SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Spark SQL

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £625 - 1
Spark SQL
North East

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
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