Spark SQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark SQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 348 432
Rank change year-on-year -9 +84 +80
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 6 23 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.12% 0.009%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.26% 0.94% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 2
10th Percentile £418 £316 -
25th Percentile £434 £323 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £389 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.11% -35.17% +83.21%
75th Percentile £498 £450 -
90th Percentile £504 £888 -
UK median daily rate £475 £430 £575
% change year-on-year +10.47% -25.22% -4.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,315 2,443 3,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.23% 13.23% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,530 1,666 2,273
10th Percentile £300 £313 £336
25th Percentile £385 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £541
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.95% -1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 68 107
10th Percentile £18.47 £13.63 £21.05
25th Percentile £21.07 £17.50 £28.55
Median hourly rate £31.64 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% -42.86% +50.00%
75th Percentile £63.13 £60.36 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.28 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.41% -35.45% +35.04%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Spark SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Spark SQL in the UK excluding London

Spark SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spark SQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Spark SQL in the UK excluding London

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
South East - 4 £459 - 2
Yorkshire -20 1 - - 1
North of England -27 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
Midlands - 1 £475 -
Spark SQL
UK

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (83.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (50.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (33.33%) Big Data
3 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (33.33%) MySQL
3 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (16.67%) HBase
4 1 (16.67%) Impala
4 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Big Data Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Hadoop Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
1 4 (66.67%) PySpark
2 2 (33.33%) JDBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ETL
2 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Collection
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Security
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks