SPARQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

SPARQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SPARQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SPARQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 - 459
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SPARQL 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% - 0.012%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.16% - 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £390 - £455
25th Percentile £414 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £650
75th Percentile £469 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £463 - £610
% change year-on-year - - -12.86%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

SPARQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

SPARQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SPARQL in the UK excluding London

SPARQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SPARQL in the UK excluding London

SPARQL
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 SPARQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West - 6 £463 -
North of England - 6 £463 -
SPARQL
UK

SPARQL
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) dbt
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Neptune
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Airbyte
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Scala Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Analytics
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (66.67%) Digital Twin
1 4 (66.67%) ETL
1 4 (66.67%) Open Source
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) RDF
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes