Spanish Language Contract Job Trends

Spanish Language
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Spanish Language in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spanish Language over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 491 538
Rank change year-on-year -94 +47 +53
Contract jobs citing Spanish Language 56 32 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the General category 0.21% 0.18% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 16
10th Percentile £298 £424 £216
25th Percentile £363 £446 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £401
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +30.84% -19.75%
75th Percentile £528 £578 £600
90th Percentile £588 £683 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 - £453
% change year-on-year - - +6.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £13.30 £18.85 £12.80
25th Percentile - £18.93 £14.22
Median hourly rate £13.33 £30.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.57% +100.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £24.75 £37.50 £16.69
90th Percentile £38.15 £41.50 £19.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.33 £18.85 £15.00
% change year-on-year -29.28% +25.67% +25.00%

All General Skills
UK

Spanish Language falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 26,317 18,236 24,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.80% 63.42% 57.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,939 11,561 15,577
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £760 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,743 807 1,967
10th Percentile £13.76 £13.50 £12.77
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.79 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £24.28 £28.13
% change year-on-year +19.46% -13.69% +2.27%

Spanish Language
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spanish Language relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Spanish Language job vacancy trend in the UK

Spanish Language
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spanish Language.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spanish Language

Spanish Language
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spanish Language over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spanish Language in the UK

Spanish Language
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spanish Language.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spanish Language

Spanish Language
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spanish Language over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spanish Language in the UK

Spanish Language
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spanish Language within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 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
England -95 54 £390 -32.47% 26
UK excluding London -79 28 £363 - 16
London -68 22 £382 -25.17% 12
Work from Home -33 12 £410 -9.39% 12
North of England -62 12 £363 - 6
South East -42 10 - - 7
North West -25 9 £115 - 3
East of England -26 5 - - 1
North East - 2 £363 -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 3
Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

Spanish Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (1.79%) CMS
1 1 (1.79%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.14%) Azure
2 3 (5.36%) GCP
3 2 (3.57%) AWS
3 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.57%) Google Workspace
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.79%) Figma
4 1 (1.79%) Google Ads
4 1 (1.79%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (1.79%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.79%) Meta Ads
4 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (3.57%) BGP
2 2 (3.57%) DMZ
2 2 (3.57%) IPsec
2 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.57%) VPN
3 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.79%) MySQL
2 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.79%) Git
General
1 24 (42.86%) French Language
2 22 (39.29%) Social Skills
3 15 (26.79%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (25.00%) Italian Language
5 12 (21.43%) Finance
6 11 (19.64%) Portuguese Language
6 11 (19.64%) Retail
7 10 (17.86%) German Language
8 9 (16.07%) Banking
9 8 (14.29%) Investment Banking
10 5 (8.93%) Financial Institution
10 5 (8.93%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (7.14%) Legal
11 4 (7.14%) Marketing
12 2 (3.57%) Advertising
12 2 (3.57%) Front Office
12 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
13 1 (1.79%) Dutch Language
13 1 (1.79%) Games
13 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) 2nd Line Support
1 10 (17.86%) 2nd Line Technical Support
1 10 (17.86%) Technical Support
2 8 (14.29%) Analyst
3 5 (8.93%) Senior
4 4 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Desktop Support
4 4 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Developer
4 4 (7.14%) Help Desk Adviser
4 4 (7.14%) Help Desk Analyst
4 4 (7.14%) IT Analyst
4 4 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 4 (7.14%) Senior Manager
4 4 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) Consultant
6 2 (3.57%) Operations Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) Kafka
1 1 (1.79%) Laravel
1 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (1.79%) RESTful
1 1 (1.79%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.14%) Hedge funds
3 3 (5.36%) Derivative
4 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.79%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.79%) CMDB
5 1 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.79%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (32.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) Customer Service
2 15 (26.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (19.64%) Customer Experience
5 10 (17.86%) Agile
6 8 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (8.93%) Change Control
7 5 (8.93%) Change Management
7 5 (8.93%) ITIL
8 4 (7.14%) AI
8 4 (7.14%) Asset Management
8 4 (7.14%) Process Improvement
8 4 (7.14%) Project Management
9 3 (5.36%) Business Transformation
9 3 (5.36%) Data Modelling
9 3 (5.36%) DevOps
9 3 (5.36%) Line Management
9 3 (5.36%) PRINCE2
9 3 (5.36%) Programme Management
9 3 (5.36%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.86%) SQL
2 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.79%) Korn
4 1 (1.79%) PHP
4 1 (1.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) APMP
3 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (3.57%) MCSA
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) PMO
1 2 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (8.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) WSUS
2 2 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (17.86%) ServiceNow
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.36%) Google
3 3 (5.36%) jBASE
3 3 (5.36%) Reuters
3 3 (5.36%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.36%) SAP
3 3 (5.36%) Temenos
4 2 (3.57%) Ariba
4 2 (3.57%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.57%) Citrix
4 2 (3.57%) ION Trading
4 2 (3.57%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.57%) Planview
5 1 (1.79%) IFS
5 1 (1.79%) Splunk