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 24 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 513 548
Rank change year-on-year -75 +35 +33
Contract jobs citing Spanish Language 77 42 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.091%
As % of the General category 0.27% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 16
10th Percentile £268 £388 £240
25th Percentile £378 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £466 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.46% -13.26% +7.50%
75th Percentile £569 £547 £550
90th Percentile £609 £596 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £320 £470 £550
% change year-on-year -31.91% -14.55% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 6
10th Percentile £13.54 £18.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £13.98 £21.01 £15.15
Median hourly rate £14.36 £35.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -58.97% +115.65% -0.55%
75th Percentile £20.25 £52.38 £16.85
90th Percentile £28.35 £54.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.22 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year -24.56% +16.14% +24.85%

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 28,964 20,559 23,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.88% 62.90% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,254 12,873 14,752
10th Percentile £313 £280 £282
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £493
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.67% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,043 1,074 1,616
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.36 £13.51
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.26 £16.29
Median hourly rate £33.00 £25.50 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -27.88% +15.78%
75th Percentile £61.18 £51.73 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.92 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £22.63 £35.36
% change year-on-year +48.03% -36.00% +36.00%

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 24 July 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 24 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spanish Language in the UK

Spanish Language
Top 11 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 24 July 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 -68 75 £418 -7.22% 42
UK excluding London -76 38 £320 -31.91% 21
London -71 31 £406 -2.99% 27
South East -49 16 - - 5
North of England - 15 £320 - 9
Work from Home -57 14 £408 -13.19% 23
North West - 14 £115 - 3
Midlands - 4 - -
West Midlands - 4 - -
East of England -19 3 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 6

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 3 (3.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Workfront
2 2 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.30%) Maximo
3 1 (1.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.30%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.30%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.30%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.30%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.30%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.30%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.49%) GCP
2 3 (3.90%) AWS
2 3 (3.90%) Azure
3 2 (2.60%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.30%) dbt
4 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.30%) Google Ads
4 1 (1.30%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (1.30%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.30%) Meta Ads
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) Firewall
2 3 (3.90%) BGP
2 3 (3.90%) IPsec
3 1 (1.30%) DMZ
3 1 (1.30%) Network Security
3 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.60%) MySQL
1 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.60%) Redis
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.30%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Git
1 1 (1.30%) JIRA
1 1 (1.30%) MLflow
General
1 37 (48.05%) French Language
2 32 (41.56%) Social Skills
3 25 (32.47%) Italian Language
4 23 (29.87%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (23.38%) Retail
6 16 (20.78%) Finance
6 16 (20.78%) German Language
7 14 (18.18%) Portuguese Language
8 11 (14.29%) Banking
8 11 (14.29%) Investment Banking
8 11 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (11.69%) Financial Institution
10 7 (9.09%) Legal
11 6 (7.79%) Dutch Language
12 4 (5.19%) Manufacturing
12 4 (5.19%) Marketing
13 3 (3.90%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (2.60%) Games
15 1 (1.30%) Advertising
15 1 (1.30%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 16 (20.78%) 2nd Line Support
1 16 (20.78%) 2nd Line Technical Support
1 16 (20.78%) Technical Support
2 9 (11.69%) Consultant
2 9 (11.69%) Desktop Engineer
2 9 (11.69%) Desktop Support
2 9 (11.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 9 (11.69%) Support Engineer
3 8 (10.39%) Senior
4 7 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 5 (6.49%) Analyst
6 4 (5.19%) Senior Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Field Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) IT Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) Senior Project Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Customer Service Advisor
8 2 (2.60%) ERP Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Help Desk Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.60%) Laravel
1 2 (2.60%) RESTful
1 2 (2.60%) Twig
2 1 (1.30%) Kafka
2 1 (1.30%) NumPy
2 1 (1.30%) Pandas
2 1 (1.30%) PySpark
2 1 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.30%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.30%) SciPy
2 1 (1.30%) Statsmodels
2 1 (1.30%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 9 (11.69%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.30%) CMDB
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.30%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (35.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 23 (29.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (28.57%) Customer Experience
4 21 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (11.69%) Asset Management
6 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (9.09%) AI
8 6 (7.79%) Agile
8 6 (7.79%) Change Management
9 5 (6.49%) Analytics
9 5 (6.49%) B2B
9 5 (6.49%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (6.49%) Project Management
9 5 (6.49%) Roadmaps
10 4 (5.19%) ITIL
10 4 (5.19%) Strategic Roadmap
10 4 (5.19%) Use Case
10 4 (5.19%) Workflow
11 3 (3.90%) Customer Engagement
11 3 (3.90%) Product Marketing
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.38%) SQL
2 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.60%) ABAP
3 2 (2.60%) PHP
3 2 (2.60%) Python
4 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) Degree
2 3 (3.90%) APMP
3 2 (2.60%) CIPD
4 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.30%) MCSA
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) GDPR
1 3 (3.90%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) WSUS
2 1 (1.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (20.78%) ServiceNow
2 4 (5.19%) Google
2 4 (5.19%) SAP
3 3 (3.90%) Adobe
3 3 (3.90%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle
4 2 (2.60%) Reuters
4 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.60%) Workday
5 1 (1.30%) Ariba
5 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.30%) Citrix
5 1 (1.30%) Databricks
5 1 (1.30%) IBM
5 1 (1.30%) IFS
5 1 (1.30%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.30%) Splunk
5 1 (1.30%) Tenable