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 12 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 492 550
Rank change year-on-year -95 +58 +53
Contract jobs citing Spanish Language 63 33 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the General category 0.23% 0.18% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 15
10th Percentile £337 £307 £216
25th Percentile £366 £451 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% +13.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £554 £583 £675
90th Percentile £588 £664 £805
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 - £501
% change year-on-year - - +17.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 4
10th Percentile £13.27 £18.85 £12.80
25th Percentile £13.31 £18.93 £14.22
Median hourly rate £14.36 £30.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.13% +100.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £20.25 £37.50 £16.69
90th Percentile £28.35 £41.50 £19.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.22 £18.85 £15.00
% change year-on-year -24.56% +25.67% +20.00%

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 26,971 18,680 24,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.96% 63.47% 57.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,300 11,794 15,684
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 864 2,007
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.46 £12.78
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.67 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -6.02%
75th Percentile £61.18 £55.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.03 £75.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.16 £24.42 £28.46
% change year-on-year +27.58% -14.20% +3.49%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -82 61 £410 -25.45% 39
UK excluding London -63 31 £363 - 20
London -62 22 £404 -16.46% 23
Work from Home -51 14 £445 -6.32% 16
North of England -58 14 £363 - 10
South East -60 13 - - 4
North West -21 11 £115 - 4
East of England -22 3 - - 1
North East - 2 £363 -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 6
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:

Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Temenos T24
2 2 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.59%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.59%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.59%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.59%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.59%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.59%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.94%) Azure
2 4 (6.35%) GCP
3 3 (4.76%) AWS
4 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.17%) Google Workspace
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.59%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.59%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (1.59%) Google Sheets
5 1 (1.59%) Meta Ads
5 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) Firewall
2 3 (4.76%) BGP
2 3 (4.76%) IPsec
3 2 (3.17%) DMZ
3 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.17%) VPN
4 1 (1.59%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.17%) MySQL
1 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.17%) Power BI
1 2 (3.17%) Redis
2 1 (1.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 27 (42.86%) French Language
2 26 (41.27%) Social Skills
3 20 (31.75%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (25.40%) Italian Language
5 14 (22.22%) Finance
5 14 (22.22%) Retail
6 13 (20.63%) Portuguese Language
7 11 (17.46%) Banking
8 10 (15.87%) Investment Banking
9 9 (14.29%) German Language
10 7 (11.11%) Financial Institution
10 7 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (7.94%) Legal
12 3 (4.76%) Marketing
13 2 (3.17%) Front Office
13 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
14 1 (1.59%) Advertising
14 1 (1.59%) Dutch Language
14 1 (1.59%) Hungarian Language
14 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (20.63%) 2nd Line Support
1 13 (20.63%) 2nd Line Technical Support
1 13 (20.63%) Technical Support
2 8 (12.70%) Analyst
3 6 (9.52%) Desktop Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) Desktop Support
3 6 (9.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) Developer
3 6 (9.52%) Senior
3 6 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) Consultant
4 4 (6.35%) Help Desk Analyst
4 4 (6.35%) IT Analyst
4 4 (6.35%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.35%) Senior Manager
5 3 (4.76%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Performance Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Performance Reporting Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) Laravel
1 2 (3.17%) RESTful
1 2 (3.17%) Twig
2 1 (1.59%) Kafka
2 1 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.59%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 6 (9.52%) Hedge funds
3 3 (4.76%) Derivative
4 2 (3.17%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.59%) CMDB
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.59%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (36.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.27%) Customer Service
2 20 (31.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (22.22%) Customer Experience
5 11 (17.46%) Agile
6 9 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (9.52%) Asset Management
7 6 (9.52%) ITIL
8 5 (7.94%) Change Control
8 5 (7.94%) Change Management
9 4 (6.35%) AI
9 4 (6.35%) Data Modelling
9 4 (6.35%) DevOps
9 4 (6.35%) Project Management
10 3 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (4.76%) Incident Management
10 3 (4.76%) PRINCE2
10 3 (4.76%) Product Marketing
10 3 (4.76%) Programme Delivery
10 3 (4.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.63%) SQL
2 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.17%) ABAP
3 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.17%) PHP
4 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.59%) Korn
4 1 (1.59%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 3 (4.76%) APMP
3 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (3.17%) MCSA
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) PMO
3 1 (1.59%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) WSUS
2 2 (3.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (20.63%) ServiceNow
2 5 (7.94%) SAP
3 3 (4.76%) Google
3 3 (4.76%) jBASE
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 3 (4.76%) Reuters
3 3 (4.76%) Temenos
4 2 (3.17%) Ariba
4 2 (3.17%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.17%) Citrix
4 2 (3.17%) ION Trading
4 2 (3.17%) Planview
4 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.59%) IFS
5 1 (1.59%) Splunk