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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 493 544
Rank change year-on-year -94 +51 +60
Contract jobs citing Spanish Language 66 38 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the General category 0.24% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 15
10th Percentile £288 £383 £236
25th Percentile £373 £408 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £563 £563 £631
90th Percentile £599 £605 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £320 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 4
10th Percentile £13.54 £18.85 £12.80
25th Percentile £13.98 £19.00 £14.22
Median hourly rate £14.36 £35.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.97% +133.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £20.25 £47.50 £15.46
90th Percentile £28.35 £54.00 £16.29
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 27,713 19,217 24,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.46% 63.53% 57.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,696 12,097 15,544
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £490
% change year-on-year +6.61% -4.29% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,891 928 1,984
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.43 £12.79
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.35 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.45 £31.89
Median % change year-on-year +16.58% -13.91% +6.28%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.06 £72.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £23.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +36.96% -26.40% +22.07%

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 26 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 26 June 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 26 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 -93 63 £425 -5.56% 31
UK excluding London -85 33 £320 - 19
London -66 23 £404 -3.00% 18
South East -43 16 - - 3
Work from Home -52 15 £445 -6.32% 12
North of England -54 13 £320 - 7
North West -32 12 £115 - 2
East of England -29 3 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 5
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 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (3.03%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.52%) Maximo
2 1 (1.52%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.52%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.52%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.52%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.52%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.52%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (1.52%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.06%) Azure
1 4 (6.06%) GCP
2 3 (4.55%) AWS
3 2 (3.03%) Google Workspace
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.52%) Google Ads
4 1 (1.52%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (1.52%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.52%) Meta Ads
4 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) BGP
2 3 (4.55%) IPsec
3 2 (3.03%) DMZ
3 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.03%) VPN
4 1 (1.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.03%) MySQL
1 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.03%) Redis
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.52%) Power BI
2 1 (1.52%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.52%) Git
General
1 31 (46.97%) French Language
2 29 (43.94%) Social Skills
3 23 (34.85%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (27.27%) Retail
5 17 (25.76%) Italian Language
6 14 (21.21%) Finance
6 14 (21.21%) Portuguese Language
7 11 (16.67%) Banking
8 10 (15.15%) German Language
8 10 (15.15%) Investment Banking
9 8 (12.12%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (10.61%) Financial Institution
11 5 (7.58%) Legal
12 4 (6.06%) Manufacturing
12 4 (6.06%) Marketing
13 3 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (3.03%) Dutch Language
14 2 (3.03%) Front Office
15 1 (1.52%) Advertising
15 1 (1.52%) Hungarian Language
Job Titles
1 16 (24.24%) 2nd Line Support
1 16 (24.24%) 2nd Line Technical Support
1 16 (24.24%) Technical Support
2 8 (12.12%) Analyst
3 7 (10.61%) Senior
4 6 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
4 6 (9.09%) Desktop Support
4 6 (9.09%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 6 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Developer
5 5 (7.58%) IT Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Consultant
6 4 (6.06%) Help Desk Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.06%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Project Manager
8 2 (3.03%) Customer Service Advisor
8 2 (3.03%) Operations Manager
8 2 (3.03%) PHP Developer
9 1 (1.52%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) Laravel
1 2 (3.03%) RESTful
1 2 (3.03%) Twig
2 1 (1.52%) Kafka
2 1 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.52%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 6 (9.09%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.03%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.03%) Derivative
3 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.52%) CMDB
4 1 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.52%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (39.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.97%) Customer Service
2 22 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (30.30%) Customer Experience
5 10 (15.15%) Agile
6 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (9.09%) Asset Management
7 6 (9.09%) Change Management
7 6 (9.09%) ITIL
8 5 (7.58%) AI
8 5 (7.58%) Project Management
9 4 (6.06%) Change Control
10 3 (4.55%) Business Transformation
10 3 (4.55%) Commercial Awareness
10 3 (4.55%) DevOps
10 3 (4.55%) Line Management
10 3 (4.55%) Presales
10 3 (4.55%) Programme Delivery
10 3 (4.55%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (4.55%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.76%) SQL
2 5 (7.58%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.03%) ABAP
3 2 (3.03%) PHP
4 1 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.52%) Korn
4 1 (1.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) Degree
2 3 (4.55%) APMP
3 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (3.03%) MCSA
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
2 1 (1.52%) GRC
2 1 (1.52%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (10.61%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) WSUS
2 2 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (21.21%) ServiceNow
2 5 (7.58%) SAP
3 3 (4.55%) Google
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.55%) Palo Alto
3 3 (4.55%) Reuters
4 2 (3.03%) Ariba
4 2 (3.03%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.03%) Citrix
4 2 (3.03%) ION Trading
4 2 (3.03%) jBASE
4 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.03%) Temenos
5 1 (1.52%) Adobe
5 1 (1.52%) IBM
5 1 (1.52%) IFS
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) Planview
5 1 (1.52%) Splunk