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 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 510 522
Rank change year-on-year -70 +12 +67
Contract jobs citing Spanish Language 84 48 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the General category 0.29% 0.23% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 23
10th Percentile £176 £336 £280
25th Percentile £347 £387 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £434 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% -3.50% -10.00%
75th Percentile £569 £486 £550
90th Percentile £609 £546 £598
UK excluding London median daily rate £150 £470 £538
% change year-on-year -68.09% -12.56% +72.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 10
10th Percentile £13.48 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £13.92 £16.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £14.50 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +16.14% +7.70%
75th Percentile £36.88 £46.94 £16.85
90th Percentile £40.00 £54.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +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 29,473 20,824 22,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.03% 63.53% 57.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,469 12,952 13,943
10th Percentile £313 £275 £294
25th Percentile £415 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,149 1,317
10th Percentile £13.94 £13.33 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.20 £16.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -31.10% +32.73%
75th Percentile £56.21 £50.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.38 £70.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.14 £35.36
% change year-on-year +46.79% -37.39% +41.44%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -74 82 £408 -1.92% 45
UK excluding London -71 43 £150 -68.09% 26
London -73 33 £394 -3.43% 34
North of England -58 19 £150 - 6
North West -25 18 £133 - 1
South East -51 16 - - 11
Work from Home -72 15 £408 -12.49% 16
Midlands - 4 - - 2
West Midlands - 4 - - 1
East of England -20 3 - -
South West - 1 - - 7
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 5

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 (3.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (3.57%) Workfront
2 1 (1.19%) Maximo
2 1 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.19%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.19%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.19%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.19%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.19%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.19%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.76%) GCP
2 3 (3.57%) AWS
2 3 (3.57%) Azure
3 2 (2.38%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.19%) dbt
4 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.19%) Google Ads
4 1 (1.19%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (1.19%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.19%) Meta Ads
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) Firewall
2 3 (3.57%) BGP
2 3 (3.57%) IPsec
3 1 (1.19%) DMZ
3 1 (1.19%) Network Security
3 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.38%) MySQL
1 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.38%) Redis
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Git
1 1 (1.19%) JIRA
1 1 (1.19%) MLflow
General
1 39 (46.43%) French Language
2 35 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 31 (36.90%) Italian Language
4 25 (29.76%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (22.62%) German Language
6 18 (21.43%) Retail
7 16 (19.05%) Finance
8 14 (16.67%) Portuguese Language
9 12 (14.29%) Banking
9 12 (14.29%) Investment Banking
9 12 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (11.90%) Financial Institution
11 7 (8.33%) Legal
12 6 (7.14%) Dutch Language
12 6 (7.14%) Marketing
13 4 (4.76%) Manufacturing
14 3 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (2.38%) Games
16 1 (1.19%) Advertising
16 1 (1.19%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 16 (19.05%) 2nd Line Support
1 16 (19.05%) 2nd Line Technical Support
1 16 (19.05%) Technical Support
2 10 (11.90%) Desktop Engineer
2 10 (11.90%) Desktop Support
2 10 (11.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 10 (11.90%) Senior
2 10 (11.90%) Support Engineer
3 9 (10.71%) Consultant
4 7 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 6 (7.14%) Analyst
5 6 (7.14%) Senior Manager
6 4 (4.76%) IT Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) Developer
7 3 (3.57%) Field Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Marketing Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Service Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (2.38%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.38%) Laravel
1 2 (2.38%) RESTful
1 2 (2.38%) Twig
2 1 (1.19%) Kafka
2 1 (1.19%) NumPy
2 1 (1.19%) Pandas
2 1 (1.19%) PySpark
2 1 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.19%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.19%) SciPy
2 1 (1.19%) Statsmodels
2 1 (1.19%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 10 (11.90%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.57%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) CMDB
5 1 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Photovoltaics
5 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.24%) Customer Service
2 24 (28.57%) Customer Experience
3 23 (27.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (11.90%) Asset Management
5 10 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (8.33%) AI
7 6 (7.14%) Agile
7 6 (7.14%) B2B
7 6 (7.14%) Change Management
8 5 (5.95%) Analytics
8 5 (5.95%) Customer Engagement
8 5 (5.95%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (5.95%) Line Management
8 5 (5.95%) Product Marketing
8 5 (5.95%) Project Management
8 5 (5.95%) Roadmaps
9 4 (4.76%) Strategic Roadmap
9 4 (4.76%) Strategic Thinking
9 4 (4.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.43%) SQL
2 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.38%) ABAP
3 2 (2.38%) PHP
3 2 (2.38%) Python
4 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (3.57%) APMP
3 2 (2.38%) CIPD
4 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.19%) MCSA
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.57%) GDPR
1 3 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (1.19%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) WSUS
2 1 (1.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (23.81%) ServiceNow
2 5 (5.95%) SAP
3 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.57%) Adobe
4 3 (3.57%) Google
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.57%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.38%) Oracle
5 2 (2.38%) Workday
6 1 (1.19%) Ariba
6 1 (1.19%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.19%) Citrix
6 1 (1.19%) Databricks
6 1 (1.19%) IBM
6 1 (1.19%) IFS
6 1 (1.19%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.19%) Reuters
6 1 (1.19%) Splunk
6 1 (1.19%) Tenable