Spark SQL Contracts

Apache Spark SQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Spark SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spark SQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 705 801
Rank change year-on-year +134 +96 -185
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 27 14 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.023% 0.054%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.37% 0.13% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 21
10th Percentile £458 £525 £450
25th Percentile £488 £563 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £680
90th Percentile £755 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -39.29% +33.33% -4.98%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Spark SQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spark SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spark SQL in the UK

Spark SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spark SQL.

Daily rate trend for Spark SQL in the UK

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spark SQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spark SQL in the UK

Spark SQL
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spark SQL within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +137 23 £550 -8.33% 3
London +109 18 £550 -4.35% 1
Work from Home +133 5 - - 1
UK excluding London +67 5 £425 -39.29% 2
North of England +36 4 £425 -29.17% 2
Yorkshire - 3 £425 - 1
Scotland - 1 - -
North West - 1 - - 1

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (59.26%) Apache Spark
2 6 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (18.52%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) Azure
2 11 (40.74%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (37.04%) GCP
4 7 (25.93%) AWS
5 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (14.81%) Cloud Run
5 4 (14.81%) GitHub
5 4 (14.81%) Google Data Studio
6 3 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 2 (7.41%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (7.41%) dbt
7 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
7 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
7 2 (7.41%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (59.26%) Data Lake
2 13 (48.15%) Big Data
3 6 (22.22%) BigQuery
3 6 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (18.52%) Apache Hive
4 5 (18.52%) Hadoop
4 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
5 4 (14.81%) Delta Lake
6 3 (11.11%) Impala
6 3 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (11.11%) Sqoop
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (7.41%) Data Hub
7 2 (7.41%) HDInsight
7 2 (7.41%) Power BI
8 1 (3.70%) Azkaban
8 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (3.70%) DataStage
8 1 (3.70%) Metadata
8 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) RStudio
General
1 14 (51.85%) Finance
2 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Data Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) Azure Data Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) GCP Data Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (74.07%) PySpark
2 3 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (3.70%) Pandas
3 1 (3.70%) pytest
3 1 (3.70%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
1 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Unix
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 13 (48.15%) DevOps
3 10 (37.04%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (33.33%) ETL
5 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (22.22%) Agile
6 6 (22.22%) Analytics
6 6 (22.22%) Kanban
7 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
8 4 (14.81%) Data Ingestion
8 4 (14.81%) E-Commerce
9 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (11.11%) Data Science
9 3 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (11.11%) Design Patterns
9 3 (11.11%) Investment Management
9 3 (11.11%) Log Analytics
9 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning
9 3 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (85.19%) SQL
2 15 (55.56%) Python
3 8 (29.63%) Scala
4 7 (25.93%) T-SQL
5 3 (11.11%) R
6 2 (7.41%) Java
7 1 (3.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) HDFS
2 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Databricks
2 6 (22.22%) Google
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle
5 2 (7.41%) Bloomberg
6 1 (3.70%) Cloudera