Spark SQL Contracts

Apache Spark SQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Spark SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spark SQL over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 536 668
Rank change year-on-year +14 +132 +157
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 17 54 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.12% 0.030%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.30% 0.71% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 12
10th Percentile £411 £339 £525
25th Percentile £425 £400 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £525 £678
90th Percentile £790 £655 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £350 £650
% change year-on-year +35.71% -46.15% +44.44%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Spark SQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,737 7,601 9,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.31% 17.48% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,885 5,428 6,756
10th Percentile £356 £350 £371
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £751 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 150 170
10th Percentile £19.71 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.20 £20.77 £32.32
Median hourly rate £34.99 £39.25 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% -31.08% +50.66%
75th Percentile £63.31 £51.87 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £82.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £31.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.44% -42.73% +57.14%

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spark SQL in the UK

Spark SQL
Top 9 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 3 July 2025. 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 +27 16 £463 +2.78% 29
London +24 10 £450 -5.26% 24
Work from Home +21 6 £475 -3.65% 16
UK excluding London +20 6 £475 +35.71% 8
South East - 4 £459 - 3
North of England -5 1 - - 2
Yorkshire -5 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
Midlands - 1 £475 -

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 10 (58.82%) Apache Spark
2 4 (23.53%) Apache
2 4 (23.53%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
3 3 (17.65%) dbt
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Run
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (41.18%) Data Lake
3 6 (35.29%) Apache Hive
3 6 (35.29%) Hadoop
4 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
5 3 (17.65%) Big Data
5 3 (17.65%) Delta Lake
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
6 2 (11.76%) Metadata
6 2 (11.76%) MySQL
6 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
7 1 (5.88%) HBase
7 1 (5.88%) Impala
7 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Publishing
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Data Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.88%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) PySpark
2 4 (23.53%) Kafka
3 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 3 (17.65%) HTML
4 2 (11.76%) JDBC
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Distributed Computing
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
1 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Data Pipeline
1 13 (76.47%) ETL
2 10 (58.82%) Data Modelling
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (29.41%) Analytics
5 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Data Transformation
5 5 (29.41%) Scrum
6 4 (23.53%) Data Management
6 4 (23.53%) Data Science
6 4 (23.53%) Data Security
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
7 3 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
7 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
7 3 (17.65%) Use Case
8 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
8 2 (11.76%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) SQL
2 14 (82.35%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Databricks
2 4 (23.53%) Foundry
2 4 (23.53%) Palantir
3 1 (5.88%) Google