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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 679 821
Rank change year-on-year +130 +142 -182
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 30 15 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.026% 0.048%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.41% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 17
10th Percentile £370 £525 £400
25th Percentile £463 £563 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £681 £680
90th Percentile £753 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -42.31% +23.81% -5.41%

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 7,287 10,222 17,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 17.85% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,225 7,278 12,532
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 175 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £32.30 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.38 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.25 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.64% +57.14% +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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +126 26 £550 -8.33% 7
London +111 20 £550 -4.35% 4
UK excluding London +55 7 £375 -42.31% 5
Work from Home +118 6 - - 5
North of England +33 5 £400 -33.33% 3
Yorkshire - 3 £425 - 2
Scotland - 2 £325 - 1
North West - 2 £350 - 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 18 (60.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (16.67%) Apache
2 5 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (33.33%) GCP
4 7 (23.33%) AWS
5 6 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (16.67%) Cloud Run
6 5 (16.67%) GitHub
6 5 (16.67%) Google Data Studio
7 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (6.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
9 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
9 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
9 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (53.33%) Big Data
2 15 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 7 (23.33%) Apache Hive
3 7 (23.33%) BigQuery
4 6 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (16.67%) Delta Lake
5 5 (16.67%) Hadoop
5 5 (16.67%) Impala
6 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
7 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (10.00%) Sqoop
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (6.67%) HDInsight
8 2 (6.67%) MySQL
8 2 (6.67%) Power BI
9 1 (3.33%) Azkaban
9 1 (3.33%) Data Hub
9 1 (3.33%) DataStage
9 1 (3.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) RStudio
General
1 15 (50.00%) Finance
2 10 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Banking
4 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.33%) Legal
7 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (70.00%) Data Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) GCP Data Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Database Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Hadoop Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) MySQL Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Scala Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (70.00%) PySpark
2 3 (10.00%) Kafka
2 3 (10.00%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (3.33%) pytest
3 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Unix
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 12 (40.00%) DevOps
3 10 (33.33%) ETL
4 9 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (23.33%) E-Commerce
5 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (20.00%) Kanban
7 5 (16.67%) Agile
7 5 (16.67%) Analytics
7 5 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
8 4 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (10.00%) Design Patterns
9 3 (10.00%) Event-Driven
9 3 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (10.00%) Log Analytics
9 3 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
10 2 (6.67%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (83.33%) SQL
2 14 (46.67%) Python
3 9 (30.00%) Scala
4 7 (23.33%) T-SQL
5 3 (10.00%) Java
6 2 (6.67%) R
6 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) HDFS
2 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Databricks
2 9 (30.00%) Google
3 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (16.67%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.33%) Cloudera