SPARQL Contracts

SPARQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SPARQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SPARQL over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 - 696
Rank change year-on-year - - +110
Contract jobs citing SPARQL 11 0 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% - 0.028%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% - 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 14
10th Percentile £400 - £476
25th Percentile £425 - £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £610
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.86%
75th Percentile £469 - £649
90th Percentile £500 - £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 - £650

All Programming Languages
UK

SPARQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

SPARQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SPARQL in the UK

SPARQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SPARQL in the UK

SPARQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SPARQL over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SPARQL in the UK

SPARQL
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SPARQL within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 - 10 £456 - 4
North West - 6 £463 -
UK excluding London - 6 £463 - 1
North of England - 6 £463 -
London - 3 £450 - 3
Work from Home - 3 £400 - 2

SPARQL
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) dbt
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon Neptune
4 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (27.27%) Serverless
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Airbyte
1 6 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (54.55%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Data Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Senior
1 6 (54.55%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Science Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Database Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Scala Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) RDF
2 8 (72.73%) ETL
3 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (54.55%) Open Source
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Digital Twin
4 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (18.18%) Use Case
6 1 (9.09%) Data Science
6 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 1 (9.09%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Scala
3 2 (18.18%) Gremlin
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft