Spark SQL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apache Spark SQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 340 474
Rank change year-on-year +39 +134 +136
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.033% 0.012%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.14% 0.17% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.95%
75th Percentile £488 - £688
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Spark SQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Spark SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Spark SQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Spark SQL.

Spark SQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Hive
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) HBase
2 1 (33.33%) Impala
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) JDBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality