Hybrid/Remote Spark SQL Contract Job Trends

Apache Spark SQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 311 365
Rank change year-on-year -5 +54 +185
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 3 14 20
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.029% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.15% 0.57% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 12
10th Percentile £525 £377 £466
25th Percentile £555 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £438 £548
Median % change year-on-year +39.43% -20.09% -12.12%
75th Percentile £626 £506 £564
90th Percentile £633 £525 £598
UK median daily rate £518 £450 £540
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% -10.00%

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 1,961 2,443 3,156
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.03% 19.98% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,363 1,675 2,287
10th Percentile £335 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £825 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 31 43
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.30 £16.70
25th Percentile £39.00 £21.00 £20.66
Median hourly rate £64.00 £28.00 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -33.63% -23.29%
75th Percentile £71.88 £45.13 £66.88
90th Percentile £85.75 £65.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £47.61 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +50.93% -31.69% -7.64%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spark SQL and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Spark SQL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Spark SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Spark SQL

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Parquet
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) YAML
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) R
2 2 (66.67%) Scala
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks