Hybrid/Remote SPARQL Contract Job Trends

SPARQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SPARQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 310 329
Rank change year-on-year -55 +19 +105
Contract jobs citing SPARQL 8 1 3
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.060% 0.010% 0.022%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.19% 0.027% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £467 - -
25th Percentile £493 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £380 £533
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -28.71% -16.39%
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £608 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £400 £533
% change year-on-year +37.50% -24.95% -11.17%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,107 3,742 4,639
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 30.67% 36.98% 34.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,699 2,614 3,358
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 72 84
10th Percentile £42.75 £31.25 £32.38
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.99 £37.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +1.17% +7.08%
75th Percentile £76.00 £68.00 £75.31
90th Percentile £87.80 £86.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +8.33%

SPARQL
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

SPARQL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SPARQL
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

SPARQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SPARQL over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

SPARQL daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

SPARQL
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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Neptune
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (12.50%) Semaphore
4 1 (12.50%) Slack
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 1 (12.50%) Vertex AI
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Neo4j
2 2 (25.00%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) ArangoDB
3 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (12.50%) Stardog
3 1 (12.50%) TigerGraph
3 1 (12.50%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Ontologist
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Backend Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Jena
2 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) LangChain
2 1 (12.50%) Next.js
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (12.50%) Playwright
2 1 (12.50%) Ray
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) SWRL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) CUDA
1 1 (12.50%) Data Fabric
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Podcast
1 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) RDF
2 6 (75.00%) AI
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Data Science
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) LLM
3 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 3 (37.50%) Ontologies
3 3 (37.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (25.00%) Use Case
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SHACL
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Cypher
3 2 (25.00%) Gremlin
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google