SPARQL Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SPARQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SPARQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 589 -
Rank change year-on-year +74 - -
Permanent jobs citing SPARQL 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.003% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.030% 0.008% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £40,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.25% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% +14.29%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,662 12,051 11,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.06% 30.61% 38.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,036 6,745 8,598
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

SPARQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SPARQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SPARQL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SPARQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SPARQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SPARQL

SPARQL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SPARQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 1 £82,500 - 9
East of England - 1 - - 9
North of England - 1 £82,500 - 18
SPARQL
UK

SPARQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linked Data
1 1 (50.00%) Semantic Web
1 1 (50.00%) Taxonomies
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Domain Models
2 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SHACL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP