SPARQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SPARQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SPARQL over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 693 842 946
Rank change year-on-year +149 +104 +252
Permanent jobs citing SPARQL 15 72 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.070% 0.007%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.092% 0.21% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile £71,500 - £95,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £55,000 £96,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £60,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -41.46% +78.26%
75th Percentile £107,500 £65,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £112,000 £72,500 £113,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £60,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year - -40.00% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,314 33,562 41,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.74% 32.71% 43.01%
Number of salaries quoted 10,612 25,071 26,942
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,772 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.28% -2.23% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SPARQL.

Salary trend for SPARQL in the UK

SPARQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SPARQL over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SPARQL in the UK

SPARQL
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SPARQL within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 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
England +184 15 £90,000 +50.00% 4
London +109 10 £76,250 +1.67% 2
Work from Home +120 5 £105,000 +40.00% 2
UK excluding London +126 2 - - 2
South East - 2 - - 1

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) Apache
1 5 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (33.33%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Neptune
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Neo4j
2 3 (20.00%) Triplestore
3 2 (13.33%) Metadata
3 2 (13.33%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (13.33%) MySQL
3 2 (13.33%) Pentaho
3 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) Senior
2 8 (53.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Migration Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Scientist
3 2 (13.33%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Data Scientist
4 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning Scientist
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) JSON
1 5 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Jena
2 2 (13.33%) FastAPI
2 2 (13.33%) Hugging Face
2 2 (13.33%) JSON-LD
2 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Flask
3 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (6.67%) NetworkX
3 1 (6.67%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) Plotly
3 1 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (6.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (20.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Linked Data
2 1 (6.67%) Taxonomies
2 1 (6.67%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Data Modelling
1 13 (86.67%) RDF
2 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (66.67%) Data Science
4 8 (53.33%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (53.33%) ETL
4 8 (53.33%) Validation
5 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 6 (40.00%) Machine Learning
6 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
6 5 (33.33%) Migration
7 4 (26.67%) Agile
7 4 (26.67%) Ontologies
8 3 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
8 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
8 3 (20.00%) Data Strategy
8 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (13.33%) SHACL
5 1 (6.67%) Gremlin
5 1 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (20.00%) QA
3 2 (13.33%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Talend
2 2 (13.33%) Informatica
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) OpenAI