Sparx
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sparx products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Sparx over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Sparx Systems.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 695 999 1039
Rank change year-on-year +304 +40 -370
Permanent jobs citing Sparx 38 91 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.072% 0.046%
As % of the Vendors category 0.17% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 31 35 40
10th Percentile £50,000 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £46,000 £41,034
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% -4.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £72,750 £80,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £95,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +38.89% -35.71%

All Vendors
UK

Sparx is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,763 51,212 50,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.07% 40.70% 39.13%
Number of salaries quoted 16,651 30,301 33,215
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,072
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Sparx
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sparx as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sparx in the UK

Sparx
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Sparx in the UK

Sparx
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sparx over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Sparx in the UK

Sparx
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sparx within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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 +281 37 £62,500 -4.21% 26
UK excluding London +194 32 £62,500 - 18
South West +53 22 £62,500 +73.61% 8
Work from Home +246 8 £73,000 +2.46% 18
North of England +126 5 £73,000 -8.75% 4
Yorkshire +87 5 £73,000 -8.75%
London +263 4 £95,000 +7.04% 11
South East +143 3 £52,500 -19.23% 5
Midlands +130 2 £72,000 -0.69%
West Midlands +116 1 £80,000 +10.34%
East Midlands - 1 £64,000 -

Sparx
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 1 (2.63%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (21.05%) MS Visio
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 35 (92.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) Azure
2 13 (34.21%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (18.42%) Power Platform
5 6 (15.79%) NuGet
6 4 (10.53%) Power Automate
6 4 (10.53%) PowerApps
7 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.63%) GCP
8 1 (2.63%) IaaS
8 1 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.63%) GIS
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) Tableau
2 1 (2.63%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) ERwin
1 6 (15.79%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.63%) ClearCase
2 1 (2.63%) ClearQuest
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Rational DOORS
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Finance
3 9 (23.68%) Military
4 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.26%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.63%) Aviation
6 1 (2.63%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Billing
6 1 (2.63%) Local Government
6 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (55.26%) Architect
2 17 (44.74%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (21.05%) Senior
4 6 (15.79%) Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Lead
5 4 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Technical Leader
7 2 (5.26%) Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Business Architect
8 1 (2.63%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Data Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.63%) IT Architect
8 1 (2.63%) Junior
8 1 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Senior Data Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (44.74%) .NET
2 7 (18.42%) REST
3 6 (15.79%) .NET Core
3 6 (15.79%) .NET Framework
3 6 (15.79%) ASP.NET
3 6 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC
3 6 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 6 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC 5
3 6 (15.79%) Entity Framework
3 6 (15.79%) HTML
3 6 (15.79%) HTML5
3 6 (15.79%) HTML5 Canvas
3 6 (15.79%) SVG
3 6 (15.79%) WebGL
4 1 (2.63%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (2.63%) J2EE
4 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (13.16%) Data Structures
3 4 (10.53%) Low-Code
4 2 (5.26%) DataPower
4 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.26%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 18 (47.37%) DevOps
3 17 (44.74%) ITIL
3 17 (44.74%) TOGAF
4 16 (42.11%) Agile
5 14 (36.84%) Business Strategy
5 14 (36.84%) Microservices
5 14 (36.84%) UML
6 13 (34.21%) Enterprise Architecture
7 11 (28.95%) Analytics
7 11 (28.95%) Architectural Patterns
7 11 (28.95%) Business Case
7 11 (28.95%) Data Analytics
7 11 (28.95%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (26.32%) Scrum
9 8 (21.05%) Project Management
10 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (15.79%) 3D Rendering
11 6 (15.79%) Dependency Injection
11 6 (15.79%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) C#
2 2 (5.26%) Java
2 2 (5.26%) Python
2 2 (5.26%) SQL
3 1 (2.63%) C
3 1 (2.63%) C++
3 1 (2.63%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 17 (44.74%) Degree
3 15 (39.47%) SC Cleared
4 12 (31.58%) TOGAF Certification
5 10 (26.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
1 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) HP ALM
1 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (60.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco
3 3 (7.89%) IBM
3 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) ESRI
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) HP
4 1 (2.63%) Informatica
4 1 (2.63%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) Workday