Sparx
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Sparx products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Sparx over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 677 626 812
Rank change year-on-year -51 +186 +80
Permanent jobs citing Sparx 26 14 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.033% 0.068%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.085% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 19 12 55
10th Percentile £68,950 £56,176 £57,800
25th Percentile £71,750 £68,419 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.27% +16.15% +16.07%
75th Percentile £93,500 £91,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £104,500 £99,125 £99,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,000 £77,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.32% +23.60% +13.64%

All Vendors
UK

Sparx falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,942 16,563 35,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.16% 39.60% 37.27%
Number of salaries quoted 12,189 10,244 25,081
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £26,700
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%

Sparx
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Sparx relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Sparx job vacancy trend in the UK

Sparx
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sparx.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sparx

Sparx
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sparx over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Sparx in the UK

Sparx
Top 10 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 21 April 2026. 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 -51 26 £82,500 +10.00% 15
UK excluding London -64 17 £77,000 -0.32% 11
London -4 9 £117,500 +56.67% 8
Midlands - 7 £77,000 -
West Midlands - 7 £77,000 -
South East - 5 £86,000 - 5
Work from Home 0 3 £73,500 -6.37% 2
Yorkshire -58 3 £73,500 -3.29%
North of England -66 3 £73,500 -2.65%
South West -56 2 £95,000 +8.57% 6

Sparx
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (11.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) Power Platform
3 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Metadata
2 7 (26.92%) Power BI
2 7 (26.92%) RDBMS
2 7 (26.92%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) ERwin
2 1 (3.85%) ER Studio
2 1 (3.85%) PowerDesigner
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Financial Institution
2 7 (26.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (19.23%) Military
4 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Back Office
5 1 (3.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 17 (65.38%) Architect
2 7 (26.92%) Consultant
2 7 (26.92%) Data Architect
2 7 (26.92%) Data Consultant
2 7 (26.92%) Data Model Consultant
2 7 (26.92%) Lead
2 7 (26.92%) Lead Architect
2 7 (26.92%) Lead Data Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Data Modeller
4 1 (3.85%) Head of Applications
4 1 (3.85%) Head of Architecture
4 1 (3.85%) Principal Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Senior
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) EDI
1 7 (26.92%) FIX Protocol
1 7 (26.92%) FpML
1 7 (26.92%) JSON
1 7 (26.92%) XML
1 7 (26.92%) XML Schema
2 1 (3.85%) OAuth
2 1 (3.85%) OpenID
2 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Data Structures
2 7 (26.92%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (26.92%) e-Learning
2 7 (26.92%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.69%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Data Modelling
2 9 (34.62%) Migration
2 9 (34.62%) TOGAF
3 8 (30.77%) Agile
3 8 (30.77%) Analytics
3 8 (30.77%) Business Analysis
3 8 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (30.77%) Data Architecture
3 8 (30.77%) Data Governance
3 8 (30.77%) Data Transformation
3 8 (30.77%) Logical Data Model
3 8 (30.77%) Metadata Management
3 8 (30.77%) Physical Data Model
3 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (26.92%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (26.92%) Collaborative Culture
4 7 (26.92%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (26.92%) Data Migration
4 7 (26.92%) RDF
4 7 (26.92%) UML
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) SQL
2 7 (26.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.85%) IFRS
1 1 (3.85%) IFRS 17
1 1 (3.85%) NCSC
1 1 (3.85%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) BiZZdesign