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 20 January 2025, 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
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 737 725 913
Rank change year-on-year -12 +188 +111
Permanent jobs citing Sparx 20 46 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.073% 0.092%
As % of the Vendors category 0.088% 0.19% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11 38 38
10th Percentile - £58,650 £49,275
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £64,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.71% +5.74% -12.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £69,375 £75,938
90th Percentile - £87,875 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £81,750 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.80% +13.64% +22.22%

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 22,714 24,817 45,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.01% 39.15% 42.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,664 18,241 27,231
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,760 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% +5.26%

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 20 January 2025.

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 20 January 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 -34 16 £75,000 +17.19% 13
UK excluding London -38 15 £81,750 +30.80% 7
Work from Home +44 4 £76,000 +12.59% 7
London +9 4 £75,000 -21.05% 6
South West -9 4 £75,000 +20.00% 3
South East -11 4 - - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £76,000 - 1
Scotland - 3 £90,000 -
North of England - 3 £76,000 - 2
Midlands -24 1 £85,000 +18.06% 1

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 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 16 (80.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (5.00%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (5.00%) Maximo
2 1 (5.00%) SAP PP
2 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.00%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
3 4 (20.00%) Serverless
4 3 (15.00%) SaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Internet
1 1 (5.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Big Data
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.00%) DB2
3 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Redis
3 1 (5.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) ERwin
4 1 (5.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (5.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) JUnit
4 1 (5.00%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Marketing
3 4 (20.00%) Military
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Back Office
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Architect
2 9 (45.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) IT Support
3 3 (15.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) Business Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Power Apps Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Architect
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Software Architect
5 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Architect
5 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
1 1 (5.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (5.00%) React
1 1 (5.00%) SAPUI5
1 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (15.00%) IoT
1 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Android
2 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.00%) CentOS
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Agile
1 13 (65.00%) TOGAF
2 10 (50.00%) UML
3 9 (45.00%) ArchiMate
4 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (30.00%) Innovative Thinking
6 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
7 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (25.00%) Scrum
8 4 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
8 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (20.00%) Data Science
8 4 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
9 3 (15.00%) BPMN
9 3 (15.00%) Commercial Awareness
9 3 (15.00%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Java
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) ABAP
2 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 2 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.00%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Podman
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 3 (15.00%) Apple
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) ESRI
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) VMware