Spark SQL Contracts in England

Apache Spark SQL
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Spark SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spark SQL over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 631 744
Rank change year-on-year +126 +113 -165
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 26 15 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.071% 0.031% 0.046%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.42% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 12
10th Percentile £415 £525 -
25th Percentile £475 £563 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £594 £681 £698
90th Percentile £755 £700 £795
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Spark SQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,232 8,625 14,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.12% 17.80% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,500 6,210 10,186
10th Percentile £351 £375 £364
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £658
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £549
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 156 168
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.82 £30.54 £22.22
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% +23.78% +85.57%
75th Percentile £58.44 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £79.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Spark SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Spark SQL in England

Spark SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spark SQL in England.

Daily rate trend for Spark SQL in England

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spark SQL in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spark SQL in England

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spark SQL within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +111 20 £550 -4.35% 4
North of England +33 5 £400 -33.33% 3
Yorkshire - 3 £425 - 2
North West - 2 £350 - 1
Spark SQL
UK

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (57.69%) Apache Spark
2 5 (19.23%) Apache
3 4 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) Azure
2 12 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (30.77%) GCP
4 6 (23.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (19.23%) AWS
5 5 (19.23%) GitHub
6 4 (15.38%) Cloud Run
6 4 (15.38%) Google Data Studio
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (11.54%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (7.69%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (7.69%) Power Automate
8 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
8 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
8 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) Big Data
1 13 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 6 (23.08%) Apache Hive
2 6 (23.08%) BigQuery
2 6 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (19.23%) Hadoop
4 4 (15.38%) Delta Lake
4 4 (15.38%) Impala
4 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
5 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (11.54%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (11.54%) Sqoop
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (7.69%) HDInsight
6 2 (7.69%) Power BI
7 1 (3.85%) Azkaban
7 1 (3.85%) DataStage
7 1 (3.85%) Metadata
7 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) RStudio
General
1 11 (42.31%) Finance
2 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Legal
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Data Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Azure Data Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) GCP Data Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Java Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Database Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (73.08%) PySpark
2 3 (11.54%) Kafka
2 3 (11.54%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (3.85%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
1 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Unix
2 4 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Data Engineering
2 11 (42.31%) DevOps
3 9 (34.62%) ETL
4 8 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (26.92%) E-Commerce
5 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (23.08%) Kanban
7 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
8 4 (15.38%) Agile
8 4 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
8 4 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (11.54%) Analytics
9 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
9 3 (11.54%) Event-Driven
9 3 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
10 2 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (7.69%) Data Cleansing
10 2 (7.69%) Data Integration
10 2 (7.69%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 22 (84.62%) SQL
2 12 (46.15%) Python
3 8 (30.77%) Scala
4 7 (26.92%) T-SQL
5 3 (11.54%) Java
6 1 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) R
6 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) HDFS
2 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Databricks
2 7 (26.92%) Google
3 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
4 4 (15.38%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Cloudera