Spark SQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark SQL
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 431 496
Rank change year-on-year +60 +65 -66
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 7 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.017% 0.033%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.27% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £324 - £312
25th Percentile £341 £600 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -42.31% +23.81% -5.41%
75th Percentile £413 £700 £575
90th Percentile £435 - £613
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,568 3,448 5,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.61% 15.05% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,826 2,465 3,821
10th Percentile £313 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £577 £598 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 108 130
10th Percentile £13.52 £21.73 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.15 £20.75
Median hourly rate £39.25 £55.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.53% +59.14% +44.93%
75th Percentile £60.50 £70.00 £62.23
90th Percentile £74.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.09% +28.99% +69.81%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Spark SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Spark SQL in the UK excluding London

Spark SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spark SQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Spark SQL in the UK excluding London

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spark SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spark SQL in the UK excluding London

Spark SQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
North of England +31 5 £400 -33.33% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £425 - 1
North West - 2 £350 -
Scotland - 2 £325 - 2
Spark SQL
UK

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (85.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (28.57%) Apache
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Apache Hive
1 4 (57.14%) Big Data
2 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 2 (28.57%) Impala
3 2 (28.57%) MySQL
4 1 (14.29%) Azkaban
4 1 (14.29%) DataStage
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) RStudio
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Database Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) PySpark
3 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) Data Science
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Scala
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Cloudera