SPARQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SPARQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SPARQL over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 679 788
Rank change year-on-year +102 +109 -92
Contract jobs citing SPARQL 7 17 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.030% 0.066%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.055% 0.086% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 44
10th Percentile £518 £459 £504
25th Percentile - £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £588 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% -16.07% +21.74%
75th Percentile - £639 £746
90th Percentile £555 £650 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £425 -
% change year-on-year +25.41% - -

All Programming Languages
UK

SPARQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,722 19,828 31,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.90% 34.62% 36.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,047 14,307 23,128
10th Percentile £350 £390 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £655
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 443 499
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.09 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.43 £60.70 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% +20.92% +18.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%

SPARQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SPARQL in the UK

SPARQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SPARQL.

Daily rate trend for SPARQL in the UK

SPARQL
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SPARQL within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England +99 7 £533 -7.30% 3
UK excluding London +57 5 £533 +25.41% 2
South West - 5 £533 - 1
Work from Home +110 3 £533 -11.17% 1
London +85 2 - - 2

SPARQL
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 7 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub
1 7 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Jena
1 7 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) Kafka
1 7 (100.00%) PostGIS
1 7 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) React
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes