Sparx
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sparx products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sparx over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sparx Systems.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 632 680
Rank change year-on-year +156 +48 -97
Contract jobs citing Sparx 125 84 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.68% 0.33% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 63 140
10th Percentile £474 £513 £513
25th Percentile £506 £562 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £670
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.99% -7.59%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £738
90th Percentile £913 £793 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £623 £600 £641
% change year-on-year +3.75% -6.43% -11.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 11
10th Percentile £56.49 - £52.00
25th Percentile £56.91 - £55.84
Median hourly rate £57.33 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +16.67% +29.73%
75th Percentile £57.41 - £62.50
90th Percentile £62.50 - £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.33 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.10% +16.67% +29.73%

All Vendors
UK

Sparx is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,383 25,346 35,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.59% 42.91% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,390 16,954 23,530
10th Percentile £263 £272 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £647 £635
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 695 889
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.89
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.88% +97.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.45 £61.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sparx in the UK

Sparx
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sparx over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sparx in the UK

Sparx
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sparx.

Hourly rate trend for Sparx in the UK

Sparx
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Sparx over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Sparx in the UK

Sparx
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sparx within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +158 118 £713 +9.62% 19
London +153 83 £725 - 3
Work from Home +143 43 £700 +9.80% 6
UK excluding London +59 33 £623 +3.75% 15
South West +32 19 £620 -4.62% 8
North of England +39 10 £725 +45.00% 3
North West - 7 £713 - 2
South East +9 5 £600 - 4
Yorkshire +20 3 £800 +60.00% 1
East of England +17 1 £625 -3.85%

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 17 (13.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (10.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.80%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 83 (66.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 18 (14.40%) Azure
3 16 (12.80%) AWS
4 13 (10.40%) Snowflake
5 10 (8.00%) OCI
6 3 (2.40%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.00%) Network Security
2 2 (1.60%) 4G
2 2 (1.60%) 5G
2 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.60%) VoIP
3 1 (0.80%) LAN
3 1 (0.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (32.80%) Metadata
2 24 (19.20%) Data Vault
2 24 (19.20%) NoSQL
3 22 (17.60%) Power BI
4 20 (16.00%) SQL Server
5 19 (15.20%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (11.20%) Tableau
7 13 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (8.00%) Metadata Repository
9 8 (6.40%) Pentaho
9 8 (6.40%) Qlik Sense
9 8 (6.40%) QlikView
9 8 (6.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (4.00%) RDBMS
10 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
11 4 (3.20%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.80%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 28 (22.40%) ERwin
2 13 (10.40%) ER Studio
3 10 (8.00%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (3.20%) ClearCase
4 4 (3.20%) ClearQuest
4 4 (3.20%) JIRA
5 2 (1.60%) PowerDesigner
General
1 41 (32.80%) Public Sector
2 36 (28.80%) Finance
3 21 (16.80%) Electronics
3 21 (16.80%) Manufacturing
3 21 (16.80%) Marketing
3 21 (16.80%) Telecoms
4 20 (16.00%) Social Skills
5 14 (11.20%) Publishing
6 12 (9.60%) Retail
7 7 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.60%) Local Government
8 6 (4.80%) Military
9 5 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.40%) Legal
11 2 (1.60%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.60%) Banking
12 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 92 (73.60%) Architect
2 62 (49.60%) Data Architect
3 24 (19.20%) Enterprise Architect
4 18 (14.40%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 10 (8.00%) Data Modeller
6 8 (6.40%) Developer
6 8 (6.40%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (5.60%) Chief Architect
7 7 (5.60%) Chief Data Architect
7 7 (5.60%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (5.60%) SQL Developer
8 6 (4.80%) Lead
9 5 (4.00%) Systems Architect
10 4 (3.20%) Security Architect
10 4 (3.20%) Senior
11 3 (2.40%) Lead Architect
11 3 (2.40%) Lead Security Architect
11 3 (2.40%) Technical Architect
12 2 (1.60%) Network Communications Engineer
12 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.40%) PyTorch
1 3 (2.40%) scikit-learn
1 3 (2.40%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.80%) JSON
2 1 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.60%) Reference Data
2 15 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (10.40%) Onboarding
4 12 (9.60%) Wiki
5 11 (8.80%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.20%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.40%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.60%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.60%) Robotics
9 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.80%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.60%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (64.80%) Data Modelling
2 54 (43.20%) Data Architecture
3 38 (30.40%) Data Governance
4 36 (28.80%) UML
5 35 (28.00%) Data Strategy
6 30 (24.00%) ArchiMate
7 29 (23.20%) Physical Data Model
8 25 (20.00%) Programme Management
8 25 (20.00%) TOGAF
9 24 (19.20%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (19.20%) Data Integration
10 23 (18.40%) Enterprise Architecture
11 21 (16.80%) Digital Marketing
12 20 (16.00%) Data Lineage
12 20 (16.00%) Data Management
13 18 (14.40%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (12.80%) Machine Learning
14 16 (12.80%) Project Delivery
15 15 (12.00%) Data Flow Diagram
15 15 (12.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.40%) SQL
2 8 (6.40%) PL/SQL
2 8 (6.40%) T-SQL
3 4 (3.20%) C
3 4 (3.20%) C++
4 2 (1.60%) Java
4 2 (1.60%) Python
5 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 58 (46.40%) Security Cleared
2 56 (44.80%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.60%) Degree
4 11 (8.80%) DV Cleared
5 8 (6.40%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (4.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.60%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.60%) CITP
8 2 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.80%) CISA
9 1 (0.80%) CISM
9 1 (0.80%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.20%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.60%) GDPR
3 9 (7.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.00%) COBIT
4 5 (4.00%) ISO 22301
4 5 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (2.40%) NCSC
6 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.60%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.20%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (22.40%) Oracle
2 21 (16.80%) SAP
3 20 (16.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.20%) ServiceNow
5 8 (6.40%) Informatica
6 6 (4.80%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (3.20%) HP
8 3 (2.40%) Dell
9 1 (0.80%) Cisco
9 1 (0.80%) EMC
9 1 (0.80%) Mercator
9 1 (0.80%) VMware