Spark SQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

Apache Spark SQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 335 453 600
Rank change year-on-year +118 +147 -141
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 6 2 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.008% 0.043%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.21% 0.042% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile - £663 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +45.95% -11.90%
75th Percentile - £688 £700
90th Percentile - - £800
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,878 4,713 9,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.55% 19.02% 21.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,121 3,444 7,002
10th Percentile £356 £388 £373
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £549
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 79 89
10th Percentile £18.60 £22.16 £19.80
25th Percentile £22.43 £40.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +36.84% +48.44%
75th Percentile £62.25 £74.38 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%

Spark SQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spark SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Spark SQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spark SQL.

Spark SQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) dbt
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Big Data
1 5 (83.33%) Delta Lake
2 3 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (16.67%) Azkaban
4 1 (16.67%) Data Hub
4 1 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) RStudio
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) PySpark
2 3 (50.00%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
4 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Scala
3 3 (50.00%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) R
5 1 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Databricks
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg