SPARQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SPARQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SPARQL over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 788 755 1123
Rank change year-on-year -33 +368 -60
Permanent jobs citing SPARQL 2 6 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.010% 0.008%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.009% 0.026% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £44,875 - -
25th Percentile £52,188 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.19% +18.52% +18.93%
75th Percentile £82,188 - £70,000
90th Percentile £90,625 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 - £70,000

All Programming Languages
UK

SPARQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,507 23,464 66,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.62% 40.73% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,070 18,307 38,309
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,879 £65,000 £62,833
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +3.45% +4.72%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SPARQL.

Salary trend for SPARQL in the UK

SPARQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SPARQL over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for SPARQL in the UK

SPARQL
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SPARQL within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -39 2 £66,250 -17.19% 1
London +18 1 £92,500 +15.63% 1
South East - 1 £40,000 -
Work from Home - 1 £92,500 - 2
UK excluding London - 1 £40,000 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Data Steward
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JNI
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Genomics
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
1 1 (50.00%) Linked Data
1 1 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Transcriptomics
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality