Sparx Contracts in England

Sparx
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 444 573 652
Rank change year-on-year +129 +79 -102
Contract jobs citing Sparx 98 66 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.63% 0.33% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 50 113
10th Percentile £463 £524 £513
25th Percentile £500 £572 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -6.90%
75th Percentile £806 £764 £738
90th Percentile £925 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £675 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 8
10th Percentile £56.49 £60.92 £51.78
25th Percentile £56.70 - £54.25
Median hourly rate £57.33 £70.00 £58.98
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +18.69% +47.44%
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile £57.41 - £65.90
UK median hourly rate £57.33 £70.00 £58.98
% change year-on-year -18.10% +18.69% +47.44%

All Vendors
England

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 advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,543 20,238 28,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.09% 42.39% 39.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,876 13,919 19,381
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +0.95% +7.69%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,047 553 766
10th Percentile £12.26 £14.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +74.42% +7.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.90 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%

Sparx
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Sparx as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Sparx in England

Sparx
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Sparx in England

Sparx
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sparx in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sparx in England

Sparx
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Sparx in England

Sparx
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sparx within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London +131 70 £725 -0.34% 1
South West +18 17 £620 -4.62% 4
South East +3 6 £625 +7.11% 3
North of England +33 5 £700 -22.22% 2
North West - 3 £525 - 2
Yorkshire +22 2 £800 -11.11%
East of England - 1 £625 -
Sparx
UK

Sparx
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (15.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (10.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.02%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 66 (67.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.37%) Power Platform
2 14 (14.29%) Azure
3 12 (12.24%) AWS
4 9 (9.18%) Snowflake
5 6 (6.12%) OCI
6 3 (3.06%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) 4G
1 2 (2.04%) 5G
1 2 (2.04%) Network Security
1 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.04%) VoIP
2 1 (1.02%) LAN
2 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (32.65%) Metadata
2 23 (23.47%) Data Vault
2 23 (23.47%) NoSQL
3 18 (18.37%) Power BI
3 18 (18.37%) SQL Server
4 17 (17.35%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (10.20%) Metadata Repository
5 10 (10.20%) Tableau
6 9 (9.18%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (8.16%) Pentaho
7 8 (8.16%) Qlik Sense
7 8 (8.16%) QlikView
7 8 (8.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (6.12%) RDBMS
8 6 (6.12%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.08%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (1.02%) BusinessObjects XI
10 1 (1.02%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 18 (18.37%) ERwin
2 10 (10.20%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (9.18%) ER Studio
4 4 (4.08%) ClearCase
4 4 (4.08%) ClearQuest
5 3 (3.06%) JIRA
6 2 (2.04%) PowerDesigner
General
1 29 (29.59%) Public Sector
2 27 (27.55%) Finance
3 18 (18.37%) Social Skills
4 14 (14.29%) Electronics
4 14 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 14 (14.29%) Marketing
4 14 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 13 (13.27%) Publishing
6 6 (6.12%) Local Government
6 6 (6.12%) Military
6 6 (6.12%) Retail
7 5 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.04%) Banking
9 2 (2.04%) Legal
10 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (69.39%) Architect
2 47 (47.96%) Data Architect
3 17 (17.35%) Enterprise Architect
4 12 (12.24%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 10 (10.20%) Data Modeller
6 8 (8.16%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Chief Architect
7 7 (7.14%) Chief Data Architect
7 7 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (6.12%) Developer
9 5 (5.10%) SQL Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Systems Architect
10 2 (2.04%) Consultant
10 2 (2.04%) Data Consultant
10 2 (2.04%) IT Engineer
10 2 (2.04%) Lead
10 2 (2.04%) Network Communications Engineer
10 2 (2.04%) Network Systems Engineer
10 2 (2.04%) Senior
10 2 (2.04%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.33%) Reference Data
2 12 (12.24%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.16%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (6.12%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.12%) Wiki
5 4 (4.08%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.08%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.02%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.02%) Robotics
6 1 (1.02%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (3.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (65.31%) Data Modelling
2 42 (42.86%) Data Architecture
3 32 (32.65%) UML
4 25 (25.51%) Data Governance
5 24 (24.49%) ArchiMate
6 23 (23.47%) Data Strategy
7 22 (22.45%) Physical Data Model
8 21 (21.43%) TOGAF
9 20 (20.41%) Data Integration
10 19 (19.39%) Data Lineage
11 17 (17.35%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (17.35%) Enterprise Architecture
12 16 (16.33%) Programme Management
13 14 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
14 13 (13.27%) MODAF
14 13 (13.27%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
14 13 (13.27%) Project Delivery
15 12 (12.24%) Logical Data Model
15 12 (12.24%) SysML
16 11 (11.22%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.33%) SQL
2 8 (8.16%) T-SQL
3 7 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 4 (4.08%) C
4 4 (4.08%) C++
5 2 (2.04%) Java
5 2 (2.04%) Python
6 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 49 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 49 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.24%) Degree
3 8 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.04%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (2.04%) CITP
7 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.12%) GDPR
4 5 (5.10%) COBIT
4 5 (5.10%) ISO 22301
4 5 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.08%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (20.41%) Oracle
2 15 (15.31%) Microsoft
3 14 (14.29%) SAP
4 8 (8.16%) Informatica
4 8 (8.16%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.12%) BiZZdesign
6 4 (4.08%) HP
7 3 (3.06%) Dell
8 1 (1.02%) Cisco
8 1 (1.02%) EMC
8 1 (1.02%) VMware