Sparx Contracts in the South East

Sparx
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring knowledge or experience of Sparx products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sparx over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 202 246
Rank change year-on-year +13 +44 -
Contract jobs citing Sparx 11 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.19% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.41% 0.45% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 16
10th Percentile £500 £515 £459
25th Percentile £538 £562 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £584 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.40% +1.48% -
75th Percentile £711 £621 £588
90th Percentile £800 £628 £600
England median daily rate £644 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -0.96% -3.70% -6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £66.00 - -
England median hourly rate £57.33 £70.00 £58.98
% change year-on-year -18.10% +18.69% +47.44%

All Vendors
South East

Sparx falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,688 2,872 3,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 46.72% 50.72% 45.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,594 1,951 2,359
10th Percentile £243 £205 £200
25th Percentile £400 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +2.28% +5.70%
75th Percentile £608 £604 £600
90th Percentile £688 £694 £675
England median daily rate £519 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.03% +0.95% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 123 142
10th Percentile £12.08 £16.25 £10.78
25th Percentile £17.24 £21.69 £13.16
Median hourly rate £48.75 £49.00 £19.76
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +147.95% -7.66%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.13 £47.50
90th Percentile £69.63 £75.75 £65.63
England median hourly rate £23.50 £37.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.49% +72.09% +7.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Sparx as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Sparx in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Sparx in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sparx in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sparx in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Sparx in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sparx within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley +16 7 £675 - 4
Berkshire - 6 £663 - 3
Hampshire -14 4 £575 -1.46% 1
Oxfordshire +2 1 £750 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Geospatial Data
1 3 (27.27%) Star Schema
2 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (27.27%) ClearCase
2 3 (27.27%) ClearQuest
2 3 (27.27%) ERwin
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Data Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) ArchiMate
2 3 (27.27%) Cross-Platform Development
2 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
2 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
2 3 (27.27%) Data Strategy
2 3 (27.27%) ETL
2 3 (27.27%) Kanban
2 3 (27.27%) Memory Management
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Multithreading
2 3 (27.27%) OO
2 3 (27.27%) Reverse Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) Conceptual Models
3 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) C
1 3 (27.27%) C++
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Databricks
1 3 (27.27%) HP
2 2 (18.18%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft