Spark SQL Contracts in the City of London

Apache Spark SQL
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Spark SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spark SQL over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 143 192
Rank change year-on-year +19 +49 -10
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 3 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.14% 0.25% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.68% 1.27% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile £378 £440 £441
25th Percentile £414 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £546
Median % change year-on-year - -8.47% -6.54%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £594
90th Percentile - £544 £619
Central London median daily rate £463 £500 £568
% change year-on-year -7.50% -11.89% -2.91%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

Spark SQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 440 550 1,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.73% 19.81% 22.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 365 652
10th Percentile £406 £375 £425
25th Percentile £483 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year - +2.13% +3.07%
75th Percentile £710 £704 £713
90th Percentile £825 £789 £790
Central London median daily rate £590 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -1.67% +2.35% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £38.95 £45.20
25th Percentile £36.75 £40.38 £52.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £44.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +59.42%
75th Percentile £40.25 £48.88 £62.88
90th Percentile - £51.05 £76.80
Central London median hourly rate £40.00 £44.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -20.00% +59.42%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Spark SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Spark SQL in the City of London

Spark SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spark SQL in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Spark SQL in the City of London

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spark SQL in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spark SQL in the City of London

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
2 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Star Schema
3 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (66.67%) Freedom of Information
1 2 (66.67%) Freedom of Information Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Encryption
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Inmon Methodology
2 2 (66.67%) Kimball Methodology
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks