Spark SQL Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Apache Spark SQL
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 125 124
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 +22
Contract jobs citing Spark SQL 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.74% 0.52% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile £425 - £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £500
75th Percentile £606 - £525
90th Percentile £685 - -
Central London median daily rate £450 - £463
% change year-on-year - - -7.50%

All Database & BI 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 406 385 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.20% 22.08% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 266 323
10th Percentile £351 £400 £401
25th Percentile £455 £443 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £668 £684 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £20.43 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.13 £36.75
Median hourly rate £25.78 £48.25 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.56% +25.32% -12.50%
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £31.76 £81.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £48.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -46.56% +20.63% -9.09%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spark SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in the City of London

Spark SQL
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Spark SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Spark SQL

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 26 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spark SQL in the City of London

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Databricks
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Delta Lake
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Lakehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lineage
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft