Apache Spark Contracts in the North of England

Apache Spark
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Apache Spark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apache Spark over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 203 197
Rank change year-on-year +41 -6 -53
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 21 9 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.16% 0.72%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.87% 1.85% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 22
10th Percentile £410 £436 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -13.64% -0.90%
75th Percentile £515 £488 £609
90th Percentile £556 £518 £650
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.50 £78.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -60.90% -0.95% +86.39%

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

Apache Spark is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 358 486 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 7.66% 8.55% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 342 620
10th Percentile £206 £200 £175
25th Percentile £313 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £525
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 11 41
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £16.00
25th Percentile £13.25 £16.44 £16.63
Median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +18.92% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £31.25 £35.56
90th Percentile £46.18 £40.00 £46.72
England median hourly rate £25.50 £35.00 £20.89
% change year-on-year -27.14% +67.54% +4.94%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the North of England

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the North of England

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the North of England

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North West +24 15 £510 +7.37% 4
Yorkshire +21 5 £425 -19.05% 4
North East - 1 - - 2
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 8 (38.10%) Apache
2 7 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 9 (42.86%) Azure
3 6 (28.57%) Snowflake
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (23.81%) Serverless
5 3 (14.29%) GCP
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub
7 1 (4.76%) Google Analytics
7 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (71.43%) Big Data
2 9 (42.86%) Hadoop
3 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (23.81%) Spark SQL
5 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
5 4 (19.05%) MySQL
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (14.29%) Apache Hive
6 3 (14.29%) HBase
7 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
7 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
8 1 (4.76%) Azkaban
8 1 (4.76%) DataStage
8 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
8 1 (4.76%) Flink
8 1 (4.76%) Impala
8 1 (4.76%) Power BI
8 1 (4.76%) Presto
8 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (23.81%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) RStudio
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Manufacturing
2 5 (23.81%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Data Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cassandra Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.76%) Database Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Hadoop Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Kafka
2 5 (23.81%) JSON
2 5 (23.81%) XML
3 2 (9.52%) PySpark
4 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (4.76%) J2EE
4 1 (4.76%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (4.76%) Spring
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
1 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Low-Code
1 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (57.14%) Data Engineering
3 10 (47.62%) ETL
4 9 (42.86%) Data Modelling
5 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
6 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 6 (28.57%) Agile
7 6 (28.57%) Data Management
7 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
8 5 (23.81%) Analytics
8 5 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (23.81%) OO
8 5 (23.81%) OOP
8 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (23.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (23.81%) Scrum
8 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
9 4 (19.05%) Data Science
9 4 (19.05%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 14 (66.67%) SQL
3 11 (52.38%) Java
4 6 (28.57%) Scala
5 5 (23.81%) C#
6 2 (9.52%) Perl
6 2 (9.52%) R
7 1 (4.76%) Bash
7 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) QA
3 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
1 2 (9.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Databricks
1 5 (23.81%) Informatica
1 5 (23.81%) Talend
2 3 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Teradata
4 1 (4.76%) Cloudera
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk