Apache Spark Contracts in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 150 159
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 -42
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 5 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.034% 0.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.65% 0.35% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £375 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.53%
75th Percentile £425 - £469
90th Percentile £440 - £488
South East median daily rate £375 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -42.31% +4.00% +21.95%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 189 283 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.04% 9.64% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 218 265
10th Percentile £200 £240 £150
25th Percentile £325 £350 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -13.16%
75th Percentile £587 £563 £538
90th Percentile £608 £675 £575
South East median daily rate £444 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -8.97% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 16
10th Percentile £17.50 £39.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.61 £55.50 £17.42
Median hourly rate £24.43 £71.10 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.64% +255.48% -21.57%
75th Percentile £32.50 £79.19 £21.63
90th Percentile £65.00 - £33.75
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £55.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -36.94% +177.50% -21.57%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Buckinghamshire - 5 £400 - 2
Apache Spark
South East

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (60.00%) Impala
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (40.00%) Big Data
3 2 (40.00%) Sqoop
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (20.00%) PowerCenter
4 1 (20.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) ERwin
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Reconciliation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Scala
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Informatica
2 2 (40.00%) Cloudera