Apache Spark Contracts in Belfast

Apache Spark
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Apache Spark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache Spark over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 18 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +12
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 7 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 4.76% 4.03% 3.05%
As % of the Application Platforms category 31.82% 29.41% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £400 £429 -
25th Percentile £405 £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £494 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% - -
75th Percentile £505 £514 -
90th Percentile £612 £528 -
County Antrim median daily rate £410 £494 -
% change year-on-year -16.96% - -

All Application Platform Skills
Belfast

Apache Spark falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 22 17 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 14.97% 13.71% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 5
10th Percentile £302 £283 £338
25th Percentile £410 £398 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £494 £375
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +31.67% -18.92%
75th Percentile £530 £514 £510
90th Percentile £610 £538 £525
County Antrim median daily rate £470 £494 £375
% change year-on-year -4.81% +31.67% -18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.32 - -
Median hourly rate £48.82 £16.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +202.82% - -
75th Percentile £52.31 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £48.82 £16.12 -
% change year-on-year +202.82% - -

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Belfast

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in Belfast.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in Belfast

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Belfast

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 (42.86%) Apache
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Apache Hive
1 5 (71.43%) Big Data
2 3 (42.86%) HBase
2 3 (42.86%) Impala
3 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 2 (28.57%) MySQL
3 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
4 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (28.57%) Law
5 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Big Data Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Avro
2 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
2 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Low Latency
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
2 2 (28.57%) SOA
2 2 (28.57%) Storyboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Cloudera