Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Apache Spark
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.10% - 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.52% - 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £373 - -
25th Percentile £392 - £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - £313
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.48%
75th Percentile £429 - £319
90th Percentile £478 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £402 £612 £313
% change year-on-year -34.31% +95.84% -40.48%

All Application Platform Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 84 39 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.54% 5.69% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 27 41
10th Percentile £277 £174 £200
25th Percentile £322 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +15.15% -2.94%
75th Percentile £511 £550 £606
90th Percentile £583 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +4.21% +11.76% -14.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £18.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year +51.17% -1.37% +14.28%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Spark relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Apache Spark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Birmingham

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 8 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (75.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SSH
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 4 (50.00%) HBase
2 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (37.50%) Big Data
4 2 (25.00%) Delta Lake
4 2 (25.00%) Parquet
4 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) MLflow
1 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Poetry
2 1 (12.50%) PyCharm
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Hadoop Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (25.00%) Flask
2 2 (25.00%) NumPy
2 2 (25.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Analytics
2 6 (75.00%) Data Analytics
2 6 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
4 4 (50.00%) Data Security
4 4 (50.00%) ETL
4 4 (50.00%) Use Case
5 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (25.00%) Data Science
6 2 (25.00%) DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (25.00%) Secrets Management
7 1 (12.50%) DataOps
7 1 (12.50%) Dependency Management
7 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
7 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) HDFS
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Puppet
3 2 (25.00%) Argo
3 2 (25.00%) Istio
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cloudera
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat