Apache Spark Contracts in County Antrim

Apache Spark
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 25 17 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +12
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 7 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 4.67% 3.79% 2.99%
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 -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £410 £494 -
% change year-on-year -16.96% - -

All Application Platform Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 22 17 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 14.67% 12.88% 10.18%
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
Northern Ireland median daily rate £470 £494 £388
% change year-on-year -4.81% +27.42% -13.89%
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 - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £48.82 £16.12 -
% change year-on-year +202.82% - -

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in County Antrim

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in County Antrim

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

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

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in County Antrim

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Belfast -5 7 £410 -16.96% 7
Apache Spark
Northern Ireland

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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