Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Apache Spark
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 3.72% 1.11% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 43.75% 4.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £384 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £392 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -
75th Percentile £361 £401 -
90th Percentile £381 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £625 £533
% change year-on-year -12.00% +17.37% +2.90%

All Application Platform Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 16 23 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 8.51% 25.56% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 4
10th Percentile - £251 £389
25th Percentile - £406 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £361 £575 £523
90th Percentile £381 - £532
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Dorset

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 19 May 2026. 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
Bournemouth -5 7 £350 -10.71%
Apache Spark
South West

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon S3
2 6 (85.71%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (85.71%) Datadog
2 6 (85.71%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (85.71%) Flink
2 6 (85.71%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (14.29%) HBase
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Kafka
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
1 7 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (85.71%) RESTful
3 5 (71.43%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
2 6 (85.71%) Analytics
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Code Quality
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) Data Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
2 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Observability
3 5 (71.43%) Concurrent Programming
3 5 (71.43%) Multithreading
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) OOD
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle