Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Apache Spark
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 54 62
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 +14
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 6 13 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.52% 1.75% 0.94%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.88% 23.21% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 6
10th Percentile £304 £308 £376
25th Percentile £337 £368 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £420 £438
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -35.19%
75th Percentile £508 £469 £497
90th Percentile £556 £488 £538
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £21.73
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +40.00% -51.92%

All Application Platform Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 102 56 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.79% 7.54% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 43 50
10th Percentile £131 £222 £159
25th Percentile £275 £314 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £368 £396
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -7.01% +10.70%
75th Percentile £494 £459 £470
90th Percentile £595 £547 £515
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 11
10th Percentile £29.40 - £21.73
25th Percentile £39.04 £18.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £74.00 £19.00 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +289.47% -60.87% +131.24%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £51.91
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £46.65 £33.04
% change year-on-year -30.33% +41.21% -31.18%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Apache Spark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the East Midlands

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Northamptonshire -2 4 £387 -6.75%
Nottinghamshire - 2 £538 - 2
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Stack
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Hive
2 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 2 (33.33%) HBase
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Sqoop
3 1 (16.67%) Aerospike
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) Flink
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Spark SQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Hadoop Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Scala Developer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) ETL Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
1 4 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) pytest
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Life Science
1 1 (16.67%) Omics
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (66.67%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Security
3 2 (33.33%) MapReduce
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Runbook
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Flume
1 2 (33.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks