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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 63 68
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +21
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 7 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.89% 0.89% 0.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.00% 10.61% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £408 £376 -
25th Percentile £410 £402 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £438 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -35.19% +35.00%
75th Percentile £441 £497 £688
90th Percentile £457 £538 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -

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 50 66 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.37% 8.42% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 38 61
10th Percentile £176 £243 £122
25th Percentile £273 £353 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £419 £350
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +19.64% -12.50%
75th Percentile £425 £484 £500
90th Percentile £469 £526 £662
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £29.37 £11.52
25th Percentile £18.50 £45.22 £13.87
Median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.87% +136.88% -28.70%
75th Percentile £19.50 £51.91 £21.50
90th Percentile - - £43.25
England median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.74% +11.76% +107.32%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark 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
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 17 September 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
Northamptonshire -13 5 £420 +0.30%
Derbyshire - 1 £463 -
Leicestershire - 1 - -
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 6 (85.71%) Big Data
3 3 (42.86%) Apache Hive
3 3 (42.86%) HBase
3 3 (42.86%) Metadata
3 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (42.86%) Tableau
4 2 (28.57%) QlikView
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (14.29%) Power BI
5 1 (14.29%) Power Query
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Hadoop Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Scala Developer
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Business Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) MapReduce
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Metadata Management
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Scala
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) Python
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (14.29%) R
5 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (42.86%) Oozie
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google