Apache Spark Contracts in the East Midlands

Apache Spark
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 46 57 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 10 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.87% 1.16% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 23.26% 15.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile £298 £376 -
25th Percentile £328 £402 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% - -
75th Percentile £469 £497 -
90th Percentile £488 £538 -
England median daily rate £600 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.12 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +72.13% -60.90% -0.95%

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 43 60 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.02% 7.76% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 37 81
10th Percentile £185 £145 £122
25th Percentile £273 £160 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £356 £375
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -5.07% +7.14%
75th Percentile £488 £425 £445
90th Percentile £550 £515 £625
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 6
10th Percentile - £22.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.38 £18.29
Median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -60.87% +108.95% +3.29%
75th Percentile £19.50 £51.91 £26.48
90th Percentile - - £47.62
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the East Midlands

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Northamptonshire +4 9 £389 -7.10% 2
Leicestershire - 1 - - 3
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 (30.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) Big Data
1 9 (90.00%) Hadoop
2 6 (60.00%) Impala
3 5 (50.00%) Apache Hive
3 5 (50.00%) HBase
4 2 (20.00%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (20.00%) Delta Lake
4 2 (20.00%) Flink
4 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (20.00%) Parquet
5 1 (10.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) Power Query
5 1 (10.00%) Spark SQL
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Automotive
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Scala Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Big Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (20.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) ETL
2 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (30.00%) Open Source
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (10.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Data Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Scala
2 5 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) R
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Hitachi