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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 39 58
Rank change year-on-year -30 +19 -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 11 11 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.07% 2.18% 0.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.27% 19.64% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 4
10th Percentile £387 £298 £402
25th Percentile £402 £328 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £389 £438
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% -11.09% -
75th Percentile £475 £469 £519
90th Percentile £600 £488 £553
England median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.33
25th Percentile - - £23.24
Median hourly rate - - £26.12
75th Percentile - - £30.37
90th Percentile - - £32.10
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.60 £44.12
% change year-on-year +6.71% +48.68% -43.43%

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 133 56 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.89% 11.11% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 43 31
10th Percentile £131 £252 £145
25th Percentile £238 £305 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £356
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +12.36% -5.38%
75th Percentile £475 £488 £459
90th Percentile £600 £537 £550
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 9
10th Percentile £16.25 - £22.35
25th Percentile £20.50 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £30.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.72%
75th Percentile £74.00 - £51.91
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
England median hourly rate £28.88 £52.50 £28.01
% change year-on-year -44.99% +87.45% +22.76%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -23 9 £402 +3.34% 1
Leicestershire -6 1 £600 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £600 -
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 (18.18%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) GCP
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 3 (27.27%) GitHub
4 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Big Data
2 4 (36.36%) Data Lake
2 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (27.27%) Aerospike
3 3 (27.27%) Hadoop
4 2 (18.18%) Apache Hive
4 2 (18.18%) Spark SQL
5 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
5 1 (9.09%) Metadata
5 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
5 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 1 (9.09%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Data Scientist
3 2 (18.18%) Ab Initio Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) PySpark
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) Pandas
2 3 (27.27%) pytest
2 3 (27.27%) scikit-learn
2 3 (27.27%) TensorFlow
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Analytics
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
1 7 (63.64%) ETL
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Data Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Fraud Detection
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
4 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
5 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (27.27%) Fintech
5 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Secure Coding
5 3 (27.27%) Statistical Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) R
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 2 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Databricks
2 3 (27.27%) Ab Initio
3 1 (9.09%) Informatica
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Teradata