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 citing Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	86	69	65
Rank change year-on-year	-17	-4	+1
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark	3	6	2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands	0.21%	0.71%	0.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category	4.92%	10.00%	3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	3	6	0
10^th Percentile	£331	£408	-
25^th Percentile	£371	£410	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£475	£420	-
Median % change year-on-year	+13.10%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£500	£441	-
90^th Percentile	£508	£457	-
England median daily rate	£500	£513	£600
% change year-on-year	-2.44%	-14.51%	-0.08%

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 citing application platform skills in the East Midlands.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing application platform skills	61	60	64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands	4.36%	7.08%	8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted	38	50	39
10^th Percentile	£221	£132	£291
25^th Percentile	£275	£310	£331
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£401	£358	£420
Median % change year-on-year	+11.87%	-14.76%	+20.00%
75^th Percentile	£492	£445	£475
90^th Percentile	£575	£550	£516
England median daily rate	£500	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	-	-4.76%	+2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	0	1
10^th Percentile	£21.50	-	-
25^th Percentile	£23.66	-	-
Median hourly rate	£25.66	-	£13.52
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-35.62%
75^th Percentile	£36.03	-	-
90^th Percentile	£40.02	-	-
England median hourly rate	£28.40	£37.50	£42.50
% change year-on-year	-24.28%	-11.76%	+57.41%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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 24 October 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 24 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Nottinghamshire	-	2	£475	-
Northamptonshire	+12	1	£304	-27.62%	1
Apache Spark England

Apache Spark Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Apache Spark also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region citing Apache Spark.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	3
1	Data Pipeline	100.0%	3
1	ETL	100.0%	3
1	Python	100.0%	3
5	Data Ingestion	66.7%	2
5	Databricks	66.7%	2
5	Kafka	66.7%	2
5	PySpark	66.7%	2
9	Apache	33.3%	1
9	Apache Flume	33.3%	1
9	Apache Hive	33.3%	1
9	Apache Pig	33.3%	1
9	AWS	33.3%	1
9	Azure Data Factory	33.3%	1
9	Azure Databricks	33.3%	1
9	Azure DevOps	33.3%	1
9	Azure Stack	33.3%	1
9	Batch Processing	33.3%	1
9	Big Data	33.3%	1
9	Change Data Capture	33.3%	1
9	CI/CD	33.3%	1
9	Data Architecture	33.3%	1
9	Data Engineering	33.3%	1
9	Data Governance	33.3%	1
9	Data Integration	33.3%	1
9	Data Lake	33.3%	1
9	Data Modelling	33.3%	1
9	Data Science	33.3%	1
9	Data Security	33.3%	1
9	Data Warehouse	33.3%	1

Apache Spark Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Application Platforms

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Apache	33.3%	1
1	Apache Pig	33.3%	1