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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 53 65
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +25
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 10 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.04% 0.35% 0.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.47% 4.08% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £315 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% - -
75th Percentile £436 - -
90th Percentile £486 - -
England median daily rate £525 £594 £523
% change year-on-year -11.58% +13.64% -12.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.22 - £58.03

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 118 49 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.25% 8.54% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 34 31
10th Percentile £162 £185 £145
25th Percentile £304 £296 £171
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £391 £295
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% +32.54% -24.36%
75th Percentile £469 £480 £491
90th Percentile £550 £554 £550
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.52
25th Percentile £16.25 - £19.48
Median hourly rate £19.25 - £30.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +72.12%
75th Percentile £24.03 - £49.13
90th Percentile £24.99 - £58.65
England median hourly rate £25.42 £42.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -40.20% +66.67% +15.91%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -15 9 £402 +27.62%
Leicestershire - 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 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Big Data
2 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (30.00%) Apache Hive
4 2 (20.00%) Aerospike
4 2 (20.00%) Metadata
5 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (10.00%) HBase
5 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (10.00%) Spark SQL
5 1 (10.00%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Data Scientist
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Ab Initio Developer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
1 3 (30.00%) Pandas
1 3 (30.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (30.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) PySpark
2 2 (20.00%) pytest
3 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) ETL
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Analytics
2 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (40.00%) Data Science
3 4 (40.00%) Fraud Detection
3 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Fintech
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (30.00%) Statistical Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) R
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (10.00%) Oozie
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Databricks
2 3 (30.00%) Ab Initio
3 1 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Teradata