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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 63 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 12 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.35% 0.14% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 15.79% 1.64% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £402 - -
25th Percentile £404 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £436 - -
90th Percentile £445 - -
England median daily rate £505 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -12.17% +6.48% -13.60%

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 76 61 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.56% 8.50% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 37 41
10th Percentile £132 £289 £181
25th Percentile £304 £350 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £420 £350
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +20.00% -10.83%
75th Percentile £473 £481 £500
90th Percentile £625 £543 £550
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £11.46
25th Percentile - - £11.83
Median hourly rate - £13.52 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.62% +16.67%
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - £47.60
England median hourly rate £37.50 £41.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.54% +64.00% +28.21%

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 11 £420 - 1
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 4 (33.33%) Apache
2 3 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Big Data
1 8 (66.67%) Hadoop
2 5 (41.67%) Apache Hive
3 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (33.33%) Metadata
4 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (25.00%) HBase
4 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (16.67%) Aerospike
5 2 (16.67%) QlikView
5 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (16.67%) Tableau
6 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
6 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (8.33%) Spark SQL
6 1 (8.33%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Banking
4 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Hadoop Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Scala Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Ab Initio Developer
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) Node.js
2 2 (16.67%) PySpark
2 2 (16.67%) pytest
3 1 (8.33%) Pandas
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
3 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) ETL
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (41.67%) Unit Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (33.33%) Data Science
4 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Fraud Detection
5 3 (25.00%) MapReduce
5 3 (25.00%) Metadata Management
5 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Scala
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (25.00%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) R
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (25.00%) Oozie
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Databricks
2 3 (25.00%) Ab Initio
3 1 (8.33%) Informatica
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Teradata