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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 65 66
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +24
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 6 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.71% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.00% 3.13% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £410 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +51.26%
75th Percentile £441 - £688
90th Percentile £457 - -
England median daily rate £513 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -14.51% -0.08% -4.00%

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 60 64 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.08% 8.45% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 39 55
10th Percentile £132 £291 £160
25th Percentile £310 £331 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £420 £350
Median % change year-on-year -14.76% +20.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £445 £475 £505
90th Percentile £550 £516 £632
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
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% +17.58%
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - £47.60
England median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% +57.41% +35.00%

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
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 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 -6 5 £420 -
Derbyshire - 1 £463 -
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 3 (50.00%) Apache
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 5 (83.33%) Big Data
3 3 (50.00%) Apache Hive
3 3 (50.00%) HBase
3 3 (50.00%) Metadata
3 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (33.33%) QlikView
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (33.33%) Tableau
5 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Hadoop Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Scala Developer
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Data Science
2 3 (50.00%) MapReduce
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) ETL Development
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Scala
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (50.00%) Oozie