Apache Spark Contracts in the East of England

Apache Spark
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Apache Spark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache Spark over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 106 115
Rank change year-on-year +38 +9 +15
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 14 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.49% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.08% 3.80% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 £405 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £410 £575
Median % change year-on-year +58.54% -28.70% +38.55%
75th Percentile £675 £415 £600
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -2.04%

All Application Platform Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 107 158 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.41% 8.28% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 104 164
10th Percentile £235 £202 £239
25th Percentile £372 £288 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £393 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.65% -17.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £569
90th Percentile £675 £584 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 26
10th Percentile £49.24 £12.13 -
25th Percentile £61.50 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £66.00 £14.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +371.43% -17.65% +17.24%
75th Percentile £77.50 £15.39 £23.00
90th Percentile £176.50 £18.73 £65.13
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the East of England

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the East of England

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hertfordshire +37 14 £650 +58.54% 4
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Big Data
1 14 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 14 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 12 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (85.71%) Data Science Developer
3 10 (71.43%) Senior
3 10 (71.43%) Senior Developer
4 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Gen AI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 14 (100.00%) NumPy
1 14 (100.00%) Pandas
1 14 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 14 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 14 (100.00%) Seaborn
1 14 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 14 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 14 (100.00%) Data Science
1 14 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 14 (100.00%) LLM
1 14 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 14 (100.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 14 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 12 (85.71%) Analytics
2 12 (85.71%) Computer Science
2 12 (85.71%) Data Analytics
2 12 (85.71%) Decision-Making
2 12 (85.71%) Feature Engineering
2 12 (85.71%) Predictive Analytics
2 12 (85.71%) Statistical Modelling
2 12 (85.71%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
1 14 (100.00%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) Degree
1 12 (85.71%) Master's Degree
1 12 (85.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) OpenAI