Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Apache Spark
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 81 97
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 +35
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 3 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.19% 0.44% 0.53%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.78% 3.62% 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £410 £520 -
25th Percentile £426 £588 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £650 £350
Median % change year-on-year -30.38% +85.71% -33.33%
75th Percentile £481 £675 £400
90th Percentile £497 - -
England median daily rate £513 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -14.58% +14.29% -12.50%

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 108 138 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 6.75% 12.06% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 80 76
10th Percentile £213 £213 £165
25th Percentile £400 £282 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £387 £388
Median % change year-on-year +22.66% -0.06% -22.50%
75th Percentile £550 £506 £503
90th Percentile £619 £601 £631
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 17
10th Percentile £18.10 £26.40 -
25th Percentile £21.99 £47.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.73 £63.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.40% +334.48% -
75th Percentile £35.21 £66.00 £67.56
90th Percentile £38.96 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £32.77 £41.91 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.81% +61.19% +40.54%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Spark relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the East of England

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Apache Spark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Apache Spark

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 17 December 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 -23 2 £505 -22.31% 2
Cambridgeshire -4 1 £400 -20.00%
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
2 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
2 2 (66.67%) Tableau
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Pentaho
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Matplotlib
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) Seaborn
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (33.33%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Munging
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Reinforcement Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) R
3 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (66.67%) PhD
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) Vertica