Apache Spark Contracts in England

Apache Spark
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 217 367 320
Rank change year-on-year +150 -47 -73
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 301 177 380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.24% 0.48% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.69% 5.11% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 128 260
10th Percentile £400 £375 £474
25th Percentile £475 £455 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -2.04%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £738
90th Percentile £838 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £510 £600
% change year-on-year +12.75% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile - £22.93 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £24.74 £70.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.13% -60.90% -0.95%
75th Percentile £66.23 £51.00 -
90th Percentile £73.71 £61.65 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +72.13% -60.90% -0.95%

All Application Platform Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,817 3,461 5,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.57% 9.31% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 2,471 3,915
10th Percentile £283 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 139 128
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%
75th Percentile £64.50 £45.59 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in England.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache Spark in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +97 204 £600 +9.09% 293
North of England +25 26 £550 +7.84% 46
South East +59 19 £550 +46.67% 77
East of England +38 14 £650 +58.54% 21
Yorkshire +16 13 £600 +41.18% 17
Midlands +21 11 £389 -11.09% 33
North West +14 11 £528 +3.43% 24
East Midlands +11 10 £389 -11.09% 14
South West +51 6 £613 +15.02% 23
North East +1 2 £525 - 5
West Midlands +12 1 - - 17
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 110 (36.54%) Apache
2 51 (16.94%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.32%) nginx
4 7 (2.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) Luigi
5 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 132 (43.85%) AWS
2 101 (33.55%) Azure
3 51 (16.94%) Serverless
4 48 (15.95%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (14.62%) GCP
6 41 (13.62%) Amazon S3
7 37 (12.29%) dbt
8 35 (11.63%) OpenShift
9 29 (9.63%) Amazon ECS
9 29 (9.63%) Power Platform
10 25 (8.31%) Azure Data Factory
11 23 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (6.31%) Snowflake
13 16 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (4.32%) Amazon EMR
15 12 (3.99%) GitHub
16 10 (3.32%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (2.99%) Azure AKS
18 8 (2.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.99%) SSH
2 5 (1.66%) Firewall
2 5 (1.66%) HTTP
2 5 (1.66%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (1.66%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.66%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.33%) VPN
4 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (45.51%) Big Data
2 119 (39.53%) Hadoop
3 48 (15.95%) Apache Hive
4 38 (12.62%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (11.63%) Apache Iceberg
6 34 (11.30%) Data Lake
7 33 (10.96%) Amazon Athena
8 30 (9.97%) Tableau
9 29 (9.63%) Power BI
10 28 (9.30%) Apache Arrow
10 28 (9.30%) Apache Ignite
10 28 (9.30%) Dremio
11 26 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
12 25 (8.31%) Relational Database
13 24 (7.97%) Delta Lake
13 24 (7.97%) Flink
14 20 (6.64%) NoSQL
15 18 (5.98%) BigQuery
15 18 (5.98%) MongoDB
16 16 (5.32%) Impala
Development Applications
1 37 (12.29%) Git
2 31 (10.30%) Artifactory
3 25 (8.31%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.65%) JIRA
5 12 (3.99%) GitLab
6 6 (1.99%) RStudio
7 5 (1.66%) Poetry
7 5 (1.66%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.33%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.00%) git-flow
9 3 (1.00%) Gradle
10 2 (0.66%) JUnit
10 2 (0.66%) MLflow
11 1 (0.33%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.33%) JMeter
11 1 (0.33%) Locust
11 1 (0.33%) Postman
11 1 (0.33%) ScalaTest
11 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 103 (34.22%) Finance
2 65 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (16.94%) Banking
3 51 (16.94%) Social Skills
4 39 (12.96%) Front Office
5 18 (5.98%) Investment Banking
6 16 (5.32%) Marketing
7 14 (4.65%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.33%) Retail
10 6 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.66%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
12 1 (0.33%) Automotive
12 1 (0.33%) International Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.33%) Military
12 1 (0.33%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 109 (36.21%) Data Engineer
2 51 (16.94%) Developer
3 50 (16.61%) AWS Engineer
4 49 (16.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 45 (14.95%) Senior
6 44 (14.62%) Python Engineer
7 36 (11.96%) AWS DevOps
7 36 (11.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 29 (9.63%) Architect
8 29 (9.63%) Data Scientist
9 22 (7.31%) Java Developer
10 20 (6.64%) Lead
11 18 (5.98%) Senior Developer
12 16 (5.32%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 16 (5.32%) Senior Data Scientist
13 14 (4.65%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 13 (4.32%) Data Science Developer
14 13 (4.32%) Senior Data Engineer
15 12 (3.99%) Data Architect
16 11 (3.65%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (31.56%) Kafka
2 76 (25.25%) PySpark
3 30 (9.97%) TensorFlow
4 28 (9.30%) J2EE
4 28 (9.30%) scikit-learn
5 24 (7.97%) Pandas
6 21 (6.98%) PyTorch
6 21 (6.98%) Spark Streaming
7 16 (5.32%) NumPy
8 15 (4.98%) Matplotlib
8 15 (4.98%) OpenTelemetry
8 15 (4.98%) YAML
9 14 (4.65%) Seaborn
10 13 (4.32%) JSON
11 12 (3.99%) Apache Beam
12 11 (3.65%) React
13 9 (2.99%) Spring
14 8 (2.66%) pydantic
15 7 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
15 7 (2.33%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.62%) Distributed Computing
2 34 (11.30%) Algorithms
3 12 (3.99%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.99%) Multi-touch
4 11 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.32%) Market Risk
6 9 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.66%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.33%) Credit Risk
8 7 (2.33%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.33%) Equities
9 4 (1.33%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.33%) IoT
9 4 (1.33%) Tandem
10 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.00%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.66%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.28%) Linux
2 19 (6.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.66%) Unix
4 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (37.54%) CI/CD
2 99 (32.89%) DevOps
3 93 (30.90%) Data Pipeline
3 93 (30.90%) Machine Learning
4 89 (29.57%) Analytics
5 86 (28.57%) Data Engineering
6 85 (28.24%) Data Science
7 78 (25.91%) Agile
8 76 (25.25%) ETL
9 69 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (19.93%) Artificial Intelligence
11 48 (15.95%) Computer Science
12 44 (14.62%) Data Analysis
13 42 (13.95%) Software Engineering
14 38 (12.62%) Data Modelling
14 38 (12.62%) Visualisation
15 37 (12.29%) Data Governance
16 35 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
16 35 (11.63%) Open Source
17 32 (10.63%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 221 (73.42%) Python
2 128 (42.52%) SQL
3 101 (33.55%) Java
4 48 (15.95%) Scala
5 32 (10.63%) R
6 28 (9.30%) Go
7 20 (6.64%) JavaScript
8 17 (5.65%) Shell Script
9 16 (5.32%) C++
9 16 (5.32%) TypeScript
10 14 (4.65%) C
11 12 (3.99%) Bash
12 9 (2.99%) C#
12 9 (2.99%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.33%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.66%) Perl
15 4 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.66%) Bicep
17 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (17.28%) Degree
2 40 (13.29%) PhD
3 33 (10.96%) Security Cleared
4 31 (10.30%) Master's Degree
5 26 (8.64%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.33%) CSPO
10 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.33%) PMP
10 1 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (17.94%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.32%) GDPR
3 5 (1.66%) QA
4 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 63 (20.93%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) HDFS
2 5 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 87 (28.90%) Terraform
2 86 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.64%) Ansible
4 22 (7.31%) Grafana
5 14 (4.65%) Argo
6 10 (3.32%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.00%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.66%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.66%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.33%) Kibana
9 1 (0.33%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.33%) logstash
9 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.33%) Puppet
9 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.33%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 58 (19.27%) Databricks
2 20 (6.64%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.32%) Cloudera
4 12 (3.99%) Google
5 10 (3.32%) Oracle
6 7 (2.33%) Palantir
7 6 (1.99%) Talend
8 4 (1.33%) Informatica
8 4 (1.33%) Sybase
9 3 (1.00%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.00%) Foundry
9 3 (1.00%) IBM
9 3 (1.00%) StreamSets
10 2 (0.66%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.66%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.33%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.33%) Criteo
11 1 (0.33%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.33%) Splunk
11 1 (0.33%) Virgin Media