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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 347 317
Rank change year-on-year +120 -30 -65
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 281 199 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.17% 0.54% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.24% 5.56% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 149 234
10th Percentile £419 £387 £475
25th Percentile £491 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% -11.25% -
75th Percentile £686 £675 £738
90th Percentile £838 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £574 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.29% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile - £26.18 £70.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £32.86 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.62 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.67% -42.80% -0.95%
75th Percentile £66.23 £57.00 £90.00
90th Percentile £73.71 £64.05 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £44.62 £78.00
% change year-on-year +17.67% -42.80% -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 2,743 3,582 5,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 9.74% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 2,582 3,587
10th Percentile £289 £256 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £786 £764
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £516
% change year-on-year -2.00% -3.15% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 142 132
10th Percentile £15.70 £13.00 £16.14
25th Percentile £26.45 £15.42 £21.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +133.37%
75th Percentile £65.81 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.74 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.16 £52.50
% change year-on-year +74.07% -42.55% +130.77%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +78 187 £600 +5.73% 140
North of England +11 30 £575 +12.75% 151
Yorkshire +21 17 £600 +18.34% 63
Midlands +21 15 £430 -1.71% 111
South East +66 14 £509 +35.67% 254
East of England +44 12 £650 +58.54% 85
East Midlands +13 11 £410 -6.29% 45
North West +6 11 £528 +3.43% 65
South West +44 3 £644 +2.18% 76
West Midlands +16 3 - - 59
North East +1 2 £525 - 23
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 96 (34.16%) Apache
2 45 (16.01%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.14%) Jupyter
3 6 (2.14%) nginx
4 4 (1.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) Luigi
5 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 126 (44.84%) AWS
2 102 (36.30%) Azure
3 56 (19.93%) GCP
4 43 (15.30%) Serverless
5 40 (14.23%) AWS Lambda
6 38 (13.52%) Amazon S3
7 31 (11.03%) dbt
8 27 (9.61%) OpenShift
9 25 (8.90%) Power Platform
10 23 (8.19%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (8.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (6.76%) Snowflake
12 11 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.20%) GitHub
15 8 (2.85%) Amazon EMR
15 8 (2.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 7 (2.49%) Amazon Kinesis
17 6 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.14%) SSH
2 3 (1.07%) Firewall
2 3 (1.07%) HTTP
2 3 (1.07%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.71%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.36%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) VPN
4 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (41.64%) Big Data
2 108 (38.43%) Hadoop
3 39 (13.88%) Apache Hive
4 37 (13.17%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (11.03%) Data Lake
6 29 (10.32%) Flink
7 28 (9.96%) Delta Lake
8 27 (9.61%) Amazon Athena
8 27 (9.61%) Apache Iceberg
8 27 (9.61%) Relational Database
8 27 (9.61%) Tableau
9 25 (8.90%) NoSQL
9 25 (8.90%) Power BI
10 23 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
11 22 (7.83%) Apache Arrow
11 22 (7.83%) Apache Ignite
11 22 (7.83%) Dremio
12 20 (7.12%) MongoDB
13 18 (6.41%) BigQuery
14 15 (5.34%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (13.17%) Git
2 26 (9.25%) Artifactory
3 23 (8.19%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.05%) JIRA
5 8 (2.85%) GitLab
6 6 (2.14%) RStudio
7 5 (1.78%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.42%) git-flow
8 4 (1.42%) Gradle
8 4 (1.42%) MLflow
8 4 (1.42%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.07%) ER Studio
9 3 (1.07%) ERwin
9 3 (1.07%) Poetry
10 2 (0.71%) JUnit
11 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.36%) JMeter
11 1 (0.36%) Postman
11 1 (0.36%) Selenium
11 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 93 (33.10%) Finance
2 59 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (18.86%) Social Skills
4 50 (17.79%) Banking
5 32 (11.39%) Front Office
6 18 (6.41%) Investment Banking
7 14 (4.98%) Marketing
8 13 (4.63%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.20%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.14%) Retail
10 6 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Automotive
14 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.36%) International Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (33.10%) Data Engineer
2 54 (19.22%) Developer
3 38 (13.52%) AWS Engineer
4 37 (13.17%) Senior
5 36 (12.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 34 (12.10%) Python Engineer
7 31 (11.03%) Architect
8 28 (9.96%) AWS DevOps
8 28 (9.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 26 (9.25%) Data Scientist
10 22 (7.83%) Java Developer
11 20 (7.12%) Lead
12 17 (6.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 16 (5.69%) Senior Developer
14 15 (5.34%) Senior Data Scientist
15 13 (4.63%) Data Architect
15 13 (4.63%) Kubernetes Engineer
16 11 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
16 11 (3.91%) Data Science Developer
17 10 (3.56%) Apache Spark Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (31.32%) Kafka
2 60 (21.35%) PySpark
3 27 (9.61%) Pandas
4 26 (9.25%) TensorFlow
5 25 (8.90%) Spark Streaming
6 24 (8.54%) scikit-learn
7 22 (7.83%) J2EE
8 17 (6.05%) PyTorch
9 16 (5.69%) OpenTelemetry
10 15 (5.34%) Apache Beam
11 14 (4.98%) NumPy
12 13 (4.63%) JSON
12 13 (4.63%) Matplotlib
13 12 (4.27%) Seaborn
14 11 (3.91%) YAML
15 10 (3.56%) Spring
16 9 (3.20%) JDBC
17 8 (2.85%) pydantic
17 8 (2.85%) React
18 7 (2.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.52%) Distributed Computing
2 33 (11.74%) Algorithms
3 17 (6.05%) Data Structures
4 13 (4.63%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.56%) Market Risk
5 10 (3.56%) Multi-touch
6 9 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.85%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.49%) Credit Risk
8 7 (2.49%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.07%) Equities
10 3 (1.07%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.07%) IoT
10 3 (1.07%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.07%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.07%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.23%) Linux
2 18 (6.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (35.23%) CI/CD
2 95 (33.81%) Machine Learning
3 92 (32.74%) Data Pipeline
4 86 (30.60%) DevOps
5 83 (29.54%) Analytics
6 82 (29.18%) Data Science
7 73 (25.98%) Data Engineering
8 71 (25.27%) Agile
9 66 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (21.71%) ETL
11 58 (20.64%) Artificial Intelligence
12 50 (17.79%) Computer Science
13 42 (14.95%) Data Governance
14 41 (14.59%) Data Modelling
15 34 (12.10%) Data Analysis
15 34 (12.10%) Open Source
15 34 (12.10%) Software Engineering
16 33 (11.74%) Visualisation
17 31 (11.03%) Mathematics
18 29 (10.32%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 192 (68.33%) Python
2 108 (38.43%) SQL
3 91 (32.38%) Java
4 51 (18.15%) Scala
5 29 (10.32%) R
6 26 (9.25%) Go
7 19 (6.76%) JavaScript
8 15 (5.34%) Shell Script
9 14 (4.98%) C++
9 14 (4.98%) TypeScript
10 12 (4.27%) Bash
10 12 (4.27%) C
11 8 (2.85%) C#
12 6 (2.14%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.42%) Perl
13 4 (1.42%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.71%) ANSI SQL
14 2 (0.71%) Bicep
15 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 55 (19.57%) Degree
2 40 (14.23%) PhD
3 31 (11.03%) Master's Degree
4 30 (10.68%) Security Cleared
5 26 (9.25%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.07%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.36%) CSPO
9 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.36%) PMP
9 1 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (17.08%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.91%) GDPR
3 4 (1.42%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.42%) QA
4 3 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.07%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.36%) PMO
5 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (18.51%) Docker
2 3 (1.07%) HDFS
3 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.36%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 75 (26.69%) Terraform
2 74 (26.33%) Kubernetes
3 29 (10.32%) Ansible
4 22 (7.83%) Grafana
5 15 (5.34%) Argo
6 8 (2.85%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.42%) Kibana
8 3 (1.07%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.71%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.71%) Control-M
10 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.36%) logstash
10 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.36%) Puppet
10 1 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 57 (20.28%) Databricks
2 19 (6.76%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.27%) Google
4 11 (3.91%) Cloudera
5 8 (2.85%) Oracle
6 5 (1.78%) Palantir
7 4 (1.42%) IBM
7 4 (1.42%) Sybase
7 4 (1.42%) Talend
8 3 (1.07%) Duck Creek
8 3 (1.07%) Foundry
8 3 (1.07%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.71%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.36%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.36%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.36%) Criteo
10 1 (0.36%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.36%) Virgin Media