Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Apache Spark
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 53 69
Rank change year-on-year -20 +16 +6
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 7 13 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.96% 1.91% 0.49%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.64% 12.26% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 4
10th Percentile £344 £318 -
25th Percentile £391 £356 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -20.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £513
90th Percentile - £510 -
Scotland median daily rate £488 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +21.88% -20.00% -13.04%

All Application Platform Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 81 106 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.13% 15.54% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 82 65
10th Percentile £300 £255 £411
25th Percentile £356 £357 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £450 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -15.09% +11.58%
75th Percentile £528 £547 £650
90th Percentile £699 £695 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £434 £500
% change year-on-year +3.69% -13.20% +7.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.98 - -
Median hourly rate £18.00 - -
75th Percentile £18.02 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £22.23 £45.00
% change year-on-year +158.63% -50.59% +148.48%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Glasgow

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Apache Spark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Glasgow over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Glasgow

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 5 (71.43%) Apache
2 4 (57.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Snowflake
2 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (57.14%) Big Data
2 4 (57.14%) Hadoop
2 4 (57.14%) Power BI
3 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (14.29%) DB2
4 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Data Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Python Data Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) REST
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) NumPy
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
2 6 (85.71%) ETL
2 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (71.43%) Clean Code
3 5 (71.43%) Data Integration
4 4 (57.14%) API Integration
4 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (57.14%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (57.14%) Sprint Review
4 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 1 (14.29%) Use Case
6 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Databricks
2 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
3 1 (14.29%) Greenplum