Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Apache Spark
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 30 83
Rank change year-on-year -23 +53 +22
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 14 32 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.30% 4.56% 0.18%
As % of the Application Platforms category 22.22% 39.02% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 0
10th Percentile - £425 -
25th Percentile £550 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile - £756 -
90th Percentile £683 £831 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £575 -
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -

All Application Platform Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 63 82 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 10.36% 11.68% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 42 85
10th Percentile £235 £351 £191
25th Percentile £295 £427 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £600
90th Percentile £623 £688 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.80
25th Percentile - - £20.88
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.33%
75th Percentile - - £23.38
90th Percentile - - £23.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £21.50

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Leeds

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Leeds over the 6 months to 23 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Leeds

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) GCP
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) dbt
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) Flink
2 7 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (21.43%) BigQuery
4 2 (14.29%) Bigtable
4 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
4 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (7.14%) Power BI
5 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Architect
2 7 (50.00%) Kafka Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Data Architect
3 3 (21.43%) GCP Architect
3 3 (21.43%) GCP Data Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Kafka Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) Kafka
2 10 (71.43%) Apache Beam
2 10 (71.43%) Spark Streaming
3 7 (50.00%) JDBC
4 2 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (64.29%) Event-Driven
2 9 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (57.14%) Decision-Making
4 7 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
4 7 (50.00%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) ETL
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
6 2 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
6 2 (14.29%) Data Design
6 2 (14.29%) Information Architecture
6 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 2 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
7 1 (7.14%) Data Integration
7 1 (7.14%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) ANSI SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Scala
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Control-M
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
1 1 (7.14%) Databricks
1 1 (7.14%) Google