Apache Spark Contracts in Manchester

Apache Spark
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 72 88 113
Rank change year-on-year +16 +25 +19
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 7 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% 0.53% 0.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.90% 9.20% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £431 £489 £428
25th Percentile £463 £503 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £535 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% +12.63% -15.56%
75th Percentile £694 £581 £550
90th Percentile £725 £615 £588
North West median daily rate £528 £510 £475
% change year-on-year +3.43% +7.37% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
North West median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Application Platform Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 143 87 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.44% 5.74% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 60 103
10th Percentile £213 £251 £314
25th Percentile £375 £311 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £515 £526 £550
90th Percentile £600 £653 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £16.14 £27.78 £16.67
25th Percentile £16.25 £34.19 £22.67
Median hourly rate £75.00 £45.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +64.84% +70.09% +47.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 £57.44 £38.06
90th Percentile £78.25 £64.23 £54.83
North West median hourly rate £40.59 £32.12 £20.50
% change year-on-year +26.39% +56.66% +9.33%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Manchester

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in Manchester

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Manchester

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (42.86%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
2 2 (28.57%) Data Vault
2 2 (28.57%) Delta Lake
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Redis
3 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Matplotlib
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) Data Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Runbook
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks