Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in the North East

Apache Spark
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.65% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £531 - -
90th Percentile £558 - -
England median daily rate £513 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -14.51% -0.08% -4.00%

All Application Platform Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 33 27 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 10.71% 9.51% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 7
10th Percentile £203 £401 £163
25th Percentile £406 £411 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £452 £350
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% +29.14% -33.33%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £375
90th Percentile £620 £608 £580
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Spark relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the North East

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Apache Spark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the North East over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the North East

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £475 - 4
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce