Apache Spark Contracts in the North of England

Apache Spark
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 148 201
Rank change year-on-year +10 +53 +10
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 31 30 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.94% 0.64% 0.090%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.38% 7.89% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 3
10th Percentile £400 £450 -
25th Percentile £463 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +7.37% -13.64%
75th Percentile £625 £520 £488
90th Percentile £685 £563 -
England median daily rate £575 £533 £600
% change year-on-year +7.98% -11.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £44.62 £78.00
% change year-on-year +17.67% -42.80% -0.95%

All Application Platform Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 486 380 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.68% 8.11% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 257 334
10th Percentile £208 £228 £200
25th Percentile £356 £325 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +2.70% +5.71%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £550
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 37 14
10th Percentile £37.80 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £41.55 £13.25 £16.34
Median hourly rate £53.61 £15.00 £22.27
Median % change year-on-year +257.40% -32.63% -1.04%
75th Percentile £75.00 £45.00 £28.06
90th Percentile £77.75 £46.18 £38.13
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% -36.84% +127.38%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the North of England

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the North of England

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the North of England

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 29 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
Yorkshire +14 18 £600 +18.34% 58
North West +1 11 £528 +3.43% 72
North East 0 2 £525 - 22
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (19.35%) Apache
2 4 (12.90%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) GCP
2 10 (32.26%) Azure
3 8 (25.81%) Amazon S3
3 8 (25.81%) AWS
4 4 (12.90%) dbt
5 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.68%) Snowflake
6 2 (6.45%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (6.45%) Collibra
6 2 (6.45%) Serverless
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.23%) GitHub
7 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) Flink
2 8 (25.81%) MongoDB
2 8 (25.81%) NoSQL
3 7 (22.58%) Big Data
3 7 (22.58%) Hadoop
4 6 (19.35%) BigQuery
5 3 (9.68%) Delta Lake
6 2 (6.45%) Bigtable
6 2 (6.45%) Data Mining
6 2 (6.45%) Data Vault
6 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (6.45%) RDBMS
6 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 2 (6.45%) Tableau
7 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (19.35%) Banking
2 3 (9.68%) Finance
2 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Advertising
4 1 (3.23%) Front Office
4 1 (3.23%) Games
4 1 (3.23%) International Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Architect
2 8 (25.81%) Data Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Data Architect
4 3 (9.68%) GCP Architect
4 3 (9.68%) GCP Data Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Principal Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.23%) ETL Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (67.74%) Kafka
2 11 (35.48%) Apache Beam
2 11 (35.48%) Spark Streaming
3 7 (22.58%) JDBC
4 2 (6.45%) .NET
4 2 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (6.45%) PySpark
5 1 (3.23%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (3.23%) Matplotlib
5 1 (3.23%) Pandas
5 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.45%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.23%) IoT
3 1 (3.23%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (41.94%) DevOps
4 10 (32.26%) Event-Driven
5 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
5 9 (29.03%) Data Ingestion
6 8 (25.81%) High Availability
7 7 (22.58%) Agile
7 7 (22.58%) Analytics
7 7 (22.58%) Decision-Making
8 5 (16.13%) Machine Learning
9 4 (12.90%) ETL
10 3 (9.68%) Architectural Design
10 3 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence
10 3 (9.68%) Data Governance
10 3 (9.68%) Data Science
10 3 (9.68%) Information Architecture
10 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
10 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
11 2 (6.45%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) Python
2 7 (22.58%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) Java
4 2 (6.45%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (6.45%) Scala
4 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) CSPO
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
1 1 (3.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Control-M
2 2 (6.45%) Grafana
2 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Databricks
2 3 (9.68%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) AppDynamics
3 2 (6.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.23%) Apple
4 1 (3.23%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.23%) Criteo
4 1 (3.23%) Virgin Media