Apache Spark Contracts in the North West

Apache Spark
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Apache Spark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apache Spark over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 151 160
Rank change year-on-year +31 +9 -41
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 14 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.50% 0.22% 0.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.14% 2.69% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £478 £436 £306
25th Percentile £505 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -13.64% -6.38%
75th Percentile £526 £488 £606
90th Percentile £570 £563 £650
England median daily rate £525 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.04% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.50 £78.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -60.90% -0.95% +86.39%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

Apache Spark is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 196 260 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 7.06% 8.14% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 187 317
10th Percentile £230 £231 £172
25th Percentile £312 £372 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £520 £550 £550
90th Percentile £613 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 24
10th Percentile - £15.18 £16.25
25th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.12 £20.50 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +56.66% +9.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £45.00 £26.69 £44.03
90th Percentile £46.18 £39.93 £53.39
England median hourly rate £27.50 £31.25 £20.89
% change year-on-year -12.00% +49.59% +4.45%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the North West

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the North West

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the North West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the North West

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Manchester +20 8 £535 +12.63% 5
Cheshire - 6 £510 - 1
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (42.86%) Apache
2 5 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Snowflake
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (35.71%) Serverless
4 4 (28.57%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) Big Data
2 7 (50.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (21.43%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (21.43%) HBase
3 3 (21.43%) MySQL
4 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (7.14%) Azkaban
5 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
5 1 (7.14%) Metadata
5 1 (7.14%) Power BI
5 1 (7.14%) Presto
5 1 (7.14%) Spark SQL
5 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) RStudio
General
1 5 (35.71%) Manufacturing
1 5 (35.71%) Pharmaceutical
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Data Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) Architect
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Cassandra Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Hadoop Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) JSON
1 5 (35.71%) XML
2 4 (28.57%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Data Engineering
1 10 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (57.14%) ETL
3 7 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (42.86%) Agile
4 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) Data Management
4 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (35.71%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (35.71%) OO
5 5 (35.71%) OOP
5 5 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (35.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (35.71%) Scrum
5 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
6 4 (28.57%) TOGAF
7 3 (21.43%) Analytics
7 3 (21.43%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 9 (64.29%) Java
2 9 (64.29%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) C#
4 4 (28.57%) Scala
5 2 (14.29%) Perl
6 1 (7.14%) Bash
6 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Informatica
1 5 (35.71%) Talend
2 3 (21.43%) Databricks
3 2 (14.29%) Teradata
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk