Apache Spark Contracts in Northampton

Apache Spark
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 12 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 4.30% 1.85% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 32.43% 14.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile £351 £367 -
25th Percentile £405 £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £419 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% - -
75th Percentile £445 £444 -
90th Percentile £488 £478 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £420 £419 -
% change year-on-year +0.30% - -

All Application Platform Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 37 27 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 13.26% 12.50% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 21
10th Percentile £270 - £189
25th Percentile £331 £356 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +133.58%
75th Percentile £434 £450 -
90th Percentile £484 £475 £408
Northamptonshire median daily rate £360 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +128.57%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Northampton

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in Northampton

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Northampton over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Northampton

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 5 (41.67%) Apache
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) Big Data
1 11 (91.67%) Hadoop
2 7 (58.33%) Apache Hive
2 7 (58.33%) HBase
3 6 (50.00%) Impala
4 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (16.67%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (16.67%) Delta Lake
5 2 (16.67%) Flink
5 2 (16.67%) Metadata
5 2 (16.67%) Parquet
5 2 (16.67%) QlikView
5 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (16.67%) Tableau
6 1 (8.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Scala Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Hadoop Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Big Data Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Scala Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) SQL Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Hadoop Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior
6 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Avro
2 2 (16.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) ETL
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) Data Science
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) MapReduce
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Metadata Management
4 2 (16.67%) Open Source
4 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Scala
2 6 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (41.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) HDFS
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Hadoop YARN
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Oozie
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Hitachi