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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 11 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 4.15% 1.80% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 33.33% 14.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £305 £367 -
25th Percentile £355 £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £419 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% - -
75th Percentile £456 £444 -
90th Percentile £488 £478 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £415 £419 -
% change year-on-year -0.90% - -

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 33 27 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 12.45% 12.16% 22.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 21 21
10th Percentile £270 - £189
25th Percentile £326 £356 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +142.42%
75th Percentile £445 £450 -
90th Percentile £488 £475 £408
Northamptonshire median daily rate £359 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -10.25% - +133.58%

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 22 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 3 (27.27%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) Big Data
1 10 (90.91%) Hadoop
2 6 (54.55%) Impala
3 5 (45.45%) Apache Hive
3 5 (45.45%) HBase
4 2 (18.18%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (18.18%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
4 2 (18.18%) Delta Lake
4 2 (18.18%) Flink
4 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 2 (18.18%) Parquet
4 2 (18.18%) QlikView
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (18.18%) Tableau
5 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Scala Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Big Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Hadoop Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Scala Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Avro
2 2 (18.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ETL
2 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
2 3 (27.27%) Open Source
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
3 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
3 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (9.09%) Data Management
4 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Multithreading
4 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Validation
4 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Scala
2 7 (63.64%) Java
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Hitachi