Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Apache Spark
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 16 22
Rank change year-on-year -19 +6 -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 10 10 3
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 3.86% 6.94% 1.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 18.87% 33.33% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 3
10th Percentile £345 £298 £401
25th Percentile £385 £328 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £389 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.34% -8.47% -
75th Percentile £436 £469 £463
90th Percentile £449 £488 £485
East Midlands median daily rate £414 £389 £450
% change year-on-year +6.30% -13.56% -

All Application Platform Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 53 30 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 20.46% 20.83% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 24 9
10th Percentile £312 £282 £327
25th Percentile £358 £313 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £396 £363
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% +9.10% -5.23%
75th Percentile £465 £478 £419
90th Percentile £475 £488 £440
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £400 £335
% change year-on-year +0.50% +19.40% -10.67%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Apache Spark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Northamptonshire

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
Northampton -20 10 £402 +3.34% 1
Apache Spark
East Midlands

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Big Data
2 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (30.00%) Aerospike
3 3 (30.00%) Apache Hive
3 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (20.00%) Sqoop
5 1 (10.00%) HBase
5 1 (10.00%) Metadata
5 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Data Scientist
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Ab Initio Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 3 (30.00%) Node.js
2 3 (30.00%) Pandas
2 3 (30.00%) PySpark
2 3 (30.00%) pytest
2 3 (30.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (30.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ETL
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Analytics
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Data Science
4 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) R
4 2 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (10.00%) Scala
5 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (10.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Databricks
2 3 (30.00%) Ab Initio
3 1 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Teradata