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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 10 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 3.60% 2.56% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 19.23% 21.05% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £384 £324 -
25th Percentile £400 £338 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £363 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.38% - -
75th Percentile £436 £390 -
90th Percentile £449 £405 -
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £363 -
% change year-on-year +15.86% - -

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 52 19 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 18.71% 12.18% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 15 6
10th Percentile £307 £287 £238
25th Percentile £340 £311 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £391 £338
Median % change year-on-year +8.31% +15.85% -15.63%
75th Percentile £465 £433 £400
90th Percentile £475 £483 £494
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £396 £250
% change year-on-year +4.42% +58.20% -35.48%

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
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 22 February 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 -14 10 £411 +13.38% 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
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) 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%) Metadata
5 1 (10.00%) HBase
5 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (10.00%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
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%) 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
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Analytics
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 6 (60.00%) ETL
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
3 4 (40.00%) Data Science
3 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Integration Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Statistical Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) R
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Scala
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (10.00%) Oozie
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