Apache Spark Contracts in Northamptonshire

Apache Spark
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 33 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 11 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 3.96% 1.40% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 31.43% 12.90% -
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 -
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £438 £675
% change year-on-year -4.00% -35.19% +80.00%

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 35 31 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 12.59% 10.84% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 21 25
10th Percentile £270 - £173
25th Percentile £330 £356 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +128.57%
75th Percentile £438 £450 -
90th Percentile £488 £475 £688
East Midlands median daily rate £368 £396 £360
% change year-on-year -7.01% +9.93% +2.86%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Northamptonshire

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in Northamptonshire

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

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 20 July 2025. 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 -4 11 £415 -0.90% 5
Apache Spark
East Midlands

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 Modelling
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