Apache Spark Contracts in Northern Ireland

Apache Spark
UK > Northern Ireland

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 8 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.23% 1.09% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.59% 18.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £405 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% - -
75th Percentile £505 £438 -
90th Percentile £612 - -
UK median daily rate £554 £519 £600
% change year-on-year +6.66% -13.51% -

All Application Platform Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 29 11 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 15.34% 6.01% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 5 5
10th Percentile £184 £168 £338
25th Percentile £361 £188 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £363 £375
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -3.33% -21.05%
75th Percentile £509 £438 £475
90th Percentile £595 £498 £496
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.96% -2.39%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Northern Ireland

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in Northern Ireland

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Northern Ireland

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
County Antrim -1 8 £410 -3.53% 33
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (37.50%) Apache
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Apache Hive
1 5 (62.50%) Big Data
2 3 (37.50%) HBase
2 3 (37.50%) Impala
2 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (25.00%) MySQL
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (12.50%) GIS
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
4 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
4 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (25.00%) Law
5 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Big Data Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) Storyboarding
3 2 (25.00%) Use Case
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
4 1 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
2 1 (12.50%) Fujitsu