Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Apache Spark
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.29% - 1.95%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.23% - 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £469
25th Percentile - - £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £513
75th Percentile - - £553
90th Percentile - - £566
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £410 £438
% change year-on-year -1.95% -6.29% -

All Application Platform Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 31 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 9.09% 6.57% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 5
10th Percentile £199 - £373
25th Percentile £203 £185 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £248 £364 £488
Median % change year-on-year -31.96% -25.38% +12.39%
75th Percentile £427 £570 £575
90th Percentile £536 £581 -
East Midlands median daily rate £407 £400 £356
% change year-on-year +1.81% +12.36% -5.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - -
Median hourly rate £16.50 - -
75th Percentile £16.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £74.00 £19.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year +289.47% -60.87% +108.95%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Nottingham - 1 £600 - 2
Apache Spark
East Midlands

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks