Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Apache Spark
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.60% - 0.49%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.00% - 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £513 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -6.82% +37.50% -30.43%

All Application Platform Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10 11 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 5.95% 12.22% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 8
10th Percentile £231 - £143
25th Percentile £413 - £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £250 £493
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% -49.24% +64.17%
75th Percentile £500 - £538
90th Percentile £541 - £549
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £465
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.16% -3.13%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft