Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Reading

Apache Spark
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 63 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 7 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.64% 0.66% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.21% 4.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £400 £530 -
25th Percentile £425 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £562 £588 -
90th Percentile £630 £595 -
Berkshire median daily rate £440 £550 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

All Application Platform Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 76 83 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 6.93% 13.79% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 38 45
10th Percentile £319 £350 £278
25th Percentile £433 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +7.32% +3.80%
75th Percentile £584 £611 £608
90th Percentile £700 £713 -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £513 £506
% change year-on-year -7.32% +1.23% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £24.10 - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - £61.58
Median hourly rate £35.22 - £63.15
Median % change year-on-year - - +74.59%
75th Percentile £83.62 - £64.73
90th Percentile £88.55 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.50 £62.50 £52.83
% change year-on-year -48.00% +18.32% -16.15%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Reading

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Reading over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Reading

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Big Data
2 5 (71.43%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (42.86%) Hadoop
3 3 (42.86%) Spark SQL
4 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
5 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Aerospace
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) PySpark
2 2 (28.57%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 7 (100.00%) ETL
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Data Validation
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Validation
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (42.86%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (42.86%) Sprint Review
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Data Science
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
1 4 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks