Apache Spark Contracts in Scotland

Apache Spark
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 116 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 3 13 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.59% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.39% 3.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 0
10th Percentile £457 - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% - -
75th Percentile £483 £522 -
90th Percentile £486 £634 -
UK median daily rate £575 £510 £600
% change year-on-year +12.75% -15.00% -

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 216 334 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.29% 15.07% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 203 230
10th Percentile £222 £219 £181
25th Percentile £313 £350 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £453 £436
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% +3.90% -3.11%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £525
90th Percentile £575 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 3
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.36 £17.83
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.42 £17.99
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -8.11% +5.71%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.50 £36.25
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.93 £46.75
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Scotland

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in Scotland

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +4 3 £469 -26.47% 9
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) Great Expectations
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker