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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 17 0 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.79% - 1.00%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.78% - 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 21
10th Percentile £319 - £360
25th Percentile £387 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.67%
75th Percentile £430 - £800
90th Percentile £525 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +7.62%

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 294 317 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.72% 11.86% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 224 286
10th Percentile £200 £181 £225
25th Percentile £350 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £575
90th Percentile £684 £650 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.15% -1.73% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £15.94 - £15.53
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.25 £16.27
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +5.71% -55.70%
75th Percentile £20.84 £18.75 -
90th Percentile £36.01 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.71 £52.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -39.60% +128.26% +15.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 19 June 2024. 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
Glasgow - 15 £400 - 1
Edinburgh - 2 £500 - 2
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 (11.76%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (94.12%) AWS
3 12 (70.59%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Relational Database
2 5 (29.41%) Big Data
3 4 (23.53%) Apache Hive
3 4 (23.53%) Impala
3 4 (23.53%) MySQL
3 4 (23.53%) Spark SQL
4 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.88%) DTS
5 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
5 1 (5.88%) Power BI
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Gradle
2 1 (5.88%) Mockito
General
1 7 (41.18%) Banking
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Investment Banking
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
2 9 (52.94%) Java Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Backend Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Database Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) MySQL Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) Kafka
2 9 (52.94%) RESTful
3 8 (47.06%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (47.06%) OpenTracing
3 8 (47.06%) Spring
3 8 (47.06%) Spring Boot
4 2 (11.76%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) CSS
5 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Data Structures
2 8 (47.06%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (23.53%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Microservices
2 8 (47.06%) SDLC
2 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
3 7 (41.18%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 7 (41.18%) Continuous Delivery
3 7 (41.18%) End-to-End Testing
4 6 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (35.29%) Dependency Injection
5 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (11.76%) Backlog Refinement
7 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (11.76%) DevOps
7 2 (11.76%) ETL
7 2 (11.76%) Release Management
7 2 (11.76%) Scrum
7 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (5.88%) Containerisation
8 1 (5.88%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Java
2 10 (58.82%) Scala
3 9 (52.94%) Kotlin
4 6 (35.29%) SQL
5 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
6 2 (11.76%) Python
7 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Prometheus
2 8 (47.06%) Zipkin
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Google
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Databricks