Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Apache Spark
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 102 138
Rank change year-on-year -8 +36 +19
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 10 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.63% 0.69% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.13% 5.33% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 5
10th Percentile £356 £318 -
25th Percentile £422 £356 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £513
90th Percentile £540 £510 £588
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £613
% change year-on-year -5.45% -10.20% -2.00%

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 163 244 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.22% 13.03% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 158 205
10th Percentile £268 £181 £204
25th Percentile £341 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £432 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -13.60% +7.76%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £631
90th Percentile £625 £729 £700
UK median daily rate £478 £521 £500
% change year-on-year -8.39% +4.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £25.13 £15.44 £30.50
25th Percentile £35.87 £18.14 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £22.23 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.63% -50.59% +148.48%
75th Percentile £66.88 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.25 - £59.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £38.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -5.19% -26.67% +144.19%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

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 September 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
Glasgow -22 7 £488 +21.88% 1
Edinburgh - 3 £506 - 1
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 7 (70.00%) Apache
2 6 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Snowflake
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Big Data
1 6 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (50.00%) Hadoop
3 4 (40.00%) Power BI
4 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (20.00%) Delta Lake
6 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (10.00%) DB2
6 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Open Source Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) REST
1 5 (50.00%) RESTful
2 4 (40.00%) PySpark
3 2 (20.00%) Pandas
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) Great Expectations
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) NumPy
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) ETL
2 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (60.00%) Data Integration
3 6 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) Clean Code
4 5 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (40.00%) Analytics
5 4 (40.00%) API Integration
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (40.00%) Sprint Review
5 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Validation
7 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (20.00%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Databricks
2 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (10.00%) Greenplum
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce