Apache Spark Contracts in Sheffield

Apache Spark
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 44 54 54
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 -7
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.88% 0.26% 0.44%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.53% 2.70% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £525
75th Percentile £613 - £538
90th Percentile £635 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £600 - £525

All Application Platform Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 57 37 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 17.87% 9.76% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 25 29
10th Percentile £367 £406 £300
25th Percentile £388 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £538
90th Percentile £638 £645 £743
South Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.10% +5.26% +8.32%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Sheffield

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in Sheffield

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Flink
2 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Front Office
3 1 (16.67%) International Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Kafka
2 4 (66.67%) Apache Beam
2 4 (66.67%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (16.67%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Market Risk
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Code Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google