Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Apache Spark
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 35 -
Rank change year-on-year -61 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.47% 0.42% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.65% 1.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £600 -
% change year-on-year -20.83% - -

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 151 53 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 17.91% 22.46% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 31 23
10th Percentile £304 £209 £202
25th Percentile £417 £459 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £430
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +18.60% -14.00%
75th Percentile £582 £586 £544
90th Percentile £688 £623 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £505 £430
% change year-on-year +1.49% +17.44% -14.00%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (75.00%) HBase
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk