Apache Spark Contracts in the South East

Apache Spark
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 140 199 205
Rank change year-on-year +59 +6 +18
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 19 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.11% 0.29%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.17% 1.58% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile £463 £353 £534
25th Percentile £501 £356 £627
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £650
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -42.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £419 £689
90th Percentile £705 £438 £719
England median daily rate £600 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -2.04%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 308 379 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.23% 6.82% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 244 459
10th Percentile £263 £225 £230
25th Percentile £401 £325 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £436 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% -10.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £600
90th Percentile £650 £608 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 25
10th Percentile £25.33 £16.00 £22.16
25th Percentile £38.53 £22.61 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -36.94% +177.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £76.50 £77.51
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the South East

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the South East

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the South East

Apache Spark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Spark in the South East

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +56 18 £528 +31.88% 14
Berkshire - 17 £505 - 6
Buckinghamshire +12 1 £550 +37.50% 4
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (36.84%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (5.26%) Azure AI
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
6 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Big Data
2 7 (36.84%) Hadoop
3 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
3 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
3 4 (21.05%) Spark SQL
4 3 (15.79%) Apache Hive
5 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (10.53%) MySQL
5 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (10.53%) Power BI
6 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (5.26%) HBase
6 1 (5.26%) HDInsight
6 1 (5.26%) Impala
6 1 (5.26%) Metadata
6 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Data Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Data Scientist
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Hadoop Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Machine Learning Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (63.16%) PySpark
2 6 (31.58%) Kafka
3 4 (21.05%) scikit-learn
4 3 (15.79%) TensorFlow
5 2 (10.53%) JDBC
5 2 (10.53%) NumPy
5 2 (10.53%) Pandas
5 2 (10.53%) PyTorch
6 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
6 1 (5.26%) Prophet
6 1 (5.26%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
1 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (10.53%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Artificial Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Machine Learning
2 9 (47.37%) ETL
3 8 (42.11%) Data Engineering
3 8 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (31.58%) Analytics
4 6 (31.58%) DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) LLM
4 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (26.32%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
6 4 (21.05%) Data Science
6 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
6 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
7 3 (15.79%) API Management
7 3 (15.79%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (15.79%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (15.79%) Generative AI
7 3 (15.79%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) Python
2 15 (78.95%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.53%) R
5 1 (5.26%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Flume
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Databricks
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Foundry
3 3 (15.79%) Google
3 3 (15.79%) Palantir
4 1 (5.26%) Alteryx
4 1 (5.26%) StreamSets