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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 184 202
Rank change year-on-year +47 +18 +43
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 19 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.09% 3.20% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile £404 £355 -
25th Percentile £501 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -31.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £569 £400 £850
90th Percentile £600 £453 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £616
% change year-on-year - -10.75% -0.60%

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 373 375 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.95% 6.98% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 236 411
10th Percentile £220 £262 £213
25th Percentile £375 £348 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.72% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £628 £688
England median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.07% -1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 29 30
10th Percentile £16.29 £16.00 £21.90
25th Percentile £28.90 £30.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £70.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +24.44% +181.25%
75th Percentile £60.59 - £62.50
90th Percentile £68.40 £75.50 £73.84
England median hourly rate £46.65 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +43.54% -29.62% +105.24%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +26 17 £550 +37.50% 12
Berkshire +36 16 £531 - 7
Hampshire +31 1 £384 +2.40% 5
Surrey +15 1 - - 5
Buckinghamshire -2 1 £550 +37.50% 2
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 5 (26.32%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) AWS
3 8 (42.11%) GCP
4 4 (21.05%) Snowflake
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
6 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) GitHub
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) SSH
1 1 (5.26%) SSL
1 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Big Data
2 8 (42.11%) Hadoop
3 5 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (26.32%) Relational Database
4 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
4 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (21.05%) Spark SQL
5 3 (15.79%) MySQL
6 2 (10.53%) Apache Hive
6 2 (10.53%) Delta Lake
6 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
7 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
7 1 (5.26%) Data Vault
7 1 (5.26%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (5.26%) OLAP
7 1 (5.26%) Parquet
7 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (5.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) MLflow
3 1 (5.26%) Poetry
3 1 (5.26%) PyCharm
3 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Data Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Data Scientist
2 3 (15.79%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Hadoop Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Modeller
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Finance Modeller
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) Kafka
2 8 (42.11%) PySpark
3 3 (15.79%) NumPy
3 3 (15.79%) Pandas
4 2 (10.53%) JDBC
4 2 (10.53%) scikit-learn
5 1 (5.26%) Apache Avro
5 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (5.26%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
2 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Data Engineering
1 10 (52.63%) Machine Learning
2 9 (47.37%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (47.37%) LLM
3 8 (42.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (36.84%) ETL
4 7 (36.84%) Generative AI
5 6 (31.58%) Data Integration
6 5 (26.32%) Analytics
6 5 (26.32%) Data Science
7 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
7 4 (21.05%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (21.05%) Use Case
7 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
8 3 (15.79%) Data Cleansing
8 3 (15.79%) Data Security
8 3 (15.79%) DevOps
8 3 (15.79%) Predictive Modelling
8 3 (15.79%) Statistical Modelling
8 3 (15.79%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Python
2 12 (63.16%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Groovy
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Argo
2 1 (5.26%) Istio
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Databricks
2 3 (15.79%) Foundry
2 3 (15.79%) Palantir
3 2 (10.53%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat