Apache Spark Contracts in the South West

Apache Spark
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 105 156 148
Rank change year-on-year +51 -8 +23
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 6 1 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.031% 0.52%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.68% 0.33% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 14
10th Percentile £468 - £362
25th Percentile £594 £516 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £533 £518
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% +2.90% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £549 £634
90th Percentile £661 - £699
England median daily rate £600 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate £78.70 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +72.13% -60.90% -0.95%

All Application Platform Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 163 302 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.71% 9.44% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 230 350
10th Percentile £223 £220 £206
25th Percentile £406 £363 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £589 £625
90th Percentile £673 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 23
10th Percentile £13.89 - £17.50
25th Percentile £14.42 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £38.71 £40.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -42.86% +30.84%
75th Percentile £75.15 £68.00 £79.13
90th Percentile £80.83 £74.44 £86.66
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the South West

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the South West

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the South West

Apache Spark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Apache Spark in the South West

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire - 3 £613 - 12
Somerset - 1 £650 - 3
Bristol - 1 - - 6
Dorset - 1 £392 - 2
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (66.67%) Apache
2 3 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Google Ads
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Hadoop
2 4 (66.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Advertising
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (50.00%) YAML
3 2 (33.33%) Kafka
4 1 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) CSS3
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) Jest
4 1 (16.67%) Middleware
4 1 (16.67%) OpenTracing
4 1 (16.67%) React
4 1 (16.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 4 (66.67%) ETL
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (16.67%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Inventory Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Prometheus
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Grafana
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) HAProxy
4 1 (16.67%) Kibana
4 1 (16.67%) logstash
4 1 (16.67%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Apple
1 1 (16.67%) Criteo
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Google