Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in the South West

Apache Spark
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 134 140
Rank change year-on-year +12 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 3 4 17
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.15% 0.16% 0.54%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.54% 1.61% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £447 £469 £563
25th Percentile £469 £573 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £630 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -3.08% +20.93%
75th Percentile £547 £635 £750
90th Percentile £564 £644 £875
England median daily rate £513 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -14.51% -0.08% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £87.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -51.92% -

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 195 249 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.53% 10.13% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 148 207
10th Percentile £213 £225 £300
25th Percentile £348 £429 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £705 £702 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 18
10th Percentile - £56.64 £14.83
25th Percentile £15.60 £68.77 £19.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £74.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.92% +46.53% +146.34%
75th Percentile £66.50 - £78.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £74.22 £81.60
England median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.06% +57.41% +35.00%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the South West

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Apache Spark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Apache Spark

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 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the South West

Apache Spark
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Apache Spark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Apache Spark

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 22 October 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
Bristol +2 2 £493 -24.23% 4
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (66.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) logstash
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP