Apache Spark Contracts in South Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 42 55 55
Rank change year-on-year +13 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.61% 0.22% 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.70% 2.38% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £525
75th Percentile £613 - £538
90th Percentile £635 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +41.18% -19.05% -4.55%

All Application Platform Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 69 42 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 18.50% 9.19% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 30 33
10th Percentile £370 £414 £235
25th Percentile £389 £438 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +5.26% +8.32%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £500
90th Percentile £633 £645 £722
Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £500 £443
% change year-on-year -6.00% +12.99% +3.87%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in South Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in South Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +10 6 £600 - 7
Apache Spark
Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Flink
2 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Front Office
3 1 (16.67%) International Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Kafka
2 4 (66.67%) Apache Beam
2 4 (66.67%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (16.67%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Market Risk
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Code Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google