Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -58 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.44% 0.37% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.58% 1.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 -
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 155 54 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 17.15% 20.15% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 32 24
10th Percentile £304 £229 £208
25th Percentile £414 £454 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £430
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +17.44% -14.00%
75th Percentile £577 £585 £522
90th Percentile £688 £621 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £411
% change year-on-year +5.26% +15.50% -13.42%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

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 17 February 2026. 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 -61 4 £475 -20.83% 7
Apache Spark
Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (75.00%) HBase
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk