Apache Spark Contracts in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 136 144
Rank change year-on-year +48 +8 +12
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 16 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.09% 0.19% 0.036%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.60% 2.79% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £444 £360 -
25th Percentile £500 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.25% - -
75th Percentile £550 £425 -
90th Percentile £670 £440 -
South East median daily rate £505 £375 £650
% change year-on-year +34.67% -42.31% +11.35%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 151 179 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.27% 6.86% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 109 213
10th Percentile £321 £196 £250
25th Percentile £358 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.18% +10.50%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £495 £434 £500
% change year-on-year +14.12% -13.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 6
10th Percentile £15.53 £17.50 £39.00
25th Percentile £18.95 £22.61 £55.50
Median hourly rate £26.98 £24.43 £71.10
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -65.64% +255.48%
75th Percentile £32.05 £33.12 £79.19
90th Percentile - £65.00 -
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +56.79% -39.13% +187.50%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 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
Berkshire - 15 £503 - 64
Buckinghamshire +14 1 £550 +37.50% 10
Apache Spark
South East

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (31.25%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) Big Data
2 8 (50.00%) Hadoop
3 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (25.00%) Spark SQL
5 3 (18.75%) Apache Hive
6 2 (12.50%) MySQL
6 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (6.25%) HBase
7 1 (6.25%) HDInsight
7 1 (6.25%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (6.25%) Impala
7 1 (6.25%) Metadata
7 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
7 1 (6.25%) OLAP
7 1 (6.25%) Power BI
7 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Hadoop Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
4 1 (6.25%) Finance Modeller
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) PySpark
2 5 (31.25%) Kafka
3 2 (12.50%) JDBC
3 2 (12.50%) NumPy
3 2 (12.50%) Pandas
3 2 (12.50%) scikit-learn
4 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
4 1 (6.25%) Prophet
4 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
4 1 (6.25%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
1 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (6.25%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (43.75%) ETL
2 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
3 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Analytics
4 5 (31.25%) LLM
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) API Management
6 3 (18.75%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (18.75%) Data Science
6 3 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 3 (18.75%) Generative AI
6 3 (18.75%) Use Case
6 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
7 2 (12.50%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 12 (75.00%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
3 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Flume
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Databricks
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Foundry
2 3 (18.75%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) Palantir
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) StreamSets