Apache Spark Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 251 336 399
Rank change year-on-year +85 +63 -54
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 85 63 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.69% 3.54% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 41 30
10th Percentile £400 - £416
25th Percentile £425 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +0.32%
75th Percentile £675 £515 £650
90th Percentile - £575 £712
UK median daily rate £575 £510 £600
% change year-on-year +12.75% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £22.93 -
25th Percentile - £24.74 £70.50
Median hourly rate £78.70 £30.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.03% -60.90% -
75th Percentile - £51.00 -
90th Percentile - £61.65 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +72.13% -60.90% -0.95%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,494 1,779 2,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.70% 8.56% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 1,187 1,925
10th Percentile £213 £213 £201
25th Percentile £350 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 123 98
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.30 £14.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £65.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Spark in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +25 26 £550 +7.84% 46
South East +59 19 £550 +46.67% 77
East of England +38 14 £650 +58.54% 21
Yorkshire +16 13 £600 +41.18% 17
Midlands +21 11 £389 -11.09% 33
North West +14 11 £528 +3.43% 24
East Midlands +11 10 £389 -11.09% 14
Northern Ireland -6 7 £410 -16.96% 2
South West +51 6 £613 +15.02% 23
Scotland +3 3 £469 +17.19% 15
North East +1 2 £525 - 5
West Midlands +12 1 - - 17
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 25 (29.41%) Apache
2 4 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.53%) nginx
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 37 (43.53%) Azure
2 32 (37.65%) AWS
3 20 (23.53%) GCP
4 8 (9.41%) Amazon S3
5 6 (7.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.88%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.71%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.53%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (3.53%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.53%) Serverless
9 2 (2.35%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.35%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.35%) Collibra
9 2 (2.35%) dbt
9 2 (2.35%) GitHub
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.18%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (62.35%) Big Data
2 45 (52.94%) Hadoop
3 18 (21.18%) Tableau
4 14 (16.47%) Apache Hive
5 11 (12.94%) Flink
6 10 (11.76%) Impala
6 10 (11.76%) NoSQL
7 9 (10.59%) HBase
7 9 (10.59%) MongoDB
8 7 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (7.06%) Data Lake
9 6 (7.06%) Delta Lake
10 5 (5.88%) BigQuery
10 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
10 5 (5.88%) Spark SQL
11 4 (4.71%) MySQL
11 4 (4.71%) Power BI
12 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (2.35%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.71%) Git
3 3 (3.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.35%) GitLab
General
1 18 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (16.47%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.29%) Banking
3 13 (15.29%) Finance
4 3 (3.53%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.53%) Retail
5 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.35%) Law
5 2 (2.35%) Wholesale Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Advertising
6 1 (1.18%) Automotive
6 1 (1.18%) Games
6 1 (1.18%) International Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.18%) Marketing
6 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (32.94%) Developer
2 25 (29.41%) Data Engineer
3 19 (22.35%) Senior
4 12 (14.12%) Data Science Developer
5 11 (12.94%) Architect
5 11 (12.94%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.06%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Big Data Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.53%) Apache Spark Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Big Data Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Scala Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.35%) Consultant
10 2 (2.35%) Data Architect
10 2 (2.35%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (37.65%) Kafka
2 19 (22.35%) scikit-learn
3 18 (21.18%) Pandas
3 18 (21.18%) TensorFlow
4 17 (20.00%) PySpark
5 16 (18.82%) NumPy
5 16 (18.82%) PyTorch
6 15 (17.65%) Matplotlib
7 14 (16.47%) Seaborn
8 8 (9.41%) Apache Beam
8 8 (9.41%) Spark Streaming
9 6 (7.06%) JDBC
10 5 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (4.71%) Apache Avro
11 4 (4.71%) JSON
12 3 (3.53%) YAML
13 2 (2.35%) Hibernate
13 2 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
13 2 (2.35%) Spring
13 2 (2.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.18%) Algorithms
2 8 (9.41%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.53%) IoT
4 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.18%) Life Science
6 1 (1.18%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.18%) Replication
6 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.06%) Linux
2 5 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.47%) Machine Learning
2 30 (35.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 28 (32.94%) Analytics
4 27 (31.76%) Data Pipeline
4 27 (31.76%) ETL
5 24 (28.24%) Decision-Making
5 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (27.06%) Data Science
7 20 (23.53%) CI/CD
7 20 (23.53%) DevOps
7 20 (23.53%) LLM
7 20 (23.53%) Visualisation
8 18 (21.18%) Data Engineering
9 17 (20.00%) Data Analysis
9 17 (20.00%) Generative AI
10 14 (16.47%) Computer Science
10 14 (16.47%) Data Munging
10 14 (16.47%) Reinforcement Learning
10 14 (16.47%) Statistical Modelling
10 14 (16.47%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 49 (57.65%) Python
2 33 (38.82%) SQL
3 17 (20.00%) R
4 13 (15.29%) Java
5 9 (10.59%) Scala
6 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.71%) T-SQL
6 4 (4.71%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.18%) Bash
7 1 (1.18%) C#
7 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) Degree
2 13 (15.29%) Master's Degree
3 12 (14.12%) PhD
4 5 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.18%) CSPO
7 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (28.24%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.35%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 11 (12.94%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) HDFS
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.24%) Prometheus
2 7 (8.24%) Terraform
3 6 (7.06%) Ansible
3 6 (7.06%) Grafana
4 3 (3.53%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.18%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.18%) Kibana
5 1 (1.18%) logstash
5 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.18%) Puppet
5 1 (1.18%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Databricks
2 8 (9.41%) Google
3 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.53%) Foundry
4 3 (3.53%) Oracle
4 3 (3.53%) Palantir
5 2 (2.35%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.35%) IBM
6 1 (1.18%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.18%) Apple
6 1 (1.18%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.18%) Criteo
6 1 (1.18%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.18%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.18%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.18%) Virgin Media