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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 322 388
Rank change year-on-year +70 +66 -52
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 90 69 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.34% 0.24%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.09% 3.99% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 52 27
10th Percentile £400 £383 £440
25th Percentile £421 £400 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £531 £704
90th Percentile - £627 £760
UK median daily rate £570 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +9.62% -13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £22.93 £70.50
25th Percentile - £24.74 £74.25
Median hourly rate £78.70 £30.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.03% -60.90% -
75th Percentile - £51.00 £84.00
90th Percentile - £61.65 £90.00
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 1,477 1,731 2,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.60% 8.54% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 967 1,186 1,813
10th Percentile £231 £213 £205
25th Percentile £358 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £559 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.72% +0.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 122 103
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £36.36 £15.00 £18.14
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.51 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +99.95% -15.36% +66.67%
75th Percentile £68.25 £51.91 £65.13
90th Percentile £79.63 £70.00 £78.95
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.16 £50.00
% change year-on-year +74.07% -39.68% +108.33%

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 23 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 23 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 +14 29 £550 +7.84% 147
South East +62 17 £505 +34.67% 189
Yorkshire +17 16 £600 +18.34% 49
Midlands +21 15 £430 -1.71% 72
East of England +43 14 £650 +58.54% 55
East Midlands +13 11 £410 -6.29% 31
North West +4 11 £528 +3.43% 70
Northern Ireland -1 7 £410 -3.53% 7
Scotland -4 5 £469 +17.19% 55
South West +39 4 £638 +1.19% 60
West Midlands +13 3 - - 36
North East +1 2 £525 - 28
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 24 (26.67%) Apache
2 7 (7.78%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.22%) nginx
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 39 (43.33%) Azure
2 37 (41.11%) AWS
3 25 (27.78%) GCP
4 10 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 7 (7.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.78%) Snowflake
6 4 (4.44%) dbt
6 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.44%) Serverless
7 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.22%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (2.22%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (2.22%) Collibra
8 2 (2.22%) GitHub
8 2 (2.22%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.11%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) Internet
1 1 (1.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (58.89%) Big Data
2 47 (52.22%) Hadoop
3 19 (21.11%) Tableau
4 14 (15.56%) Apache Hive
5 12 (13.33%) Flink
5 12 (13.33%) NoSQL
6 11 (12.22%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (11.11%) Impala
7 10 (11.11%) MongoDB
8 9 (10.00%) HBase
8 9 (10.00%) Relational Database
9 7 (7.78%) BigQuery
10 6 (6.67%) Delta Lake
11 5 (5.56%) Data Lake
11 5 (5.56%) Spark SQL
12 4 (4.44%) MySQL
12 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (4.44%) Power BI
13 2 (2.22%) Data Mining
13 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Git
2 5 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.22%) JIRA
4 1 (1.11%) GitLab
General
1 19 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (17.78%) Finance
2 16 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.56%) Banking
4 4 (4.44%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.33%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.22%) Law
6 2 (2.22%) Retail
6 2 (2.22%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Advertising
7 1 (1.11%) Automotive
7 1 (1.11%) Front Office
7 1 (1.11%) Games
7 1 (1.11%) International Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.11%) Marketing
7 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (31.11%) Data Engineer
1 28 (31.11%) Developer
2 17 (18.89%) Senior
3 14 (15.56%) Architect
4 12 (13.33%) Data Science Developer
5 10 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 5 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 5 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Big Data Developer
7 4 (4.44%) Data Scientist
8 3 (3.33%) Apache Spark Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Big Data Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) GCP Architect
8 3 (3.33%) GCP Data Architect
8 3 (3.33%) Scala Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.22%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (40.00%) Kafka
2 18 (20.00%) Pandas
3 17 (18.89%) PySpark
3 17 (18.89%) scikit-learn
4 16 (17.78%) NumPy
4 16 (17.78%) TensorFlow
5 15 (16.67%) Matplotlib
6 14 (15.56%) PyTorch
6 14 (15.56%) Seaborn
7 10 (11.11%) Spark Streaming
8 9 (10.00%) Apache Beam
9 7 (7.78%) JDBC
10 4 (4.44%) Apache Avro
10 4 (4.44%) JSON
11 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (3.33%) Spring
12 2 (2.22%) .NET
12 2 (2.22%) Hibernate
12 2 (2.22%) Spring Boot
12 2 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 8 (8.89%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (4.44%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.33%) IoT
4 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.11%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.11%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.11%) Life Science
6 1 (1.11%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.11%) Replication
6 1 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.89%) Unix
2 5 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.56%) Data Pipeline
2 31 (34.44%) Machine Learning
3 30 (33.33%) Analytics
3 30 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 30 (33.33%) ETL
4 28 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (26.67%) Data Science
5 24 (26.67%) Decision-Making
6 22 (24.44%) DevOps
7 20 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 20 (22.22%) Visualisation
8 19 (21.11%) Data Engineering
8 19 (21.11%) LLM
9 18 (20.00%) Generative AI
10 17 (18.89%) Computer Science
10 17 (18.89%) Data Analysis
11 14 (15.56%) Data Analytics
11 14 (15.56%) Data Munging
11 14 (15.56%) Statistical Modelling
11 14 (15.56%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 52 (57.78%) Python
2 38 (42.22%) SQL
3 16 (17.78%) Java
4 15 (16.67%) R
5 12 (13.33%) Scala
6 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.44%) T-SQL
6 4 (4.44%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.22%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (1.11%) Bash
9 1 (1.11%) C#
9 1 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) Degree
2 14 (15.56%) Master's Degree
3 12 (13.33%) PhD
4 6 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.11%) CSPO
8 1 (1.11%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (31.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) Docker
2 4 (4.44%) HDFS
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) Terraform
2 7 (7.78%) Ansible
2 7 (7.78%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.56%) Grafana
3 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.22%) Control-M
4 2 (2.22%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.11%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.11%) Kibana
5 1 (1.11%) logstash
5 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (14.44%) Databricks
2 9 (10.00%) Google
3 4 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.33%) Foundry
4 3 (3.33%) IBM
4 3 (3.33%) Oracle
4 3 (3.33%) Palantir
5 2 (2.22%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.11%) Apple
6 1 (1.11%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.11%) Criteo
6 1 (1.11%) Greenplum
6 1 (1.11%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.11%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.11%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.11%) Virgin Media