Apache Spark Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Apache Spark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apache Spark over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 393 336
Rank change year-on-year +66 -57 -91
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 63 66 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.27% 0.60%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.53% 2.42% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 99
10th Percentile £364 £419 £408
25th Percentile £400 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £515 £653 £665
90th Percentile £574 £709 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £22.93 - -
25th Percentile £24.74 £70.50 -
Median hourly rate £30.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.90% - -
75th Percentile £51.00 - -
90th Percentile £61.65 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £78.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -60.90% -0.95% +86.39%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

Apache Spark is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,783 2,722 3,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.58% 11.28% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,948 2,684
10th Percentile £213 £200 £185
25th Percentile £325 £350 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £499 £510 £518
% change year-on-year -2.21% -1.45% +8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 102 142
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.30 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.75 £17.48 £15.04
Median hourly rate £24.09 £26.24 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% +39.95% -6.25%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.94 £36.27
90th Percentile £69.63 £78.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £28.01 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -34.10% +93.18% -2.22%

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 26 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache Spark in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 26 April 2024. 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 +36 20 £510 +7.37% 13
North West +27 14 £510 +7.37% 7
Scotland +44 12 £400 - 11
Midlands +35 12 £425 -32.00% 5
East Midlands - 8 £438 - 2
East of England +12 7 £355 -38.26% 9
South East +12 6 £375 -42.31% 6
Yorkshire +21 5 £425 -19.05% 3
Northern Ireland +8 5 £494 - 4
West Midlands +30 4 £420 -32.80% 3
South West +5 1 £533 +2.90% 9
North East - 1 - - 3
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 23 (36.51%) Apache
2 12 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.17%) SAS
4 1 (1.59%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 31 (49.21%) AWS
2 23 (36.51%) Azure
3 16 (25.40%) GCP
4 13 (20.63%) Amazon EMR
5 12 (19.05%) Amazon S3
6 11 (17.46%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (17.46%) Serverless
6 11 (17.46%) Snowflake
7 9 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (7.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (7.94%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (3.17%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 2 (3.17%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (3.17%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 2 (3.17%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (1.59%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (1.59%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (61.90%) Big Data
2 29 (46.03%) Hadoop
3 13 (20.63%) Apache Hive
4 11 (17.46%) Data Lake
5 10 (15.87%) Relational Database
6 9 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (11.11%) Impala
7 7 (11.11%) SQL Server
7 7 (11.11%) Tableau
8 6 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (7.94%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (7.94%) BigQuery
9 5 (7.94%) NoSQL
9 5 (7.94%) Power BI
10 4 (6.35%) HBase
10 4 (6.35%) MySQL
10 4 (6.35%) Presto
10 4 (6.35%) Spark SQL
10 4 (6.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 13 (20.63%) Git
1 13 (20.63%) JIRA
2 5 (7.94%) Maven
3 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.17%) Gradle
5 1 (1.59%) Ant
5 1 (1.59%) ERwin
5 1 (1.59%) JUnit
5 1 (1.59%) RStudio
5 1 (1.59%) Subversion
General
1 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (19.05%) Finance
4 7 (11.11%) Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.59%) Back Office
7 1 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Police
7 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (39.68%) Data Engineer
2 19 (30.16%) Developer
3 8 (12.70%) Senior
4 6 (9.52%) Architect
4 6 (9.52%) Java Developer
4 6 (9.52%) Python Developer
4 6 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Big Data Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Data Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.35%) Hadoop Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Backend Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Java Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Analytics Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (38.10%) Kafka
2 7 (11.11%) RESTful
2 7 (11.11%) Spring
2 7 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 6 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (7.94%) JSON
4 5 (7.94%) OpenTracing
4 5 (7.94%) XML
5 4 (6.35%) PySpark
6 3 (4.76%) REST
7 2 (3.17%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.59%) Anaconda
8 1 (1.59%) Apache Beam
8 1 (1.59%) J2EE
8 1 (1.59%) NumPy
8 1 (1.59%) Pandas
8 1 (1.59%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (1.59%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Data Structures
2 6 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.35%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.59%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.59%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.11%) Linux
1 7 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
1 28 (44.44%) ETL
2 21 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 19 (30.16%) Agile
4 18 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 15 (23.81%) Data Engineering
6 13 (20.63%) Analytics
6 13 (20.63%) Software Engineering
7 12 (19.05%) Data Science
7 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (17.46%) Data Integration
8 11 (17.46%) Test Automation
9 10 (15.87%) Containerisation
9 10 (15.87%) Data Analysis
9 10 (15.87%) Data Ingestion
9 10 (15.87%) Scrum
9 10 (15.87%) SDLC
10 8 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (12.70%) Data Governance
10 8 (12.70%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 41 (65.08%) Python
2 33 (52.38%) SQL
3 32 (50.79%) Java
4 28 (44.44%) Scala
5 6 (9.52%) Kotlin
6 5 (7.94%) C#
7 4 (6.35%) R
8 3 (4.76%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.17%) Perl
10 1 (1.59%) Bash
10 1 (1.59%) C
10 1 (1.59%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (6.35%) Degree
2 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.35%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (17.46%) Docker
2 6 (9.52%) HDFS
3 1 (1.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 11 (17.46%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.94%) Prometheus
2 5 (7.94%) Terraform
2 5 (7.94%) Zipkin
3 2 (3.17%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (1.59%) Grafana
4 1 (1.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Informatica
2 9 (14.29%) Databricks
3 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.11%) Talend
4 6 (9.52%) Teradata
5 4 (6.35%) Cloudera
5 4 (6.35%) Google
5 4 (6.35%) Oracle
6 3 (4.76%) SAP
7 2 (3.17%) Ab Initio
7 2 (3.17%) Splunk
8 1 (1.59%) Ariba
8 1 (1.59%) Hortonworks