Apache Spark Developer Contracts

Apache Spark Developer
UK

The median Apache Spark Developer daily rate in the UK is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 683 801
Rank change year-on-year +106 +118 -150
Contract jobs requiring an Apache Spark Developer 10 23 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.040% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.042% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 21
10th Percentile £525 £438 £500
25th Percentile £600 £484 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £540 £675
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -20.00% +17.39%
75th Percentile £663 £566 £775
90th Percentile £700 £640 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Apache Spark Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Apache Spark Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark Developer in the UK

Apache Spark Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark Developer.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark Developer in the UK

Apache Spark Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark Developer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark Developer in the UK

Apache Spark Developer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 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
England +101 10 £613 +13.43% 1
London +77 9 £625 +15.74% 1
Work from Home +104 1 - -
UK excluding London +59 1 £350 -
South East +15 1 £350 -

Apache Spark Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Apache Spark Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Apache Spark Developer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Scala
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
3 5 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
4 4 (40.00%) Apache Spark
4 4 (40.00%) Java
5 3 (30.00%) ETL
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) AWS
5 3 (30.00%) Hedge funds
5 3 (30.00%) PySpark
5 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (20.00%) OO
6 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 2 (20.00%) Kotlin
6 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
6 2 (20.00%) Big Data
6 2 (20.00%) Kafka
6 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Git
6 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (20.00%) Maven
6 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) JIRA
7 1 (10.00%) Django
7 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 1 (10.00%) Reference Data

Apache Spark Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (10.00%) Gradle
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PySpark
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) Django
3 1 (10.00%) Flask
3 1 (10.00%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
1 3 (30.00%) ETL
2 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (20.00%) OO
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (10.00%) API Development
3 1 (10.00%) ATDD
3 1 (10.00%) BDD
3 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (10.00%) Data Development
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (10.00%) Microservices
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Scala
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) OCP
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft