Apache Spark Developer Contracts

Apache Spark Developer
UK

The median Apache Spark Developer daily rate in the UK is £430, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 571 693
Rank change year-on-year +66 +122 +130
Contract jobs requiring an Apache Spark Developer 15 11 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.025% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.027% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 8
10th Percentile - £550 £489
25th Percentile £410 £600 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £625 £544
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +14.94% -22.32%
75th Percentile £597 £700 £591
90th Percentile £725 - £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £350 £650
% change year-on-year +17.14% -46.15% +30.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
England +58 11 £575 -6.12%
London +40 11 £575 -8.00%
UK excluding London +66 4 £410 +17.14% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £410 - 1
Work from Home +41 2 £410 -41.43%

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 14 (93.33%) Java
2 13 (86.67%) Big Data
2 13 (86.67%) Apache Spark
3 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (73.33%) Finance
4 10 (66.67%) Apache
4 10 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (66.67%) Spark Streaming
5 9 (60.00%) Hadoop
6 8 (53.33%) Memory Management
6 8 (53.33%) Market Risk
6 8 (53.33%) Git
6 8 (53.33%) Risk Management
6 8 (53.33%) Regulatory Compliance
6 8 (53.33%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (53.33%) Risk Analytics
6 8 (53.33%) Analytics
6 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
6 8 (53.33%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (53.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (53.33%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
6 8 (53.33%) Code Quality
6 8 (53.33%) Batch Processing
7 7 (46.67%) Python
7 7 (46.67%) Greeks
7 7 (46.67%) Stress Testing
7 7 (46.67%) Mathematics
8 4 (26.67%) Banking
9 3 (20.00%) Oracle

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 13 (86.67%) Apache Spark
2 10 (66.67%) Apache
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (86.67%) Big Data
2 9 (60.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (20.00%) Apache Hive
4 2 (13.33%) HBase
4 2 (13.33%) Impala
4 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Git
1 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 10 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
4 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (13.33%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Spark Streaming
2 3 (20.00%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Avro
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) Akka
4 1 (6.67%) Play Framework
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (53.33%) Distributed Computing
1 8 (53.33%) Market Risk
2 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (53.33%) Analytics
2 8 (53.33%) Batch Processing
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Code Quality
2 8 (53.33%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (53.33%) Memory Management
2 8 (53.33%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (53.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 8 (53.33%) Risk Analytics
2 8 (53.33%) Risk Management
3 7 (46.67%) Greeks
3 7 (46.67%) Mathematics
3 7 (46.67%) Stress Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Low Latency
4 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (13.33%) Multithreading
4 2 (13.33%) SOA
4 2 (13.33%) Storyboarding
4 2 (13.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Scala
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) HDFS
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Cloudera