Apache Spark Contracts in the West Midlands

Apache Spark
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 105 123
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 +57
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 5 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.01% 2.91% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £365 £471 £510
25th Percentile £371 £562 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £387 £612 £550
Median % change year-on-year -36.77% +11.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £397 £628 £650
90th Percentile £400 £656 £710
England median daily rate £550 £550 £613
% change year-on-year - -10.20% -0.41%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 166 172 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.20% 8.62% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 116 181
10th Percentile £275 £231 £275
25th Percentile £363 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £540
90th Percentile £604 £661 £590
England median daily rate £500 £518 £520
% change year-on-year -3.38% -0.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £34.10 £14.59 £17.65
25th Percentile £34.43 £15.65 £17.88
Median hourly rate £34.98 £16.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +118.63% -13.51% +7.25%
75th Percentile £47.80 £55.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £55.50 £67.00 £19.55
England median hourly rate £46.65 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +43.54% -31.58% +111.11%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the West Midlands

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the West Midlands

Apache Spark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Spark in the West Midlands

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Birmingham +8 3 £387 -7.87% 4
Warwickshire -5 1 - -
Coventry - 1 - - 2
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (20.00%) Datadog
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SSH
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Big Data
2 4 (80.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
4 2 (40.00%) Parquet
4 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (20.00%) Power BI
5 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) MLflow
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) Poetry
3 1 (20.00%) PyCharm
3 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (40.00%) Flask
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) NumPy
1 2 (40.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Data Security
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) DataOps
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) Groovy
3 2 (40.00%) Scala
4 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Argo
1 2 (40.00%) Istio
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat