Apache Spark Contracts in West Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 74 105
Rank change year-on-year +22 +31 -20
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 10 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.82% 0.30% 0.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.36% 4.41% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £475 £405 -
25th Percentile - £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% - -
75th Percentile £600 £438 -
90th Percentile - £445 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +41.18% -19.05% -4.55%

All Application Platform Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 88 68 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 16.06% 6.81% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 52 87
10th Percentile £226 £218 £164
25th Percentile £270 £403 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £615 £538
90th Percentile £711 £688 £608
Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £500 £443
% change year-on-year -6.00% +12.99% +3.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £15.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +173.33% -53.85% +72.69%
75th Percentile £41.50 - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £14.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year +182.76% -46.79% +54.48%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in West Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in West Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in West Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region 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
Leeds +10 10 £550 +29.41% 11
Apache Spark
Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) Collibra
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Flink
2 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Big Data
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Wholesale Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Architect
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) Kafka
2 7 (70.00%) Apache Beam
2 7 (70.00%) Spark Streaming
3 4 (40.00%) JDBC
4 2 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
1 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) Event-Driven
3 4 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Business Case
4 2 (20.00%) Monte Carlo Method
4 2 (20.00%) Observability
4 2 (20.00%) Use Case
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
5 1 (10.00%) Data Privacy
5 1 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Google