Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Apache Spark
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 0.68% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £400 - £535
% change year-on-year - - -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £72.50 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 12 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 8.16% 7.55% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £549 £530 £190
25th Percentile £563 £538 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £600 £438
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +37.14% -26.47%
75th Percentile £632 £638 £497
90th Percentile - £645 £525
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +4.22% +12.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £71.38 - -
25th Percentile £71.56 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £73.75 - £70.00
75th Percentile £76.56 - £75.00
90th Percentile £77.13 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £16.00
% change year-on-year +50.09% +118.63% +4.92%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Spark relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. 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
Worcester - 1 - -
Apache Spark
West Midlands

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform