Apache Spark Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apache Spark
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 196 276 314
Rank change year-on-year +80 +38 -132
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 108 69 166
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.09% 0.45% 0.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.57% 4.42% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 46 113
10th Percentile £408 £400 £478
25th Percentile £506 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.57% +10.87%
75th Percentile £838 £633 £750
90th Percentile - £729 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £510 £600
% change year-on-year +12.75% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +72.13% -60.90% -0.95%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,129 1,560 2,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.40% 10.17% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,093 2,063
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £608 £638
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 72
10th Percentile £27.03 £16.28 £19.33
25th Percentile £38.39 £22.55 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.00 £30.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.99% -45.16% +57.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £47.94 £66.69
90th Percentile £66.00 £71.50 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Apache Spark
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Apache Spark trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Apache Spark.

Apache Spark daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Apache Spark daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Spark
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Apache Spark.

Apache Spark hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 45 (41.67%) Apache
2 29 (26.85%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.70%) nginx
4 2 (1.85%) Confluence
4 2 (1.85%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 57 (52.78%) AWS
2 32 (29.63%) AWS Lambda
3 31 (28.70%) Serverless
4 30 (27.78%) dbt
5 28 (25.93%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (25.93%) OpenShift
6 26 (24.07%) Azure
7 14 (12.96%) GCP
8 11 (10.19%) Amazon S3
9 9 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (6.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (6.48%) Power Platform
11 5 (4.63%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.70%) Snowflake
13 3 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
14 2 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.70%) Firewall
1 4 (3.70%) HTTP
1 4 (3.70%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.93%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (42.59%) Big Data
2 39 (36.11%) Hadoop
3 32 (29.63%) Apache Iceberg
4 31 (28.70%) Amazon Athena
5 28 (25.93%) Apache Arrow
5 28 (25.93%) Apache Ignite
5 28 (25.93%) Dremio
6 14 (12.96%) Apache Hive
6 14 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (10.19%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (9.26%) Data Lake
9 9 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (7.41%) Data Mining
11 7 (6.48%) Power BI
12 6 (5.56%) Flink
12 6 (5.56%) HBase
12 6 (5.56%) Impala
12 6 (5.56%) Parquet
13 5 (4.63%) NoSQL
13 5 (4.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (25.93%) Artifactory
2 8 (7.41%) Git
3 6 (5.56%) GitLab
3 6 (5.56%) JIRA
4 5 (4.63%) MLflow
5 4 (3.70%) Poetry
6 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.93%) RStudio
General
1 51 (47.22%) Finance
2 28 (25.93%) Front Office
3 19 (17.59%) Social Skills
4 15 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (10.19%) Banking
6 7 (6.48%) Marketing
6 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.63%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.85%) French Language
9 2 (1.85%) Law
9 2 (1.85%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Advertising
10 1 (0.93%) Automotive
10 1 (0.93%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Military
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (40.74%) Data Engineer
2 36 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (31.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (29.63%) AWS DevOps
4 32 (29.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 31 (28.70%) Python Engineer
6 14 (12.96%) Data Scientist
7 10 (9.26%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 9 (8.33%) Developer
8 9 (8.33%) Senior
9 7 (6.48%) Architect
10 6 (5.56%) Lead
10 6 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 5 (4.63%) Data Architect
11 5 (4.63%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (3.70%) Big Data Engineer
12 4 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (3.70%) Senior Data Scientist
13 3 (2.78%) AWS Data Engineer
13 3 (2.78%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (41.67%) Kafka
2 38 (35.19%) PySpark
3 28 (25.93%) J2EE
4 9 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (6.48%) scikit-learn
5 7 (6.48%) TensorFlow
6 5 (4.63%) JSON
6 5 (4.63%) PyTorch
7 4 (3.70%) Dask
7 4 (3.70%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (3.70%) Pandas
7 4 (3.70%) Ray
7 4 (3.70%) React
8 3 (2.78%) Apache Avro
8 3 (2.78%) Apache Beam
8 3 (2.78%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (1.85%) Matplotlib
9 2 (1.85%) NumPy
10 1 (0.93%) Protocol Buffers
10 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.26%) Algorithms
2 9 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (4.63%) Multi-touch
4 4 (3.70%) Tandem
5 3 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.85%) Equities
6 2 (1.85%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.93%) IoT
7 1 (0.93%) Life Science
7 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.81%) Linux
2 11 (10.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.93%) CI/CD
2 52 (48.15%) Agile
2 52 (48.15%) DevOps
3 46 (42.59%) Data Engineering
4 33 (30.56%) Machine Learning
5 32 (29.63%) Software Engineering
6 31 (28.70%) Analytics
7 29 (26.85%) Data Science
7 29 (26.85%) Open Source
8 28 (25.93%) Asset Management
8 28 (25.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 27 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
10 23 (21.30%) ETL
11 18 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
13 15 (13.89%) Migration
14 14 (12.96%) Containerisation
15 13 (12.04%) Decision-Making
16 12 (11.11%) Data Modelling
17 11 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (70.37%) Python
2 41 (37.96%) Java
3 38 (35.19%) SQL
4 28 (25.93%) Go
5 9 (8.33%) R
6 7 (6.48%) Scala
7 5 (4.63%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.70%) C
8 4 (3.70%) C++
8 4 (3.70%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.93%) Bash
10 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 9 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.41%) Degree
3 4 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 4 (3.70%) PhD
4 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.63%) GDPR
3 2 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 38 (35.19%) Docker
2 3 (2.78%) HDFS
2 3 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (45.37%) Kubernetes
2 47 (43.52%) Terraform
3 11 (10.19%) Ansible
4 10 (9.26%) Grafana
5 9 (8.33%) Argo
6 2 (1.85%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.93%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.93%) Oozie
Vendors
1 15 (13.89%) Databricks
2 7 (6.48%) Google
3 4 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.70%) Oracle
4 2 (1.85%) Alteryx
4 2 (1.85%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.93%) Apple
5 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.93%) Criteo
5 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.93%) Hitachi
5 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.93%) Splunk
5 1 (0.93%) Talend