Apache Spark Contracts with Work from Home Options

Apache Spark
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Apache Spark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apache Spark over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 306 188
Rank change year-on-year +30 -118 +10
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 68 169 674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.65% 1.51%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.39% 5.74% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 115 473
10th Percentile £400 £480 £450
25th Percentile £463 £529 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +10.87% +4.07%
75th Percentile £667 £750 £688
90th Percentile £729 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £78.75
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £78.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -60.90% -0.95% +86.39%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

Apache Spark is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,550 2,943 5,441
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.15% 11.35% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,087 2,068 3,926
10th Percentile £296 £313 £315
25th Percentile £386 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £519
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -2.60% +11.51%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £618
90th Percentile £788 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 74 72
10th Percentile £16.28 £19.48 £14.60
25th Percentile £22.55 £22.21 £18.69
Median hourly rate £30.16 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.16% +57.14% +32.08%
75th Percentile £47.94 £69.69 £56.25
90th Percentile £71.50 £85.41 £65.95
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%

Apache Spark
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Apache Spark trend for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 14 (20.59%) Apache
2 6 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (52.94%) Azure
2 19 (27.94%) AWS
3 12 (17.65%) GCP
4 10 (14.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (10.29%) Amazon Kinesis
5 7 (10.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.88%) Serverless
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (4.41%) GitHub
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.94%) dbt
8 2 (2.94%) PaaS
9 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.47%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (45.59%) Big Data
2 15 (22.06%) Hadoop
3 12 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 11 (16.18%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (13.24%) Apache Hive
5 9 (13.24%) Flink
6 8 (11.76%) Delta Lake
6 8 (11.76%) NoSQL
7 6 (8.82%) Tableau
8 5 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (7.35%) Spark SQL
9 4 (5.88%) BigQuery
9 4 (5.88%) Impala
9 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
9 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
10 3 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (4.41%) Presto
11 2 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (2.94%) HBase
11 2 (2.94%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Git
2 2 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.47%) Deequ
3 1 (1.47%) GitLab
3 1 (1.47%) Gradle
3 1 (1.47%) JIRA
3 1 (1.47%) RStudio
General
1 17 (25.00%) Finance
2 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Marketing
5 5 (7.35%) Banking
6 4 (5.88%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.94%) Czech Language
9 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.47%) Legal
9 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (38.24%) Data Engineer
2 19 (27.94%) Developer
3 9 (13.24%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (13.24%) Senior
4 8 (11.76%) Azure Data Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 6 (8.82%) Python Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Data Scientist
6 5 (7.35%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Analyst
7 4 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.88%) Lead
7 4 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Architect
8 3 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (36.76%) Kafka
2 14 (20.59%) PySpark
3 7 (10.29%) Pandas
4 4 (5.88%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.41%) RESTful
5 3 (4.41%) Spark Streaming
5 3 (4.41%) Spring
6 2 (2.94%) ADO
6 2 (2.94%) Apache Avro
6 2 (2.94%) JSON
6 2 (2.94%) JSON Schema
6 2 (2.94%) OpenTracing
6 2 (2.94%) REST
6 2 (2.94%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.47%) Great Expectations
7 1 (1.47%) MLlib
7 1 (1.47%) NumPy
7 1 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Multi-touch
2 4 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 4 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.41%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.47%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.47%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.29%) Linux
2 5 (7.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.76%) Analytics
1 25 (36.76%) Data Pipeline
2 19 (27.94%) Agile
2 19 (27.94%) ETL
3 18 (26.47%) Data Engineering
4 17 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 16 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 16 (23.53%) Data Science
6 14 (20.59%) Software Engineering
7 13 (19.12%) Data Analysis
7 13 (19.12%) DevOps
8 12 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (16.18%) Data Modelling
10 8 (11.76%) Computer Science
10 8 (11.76%) Visualisation
11 7 (10.29%) Data Extraction
11 7 (10.29%) Scrum
11 7 (10.29%) SDLC
11 7 (10.29%) Validation
12 6 (8.82%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 45 (66.18%) Python
2 40 (58.82%) SQL
3 25 (36.76%) Java
4 19 (27.94%) Scala
5 10 (14.71%) R
6 3 (4.41%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.94%) Bash
7 2 (2.94%) C#
7 2 (2.94%) C++
7 2 (2.94%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.94%) Perl
8 1 (1.47%) Bicep
8 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) Degree
4 3 (4.41%) PhD
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.88%) Terraform
3 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.94%) Zipkin
4 1 (1.47%) Ansible
4 1 (1.47%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (1.47%) Oozie
4 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (26.47%) Databricks
2 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.41%) Google
3 3 (4.41%) Splunk
3 3 (4.41%) Teradata
4 2 (2.94%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (1.47%) Informatica