Hybrid/Remote Apache Spark Contract Job Trends

Apache Spark
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 204 300
Rank change year-on-year -31 +96 -24
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 83 116 92
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 0.96% 0.52%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.55% 8.04% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 65 65
10th Percentile £375 £384 £400
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% -18.04%
75th Percentile £604 £675 £644
90th Percentile £700 £838 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £533
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.98% -14.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £54.01
25th Percentile - £36.25 £66.75
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - -47.92% -
75th Percentile - £38.75 £77.06
90th Percentile - - £78.75
UK median hourly rate - £37.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year - -47.92% -

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 1,100 1,443 1,743
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.80% 11.89% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 745 943 1,192
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £850 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 17 38
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.65 £15.27
25th Percentile £18.58 £21.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -31.82% +14.58%
75th Percentile £43.00 £55.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £65.10 £72.88
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £37.25 £27.00
% change year-on-year -19.46% +37.96% +38.46%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Spark and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Apache Spark job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Spark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Apache Spark daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Apache Spark
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Spark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 27 (32.53%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (31.33%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 46 (55.42%) Azure
2 41 (49.40%) AWS
3 24 (28.92%) GCP
4 16 (19.28%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (19.28%) Power Platform
4 16 (19.28%) Snowflake
5 12 (14.46%) Amazon S3
6 7 (8.43%) Amazon EMR
6 7 (8.43%) dbt
7 6 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (7.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (6.02%) GitHub
8 5 (6.02%) Serverless
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.82%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.41%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) DNS
1 2 (2.41%) SSH
1 2 (2.41%) SSL
1 2 (2.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (43.37%) Big Data
2 32 (38.55%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (37.35%) Hadoop
4 21 (25.30%) NoSQL
5 16 (19.28%) Data Lake
5 16 (19.28%) Power BI
6 12 (14.46%) Tableau
7 11 (13.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (13.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (12.05%) Metadata
8 10 (12.05%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (9.64%) Apache Hive
9 8 (9.64%) Delta Lake
10 7 (8.43%) BigQuery
10 7 (8.43%) MySQL
11 6 (7.23%) HBase
12 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
12 5 (6.02%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (4.82%) Parquet
13 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (31.33%) Git
2 8 (9.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.61%) GitLab
3 3 (3.61%) MLflow
3 3 (3.61%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.41%) Poetry
4 2 (2.41%) PyCharm
4 2 (2.41%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.20%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.20%) ERwin
5 1 (1.20%) Gradle
5 1 (1.20%) JIRA
5 1 (1.20%) Maven
5 1 (1.20%) Pylint
5 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (20.48%) Finance
1 17 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.64%) Marketing
4 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.82%) Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.41%) Legal
7 2 (2.41%) Retail
8 1 (1.20%) Automotive
8 1 (1.20%) Electronics
8 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (38.55%) Data Engineer
2 13 (15.66%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (12.05%) Architect
3 10 (12.05%) Data Scientist
4 9 (10.84%) Azure Data Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) Developer
5 8 (9.64%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Senior
6 7 (8.43%) Data Architect
7 6 (7.23%) Lead
7 6 (7.23%) Python Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Python Data Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Hadoop Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Senior Data Scientist
10 3 (3.61%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) GCP Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (34.94%) Kafka
2 24 (28.92%) PySpark
3 16 (19.28%) Pandas
4 9 (10.84%) NumPy
4 9 (10.84%) PyTorch
4 9 (10.84%) TensorFlow
5 8 (9.64%) scikit-learn
6 7 (8.43%) RESTful
6 7 (8.43%) Spark Streaming
7 5 (6.02%) REST
8 3 (3.61%) Node.js
9 2 (2.41%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.41%) Apache Avro
9 2 (2.41%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.41%) Flask
9 2 (2.41%) Matplotlib
9 2 (2.41%) pytest
9 2 (2.41%) React
9 2 (2.41%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (9.64%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.23%) Algorithms
4 5 (6.02%) Multi-touch
5 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.20%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.20%) Genomics
7 1 (1.20%) IoT
7 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.20%) Life Science
7 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.25%) Linux
2 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (60.24%) Data Pipeline
2 43 (51.81%) Data Engineering
3 37 (44.58%) ETL
4 35 (42.17%) CI/CD
4 35 (42.17%) Data Modelling
5 30 (36.14%) Data Governance
6 28 (33.73%) Agile
6 28 (33.73%) Data Science
7 27 (32.53%) Analytics
8 26 (31.33%) Data Architecture
8 26 (31.33%) Machine Learning
9 20 (24.10%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (22.89%) Data Integration
11 18 (21.69%) AI
12 16 (19.28%) DevOps
13 15 (18.07%) Visualisation
14 14 (16.87%) Containerisation
15 13 (15.66%) Statistical Modelling
16 11 (13.25%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 67 (80.72%) Python
2 53 (63.86%) SQL
3 22 (26.51%) Scala
4 13 (15.66%) R
5 11 (13.25%) Java
6 4 (4.82%) Bash
6 4 (4.82%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.41%) Groovy
8 1 (1.20%) Go
8 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (19.28%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.25%) Degree
4 7 (8.43%) PhD
5 6 (7.23%) Master's Degree
6 5 (6.02%) AWS Certification
6 5 (6.02%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.20%) MCP
8 1 (1.20%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (37.35%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.43%) GDPR
3 2 (2.41%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (16.87%) Docker
2 6 (7.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (19.28%) Terraform
2 14 (16.87%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.23%) Ansible
4 5 (6.02%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (4.82%) Argo
6 3 (3.61%) Puppet
7 2 (2.41%) Grafana
7 2 (2.41%) Istio
7 2 (2.41%) Oozie
8 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 34 (40.96%) Databricks
2 8 (9.64%) Google
3 5 (6.02%) SAP
4 4 (4.82%) Informatica
4 4 (4.82%) Oracle
4 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.61%) Ab Initio
5 3 (3.61%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.41%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.41%) Cloudera
6 2 (2.41%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.41%) Refinitiv
6 2 (2.41%) Talend
7 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.20%) Teradata