Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Apache Spark
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 57 119
Rank change year-on-year -40 +62 +19
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 18 44 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.16% 3.01% 0.096%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.91% 22.11% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 0
10th Percentile £463 £455 -
25th Percentile £506 £478 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £507 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% - -
75th Percentile £600 £584 -
90th Percentile £655 £753 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.46% -4.04% -

All Application Platform Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 202 199 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.97% 13.59% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 122 138
10th Percentile £231 £301 £179
25th Percentile £303 £413 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £427
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.23% -5.22%
75th Percentile £514 £600 £575
90th Percentile £550 £688 £645
England median daily rate £499 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.95% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile - - £19.87
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.33%
75th Percentile - - £22.63
90th Percentile - - £24.66
England median hourly rate £35.25 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.02% +1.18% +102.38%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Apache Spark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
West Yorkshire -22 14 £600 +4.35% 6
South Yorkshire -17 6 £538 +6.02%
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (27.78%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) GCP
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
3 4 (22.22%) Azure
4 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) dbt
5 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) Flink
2 8 (44.44%) NoSQL
3 7 (38.89%) MongoDB
4 3 (16.67%) Apache Hive
4 3 (16.67%) BigQuery
4 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
4 3 (16.67%) HBase
5 2 (11.11%) Bigtable
5 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
5 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.56%) Power BI
6 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (11.11%) Banking
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Architect
2 7 (38.89%) Kafka Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 3 (16.67%) GCP Architect
3 3 (16.67%) GCP Data Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Hadoop Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (72.22%) Spark Streaming
2 12 (66.67%) Kafka
3 10 (55.56%) Apache Beam
4 7 (38.89%) JDBC
5 2 (11.11%) .NET
6 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.56%) Node.js
6 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
6 1 (5.56%) React
6 1 (5.56%) RESTful
6 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
6 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (55.56%) DevOps
2 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (50.00%) Event-Driven
4 8 (44.44%) Decision-Making
5 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
5 7 (38.89%) Data Ingestion
5 7 (38.89%) High Availability
6 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
7 3 (16.67%) Analytics
7 3 (16.67%) Data Analytics
7 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Data Security
7 3 (16.67%) ETL
7 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 3 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
8 2 (11.11%) Architectural Design
8 2 (11.11%) Architecture Roadmap
8 2 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Shell Script
3 4 (22.22%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Scala
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) HDFS
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (16.67%) Puppet
3 2 (11.11%) Control-M
4 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Cloudera
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) SAP