Apache Spark Contracts in the North of England

Apache Spark
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 205 207
Rank change year-on-year +49 +2 -63
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 30 7 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.65% 0.13% 0.59%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.09% 1.44% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 4 18
10th Percentile £450 - £386
25th Percentile £480 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -13.64% -2.65%
75th Percentile £520 £500 £609
90th Percentile £563 £523 £650
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.50 £78.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -60.90% -0.95% +110.00%

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 371 485 882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 7.99% 8.68% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 337 625
10th Percentile £243 £198 £175
25th Percentile £325 £325 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £525
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 11 55
10th Percentile £13.00 - £16.24
25th Percentile £13.25 £16.25 £17.17
Median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% -21.43% +54.57%
75th Percentile £45.00 £31.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £40.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +63.04% +15.00%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the North of England

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the North of England

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the North of England

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
North West +30 15 £510 +7.37% 5
Yorkshire +25 14 £507 -3.43% 5
North East - 1 - - 3
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (30.00%) Apache
2 7 (23.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (63.33%) AWS
2 17 (56.67%) Azure
3 12 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 12 (40.00%) Serverless
4 11 (36.67%) GCP
5 9 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (23.33%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
7 6 (20.00%) Snowflake
8 5 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (6.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (3.33%) GitHub
10 1 (3.33%) Google Analytics
10 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (80.00%) Big Data
2 17 (56.67%) Hadoop
3 11 (36.67%) Data Lake
4 10 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (30.00%) BigQuery
6 7 (23.33%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (23.33%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (23.33%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (16.67%) Spark SQL
8 4 (13.33%) MySQL
9 3 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (10.00%) Apache Hive
9 3 (10.00%) HBase
10 2 (6.67%) Flink
10 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
11 1 (3.33%) Azkaban
11 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (3.33%) Impala
11 1 (3.33%) Power BI
11 1 (3.33%) Presto
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) Git
2 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) RStudio
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 5 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (10.00%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Architect
2 11 (36.67%) Data Engineer
3 9 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Senior
6 3 (10.00%) Data Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Architect
8 1 (3.33%) AWS Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Big Data Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Cassandra Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Data Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Database Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Hadoop Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Java Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (56.67%) Kafka
2 5 (16.67%) JSON
2 5 (16.67%) XML
3 2 (6.67%) PySpark
4 1 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.33%) J2EE
4 1 (3.33%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (3.33%) Spring
4 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
1 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) ETL
2 17 (56.67%) Data Modelling
3 14 (46.67%) Containerisation
4 13 (43.33%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (40.00%) Analytics
5 12 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 12 (40.00%) Data Governance
6 11 (36.67%) DevOps
7 10 (33.33%) Data Integration
8 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
8 8 (26.67%) High Availability
8 8 (26.67%) Translating Business Requirements
9 7 (23.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (23.33%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (20.00%) Agile
10 6 (20.00%) Data Management
10 6 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 5 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 25 (83.33%) Python
2 21 (70.00%) SQL
3 19 (63.33%) Java
4 6 (20.00%) Scala
5 5 (16.67%) C#
6 2 (6.67%) Perl
6 2 (6.67%) R
7 1 (3.33%) Bash
7 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
1 2 (6.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Google
2 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) Databricks
3 5 (16.67%) Informatica
3 5 (16.67%) Talend
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) Teradata
5 1 (3.33%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk