Apache Spark Contracts in Scotland

Apache Spark
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 109 - 133
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 16 0 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.74% - 1.00%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.30% - 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 22
10th Percentile £389 - £360
25th Percentile - - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £525 - £800
90th Percentile £606 - -
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +8.11%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 302 323 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.04% 11.95% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 235 285
10th Percentile £209 £179 £213
25th Percentile £350 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -3.23% +9.41%
75th Percentile £575 £526 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £15.80 - £14.84
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.25 £16.27
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +5.71% -72.29%
75th Percentile £17.50 £18.75 £28.55
90th Percentile £35.63 - £37.90
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £45.00 £26.17
% change year-on-year -35.00% +71.95% +17.86%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Scotland

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in Scotland

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Scotland

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow - 12 £400 - 8
Edinburgh - 4 £638 - 2
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (18.75%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) Azure
1 14 (87.50%) GCP
2 13 (81.25%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Relational Database
2 4 (25.00%) Big Data
3 2 (12.50%) BigQuery
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) DTS
4 1 (6.25%) Flink
4 1 (6.25%) Impala
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) Gradle
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 9 (56.25%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Backend Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Database Developer
4 1 (6.25%) GCP Architect
4 1 (6.25%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) Kafka
2 9 (56.25%) RESTful
3 8 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (50.00%) OpenTracing
3 8 (50.00%) Spring
3 8 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Data Structures
2 8 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Microservices
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) SDLC
2 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Continuous Delivery
3 7 (43.75%) End-to-End Testing
4 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (37.50%) Dependency Injection
4 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) ETL
6 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
6 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (12.50%) Release Management
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Java
2 10 (62.50%) Scala
3 9 (56.25%) Kotlin
4 3 (18.75%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 8 (50.00%) Zipkin
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle