Apache Spark Contracts in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 148 154
Rank change year-on-year +23 +6 -30
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 7 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.27% 0.070% 0.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.98% 0.77% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £361 - -
25th Percentile £378 £750 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £800 £500
Median % change year-on-year -48.44% +60.00% +3.63%
75th Percentile £453 £850 -
90th Percentile £474 - £523
South East median daily rate £375 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -44.44% +8.00% +25.00%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 176 260 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.66% 9.08% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 202 263
10th Percentile £223 £251 £170
25th Percentile £326 £386 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +14.71% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £585 £538
90th Percentile £608 £675 £588
South East median daily rate £430 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -14.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 18
10th Percentile £17.20 £39.00 £15.18
25th Percentile £22.61 £55.50 £17.42
Median hourly rate £24.43 £71.10 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.64% +255.48% -21.57%
75th Percentile £31.24 £79.19 £24.88
90th Percentile £43.50 - £40.40
South East median hourly rate £32.91 £57.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -42.76% +187.50% -64.60%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Buckinghamshire +36 6 £413 -48.44%
Berkshire - 1 - -
Apache Spark
South East

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Snowflake
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Big Data
1 5 (71.43%) Hadoop
1 5 (71.43%) Impala
2 4 (57.14%) Apache Hive
3 2 (28.57%) Sqoop
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (14.29%) HDInsight
4 1 (14.29%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) ERwin
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Scala Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
1 3 (42.86%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) API Development
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Scala
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Control-M
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Informatica
2 2 (28.57%) Cloudera
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft