Apache Spark Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 327 391 347
Rank change year-on-year +64 -44 -100
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 67 58 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.25% 0.54%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.90% 2.27% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 28 88
10th Percentile £379 £415 £407
25th Percentile £400 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +8.37%
75th Percentile £519 £702 £659
90th Percentile £577 £758 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £22.93 £70.50 -
25th Percentile £24.74 £72.38 -
Median hourly rate £30.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.90% - -
75th Percentile £51.00 - -
90th Percentile £61.65 £84.00 -
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £78.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -60.90% -0.95% +191.67%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,716 2,560 3,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.46% 11.13% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,830 2,643
10th Percentile £213 £200 £185
25th Percentile £325 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 99 147
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.40 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.50 £17.61 £15.15
Median hourly rate £24.50 £27.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +37.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £49.04 £65.88 £45.86
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.24 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Spark in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache Spark in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache Spark in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 of England +49 30 £510 +7.37% 13
Scotland - 16 £400 - 9
North West +30 15 £510 +7.37% 5
Yorkshire +25 14 £507 -3.43% 5
Midlands +34 12 £438 -30.00% 9
East Midlands - 9 £438 - 2
South East +7 6 £375 -42.31% 6
West Midlands +24 3 £535 -14.40% 7
East of England +3 1 £410 -28.70% 4
Northern Ireland +1 1 £425 - 5
South West -12 1 £533 +2.90% 17
North East - 1 - - 3
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 19 (28.36%) Apache
2 9 (13.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.49%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 39 (58.21%) AWS
2 35 (52.24%) Azure
3 26 (38.81%) GCP
4 14 (20.90%) Amazon S3
4 14 (20.90%) Serverless
5 11 (16.42%) Snowflake
6 10 (14.93%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (11.94%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (10.45%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 6 (8.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (7.46%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (7.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (7.46%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.99%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.99%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 1 (1.49%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (1.49%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (1.49%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (61.19%) Big Data
2 33 (49.25%) Hadoop
3 17 (25.37%) Data Lake
4 13 (19.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (17.91%) BigQuery
6 11 (16.42%) Relational Database
7 9 (13.43%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (13.43%) Apache Hive
7 9 (13.43%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (10.45%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (8.96%) Impala
9 6 (8.96%) MySQL
9 6 (8.96%) Spark SQL
9 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
10 5 (7.46%) Power BI
11 4 (5.97%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (5.97%) Tableau
12 3 (4.48%) Flink
12 3 (4.48%) HBase
12 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (26.87%) Git
2 10 (14.93%) JIRA
3 9 (13.43%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.99%) Gradle
4 2 (2.99%) Maven
5 1 (1.49%) Ant
5 1 (1.49%) ERwin
5 1 (1.49%) JUnit
5 1 (1.49%) Mockito
5 1 (1.49%) RStudio
5 1 (1.49%) Subversion
General
1 15 (22.39%) Finance
1 15 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.93%) Banking
4 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.46%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.46%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.48%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Back Office
7 1 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Police
7 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) Data Engineer
2 19 (28.36%) Developer
3 15 (22.39%) Architect
4 10 (14.93%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (13.43%) Java Developer
5 9 (13.43%) Senior
6 6 (8.96%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Data Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Hadoop Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Backend Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Java Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) Analytics Developer
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Architect
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) GCP Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (49.25%) Kafka
2 10 (14.93%) RESTful
2 10 (14.93%) Spring
2 10 (14.93%) Spring Boot
3 8 (11.94%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (11.94%) OpenTracing
4 5 (7.46%) JSON
4 5 (7.46%) XML
5 4 (5.97%) PySpark
6 2 (2.99%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (2.99%) REST
7 1 (1.49%) Anaconda
7 1 (1.49%) Apache Beam
7 1 (1.49%) CSS
7 1 (1.49%) J2EE
7 1 (1.49%) React
7 1 (1.49%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (1.49%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Data Structures
2 9 (13.43%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.46%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Unix
2 2 (2.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.78%) ETL
2 25 (37.31%) Data Modelling
3 22 (32.84%) Data Pipeline
4 20 (29.85%) Analytics
5 19 (28.36%) CI/CD
6 18 (26.87%) Agile
7 16 (23.88%) Containerisation
7 16 (23.88%) Data Engineering
8 15 (22.39%) Data Governance
8 15 (22.39%) DevOps
9 14 (20.90%) Data Integration
9 14 (20.90%) Software Engineering
9 14 (20.90%) Test Automation
10 10 (14.93%) Data Science
10 10 (14.93%) Microservices
10 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (13.43%) Machine Learning
12 8 (11.94%) Data Analysis
12 8 (11.94%) High Availability
12 8 (11.94%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 40 (59.70%) Python
2 38 (56.72%) Java
3 32 (47.76%) SQL
4 24 (35.82%) Scala
5 9 (13.43%) Kotlin
6 5 (7.46%) C#
7 4 (5.97%) R
8 3 (4.48%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.99%) Perl
10 1 (1.49%) Bash
10 1 (1.49%) C
10 1 (1.49%) C++
10 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.48%) Degree
3 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.48%) QA
3 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (19.40%) Docker
2 5 (7.46%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (19.40%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.42%) Terraform
3 8 (11.94%) Prometheus
3 8 (11.94%) Zipkin
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
5 1 (1.49%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 13 (19.40%) Google
3 9 (13.43%) Databricks
4 8 (11.94%) Informatica
5 5 (7.46%) Oracle
5 5 (7.46%) Talend
5 5 (7.46%) Teradata
6 4 (5.97%) Cloudera
7 2 (2.99%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.99%) Splunk
8 1 (1.49%) Ariba
8 1 (1.49%) Sage
8 1 (1.49%) SAP