Apache Spark Contracts

Apache Spark
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 353 230
Rank change year-on-year -34 -123 -46
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 217 410 1,137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.69% 1.28%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.19% 6.25% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 268 744
10th Percentile £377 £475 £450
25th Percentile £433 £513 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £644 £738 £701
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -18.18% +0.32% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £22.93 - £62.35
25th Percentile £24.74 £70.50 £68.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £78.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -60.90% -0.95% +205.83%
75th Percentile £51.00 - £84.83
90th Percentile £61.65 - £88.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -60.90% - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,179 6,556 11,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.59% 10.98% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,874 4,603 7,595
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.97% +8.95%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 147 210
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £13.99
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £27.52 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.21% +81.82% +0.41%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £78.48 £65.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £26.24 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.49% +41.84% -2.63%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England -52 177 £525 -12.50% 129
London -41 126 £550 -8.33% 85
Work from Home +24 70 £500 -21.57% 103
UK excluding London +68 65 £450 -18.18% 52
North of England +38 20 £510 +7.37% 11
North West +31 14 £510 +7.37% 6
Midlands +36 13 £425 -32.00% 5
Scotland - 13 £400 - 10
East Midlands - 9 £438 - 2
East of England +12 7 £355 -38.26% 9
South East +7 6 £375 -42.31% 9
Yorkshire +24 5 £425 -19.05% 3
Northern Ireland +9 5 £494 - 1
West Midlands +27 4 £420 -32.80% 3
South West -6 1 £533 +2.90% 8
North East - 1 - - 2

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 61 (28.11%) Apache
2 30 (13.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.92%) SAS
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.46%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.46%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 96 (44.24%) Azure
2 89 (41.01%) AWS
3 37 (17.05%) GCP
4 33 (15.21%) Amazon EMR
5 30 (13.82%) Serverless
6 29 (13.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 26 (11.98%) Amazon S3
7 26 (11.98%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (9.68%) Power Platform
9 20 (9.22%) Snowflake
10 17 (7.83%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (5.53%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (4.15%) Entra ID
14 8 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (3.69%) GitHub
15 7 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 5 (2.30%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.30%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (55.30%) Big Data
2 64 (29.49%) Hadoop
3 46 (21.20%) Data Lake
3 46 (21.20%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (18.43%) Apache Hive
5 36 (16.59%) NoSQL
6 25 (11.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (11.06%) Relational Database
8 21 (9.68%) Impala
8 21 (9.68%) Power BI
9 18 (8.29%) SQL Server
9 18 (8.29%) Tableau
10 16 (7.37%) Delta Lake
10 16 (7.37%) Spark SQL
11 13 (5.99%) HBase
12 10 (4.61%) BigQuery
12 10 (4.61%) Flink
13 9 (4.15%) Apache Cassandra
14 8 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (3.69%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 32 (14.75%) Git
2 23 (10.60%) JIRA
3 15 (6.91%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.53%) Maven
5 8 (3.69%) Subversion
6 6 (2.76%) GitLab
7 5 (2.30%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.84%) Deequ
8 4 (1.84%) Gradle
8 4 (1.84%) JUnit
9 3 (1.38%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.92%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.92%) Ant
10 2 (0.92%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.92%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.92%) Mockito
10 2 (0.92%) ScalaTest
10 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.46%) ERwin
11 1 (0.46%) GoCD
General
1 64 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 54 (24.88%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (22.12%) Finance
4 21 (9.68%) Banking
5 11 (5.07%) Investment Banking
6 10 (4.61%) Marketing
7 8 (3.69%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.38%) Legal
13 2 (0.92%) Czech Language
13 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.46%) Back Office
14 1 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.46%) Games
14 1 (0.46%) Law
14 1 (0.46%) Publishing
14 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (36.87%) Data Engineer
2 56 (25.81%) Developer
3 30 (13.82%) Senior
4 27 (12.44%) Architect
5 20 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (8.76%) Java Developer
7 17 (7.83%) Azure Data Engineer
8 14 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
8 14 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.99%) Lead
10 12 (5.53%) Scala Developer
11 11 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (5.07%) Data Architect
12 9 (4.15%) Python Developer
13 8 (3.69%) AWS Architect
13 8 (3.69%) AWS Solution Architect
13 8 (3.69%) Lead Data Engineer
14 7 (3.23%) Data Analyst
14 7 (3.23%) Data Scientist
14 7 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (35.94%) Kafka
2 44 (20.28%) PySpark
3 13 (5.99%) JSON
4 11 (5.07%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (5.07%) Pandas
5 10 (4.61%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.15%) Spring
7 8 (3.69%) RESTful
7 8 (3.69%) SAML
7 8 (3.69%) XML
8 7 (3.23%) Apache Avro
8 7 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (2.76%) OpenTracing
9 6 (2.76%) Spark Streaming
10 5 (2.30%) JSON Schema
11 4 (1.84%) ARM Templates
11 4 (1.84%) Great Expectations
11 4 (1.84%) REST
11 4 (1.84%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.37%) Algorithms
2 14 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.23%) Multi-touch
5 5 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (2.30%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.92%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.92%) Derivative
8 2 (0.92%) Life Science
8 2 (0.92%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.46%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.76%) Linux
2 16 (7.37%) Unix
3 2 (0.92%) Android
3 2 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (40.55%) ETL
2 84 (38.71%) Data Pipeline
3 71 (32.72%) Agile
4 68 (31.34%) CI/CD
5 55 (25.35%) Analytics
6 51 (23.50%) Data Engineering
7 46 (21.20%) Data Modelling
8 43 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (17.51%) Data Science
10 36 (16.59%) DevOps
11 35 (16.13%) Machine Learning
12 33 (15.21%) Business Intelligence
12 33 (15.21%) Continuous Integration
13 32 (14.75%) Software Engineering
14 27 (12.44%) SDLC
15 24 (11.06%) Data Analysis
15 24 (11.06%) Data Integration
15 24 (11.06%) Test Automation
16 23 (10.60%) Computer Science
16 23 (10.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 143 (65.90%) Python
2 122 (56.22%) SQL
3 83 (38.25%) Scala
4 82 (37.79%) Java
5 15 (6.91%) R
6 12 (5.53%) C#
7 9 (4.15%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.69%) Perl
9 7 (3.23%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.76%) Bash
10 6 (2.76%) C++
10 6 (2.76%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.38%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.38%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.92%) C
12 2 (0.92%) Groovy
12 2 (0.92%) Haskell
12 2 (0.92%) U-SQL
13 1 (0.46%) Bicep
13 1 (0.46%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 23 (10.60%) Degree
2 20 (9.22%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.37%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.84%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.84%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.38%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.38%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.38%) PhD
7 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.46%) OCP
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.82%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.84%) GDPR
2 4 (1.84%) QA
3 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.46%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (10.60%) Docker
2 15 (6.91%) HDFS
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.46%) Ceph
3 1 (0.46%) NFS
Systems Management
1 30 (13.82%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.37%) Terraform
3 9 (4.15%) Hadoop YARN
4 8 (3.69%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.76%) Zipkin
6 4 (1.84%) Ansible
7 3 (1.38%) Grafana
7 3 (1.38%) Oozie
8 2 (0.92%) Ambari
8 2 (0.92%) Puppet
9 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.46%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.46%) Kibana
9 1 (0.46%) Mesos
9 1 (0.46%) Podman
9 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.46%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 52 (23.96%) Databricks
2 25 (11.52%) Microsoft
3 21 (9.68%) Talend
4 17 (7.83%) Informatica
5 12 (5.53%) Google
6 11 (5.07%) Cloudera
6 11 (5.07%) Oracle
7 7 (3.23%) Teradata
8 5 (2.30%) Splunk
9 4 (1.84%) SAP
10 3 (1.38%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.92%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.92%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.46%) Confluent
12 1 (0.46%) Hortonworks
12 1 (0.46%) Okta
12 1 (0.46%) OneTrust
12 1 (0.46%) Symantec
12 1 (0.46%) Varonis