Apache Spark Contracts in England

Apache Spark
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 325 262
Rank change year-on-year -14 -63 -83
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 204 354 782
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.74% 1.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.68% 6.98% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 239 505
10th Percentile £390 £473 £438
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% - +5.49%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £775 £813 £836
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 3
10th Percentile £26.18 £70.50 £62.35
25th Percentile £32.86 - £68.50
Median hourly rate £44.62 £78.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.80% -0.95% +202.88%
75th Percentile £57.00 £90.00 £84.83
90th Percentile £64.05 - £88.47
UK median hourly rate £44.62 £78.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -42.80% -0.95% +205.83%

All Application Platform Skills
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 England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,594 5,072 8,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.73% 10.62% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,584 3,619 6,156
10th Percentile £258 £263 £263
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £788 £764 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 132 186
10th Percentile £13.05 £16.14 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.48 £21.00 £15.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £46.25 £20.57
Median % change year-on-year -35.14% +124.90% +4.15%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.81 £52.93
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.07 £76.58
UK median hourly rate £30.08 £51.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -41.31% +127.78% +9.76%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache Spark in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London -18 147 £575 -4.17% 104
North of England +56 32 £510 +7.37% 16
Yorkshire +35 16 £507 - 3
North West +28 15 £510 +7.37% 12
Midlands +28 11 £438 -35.19% 7
East Midlands +16 8 £438 -35.19% 3
South East +5 8 £375 -44.44% 9
West Midlands +12 3 £535 -2.73% 4
South West -9 3 £630 -3.08% 14
East of England +3 1 £410 -28.70% 6
North East - 1 - - 1
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 59 (28.92%) Apache
2 27 (13.24%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 91 (44.61%) Azure
2 86 (42.16%) AWS
3 30 (14.71%) Amazon S3
3 30 (14.71%) GCP
3 30 (14.71%) Serverless
4 29 (14.22%) Amazon EMR
5 28 (13.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 25 (12.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 22 (10.78%) Power Platform
7 22 (10.78%) Snowflake
8 17 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (5.39%) Amazon Kinesis
10 11 (5.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (4.90%) Entra ID
12 8 (3.92%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
12 8 (3.92%) GitHub
12 8 (3.92%) OpenShift
13 7 (3.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.45%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (58.82%) Big Data
2 68 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 57 (27.94%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (26.96%) Data Lake
5 33 (16.18%) NoSQL
6 31 (15.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 31 (15.20%) Apache Hive
7 22 (10.78%) Power BI
8 20 (9.80%) Delta Lake
9 19 (9.31%) Impala
10 17 (8.33%) Spark SQL
11 15 (7.35%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (7.35%) BigQuery
11 15 (7.35%) Relational Database
11 15 (7.35%) SQL Server
12 13 (6.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (6.37%) Tableau
13 11 (5.39%) Flink
13 11 (5.39%) HBase
14 9 (4.41%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 35 (17.16%) Git
2 24 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.35%) JIRA
4 10 (4.90%) Maven
5 8 (3.92%) Subversion
6 6 (2.94%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.96%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.96%) Deequ
7 4 (1.96%) JUnit
8 3 (1.47%) GitLab
8 3 (1.47%) Gradle
9 2 (0.98%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.98%) Ant
9 2 (0.98%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.98%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.98%) Mockito
9 2 (0.98%) ScalaTest
9 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.49%) ERwin
10 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 51 (25.00%) Finance
3 47 (23.04%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.29%) Banking
5 9 (4.41%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.92%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.45%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.45%) Marketing
9 4 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.47%) Legal
11 2 (0.98%) Czech Language
11 2 (0.98%) Retail
11 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.49%) Back Office
12 1 (0.49%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.49%) Games
12 1 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 81 (39.71%) Data Engineer
2 40 (19.61%) Developer
3 38 (18.63%) Architect
4 32 (15.69%) Senior
5 25 (12.25%) Solutions Architect
6 19 (9.31%) Senior Data Engineer
7 16 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (7.35%) Azure Data Engineer
8 15 (7.35%) Scala Developer
9 13 (6.37%) Java Developer
9 13 (6.37%) Lead
10 12 (5.88%) Data Architect
11 11 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (4.90%) AWS Architect
13 9 (4.41%) AWS Solution Architect
14 8 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
14 8 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.92%) Lead Data Engineer
15 7 (3.43%) Analyst
15 7 (3.43%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (41.18%) Kafka
2 48 (23.53%) PySpark
3 11 (5.39%) Spark Streaming
4 10 (4.90%) JSON
5 9 (4.41%) Apache Avro
6 8 (3.92%) SAML
7 7 (3.43%) Apache NiFi
8 5 (2.45%) .NET
8 5 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.45%) JSON Schema
8 5 (2.45%) Web Services
8 5 (2.45%) XML
9 4 (1.96%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.96%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.96%) Great Expectations
9 4 (1.96%) Spring
9 4 (1.96%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.96%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.47%) ADO
10 3 (1.47%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.35%) Algorithms
2 9 (4.41%) Hedge funds
3 8 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.47%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.98%) Derivative
7 2 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.98%) Life Science
7 2 (0.98%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.49%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.49%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.49%) NHS
8 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.35%) Linux
2 9 (4.41%) Unix
3 2 (0.98%) Android
3 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (45.59%) ETL
2 81 (39.71%) Data Pipeline
3 67 (32.84%) CI/CD
4 66 (32.35%) Analytics
5 60 (29.41%) Agile
6 58 (28.43%) Data Engineering
7 49 (24.02%) Data Modelling
8 48 (23.53%) DevOps
9 40 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (17.16%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (15.69%) Data Science
12 31 (15.20%) Machine Learning
13 28 (13.73%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (11.76%) Software Engineering
15 23 (11.27%) Containerisation
15 23 (11.27%) Data Integration
15 23 (11.27%) Test Automation
16 22 (10.78%) Data Governance
17 18 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
17 18 (8.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 138 (67.65%) Python
2 113 (55.39%) SQL
3 82 (40.20%) Java
4 69 (33.82%) Scala
5 15 (7.35%) C#
6 9 (4.41%) C++
6 9 (4.41%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.43%) Bash
7 7 (3.43%) T-SQL
8 6 (2.94%) Perl
9 5 (2.45%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.45%) R
10 3 (1.47%) C
11 2 (0.98%) Go
11 2 (0.98%) Groovy
11 2 (0.98%) Haskell
11 2 (0.98%) U-SQL
12 1 (0.49%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.49%) Julia
12 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (7.84%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.86%) Degree
3 10 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.49%) OCP
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.20%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.96%) GDPR
3 3 (1.47%) QA
4 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.49%) GRC
System Software
1 18 (8.82%) Docker
2 13 (6.37%) HDFS
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.49%) Ceph
3 1 (0.49%) NFS
Systems Management
1 26 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.27%) Terraform
3 7 (3.43%) Hadoop YARN
4 4 (1.96%) Ansible
5 3 (1.47%) Grafana
6 2 (0.98%) Ambari
6 2 (0.98%) Oozie
6 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.98%) Puppet
7 1 (0.49%) Control-M
7 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.49%) Ganglia
7 1 (0.49%) Kibana
7 1 (0.49%) Mesos
7 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.49%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 56 (27.45%) Databricks
2 33 (16.18%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.80%) Google
4 16 (7.84%) Talend
5 14 (6.86%) Informatica
6 13 (6.37%) Oracle
7 9 (4.41%) Cloudera
8 6 (2.94%) Teradata
9 5 (2.45%) Splunk
10 3 (1.47%) Ab Initio
10 3 (1.47%) SAP
11 2 (0.98%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.98%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.49%) Confluent
12 1 (0.49%) Okta
12 1 (0.49%) OneTrust
12 1 (0.49%) Sage
12 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.49%) Symantec
12 1 (0.49%) Varonis