Apache Spark Contracts in Scotland

Apache Spark
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Apache Spark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache Spark over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 142 161
Rank change year-on-year +42 +19 -13
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 13 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.69% 0.20% 0.59%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.31% 1.61% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 11
10th Percentile £318 - £325
25th Percentile £356 £488 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% +24.32%
75th Percentile £475 £513 £620
90th Percentile £510 £588 £638
UK median daily rate £556 £615 £625
% change year-on-year -9.55% -1.60% +8.70%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

Apache Spark falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 245 310 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.07% 12.61% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 208 257
10th Percentile £177 £207 £175
25th Percentile £350 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £500 £464
Median % change year-on-year -13.20% +7.76% +9.18%
75th Percentile £538 £631 £550
90th Percentile £728 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £15.44 £30.50 £16.29
25th Percentile £18.14 £35.00 £17.21
Median hourly rate £22.23 £45.00 £18.11
Median % change year-on-year -50.59% +148.48% +14.19%
75th Percentile £24.18 £55.00 £18.98
90th Percentile - £59.50 £19.85
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £50.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -24.75% +129.55% +15.27%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +19 13 £400 -20.00% 7
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 1 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 11 (84.62%) Azure
3 7 (53.85%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
1 1 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Relational Database
2 6 (46.15%) Apache Hive
3 5 (38.46%) Impala
4 4 (30.77%) Big Data
4 4 (30.77%) MySQL
4 4 (30.77%) Spark SQL
5 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
6 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
6 1 (7.69%) HBase
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
6 1 (7.69%) Parquet
6 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (7.69%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Mockito
1 1 (7.69%) Poetry
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
4 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Database Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Backend Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) MySQL Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (53.85%) Kafka
1 7 (53.85%) OpenTracing
1 7 (53.85%) RESTful
1 7 (53.85%) Spring
1 7 (53.85%) Spring Boot
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) Dask
3 1 (7.69%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Data Structures
1 7 (53.85%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Continuous Delivery
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (53.85%) Microservices
2 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) Dependency Injection
3 6 (46.15%) End-to-End Testing
3 6 (46.15%) SDLC
4 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Backlog Refinement
6 1 (7.69%) Data Science
6 1 (7.69%) ETL Development
6 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.69%) The Twelve-Factor App
6 1 (7.69%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Java
1 8 (61.54%) Scala
2 7 (53.85%) Kotlin
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
5 2 (15.38%) Python
6 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (53.85%) Prometheus
2 7 (53.85%) Zipkin
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (7.69%) Kustomize
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Google
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Cloudera