Apache Spark Contracts with Work from Home Options

Apache Spark
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 308 194
Rank change year-on-year +42 -114 +6
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 75 150 648
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.63% 1.48%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.49% 5.67% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 111 479
10th Percentile £373 £488 £443
25th Percentile £444 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £650 £588
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +10.64% +5.86%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £701
90th Percentile £721 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £78.75
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £44.62 £78.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -42.80% -0.95% +205.83%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,670 2,646 5,457
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.32% 11.08% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,866 3,980
10th Percentile £300 £322 £321
25th Percentile £400 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £850 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.15% -1.73% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 71 87
10th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £15.77
25th Percentile £22.61 £22.16 £20.75
Median hourly rate £31.14 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.39% +10.00% +92.31%
75th Percentile £45.41 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £31.71 £52.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -39.60% +128.26% +15.00%

Apache Spark
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Apache Spark trend for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Apache Spark.

Apache Spark daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Apache Spark daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Spark
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Apache Spark.

Apache Spark hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (21.33%) Apache
2 4 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (58.67%) Azure
2 29 (38.67%) AWS
3 14 (18.67%) GCP
4 11 (14.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (13.33%) Serverless
6 9 (12.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (9.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 7 (9.33%) Amazon S3
7 7 (9.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (6.67%) Snowflake
9 4 (5.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.33%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.00%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 3 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (4.00%) GitHub
10 3 (4.00%) PaaS
11 2 (2.67%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (44.00%) Big Data
2 20 (26.67%) Hadoop
3 18 (24.00%) Data Lake
4 17 (22.67%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (14.67%) Delta Lake
6 9 (12.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (10.67%) Flink
7 8 (10.67%) NoSQL
8 6 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (8.00%) Relational Database
8 6 (8.00%) Tableau
9 5 (6.67%) BigQuery
9 5 (6.67%) Spark SQL
10 4 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (5.33%) Data Mining
10 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (5.33%) Power BI
11 3 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (4.00%) Presto
11 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Git
2 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.67%) JIRA
4 1 (1.33%) Deequ
4 1 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (1.33%) Gradle
4 1 (1.33%) RStudio
General
1 20 (26.67%) Finance
2 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.33%) Banking
4 4 (5.33%) Marketing
4 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.00%) Czech Language
6 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Legal
6 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Publishing
6 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (46.67%) Data Engineer
2 14 (18.67%) Developer
2 14 (18.67%) Senior
3 10 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 6 (8.00%) Architect
4 6 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (6.67%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 5 (6.67%) Lead
5 5 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Analyst
6 4 (5.33%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.33%) Lead Data Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.00%) Data Scientist
7 3 (4.00%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (38.67%) Kafka
2 17 (22.67%) PySpark
3 6 (8.00%) Spark Streaming
4 5 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 4 (5.33%) RESTful
5 4 (5.33%) Spring
6 3 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (4.00%) OpenTracing
6 3 (4.00%) Pandas
7 2 (2.67%) ADO
7 2 (2.67%) Apache Avro
7 2 (2.67%) JSON
7 2 (2.67%) JSON Schema
7 2 (2.67%) Web Services
8 1 (1.33%) Middleware
8 1 (1.33%) pytest
8 1 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.33%) REST
8 1 (1.33%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.33%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.33%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.67%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.67%) Multi-touch
5 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.33%) Analytics
2 28 (37.33%) Data Pipeline
3 27 (36.00%) Data Engineering
3 27 (36.00%) ETL
4 24 (32.00%) Agile
5 23 (30.67%) DevOps
6 22 (29.33%) CI/CD
7 17 (22.67%) Data Modelling
7 17 (22.67%) Data Science
8 16 (21.33%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (21.33%) Machine Learning
9 12 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (16.00%) Software Engineering
9 12 (16.00%) Visualisation
10 11 (14.67%) Computer Science
10 11 (14.67%) Data Analysis
11 10 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
12 9 (12.00%) Data Integration
13 8 (10.67%) SDLC
14 7 (9.33%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 49 (65.33%) Python
2 48 (64.00%) SQL
3 33 (44.00%) Java
4 21 (28.00%) Scala
5 6 (8.00%) R
6 4 (5.33%) C++
7 3 (4.00%) C#
7 3 (4.00%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.67%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.33%) Bash
9 1 (1.33%) Bicep
9 1 (1.33%) Go
9 1 (1.33%) Haskell
9 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.67%) Degree
4 4 (5.33%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.67%) PhD
7 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 8 (10.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (14.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.67%) Terraform
3 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.00%) Zipkin
4 1 (1.33%) Ansible
4 1 (1.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (32.00%) Databricks
2 12 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.67%) Google
4 3 (4.00%) Oracle
4 3 (4.00%) Splunk
4 3 (4.00%) Teradata
5 1 (1.33%) Adobe
5 1 (1.33%) Foundry
5 1 (1.33%) Informatica
5 1 (1.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.33%) Palantir
5 1 (1.33%) Sage
5 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.33%) SAP
5 1 (1.33%) Sitecore