Apache Spark Contracts in the City of London

Apache Spark
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 133 133
Rank change year-on-year +21 0 -37
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 13 39 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.59% 1.07% 1.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.58% 8.57% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 42
10th Percentile £475 £463 £441
25th Percentile £575 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -1.89% +10.42%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £775
90th Percentile - - £815
Central London median daily rate £725 £638 £663
% change year-on-year +13.73% -3.77% +10.42%

All Application Platform Skills
City of 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 City of London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 284 455 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.90% 12.51% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 296 443
10th Percentile £251 £263 £330
25th Percentile £400 £430 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £703 £638
90th Percentile £724 £800 £705
Central London median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £21.97
25th Percentile - £51.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +98.11% +42.95%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £38.75
90th Percentile - - £101.00
Central London median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +98.11% +32.50%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the City of London

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in the City of London

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the City of London

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 5 (38.46%) Apache
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Hadoop
2 3 (23.08%) Big Data
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
3 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
4 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.69%) DB2
4 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
4 1 (7.69%) Impala
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (7.69%) Parquet
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) Spark SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Sqoop
4 1 (7.69%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Android Studio
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) JUnit
1 2 (15.38%) Mockito
1 2 (15.38%) ScalaTest
1 2 (15.38%) Subversion
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
2 1 (7.69%) GoCD
2 1 (7.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Java Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Scala Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) ADO
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Avro
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) JSON Schema
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Android
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (30.77%) SDLC
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (23.08%) ETL
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) API Development
6 2 (15.38%) Functional Programming
6 2 (15.38%) Resource Management
6 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
7 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
7 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
7 1 (7.69%) TDD
7 1 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) Scala
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Ceph
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) HDFS
1 1 (7.69%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Puppet
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (7.69%) Mesos
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Sybase