Apache Spark Contracts in the City of London

Apache Spark
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 139 132
Rank change year-on-year +24 -7 -40
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 16 30 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.73% 0.87% 1.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.57% 7.32% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 29
10th Percentile £516 £493 £424
25th Percentile £550 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £663 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% +6.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £766 £738 £775
90th Percentile £775 £746 £885
Central London median daily rate £700 £663 £663
% change year-on-year +5.66% - +10.42%

All Application Platform Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 287 410 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.18% 11.95% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 268 414
10th Percentile £253 £254 £313
25th Percentile £406 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £569 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.32% +2.86%
75th Percentile £619 £700 £638
90th Percentile £725 £800 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £25.47
25th Percentile - £51.25 £25.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +98.11% -17.19%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £85.13
90th Percentile - - £119.55
Central London median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -23.81% +54.41% +51.11%

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 11 June 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 (31.25%) Apache
2 3 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Table
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Hadoop
2 4 (25.00%) Big Data
3 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
5 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (6.25%) HBase
5 1 (6.25%) HDInsight
5 1 (6.25%) Impala
5 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.25%) Power BI
5 1 (6.25%) Redis
5 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (6.25%) SAP HANA
5 1 (6.25%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) Subversion
2 2 (12.50%) Android Studio
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JUnit
2 2 (12.50%) Mockito
2 2 (12.50%) ScalaTest
2 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
3 1 (6.25%) GoCD
3 1 (6.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Java Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Scala Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) ADO
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Avro
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) JSON Schema
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Android
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) ETL
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) API Development
5 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
5 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
5 3 (18.75%) Microservices
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
6 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Functional Programming
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (12.50%) Open Source
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) SQL
4 4 (25.00%) Scala
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.25%) R
6 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Ceph
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) HDFS
1 1 (6.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Puppet
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (6.25%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (6.25%) Mesos
2 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Alteryx
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) SAP