Apache Spark Contracts in Central London

Apache Spark
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 117 128
Rank change year-on-year +21 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 33 16 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.65% 0.65% 1.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.89% 5.10% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 25
10th Percentile £425 £480 £463
25th Percentile £512 £581 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £713 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +5.56% +1.89%
75th Percentile £759 £775 £750
90th Percentile £765 - £775
London median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%

All Application Platform Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 256 314 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.82% 12.84% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 236 319
10th Percentile £256 £250 £262
25th Percentile £403 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -6.14% +4.76%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £700
90th Percentile £689 £716 £800
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £34.40 -
25th Percentile - £36.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £26.45 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% -23.81% +98.11%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £26.73 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.84% -17.14% -3.45%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Central London

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in Central London

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Central London

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +28 33 £640 -11.72% 5
Apache Spark
London

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 18 (54.55%) Apache
2 4 (12.12%) Jupyter
3 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.03%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) Azure
2 10 (30.30%) Power Platform
3 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) GCP
4 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.03%) Boomi
6 1 (3.03%) PaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (57.58%) Hadoop
2 15 (45.45%) Big Data
3 12 (36.36%) Apache Hive
4 10 (30.30%) Power BI
5 7 (21.21%) SQL Server
6 6 (18.18%) Relational Database
7 5 (15.15%) Data Lake
7 5 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (15.15%) MongoDB
8 4 (12.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (12.12%) Delta Lake
8 4 (12.12%) NoSQL
9 3 (9.09%) BigQuery
9 3 (9.09%) DB2
9 3 (9.09%) MySQL
9 3 (9.09%) Tableau
10 2 (6.06%) Data Mining
10 2 (6.06%) Looker
10 2 (6.06%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (6.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) Git
2 8 (24.24%) JIRA
3 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (12.12%) RStudio
5 1 (3.03%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (54.55%) Finance
2 16 (48.48%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 8 (24.24%) Banking
5 4 (12.12%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.06%) Marketing
6 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Java Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Apache Spark Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Data Scientist
4 5 (15.15%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Gen AI Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) Data Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Lead Data Scientist
6 2 (6.06%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.03%) Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Integration Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (36.36%) PySpark
2 6 (18.18%) TensorFlow
3 5 (15.15%) Spark Streaming
4 4 (12.12%) JSON
4 4 (12.12%) Kafka
4 4 (12.12%) pydantic
4 4 (12.12%) YAML
5 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 3 (9.09%) React
5 3 (9.09%) RESTful
5 3 (9.09%) Spring
5 3 (9.09%) Web Services
6 2 (6.06%) .NET
7 1 (3.03%) Apache Avro
7 1 (3.03%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (18.18%) Algorithms
3 5 (15.15%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (15.15%) Credit Risk
3 5 (15.15%) Market Risk
4 4 (12.12%) Data Structures
4 4 (12.12%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (12.12%) Reference Data
5 2 (6.06%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Agile
1 15 (45.45%) Data Science
2 14 (42.42%) Analytics
2 14 (42.42%) Data Pipeline
2 14 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (33.33%) DevOps
3 11 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 11 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
4 10 (30.30%) ETL
5 9 (27.27%) Machine Learning
6 8 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (21.21%) Data Engineering
7 7 (21.21%) Data Management
8 6 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (18.18%) Code Quality
8 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
8 6 (18.18%) Data Security
8 6 (18.18%) Generative AI
8 6 (18.18%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 28 (84.85%) Python
2 21 (63.64%) SQL
3 12 (36.36%) Java
4 10 (30.30%) Scala
5 4 (12.12%) Bash
5 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
6 3 (9.09%) Perl
6 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.03%) C#
7 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 5 (15.15%) Master's Degree
2 5 (15.15%) PhD
3 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) Data Quality
2 6 (18.18%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
1 1 (3.03%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Databricks
2 3 (9.09%) Google
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle
2 3 (9.09%) Sybase
3 1 (3.03%) Cloudera
3 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft