Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Central London

Apache Spark
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 113 114
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +29
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 18 20 31
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.90% 0.86% 1.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.53% 7.78% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 19
10th Percentile £309 £425 £455
25th Percentile £373 £512 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £647 £716 £788
90th Percentile £1,150 £825 £830
London median daily rate £563 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% -12.00%

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 211 257 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.53% 11.02% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 138 232
10th Percentile £310 £273 £263
25th Percentile £413 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -4.24%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £610
90th Percentile £676 £725 £694
London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £35.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £80.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.25% +321.05% +12.19%
75th Percentile £19.50 £137.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £25.10
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £27.50
% change year-on-year +5.67% -13.45% +14.58%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Spark relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Central London

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Apache Spark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Central London over the 6 months to 19 December 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 19 December 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 -6 15 £525 -17.00% 1
Apache Spark
London

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) Apache
2 4 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.56%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) AWS
3 7 (38.89%) Power Platform
4 6 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (27.78%) GCP
6 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) dbt
7 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
8 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
9 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
9 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Big Data
1 7 (38.89%) Power BI
2 6 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (22.22%) Delta Lake
3 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 4 (22.22%) Tableau
4 3 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
4 3 (16.67%) MySQL
5 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.56%) Metadata
6 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Git
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Kafka
2 6 (33.33%) PySpark
3 4 (22.22%) PyTorch
3 4 (22.22%) TensorFlow
4 3 (16.67%) Dask
4 3 (16.67%) Google JAX
4 3 (16.67%) JAX
4 3 (16.67%) LightGBM
4 3 (16.67%) scikit-learn
4 3 (16.67%) XGBoost
5 1 (5.56%) JSON
5 1 (5.56%) LangChain
5 1 (5.56%) Middleware
5 1 (5.56%) Ray
5 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (16.67%) Derivative
3 2 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.56%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Data Engineering
2 12 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 12 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 8 (44.44%) Analytics
4 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (38.89%) Data Integration
6 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 6 (33.33%) Data Governance
6 6 (33.33%) Data Transformation
6 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 6 (33.33%) ETL
7 5 (27.78%) Agile
7 5 (27.78%) Data Architecture
7 5 (27.78%) DevOps
8 4 (22.22%) AI
8 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (22.22%) Reinforcement Learning
8 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) SQL
2 15 (83.33%) Python
3 8 (44.44%) Scala
4 2 (11.11%) R
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft