Spark Streaming Contract Job Trends in Central London

Apache Spark Streaming
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Spark Streaming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 121 -
Rank change year-on-year -30 - -
Contract jobs citing Spark Streaming 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.041% 0.16% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.58% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £600 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +33.33% -28.00% +4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

Spark Streaming falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 619 520 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.14% 26.89% 25.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 360 390
10th Percentile £419 £387 £415
25th Percentile £486 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £711
90th Percentile £763 £775 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £25.35 £52.83 £27.67
25th Percentile £33.64 £55.99 £31.07
Median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +62.34% -25.24%
75th Percentile £69.38 £76.25 £41.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £83.75 £41.45
London median hourly rate £44.75 £51.97 £42.50
% change year-on-year -13.89% +22.28% -32.00%

Spark Streaming
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Spark Streaming job vacancy trend in Central London

Spark Streaming
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Spark Streaming
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 Spark Streaming within the Central London region over the 6 months to 26 September 2026. 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 -17 1 £650 -
Spark Streaming
London

Spark Streaming
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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Lakehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks