Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Apache Spark
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 114 108 111
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 +33
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 15 18 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.83% 0.87% 1.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.58% 7.86% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 17
10th Percentile £307 £496 £448
25th Percentile £313 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £633 £590
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +7.20% -6.53%
75th Percentile £675 £736 £775
90th Percentile £1,150 £826 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -

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 198 229 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.89% 11.11% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 122 210
10th Percentile £310 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £350 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +1.92% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £598
90th Percentile £675 £753 £694
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £112.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate - £125.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +557.89% +12.19%
75th Percentile - £137.50 £21.69
90th Percentile - - £22.93
Central London median hourly rate £19.00 £80.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -76.25% +321.05% +12.19%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the City of London

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Apache Spark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Apache Spark

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 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in the City of London

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (40.00%) Apache
2 4 (26.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.67%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) AWS
3 5 (33.33%) GCP
4 4 (26.67%) dbt
4 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
5 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (20.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
7 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Big Data
2 4 (26.67%) Delta Lake
2 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (26.67%) Power BI
3 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (20.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (6.67%) Metadata
5 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
1 4 (26.67%) PyTorch
1 4 (26.67%) TensorFlow
2 3 (20.00%) Dask
2 3 (20.00%) Google JAX
2 3 (20.00%) JAX
2 3 (20.00%) LightGBM
2 3 (20.00%) PySpark
2 3 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (20.00%) XGBoost
3 1 (6.67%) JSON
3 1 (6.67%) LangChain
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) Ray
3 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (20.00%) Derivative
3 2 (13.33%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
4 1 (6.67%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Data Engineering
2 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 9 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 8 (53.33%) Analytics
4 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (40.00%) ETL
5 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) AI
6 4 (26.67%) Data Integration
6 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (26.67%) Reinforcement Learning
6 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (20.00%) Business Strategy
7 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 3 (20.00%) Data Transformation
7 3 (20.00%) Deep Learning
7 3 (20.00%) Generative AI
7 3 (20.00%) Pattern Recognition
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (86.67%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) Scala
4 2 (13.33%) R
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft