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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 111 132
Rank change year-on-year +26 +21 +1
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 31 13 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.83% 0.60% 0.93%
As % of the Application Platforms category 16.40% 4.59% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 16
10th Percentile £425 £525 £496
25th Percentile £512 £600 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year -20.28% +7.41% +13.16%
75th Percentile £726 £775 £738
90th Percentile £765 - £744
Central London median daily rate £578 £725 £675
% change year-on-year -20.28% +7.41% +10.20%

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 189 283 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.13% 13.15% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 208 277
10th Percentile £313 £250 £267
25th Percentile £402 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +8.75%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £700
90th Percentile £725 £725 £800
Central London median daily rate £489 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -23.81% +98.71%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -33.88% -23.81% +98.11%

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 31 May 2025.

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 17 (54.84%) Apache
2 4 (12.90%) Jupyter
3 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.23%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) Power Platform
3 4 (12.90%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.23%) Boomi
5 1 (3.23%) PaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (58.06%) Hadoop
2 13 (41.94%) Big Data
3 11 (35.48%) Apache Hive
4 9 (29.03%) Power BI
5 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
6 6 (19.35%) Relational Database
7 5 (16.13%) Data Lake
7 5 (16.13%) Delta Lake
7 5 (16.13%) MongoDB
8 4 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
9 3 (9.68%) BigQuery
9 3 (9.68%) DB2
9 3 (9.68%) MySQL
9 3 (9.68%) Tableau
10 2 (6.45%) Looker
10 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (3.23%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Git
2 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 6 (19.35%) JIRA
3 4 (12.90%) RStudio
4 1 (3.23%) GitLab
4 1 (3.23%) MLflow
4 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (54.84%) Finance
2 16 (51.61%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
4 7 (22.58%) Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Data Engineer
2 10 (32.26%) Developer
3 7 (22.58%) Java Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Apache Spark Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Lead
6 3 (9.68%) Data Scientist
6 3 (9.68%) Gen AI Specialist
7 2 (6.45%) Data Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Lead Data Scientist
7 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Senior
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Scientist
8 1 (3.23%) Angular Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Java Scala Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) PySpark
2 7 (22.58%) TensorFlow
3 5 (16.13%) Spark Streaming
4 4 (12.90%) JSON
4 4 (12.90%) pydantic
4 4 (12.90%) YAML
5 3 (9.68%) AngularJS
5 3 (9.68%) Kafka
5 3 (9.68%) React
5 3 (9.68%) RESTful
5 3 (9.68%) Spring
5 3 (9.68%) Web Services
6 1 (3.23%) .NET
6 1 (3.23%) Apache Avro
6 1 (3.23%) Apache Beam
6 1 (3.23%) Pandas
6 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
6 1 (3.23%) REST
6 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (16.13%) Algorithms
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (16.13%) Credit Risk
2 5 (16.13%) Data Structures
2 5 (16.13%) Market Risk
3 4 (12.90%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (12.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Data Pipeline
1 14 (45.16%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (41.94%) Agile
2 13 (41.94%) Data Science
3 12 (38.71%) Analytics
3 12 (38.71%) Mathematics
4 11 (35.48%) Risk Management
5 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
6 9 (29.03%) DevOps
7 8 (25.81%) ETL
7 8 (25.81%) Machine Learning
8 7 (22.58%) Computer Science
8 7 (22.58%) Data Engineering
9 6 (19.35%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (19.35%) Data Security
9 6 (19.35%) Generative AI
9 6 (19.35%) LLM
9 6 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 25 (80.65%) Python
2 20 (64.52%) SQL
3 12 (38.71%) Java
4 10 (32.26%) Scala
5 4 (12.90%) Bash
5 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
6 3 (9.68%) Perl
6 3 (9.68%) Shell Script
6 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.23%) C#
7 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.23%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
2 6 (19.35%) PhD
3 5 (16.13%) Master's Degree
4 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
5 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) Data Quality
2 4 (12.90%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Databricks
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Google
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 3 (9.68%) Sybase
4 1 (3.23%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft