Spark Streaming Contract Job Trends in England

Apache Spark Streaming
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Spark Streaming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 455 539
Rank change year-on-year -106 +84 +121
Contract jobs citing Spark Streaming 17 12 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.044% 0.049% 0.013%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.22% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £449 £403 -
25th Percentile £450 £425 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile - £806 £706
90th Percentile £575 £810 £748
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +19.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,935 5,454 7,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.74% 22.49% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,316 3,767 5,390
10th Percentile £358 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -3.01% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 88 160
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £36.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £78.63 £83.27 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

Spark Streaming
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Spark Streaming job vacancy trend in England

Spark Streaming
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spark Streaming

Spark Streaming
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spark Streaming in England over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spark Streaming in England

Spark Streaming
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
London -55 17 £550 -4.35% 2
Spark Streaming
UK

Spark Streaming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 10 (58.82%) Apache Spark
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (11.76%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Power Platform
2 11 (64.71%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
4 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (17.65%) Serverless
4 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
5 2 (11.76%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (11.76%) Azure AI
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (76.47%) Power BI
2 11 (64.71%) Data Lake
2 11 (64.71%) Spark SQL
3 7 (41.18%) Relational Database
4 5 (29.41%) Big Data
5 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (17.65%) Apache Hive
6 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
6 3 (17.65%) Impala
6 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
6 3 (17.65%) Redshift Spectrum
6 3 (17.65%) Tableau
7 2 (11.76%) HBase
8 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (5.88%) Sqoop
8 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
1 7 (41.18%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Data Engineer
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Data Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Hadoop Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) PySpark
2 5 (29.41%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 13 (76.47%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (70.59%) ETL
4 11 (64.71%) Analytics
4 11 (64.71%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (64.71%) DevOps
5 9 (52.94%) Agile
6 8 (47.06%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (41.18%) Batch Processing
7 7 (41.18%) Data Engineering
7 7 (41.18%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (41.18%) OOP
7 7 (41.18%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (29.41%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (29.41%) Data Governance
8 5 (29.41%) Data Science
8 5 (29.41%) Thought Leadership
9 4 (23.53%) Data Architecture
9 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
9 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Python
2 13 (76.47%) SQL
3 9 (52.94%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) GDPR
2 7 (41.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (35.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Databricks
3 2 (11.76%) Foundry