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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 473 549
Rank change year-on-year -138 +76 +69
Contract jobs citing Spark Streaming 9 26 11
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.020% 0.096% 0.030%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.43% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 2
10th Percentile £476 £421 -
25th Percentile £517 £466 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £638
90th Percentile £705 £807 -
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £625
% change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +13.64%

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 8,470 6,054 7,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.91% 22.25% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,575 4,164 5,358
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £431 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £524 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -4.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £747 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 134 251
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.19 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +5.60% -8.66%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -86 9 £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 9 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (44.44%) Apache
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) Azure AI
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (22.22%) dbt
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Big Data
1 4 (44.44%) Metadata
1 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
1 4 (44.44%) Power BI
1 4 (44.44%) Spark SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Hive
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 2 (22.22%) Delta Lake
2 2 (22.22%) Flink
2 2 (22.22%) Impala
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 1 (11.11%) HBase
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (11.11%) Sqoop
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
3 1 (11.11%) Trino
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MLflow
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Data Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Lead
4 2 (22.22%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Principal Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Principal Data Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Principal Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Scala Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) PySpark
2 6 (66.67%) Kafka
3 2 (22.22%) Great Expectations
4 1 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) Spring
4 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Analytics
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 6 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven
3 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Data Architecture
3 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Observability
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (33.33%) Use Case
5 2 (22.22%) Data Science
5 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Scala
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Databricks
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Foundry
4 1 (11.11%) Cloudera