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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 504 546
Rank change year-on-year -17 +42 +153
Contract jobs citing Spark Streaming 24 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.075% 0.004% 0.019%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.34% 0.016% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £445 - £658
25th Percentile £450 - £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £505 - £744
90th Percentile £528 - £763
UK median daily rate £463 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

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 7,059 6,242 7,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.20% 21.88% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,708 3,999 5,799
10th Percentile £352 £359 £363
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £632 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £505 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 75 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £45.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.26 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -3.20% +19.05% -19.23%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 +6 17 £450 - 4
Midlands - 4 £507 -
West Midlands - 4 £507 -
North of England - 4 £475 -
Yorkshire - 3 £475 -
North West - 1 £500 -
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 19 (79.17%) Apache Spark
2 13 (54.17%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (37.50%) Apache
4 1 (4.17%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (12.50%) Serverless
4 3 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (62.50%) Apache Hive
1 15 (62.50%) Hadoop
2 13 (54.17%) HBase
3 9 (37.50%) Data Lake
3 9 (37.50%) Power BI
4 8 (33.33%) Big Data
5 6 (25.00%) Impala
6 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
6 5 (20.83%) Spark SQL
7 4 (16.67%) Tableau
8 3 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (12.50%) Redshift Spectrum
9 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (4.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (20.83%) GitLab
General
1 9 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Hadoop Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Data Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Apache Spark Developer
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Scala Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Hadoop Developer
5 2 (8.33%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Java Hadoop Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) PySpark
2 5 (20.83%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Analytics
2 14 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 14 (58.33%) Data Engineering
2 14 (58.33%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (41.67%) ETL
4 9 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (37.50%) Data Analytics
5 8 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 8 (33.33%) Data Security
5 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (29.17%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (29.17%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 6 (25.00%) DevOps
8 5 (20.83%) Agile
8 5 (20.83%) Batch Processing
8 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
8 5 (20.83%) Data Architecture
8 5 (20.83%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (20.83%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) Python
2 13 (54.17%) SQL
3 7 (29.17%) Java
4 6 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 5 (20.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) GDPR
2 5 (20.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (62.50%) HDFS
2 6 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Hadoop YARN
2 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (20.83%) Ansible
3 5 (20.83%) Puppet
4 3 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Databricks