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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 517 579
Rank change year-on-year +13 +62 +131
Contract jobs citing Spark Streaming 20 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.070% 0.019% 0.034%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.087% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £435 - £397
25th Percentile £450 - £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £493 - £681
90th Percentile £515 - £738
UK median daily rate £463 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%

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 6,523 6,934 9,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.87% 22.03% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,388 4,419 6,657
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.16% -1.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 130 187
10th Percentile £31.05 £27.68 £37.67
25th Percentile £42.50 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.70 £65.00 £55.56
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +16.99% -14.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.56 £73.78 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +16.07% -13.85%

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
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 25 October 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 8 £450 - 1
North of England - 8 £475 - 1
Yorkshire - 7 £475 - 1
Midlands - 5 £479 -
West Midlands - 4 £507 -
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 20 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 11 (55.00%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (45.00%) Apache
4 1 (5.00%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) GCP
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) dbt
5 1 (5.00%) Google Ads
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Prefect
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) Apache Hive
1 13 (65.00%) Hadoop
2 11 (55.00%) HBase
3 6 (30.00%) Big Data
4 4 (20.00%) Flink
4 4 (20.00%) Impala
4 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (5.00%) Metadata
6 1 (5.00%) Power BI
6 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Hadoop Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Scala Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Kafka Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Hadoop Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Kafka
2 4 (20.00%) Apache Beam
2 4 (20.00%) JDBC
3 2 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (55.00%) Data Engineering
3 10 (50.00%) Analytics
3 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (45.00%) Data Analytics
5 8 (40.00%) Decision-Making
6 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (35.00%) Data Security
7 6 (30.00%) Data Governance
7 6 (30.00%) Data Ingestion
7 6 (30.00%) DevOps
8 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
8 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
9 4 (20.00%) ETL
9 4 (20.00%) High Availability
9 4 (20.00%) Use Case
10 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
10 3 (15.00%) Data Transformation
11 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
11 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) Shell Script
4 5 (25.00%) Scala
5 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) HDFS
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Ansible
2 7 (35.00%) Hadoop YARN
3 5 (25.00%) Puppet
4 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Google