Apache Spark Contracts in London

Apache Spark
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 264 227
Rank change year-on-year +97 -37 -45
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 204 128 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.63% 0.72% 1.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.97% 6.51% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 101 220
10th Percentile £400 £375 £481
25th Percentile £475 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £816 £725 £738
90th Percentile £838 £775 £788
England median daily rate £600 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +72.13% -60.90% -0.95%

All Application Platform Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,460 1,967 2,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.64% 11.03% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 1,456 2,104
10th Percentile £333 £263 £310
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 29
10th Percentile £25.34 £15.50 £17.75
25th Percentile £26.03 £22.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.73 £29.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% -17.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £50.94 £33.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £58.75 £82.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in London

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in London.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in London

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in London

Apache Spark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in London.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Spark in London

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +21 33 £640 -10.18% 6
West London +13 3 £475 - 5
South London - 1 £600 -
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 86 (42.16%) Apache
2 49 (24.02%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.43%) Jupyter
3 7 (3.43%) nginx
4 1 (0.49%) Luigi
4 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (47.55%) AWS
2 59 (28.92%) Azure
3 46 (22.55%) Serverless
4 43 (21.08%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (17.16%) dbt
6 32 (15.69%) OpenShift
7 30 (14.71%) Amazon S3
8 29 (14.22%) Amazon ECS
9 24 (11.76%) GCP
9 24 (11.76%) Power Platform
10 18 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (7.84%) Snowflake
12 14 (6.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (4.90%) GitHub
16 9 (4.41%) Amazon Kinesis
17 8 (3.92%) PaaS
18 7 (3.43%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.94%) SSH
2 5 (2.45%) Firewall
2 5 (2.45%) HTTP
2 5 (2.45%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (2.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.98%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (38.73%) Big Data
2 65 (31.86%) Hadoop
3 38 (18.63%) Apache Hive
4 33 (16.18%) Apache Iceberg
5 32 (15.69%) Amazon Athena
6 28 (13.73%) Apache Arrow
6 28 (13.73%) Apache Ignite
6 28 (13.73%) Dremio
7 25 (12.25%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (11.76%) Power BI
9 22 (10.78%) Data Lake
10 20 (9.80%) Relational Database
11 19 (9.31%) Delta Lake
12 15 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (6.86%) SQL Server
14 13 (6.37%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (6.37%) BigQuery
14 13 (6.37%) Tableau
15 12 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (16.18%) Git
2 31 (15.20%) Artifactory
3 20 (9.80%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.37%) JIRA
5 11 (5.39%) GitLab
6 6 (2.94%) RStudio
7 5 (2.45%) Poetry
7 5 (2.45%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.96%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.47%) git-flow
9 3 (1.47%) Gradle
10 2 (0.98%) JUnit
10 2 (0.98%) MLflow
11 1 (0.49%) JMeter
11 1 (0.49%) Locust
11 1 (0.49%) Mockito
11 1 (0.49%) Postman
11 1 (0.49%) Selenium
11 1 (0.49%) Subversion
11 1 (0.49%) WebDriver
General
1 91 (44.61%) Finance
2 41 (20.10%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (18.63%) Front Office
4 34 (16.67%) Banking
4 34 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 18 (8.82%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.86%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.90%) Marketing
8 7 (3.43%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.45%) Retail
11 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.49%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 84 (41.18%) Data Engineer
2 49 (24.02%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (22.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 43 (21.08%) Python Engineer
5 36 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
5 36 (17.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 28 (13.73%) Developer
7 23 (11.27%) Senior
8 21 (10.29%) Data Scientist
9 20 (9.80%) Java Developer
10 16 (7.84%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 15 (7.35%) Architect
11 15 (7.35%) Lead
12 10 (4.90%) Apache Spark Developer
12 10 (4.90%) Java Engineer
12 10 (4.90%) Senior Data Scientist
13 9 (4.41%) AWS Data Engineer
13 9 (4.41%) Data Architect
14 8 (3.92%) Big Data Engineer
14 8 (3.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (31.86%) Kafka
2 60 (29.41%) PySpark
3 28 (13.73%) J2EE
4 13 (6.37%) Spark Streaming
5 12 (5.88%) TensorFlow
5 12 (5.88%) YAML
6 10 (4.90%) JSON
6 10 (4.90%) React
7 9 (4.41%) scikit-learn
7 9 (4.41%) Spring
8 8 (3.92%) pydantic
9 7 (3.43%) Pandas
9 7 (3.43%) Ray
10 5 (2.45%) Dask
10 5 (2.45%) LAPP Stack
10 5 (2.45%) PyTorch
10 5 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.45%) Web Services
11 4 (1.96%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.96%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.71%) Distributed Computing
2 16 (7.84%) Algorithms
3 9 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.41%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.41%) Market Risk
4 8 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.43%) Multi-touch
5 7 (3.43%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.94%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.96%) Equities
7 4 (1.96%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.96%) Tandem
8 2 (0.98%) Derivative
8 2 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.49%) IoT
9 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.71%) Linux
2 8 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (40.20%) CI/CD
2 77 (37.75%) DevOps
3 69 (33.82%) Data Engineering
4 65 (31.86%) Data Pipeline
5 58 (28.43%) Machine Learning
6 57 (27.94%) Agile
6 57 (27.94%) Data Science
7 54 (26.47%) Analytics
8 48 (23.53%) ETL
8 48 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (18.63%) Software Engineering
10 32 (15.69%) Artificial Intelligence
10 32 (15.69%) Open Source
11 30 (14.71%) Computer Science
12 29 (14.22%) Data Modelling
12 29 (14.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 28 (13.73%) Asset Management
13 28 (13.73%) Data Governance
14 26 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (11.27%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 168 (82.35%) Python
2 93 (45.59%) SQL
3 92 (45.10%) Java
4 41 (20.10%) Scala
5 28 (13.73%) Go
6 17 (8.33%) Shell Script
7 16 (7.84%) C++
7 16 (7.84%) JavaScript
8 14 (6.86%) C
9 12 (5.88%) TypeScript
10 11 (5.39%) Bash
11 10 (4.90%) R
12 8 (3.92%) C#
12 8 (3.92%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.96%) Perl
14 3 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.98%) Bicep
16 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (16.18%) Degree
2 25 (12.25%) Security Cleared
3 23 (11.27%) PhD
4 22 (10.78%) SC Cleared
5 19 (9.31%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.39%) GDPR
3 5 (2.45%) QA
4 3 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 52 (25.49%) Docker
2 4 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.47%) HDFS
4 1 (0.49%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 67 (32.84%) Terraform
2 65 (31.86%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.41%) Ansible
4 4 (1.96%) Grafana
5 3 (1.47%) Argo
6 2 (0.98%) Apache Ranger
6 2 (0.98%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.49%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.49%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.49%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 44 (21.57%) Databricks
2 14 (6.86%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.37%) Cloudera
4 8 (3.92%) Oracle
5 6 (2.94%) Talend
6 4 (1.96%) Google
6 4 (1.96%) Informatica
6 4 (1.96%) Palantir
6 4 (1.96%) Sybase
7 2 (0.98%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.49%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.49%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.49%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.49%) IBM
8 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.49%) Splunk