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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 249 223
Rank change year-on-year +78 -26 -42
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 191 145 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.58% 0.83% 1.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.97% 6.97% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 112 205
10th Percentile £425 £401 £480
25th Percentile £478 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -3.13% -2.44%
75th Percentile £797 £738 £738
90th Percentile £838 £850 £800
England median daily rate £574 £535 £600
% change year-on-year +7.24% -10.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £90.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £44.62 £78.00
% change year-on-year +17.67% -42.80% -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 1,367 2,081 2,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.29% 11.92% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,559 1,990
10th Percentile £350 £274 £313
25th Percentile £413 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £673 £688 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 30 28
10th Percentile £26.04 £15.50 £17.26
25th Percentile £26.45 £23.75 £22.18
Median hourly rate £41.25 £30.16 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.77% -7.20% -10.34%
75th Percentile £52.81 £33.58 £74.31
90th Percentile £57.13 £58.25 £85.10
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year +75.00% -35.14% +124.90%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +23 34 £578 -20.28% 8
West London +11 2 £644 - 16
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 79 (41.36%) Apache
2 40 (20.94%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.14%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.09%) nginx
5 3 (1.57%) Confluence
6 1 (0.52%) Luigi
6 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 91 (47.64%) AWS
2 71 (37.17%) Azure
3 36 (18.85%) Serverless
4 33 (17.28%) AWS Lambda
5 30 (15.71%) GCP
6 27 (14.14%) dbt
7 25 (13.09%) OpenShift
8 23 (12.04%) Amazon S3
9 21 (10.99%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (10.99%) Power Platform
10 19 (9.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (7.85%) Snowflake
12 9 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (4.19%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (4.19%) GitHub
14 6 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (3.14%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (3.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.14%) SSH
2 2 (1.05%) Firewall
2 2 (1.05%) HTTP
2 2 (1.05%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (35.08%) Big Data
2 60 (31.41%) Hadoop
3 32 (16.75%) Apache Hive
4 25 (13.09%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (12.57%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (12.04%) Data Lake
7 22 (11.52%) Apache Iceberg
7 22 (11.52%) Delta Lake
8 21 (10.99%) Power BI
9 20 (10.47%) Apache Arrow
9 20 (10.47%) Apache Ignite
9 20 (10.47%) Dremio
10 19 (9.95%) Relational Database
11 15 (7.85%) NoSQL
11 15 (7.85%) SQL Server
12 14 (7.33%) BigQuery
13 13 (6.81%) Flink
14 11 (5.76%) Tableau
15 10 (5.24%) Data Mining
15 10 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (15.18%) Git
2 24 (12.57%) Artifactory
3 19 (9.95%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.33%) JIRA
5 7 (3.66%) GitLab
6 6 (3.14%) RStudio
7 5 (2.62%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.09%) git-flow
8 4 (2.09%) Gradle
8 4 (2.09%) MLflow
8 4 (2.09%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.57%) ER Studio
9 3 (1.57%) ERwin
10 2 (1.05%) JUnit
10 2 (1.05%) Poetry
11 1 (0.52%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.52%) Mockito
11 1 (0.52%) Postman
11 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.52%) WebDriver
General
1 81 (42.41%) Finance
2 41 (21.47%) Social Skills
3 39 (20.42%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (16.75%) Banking
5 28 (14.66%) Front Office
6 17 (8.90%) Investment Banking
7 13 (6.81%) Financial Institution
8 10 (5.24%) Marketing
9 7 (3.66%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.62%) Retail
11 4 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (36.65%) Data Engineer
2 36 (18.85%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (17.80%) Developer
4 31 (16.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (16.23%) Python Engineer
5 25 (13.09%) AWS DevOps
5 25 (13.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 25 (13.09%) Senior
6 21 (10.99%) Java Developer
7 19 (9.95%) Data Scientist
8 18 (9.42%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 15 (7.85%) Lead
10 14 (7.33%) Architect
11 10 (5.24%) Apache Spark Developer
11 10 (5.24%) Senior Data Scientist
12 9 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (4.71%) Data Architect
12 9 (4.71%) Senior Developer
13 8 (4.19%) Head of Engineering
14 7 (3.66%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (26.70%) Kafka
2 50 (26.18%) PySpark
3 20 (10.47%) J2EE
4 13 (6.81%) Pandas
4 13 (6.81%) Spark Streaming
5 12 (6.28%) TensorFlow
6 10 (5.24%) JSON
6 10 (5.24%) Spring
6 10 (5.24%) YAML
7 9 (4.71%) scikit-learn
8 8 (4.19%) pydantic
9 7 (3.66%) React
9 7 (3.66%) RESTful
10 6 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.62%) PyTorch
11 5 (2.62%) Ray
11 5 (2.62%) REST
11 5 (2.62%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.62%) Web Services
12 4 (2.09%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.28%) Distributed Computing
2 17 (8.90%) Algorithms
3 13 (6.81%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.81%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.71%) Market Risk
5 8 (4.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (4.19%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.66%) Credit Risk
6 7 (3.66%) Multi-touch
6 7 (3.66%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.09%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.09%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.05%) Equities
9 2 (1.05%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.57%) Linux
2 6 (3.14%) Unix
3 5 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (37.17%) CI/CD
2 68 (35.60%) Data Pipeline
3 64 (33.51%) Machine Learning
4 63 (32.98%) DevOps
5 59 (30.89%) Data Science
6 57 (29.84%) Data Engineering
7 54 (28.27%) Agile
7 54 (28.27%) Analytics
8 49 (25.65%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (20.42%) ETL
10 37 (19.37%) Data Governance
11 36 (18.85%) Computer Science
12 35 (18.32%) Artificial Intelligence
13 33 (17.28%) Data Modelling
14 28 (14.66%) Mathematics
14 28 (14.66%) Open Source
14 28 (14.66%) Software Engineering
15 21 (10.99%) Deep Learning
16 20 (10.47%) Data Analysis
16 20 (10.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 150 (78.53%) Python
2 83 (43.46%) SQL
3 79 (41.36%) Java
4 42 (21.99%) Scala
5 24 (12.57%) Go
6 17 (8.90%) JavaScript
7 15 (7.85%) C++
8 13 (6.81%) C
8 13 (6.81%) R
8 13 (6.81%) Shell Script
9 11 (5.76%) Bash
10 9 (4.71%) TypeScript
11 8 (4.19%) C#
12 5 (2.62%) PowerShell
13 4 (2.09%) Perl
14 3 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.57%) T-SQL
15 2 (1.05%) Bicep
16 1 (0.52%) CodeQL
16 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (21.47%) Degree
2 28 (14.66%) PhD
3 23 (12.04%) Security Cleared
4 22 (11.52%) SC Cleared
5 21 (10.99%) Master's Degree
6 10 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.57%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.24%) GDPR
3 6 (3.14%) QA
4 4 (2.09%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.57%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.52%) PMO
6 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (22.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) HDFS
2 1 (0.52%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (28.80%) Kubernetes
2 51 (26.70%) Terraform
3 9 (4.71%) Ansible
4 6 (3.14%) Grafana
5 4 (2.09%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.57%) Argo
6 3 (1.57%) Kibana
6 3 (1.57%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.05%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.52%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 48 (25.13%) Databricks
2 18 (9.42%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.24%) Cloudera
4 6 (3.14%) Google
4 6 (3.14%) Oracle
5 4 (2.09%) Palantir
5 4 (2.09%) Sybase
5 4 (2.09%) Talend
6 3 (1.57%) Duck Creek
6 3 (1.57%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.05%) Foundry
8 1 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) Informatica
8 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft