Apache Spark Contracts in London

Apache Spark
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Apache Spark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apache Spark over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 231 186
Rank change year-on-year -32 -45 -47
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 127 305 636
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.71% 1.12% 1.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.50% 10.39% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 215 427
10th Percentile £377 £478 £456
25th Percentile £463 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £725 £739 £744
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -12.50% -1.64% +8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £62.35
25th Percentile - - £68.50
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
75th Percentile - - £84.83
90th Percentile - - £88.47
England median hourly rate £30.50 £78.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -60.90% -0.95% +86.39%

All Application Platform Skills
London

Apache Spark is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,953 2,935 4,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.96% 10.80% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,446 2,110 3,457
10th Percentile £263 £305 £350
25th Percentile £400 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £670
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
England median daily rate £499 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 31 49
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £15.75
25th Percentile £22.00 £21.94 £23.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% - +32.08%
75th Percentile £33.00 £69.13 £64.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £83.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £27.51 £32.50 £20.95
% change year-on-year -15.36% +55.17% -2.15%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +16 15 £725 +11.54% 8
West London - 2 - - 2
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 36 (28.35%) Apache
2 15 (11.81%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.79%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 52 (40.94%) Azure
2 48 (37.80%) AWS
3 20 (15.75%) Amazon EMR
4 18 (14.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (12.60%) Power Platform
5 16 (12.60%) Serverless
6 15 (11.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (11.02%) GCP
8 13 (10.24%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (9.45%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (8.66%) Amazon S3
11 9 (7.09%) Entra ID
11 9 (7.09%) Snowflake
12 7 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (4.72%) GitHub
14 5 (3.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (3.94%) OpenShift
14 5 (3.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (51.97%) Big Data
2 31 (24.41%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (22.83%) Hadoop
4 28 (22.05%) Data Lake
5 27 (21.26%) NoSQL
6 23 (18.11%) Apache Hive
7 16 (12.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (12.60%) Power BI
8 12 (9.45%) Impala
9 11 (8.66%) Relational Database
10 10 (7.87%) Delta Lake
10 10 (7.87%) Tableau
11 9 (7.09%) HBase
11 9 (7.09%) SQL Server
12 8 (6.30%) Spark SQL
13 7 (5.51%) Flink
13 7 (5.51%) MongoDB
14 6 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (4.72%) Parquet
14 6 (4.72%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 15 (11.81%) Git
2 12 (9.45%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.09%) JIRA
4 7 (5.51%) Maven
4 7 (5.51%) Subversion
5 5 (3.94%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.36%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.36%) Deequ
6 3 (2.36%) GitLab
6 3 (2.36%) JUnit
7 2 (1.57%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.57%) Gradle
7 2 (1.57%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.57%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.57%) Mockito
7 2 (1.57%) ScalaTest
7 2 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.79%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.79%) GoCD
8 1 (0.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 41 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 33 (25.98%) Finance
3 32 (25.20%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.66%) Banking
5 6 (4.72%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.94%) Marketing
6 5 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.94%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.57%) Czech Language
8 2 (1.57%) Legal
8 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.79%) Games
9 1 (0.79%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.79%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 45 (35.43%) Data Engineer
2 28 (22.05%) Developer
3 20 (15.75%) Architect
4 19 (14.96%) Senior
5 12 (9.45%) Java Developer
5 12 (9.45%) Lead
5 12 (9.45%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (8.66%) Scala Developer
7 10 (7.87%) Azure Data Engineer
7 10 (7.87%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (6.30%) AWS Architect
8 8 (6.30%) AWS Solution Architect
9 7 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.51%) Data Architect
9 7 (5.51%) Lead Data Engineer
9 7 (5.51%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Big Data Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Full Stack Developer
10 5 (3.94%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 5 (3.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (38.58%) Kafka
2 31 (24.41%) PySpark
3 8 (6.30%) SAML
4 6 (4.72%) Apache Avro
5 5 (3.94%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (3.94%) Spark Streaming
6 4 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.15%) JSON
6 4 (3.15%) JSON Schema
7 3 (2.36%) .NET
7 3 (2.36%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.36%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.36%) Great Expectations
7 3 (2.36%) Pandas
7 3 (2.36%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.36%) Web Services
8 2 (1.57%) Java Concurrency
8 2 (1.57%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.57%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.66%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.72%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.94%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.94%) Hedge funds
4 4 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.57%) Derivative
6 2 (1.57%) Life Science
6 2 (1.57%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.57%) Multi-touch
6 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.79%) NHS
7 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.87%) Linux
2 6 (4.72%) Unix
3 2 (1.57%) Android
3 2 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.94%) ETL
2 46 (36.22%) Data Pipeline
3 45 (35.43%) CI/CD
4 43 (33.86%) Agile
5 33 (25.98%) Analytics
6 29 (22.83%) Data Engineering
7 28 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (19.69%) DevOps
9 23 (18.11%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (16.54%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (14.17%) Data Modelling
11 18 (14.17%) Data Science
12 17 (13.39%) Machine Learning
13 14 (11.02%) SDLC
14 13 (10.24%) Software Engineering
14 13 (10.24%) Unit Testing
15 12 (9.45%) Test Automation
16 11 (8.66%) Computer Science
16 11 (8.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 11 (8.66%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 81 (63.78%) Python
2 67 (52.76%) SQL
3 47 (37.01%) Scala
4 46 (36.22%) Java
5 7 (5.51%) C#
6 6 (4.72%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.94%) Bash
7 5 (3.94%) C++
8 4 (3.15%) R
8 4 (3.15%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.36%) Perl
10 2 (1.57%) Groovy
10 2 (1.57%) Haskell
10 2 (1.57%) U-SQL
11 1 (0.79%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.79%) Bicep
11 1 (0.79%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.79%) PHP
11 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (12.60%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.24%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.45%) Degree
4 6 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.15%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.15%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (2.36%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.79%) OCP
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.36%) GDPR
3 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.79%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (7.09%) Docker
1 9 (7.09%) HDFS
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.79%) Ceph
2 1 (0.79%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (11.81%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.24%) Terraform
3 7 (5.51%) Hadoop YARN
4 4 (3.15%) Ansible
5 3 (2.36%) Oozie
6 2 (1.57%) Ambari
6 2 (1.57%) Grafana
6 2 (1.57%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.57%) Puppet
7 1 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.79%) Ganglia
7 1 (0.79%) Mesos
7 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.79%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 35 (27.56%) Databricks
2 15 (11.81%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.66%) Talend
4 8 (6.30%) Google
5 7 (5.51%) Cloudera
5 7 (5.51%) Oracle
6 6 (4.72%) Informatica
7 3 (2.36%) Splunk
8 2 (1.57%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.57%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.79%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.79%) Confluent
9 1 (0.79%) Okta
9 1 (0.79%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.79%) SAP
9 1 (0.79%) Sybase
9 1 (0.79%) Symantec
9 1 (0.79%) Teradata
9 1 (0.79%) Varonis