Spark Streaming Contract Job Trends in London

Apache Spark Streaming
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Spark Streaming skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 343 390
Rank change year-on-year -43 +47 +98
Contract jobs citing Spark Streaming 17 10 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.10% 0.079% 0.017%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.41% 0.30% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 2
10th Percentile £449 £403 £624
25th Percentile £450 £425 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £688
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -16.36% +30.95%
75th Percentile - £806 £741
90th Percentile £575 £810 £761
England median daily rate £550 £575 £688
% change year-on-year -4.35% -16.36% +30.95%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,180 3,305 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.80% 26.17% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,830 2,311 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £537 £544
% change year-on-year -2.23% -1.24% -5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 26
10th Percentile £26.63 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.88
Median hourly rate £44.75 £54.00 £44.85
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +20.41% -31.01%
75th Percentile £59.04 £65.00 £65.69
90th Percentile £82.50 £76.25 £76.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

Spark Streaming
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spark Streaming relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Spark Streaming job vacancy trend in London

Spark Streaming
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spark Streaming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spark Streaming

Spark Streaming
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spark Streaming in London over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spark Streaming in London

Spark Streaming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 10 (58.82%) Apache Spark
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (11.76%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Power Platform
2 11 (64.71%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
4 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (17.65%) Serverless
4 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
5 2 (11.76%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (11.76%) Azure AI
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (76.47%) Power BI
2 11 (64.71%) Data Lake
2 11 (64.71%) Spark SQL
3 7 (41.18%) Relational Database
4 5 (29.41%) Big Data
5 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (17.65%) Apache Hive
6 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
6 3 (17.65%) Impala
6 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
6 3 (17.65%) Redshift Spectrum
6 3 (17.65%) Tableau
7 2 (11.76%) HBase
8 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (5.88%) Sqoop
8 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
1 7 (41.18%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Data Engineer
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Data Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Hadoop Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) PySpark
2 5 (29.41%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 13 (76.47%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (70.59%) ETL
4 11 (64.71%) Analytics
4 11 (64.71%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (64.71%) DevOps
5 9 (52.94%) Agile
6 8 (47.06%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (41.18%) Batch Processing
7 7 (41.18%) Data Engineering
7 7 (41.18%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (41.18%) OOP
7 7 (41.18%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (29.41%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (29.41%) Data Governance
8 5 (29.41%) Data Science
8 5 (29.41%) Thought Leadership
9 4 (23.53%) Data Architecture
9 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
9 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Python
2 13 (76.47%) SQL
3 9 (52.94%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) GDPR
2 7 (41.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (35.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Databricks
3 2 (11.76%) Foundry