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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 342 381
Rank change year-on-year -52 +39 +104
Contract jobs citing Spark Streaming 17 13 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.095% 0.10% 0.045%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.40% 0.40% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 2
10th Percentile - £403 -
25th Percentile £450 £425 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £563 £806 £638
90th Percentile £575 £810 -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +19.05%

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 4,198 3,281 4,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.58% 26.10% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,804 2,301 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 27
10th Percentile £23.00 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £23.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.24%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £68.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 5 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spark Streaming in London

Spark Streaming
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 Spark Streaming within the London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2026. 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 -17 1 £650 -
Spark Streaming
England

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 2 (11.76%) Apache
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
1 11 (64.71%) Power Platform
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (17.65%) Serverless
4 2 (11.76%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (11.76%) Azure AI
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.76%) dbt
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) Power BI
1 11 (64.71%) Spark SQL
2 9 (52.94%) Data Lake
3 7 (41.18%) Relational Database
4 5 (29.41%) Big Data
5 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (17.65%) Apache Hive
5 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
5 3 (17.65%) Impala
5 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (11.76%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (11.76%) Delta Lake
6 2 (11.76%) HBase
6 2 (11.76%) Metadata
7 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (5.88%) Sqoop
7 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
7 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
1 7 (41.18%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark Developer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Scala Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) PySpark
2 5 (29.41%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) 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 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 11 (64.71%) Analytics
2 11 (64.71%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (64.71%) DevOps
3 10 (58.82%) ETL
4 9 (52.94%) Agile
4 9 (52.94%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (47.06%) Data Engineering
6 7 (41.18%) Batch Processing
6 7 (41.18%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (41.18%) OOP
6 7 (41.18%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (35.29%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (29.41%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (29.41%) Data Governance
8 5 (29.41%) Thought Leadership
9 4 (23.53%) Data Architecture
9 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
9 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
10 3 (17.65%) Data Science
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 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) GDPR
2 7 (41.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (35.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Databricks
3 2 (11.76%) Foundry