Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in South London

Apache Spark
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.60% 0.50% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.04% 4.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £499 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% - -
75th Percentile £500 £588 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -5.88%

All Application Platform Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 49 25 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 29.34% 12.38% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 51
10th Percentile - £398 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -8.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £585 £609 £638
90th Percentile £612 £703 £675
London median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in South London

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Croydon - 1 £500 - 2
Apache Spark
London

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow