Apache Beam Contract Job Trends

Apache Beam
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Apache Beam skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 585 549 597
Rank change year-on-year -36 +48 +170
Contract jobs citing Apache Beam 4 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.015% 0.009%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.048% 0.067% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £679 £401
25th Percentile £513 £686 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £717 £425
Median % change year-on-year -26.78% +68.71% -39.29%
75th Percentile £538 £745 £453
90th Percentile - £748 £463
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £400
% change year-on-year - - -41.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £30.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Apache Beam 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,305 7,429 9,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.38% 21.92% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,494 4,710 6,717
10th Percentile £352 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 92 173
10th Percentile £31.10 £21.33 £32.60
25th Percentile £44.01 £34.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.86 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.99 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -2.69% +25.26% -20.17%

Apache Beam
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Beam relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Apache Beam job vacancy trend in the UK

Apache Beam
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Beam.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Beam

Apache Beam
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Beam.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Beam

Apache Beam
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Beam within the UK over the 6 months to 25 December 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
England -39 4 £525 -26.78% 3
London -6 3 £525 -26.78% 3
Work from Home 0 1 £525 -28.47% 2
UK excluding London -45 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -

Apache Beam
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (100.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (25.00%) Big Data
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Spanner
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (25.00%) Flink
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Google