Spark Streaming Contracts

Apache Spark Streaming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Spark Streaming skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spark Streaming over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 575 710
Rank change year-on-year +77 +135 +45
Contract jobs citing Spark Streaming 22 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.016% 0.013%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.33% 0.078% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £418 - £473
25th Percentile £513 £613 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -16.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £588
90th Percentile £808 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Spark Streaming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spark Streaming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spark Streaming in the UK

Spark Streaming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spark Streaming.

Daily rate trend for Spark Streaming in the UK

Spark Streaming
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spark Streaming over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spark Streaming in the UK

Spark Streaming
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +71 21 £575 -8.00% 14
London +45 13 £575 -8.00% 13
UK excluding London +70 8 £575 - 3
North of England +26 8 £575 -
Yorkshire +15 8 £575 -
Work from Home +41 3 - - 6

Spark Streaming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 9 (40.91%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) GCP
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) Big Data
2 10 (45.45%) Flink
3 9 (40.91%) Hadoop
4 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Git
1 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Developer
2 10 (45.45%) Apache Spark Developer
2 10 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 7 (31.82%) Architect
4 5 (22.73%) Senior
5 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Java Scala Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Scala Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Systems Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
8 1 (4.55%) GCP Architect
8 1 (4.55%) GCP Data Architect
8 1 (4.55%) GCP Data Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Apache Beam
1 10 (45.45%) Kafka
2 4 (18.18%) JDBC
3 2 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Distributed Computing
1 9 (40.91%) Market Risk
2 8 (36.36%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (72.73%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 9 (40.91%) Analytics
4 9 (40.91%) Code Quality
4 9 (40.91%) Memory Management
4 9 (40.91%) Regulatory Compliance
4 9 (40.91%) Risk Analytics
4 9 (40.91%) Risk Management
5 8 (36.36%) Batch Processing
5 8 (36.36%) Greeks
5 8 (36.36%) Mathematics
5 8 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (31.82%) High Availability
6 7 (31.82%) Stress Testing
7 6 (27.27%) Decision-Making
7 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven
8 4 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
8 4 (18.18%) DevOps
9 1 (4.55%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Java
2 9 (40.91%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Scala
4 1 (4.55%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Cloudera
2 1 (4.55%) Google