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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 538 638
Rank change year-on-year +15 +100 +134
Contract jobs citing Spark Streaming 30 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.026% 0.034%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.41% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 5
10th Percentile £430 - £391
25th Percentile £450 £613 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £603
90th Percentile £773 - £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -

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 7,356 8,587 11,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.32% 22.06% 22.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,928 5,791 8,427
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £428 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £748 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.10% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 243 158
10th Percentile £29.63 £22.96 £30.53
25th Percentile £41.13 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.44 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% -8.33% +2.32%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.18 £74.44 £78.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £58.91 £58.59
% change year-on-year -6.63% +0.54% -2.35%

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 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spark Streaming in the UK

Spark Streaming
Top 8 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 14 August 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 +31 29 £550 -12.00% 11
London +25 16 £450 -28.00% 9
UK excluding London - 13 £550 - 2
North of England - 12 £550 - 1
Yorkshire - 11 £575 - 1
Work from Home +18 4 £500 - 3
Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
North West - 1 £500 -

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 30 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 9 (30.00%) Apache
3 2 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) GCP
2 7 (23.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.33%) dbt
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) Prefect
5 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (46.67%) Big Data
2 13 (43.33%) Flink
3 11 (36.67%) Hadoop
4 7 (23.33%) MongoDB
4 7 (23.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.67%) Apache Hive
5 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.67%) HBase
5 2 (6.67%) Impala
6 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.33%) Metadata
6 1 (3.33%) Power BI
6 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Git
2 9 (30.00%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (43.33%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Developer
2 12 (40.00%) Apache Spark Developer
3 10 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 9 (30.00%) Architect
5 6 (20.00%) Data Engineer
6 5 (16.67%) Senior
7 4 (13.33%) Scala Developer
8 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
9 2 (6.67%) Cloud Developer
9 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems Developer
9 2 (6.67%) Java Scala Developer
9 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (6.67%) Senior Systems Developer
9 2 (6.67%) SQL Developer
10 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
10 1 (3.33%) GCP Data Architect
10 1 (3.33%) Lead
10 1 (3.33%) Lead DevOps
10 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) Kafka
2 13 (43.33%) Apache Beam
3 7 (23.33%) JDBC
4 3 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
2 9 (30.00%) Market Risk
3 8 (26.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (73.33%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (36.67%) Decision-Making
5 10 (33.33%) Analytics
5 10 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 10 (33.33%) High Availability
6 9 (30.00%) Code Quality
6 9 (30.00%) DevOps
6 9 (30.00%) Memory Management
6 9 (30.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 9 (30.00%) Risk Analytics
6 9 (30.00%) Risk Management
7 8 (26.67%) Batch Processing
7 8 (26.67%) Data Ingestion
7 8 (26.67%) Greeks
7 8 (26.67%) Mathematics
7 8 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (23.33%) Stress Testing
9 3 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Java
1 11 (36.67%) Python
2 6 (20.00%) SQL
3 5 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (3.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) HDFS
2 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Cloudera
2 2 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft