Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in West London

Apache Spark
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 23 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 +18 +12
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 14 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in West London 5.05% 2.44% 0.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 37.84% 18.52% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 0
10th Percentile - £468 -
25th Percentile £591 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.84% - -
75th Percentile £625 £488 -
90th Percentile - £518 -
London median daily rate £575 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% -10.60%

All Application Platform Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 37 27 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 13.36% 13.17% 15.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 21 52
10th Percentile £288 £313 £189
25th Percentile £523 £363 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £470 £375
Median % change year-on-year +28.19% +25.33% -28.57%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £538
90th Percentile £636 £573 £556
London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £31.55 - -
25th Percentile £35.57 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £30.16
Median % change year-on-year - - +88.50%
75th Percentile £44.88 - -
90th Percentile £46.00 - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £26.00
% change year-on-year +5.67% -8.46% +15.56%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in West London

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Apache Spark
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Apache Spark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 20 January 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
Richmond upon Thames - 12 £603 -
Apache Spark
London

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 (71.43%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
1 14 (100.00%) GCP
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon S3
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon SQS
2 10 (71.43%) AWS CloudFormation
2 10 (71.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 10 (71.43%) Collibra
2 10 (71.43%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon Athena
2 10 (71.43%) BigQuery
2 10 (71.43%) Mixpanel
2 10 (71.43%) OLAP
2 10 (71.43%) OLTP
2 10 (71.43%) Power BI
3 4 (28.57%) Metadata
General
1 4 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Principal Engineer
2 11 (78.57%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 11 (78.57%) Principal Software Engineer
2 11 (78.57%) Software Engineer
3 8 (57.14%) Data Engineer
3 8 (57.14%) Principal Data Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Software Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Azure Software Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) GCP Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) GCP Software Engineer
5 3 (21.43%) Lead
6 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Python Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Technical Leader
7 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) Kafka
2 10 (71.43%) Great Expectations
3 4 (28.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Analytics
1 14 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 14 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 14 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 14 (100.00%) Observability
2 13 (92.86%) Software Engineering
3 10 (71.43%) AI
3 10 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (71.43%) Data Governance
3 10 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 10 (71.43%) Data Privacy
3 10 (71.43%) DevOps
3 10 (71.43%) Dimensional Modelling
3 10 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (71.43%) ETL
3 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (71.43%) Machine Learning
3 10 (71.43%) MapReduce
3 10 (71.43%) Monte Carlo Method
3 10 (71.43%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (71.43%) C#
2 10 (71.43%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (71.43%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Databricks
2 10 (71.43%) Google