Spark Streaming Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apache Spark Streaming
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 327 412
Rank change year-on-year +27 +85 +191
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Spark Streaming 6 5 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.039% 0.019%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 0.15% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £525 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £504 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -19.44% +8.70% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,597 3,313 5,192
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.42% 25.67% 24.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,805 2,296 3,849
10th Percentile £350 £325 £365
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £820 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 62 60
10th Percentile £31.25 £36.03 £30.43
25th Percentile £41.25 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +2.02%
75th Percentile - £62.38 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.93 £76.08
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.56% +2.67% -

Spark Streaming
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Spark Streaming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Spark Streaming trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Spark Streaming
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Spark Streaming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Spark Streaming

Spark Streaming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (50.00%) HBase
2 2 (33.33%) Flink
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Hadoop Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Beam
3 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Data Security
3 3 (50.00%) Use Case
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (16.67%) Data Lineage
5 1 (16.67%) Data Science
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) MLOps
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) HDFS
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft