Apache Spark Contracts in Central London

Apache Spark
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Apache Spark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apache Spark over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 142 139
Rank change year-on-year +21 -3 -42
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 16 33 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.67% 0.89% 1.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.16% 7.55% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 35
10th Percentile £525 £496 £430
25th Percentile £600 £541 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £675 £613
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +10.20% +2.08%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £766
90th Percentile - £744 £830
London median daily rate £575 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.44% +6.03%

All Application Platform Skills
Central London

Apache Spark is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 310 437 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.95% 11.84% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 292 465
10th Percentile £250 £258 £267
25th Percentile £388 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £619 £700 £625
90th Percentile £725 £800 £712
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £34.40 - £21.97
25th Percentile £36.50 £51.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +98.11% +17.78%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £41.50
90th Percentile - - £102.10
London median hourly rate £30.16 £32.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -7.20% -10.34% -3.33%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Central London

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in Central London

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Central London

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
City of London +20 13 £725 +7.41% 6
West End of London - 2 - -
City of Westminster - 1 £650 -
Apache Spark
London

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (37.50%) Apache
2 4 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (25.00%) Big Data
2 4 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (18.75%) Parquet
3 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
5 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (6.25%) Impala
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (6.25%) Power Query
5 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
5 1 (6.25%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Android Studio
1 2 (12.50%) Deequ
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JUnit
1 2 (12.50%) Mockito
1 2 (12.50%) ScalaTest
1 2 (12.50%) Subversion
1 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
2 1 (6.25%) GoCD
2 1 (6.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Java Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Scala Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Kafka
2 4 (25.00%) PySpark
3 3 (18.75%) Apache Avro
3 3 (18.75%) JSON
3 3 (18.75%) JSON Schema
4 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
4 2 (12.50%) Great Expectations
4 2 (12.50%) Middleware
5 1 (6.25%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
1 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Android
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) ETL
3 7 (43.75%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) Scrum
5 5 (31.25%) SDLC
6 4 (25.00%) Analytics
6 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
7 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
7 3 (18.75%) Log Analytics
7 3 (18.75%) Microservices
7 3 (18.75%) Migration
8 2 (12.50%) API Development
8 2 (12.50%) Functional Programming
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) Java
3 6 (37.50%) Scala
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Ceph
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) HDFS
1 1 (6.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (6.25%) Mesos
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Databricks
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle