Apache Spark Contracts in Central London

Apache Spark
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Apache Spark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache Spark over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 115 154
Rank change year-on-year +9 +39 -39
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 23 35 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.98% 1.16% 1.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.55% 9.64% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 33
10th Percentile £445 £455 £451
25th Percentile £494 £529 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £706 £788 £775
90th Percentile £833 £830 £915
London median daily rate £600 £600 £630
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

All Application Platform Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 269 363 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.51% 12.02% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 230 414
10th Percentile £272 £244 £250
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £549
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.59% +7.07%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £666
90th Percentile £744 £738 £750
London median daily rate £560 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +3.70% -1.82% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile - - £15.46
25th Percentile £35.00 £17.00 £16.16
Median hourly rate £80.00 £19.00 £18.22
Median % change year-on-year +321.05% +4.30% -32.53%
75th Percentile £137.50 £23.75 £26.69
90th Percentile - £25.10 £35.58
London median hourly rate £33.07 £26.75 £24.00
% change year-on-year +23.63% +11.46% -22.58%

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 October 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 October 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 +13 20 £588 -6.00% 4
West End of London - 2 - -
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 2 (8.70%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 11 (47.83%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) GCP
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (17.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
6 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Table
8 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) Big Data
1 13 (56.52%) Hadoop
2 10 (43.48%) Data Lake
3 7 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (17.39%) Spark SQL
4 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
5 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
5 3 (13.04%) Power BI
5 3 (13.04%) Star Schema
6 2 (8.70%) Apache Hive
6 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
6 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (8.70%) HBase
6 2 (8.70%) Impala
6 2 (8.70%) Redis
6 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
7 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Gradle
2 1 (4.35%) Jasmine
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JProfiler
2 1 (4.35%) Maven
2 1 (4.35%) Mocha
2 1 (4.35%) Mockito
2 1 (4.35%) ScalaTest
2 1 (4.35%) Spock
2 1 (4.35%) Subversion
2 1 (4.35%) VisualVM
2 1 (4.35%) YourKit
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
4 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Data Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Big Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Analytics Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Scala Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Kafka
2 6 (26.09%) PySpark
3 2 (8.70%) Spring
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Avro
4 1 (4.35%) Loki
4 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Credit Risk
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (8.70%) Freedom of Information Act
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) ETL
2 9 (39.13%) Analytics
3 8 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
4 6 (26.09%) Scrum
5 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 5 (21.74%) Data Analysis
5 5 (21.74%) Data Governance
5 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
5 5 (21.74%) Data Security
6 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
7 3 (13.04%) Data Architecture
7 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
7 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (13.04%) Kimball Methodology
7 3 (13.04%) MLOps
7 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
7 3 (13.04%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Python
2 12 (52.17%) SQL
3 6 (26.09%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 4 (17.39%) R
4 4 (17.39%) Scala
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) Clojure
5 1 (4.35%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) HDFS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Flume
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Ambari
1 1 (4.35%) Ganglia
1 1 (4.35%) Grafana
1 1 (4.35%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Oozie
1 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
1 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Databricks
2 3 (13.04%) Cloudera
2 3 (13.04%) Google
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Confluent
4 1 (4.35%) Ab Initio
4 1 (4.35%) Alteryx
4 1 (4.35%) SAP