Apache Spark Contracts in London

Apache Spark
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 227 180
Rank change year-on-year -30 -47 -45
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 133 301 612
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.76% 1.16% 1.59%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.61% 10.87% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 213 411
10th Percentile £391 £476 £438
25th Percentile £463 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £725 £740 £744
90th Percentile £786 £798 £845
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £62.35
25th Percentile - - £68.50
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +110.00%
75th Percentile - - £84.83
90th Percentile - - £88.47
England median hourly rate £30.50 £78.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -60.90% -0.95% +110.00%

All Application Platform Skills
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 London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,012 2,769 4,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.53% 10.70% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 1,991 3,423
10th Percentile £263 £306 £350
25th Percentile £400 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £671
90th Percentile £838 £800 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 51
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.88 £21.87 £25.75
Median hourly rate £30.16 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.83% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £36.88 £69.13 £64.88
90th Percentile £60.50 £83.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +63.04% +15.00%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in London

Apache Spark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Spark in London

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in London

Apache Spark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in London.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Spark in London

Apache Spark
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +11 14 £725 +13.73% 6
West London +22 2 - - 6
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 36 (27.07%) Apache
2 15 (11.28%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 62 (46.62%) Azure
2 48 (36.09%) AWS
3 21 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (13.53%) Amazon EMR
6 17 (12.78%) Power Platform
7 15 (11.28%) Serverless
8 13 (9.77%) GCP
9 11 (8.27%) Amazon Kinesis
9 11 (8.27%) Amazon S3
10 10 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (7.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (7.52%) Entra ID
11 9 (6.77%) Snowflake
12 7 (5.26%) GitHub
13 6 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (4.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (4.51%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (51.13%) Big Data
2 37 (27.82%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (26.32%) Data Lake
4 29 (21.80%) NoSQL
5 28 (21.05%) Hadoop
6 23 (17.29%) Apache Hive
7 17 (12.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (12.78%) Power BI
8 15 (11.28%) Delta Lake
9 13 (9.77%) Impala
10 11 (8.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (8.27%) Relational Database
11 10 (7.52%) SQL Server
11 10 (7.52%) Tableau
12 9 (6.77%) HBase
12 9 (6.77%) Parquet
13 8 (6.02%) Spark SQL
14 7 (5.26%) Flink
14 7 (5.26%) MongoDB
15 6 (4.51%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 15 (11.28%) Git
2 11 (8.27%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.26%) JIRA
3 7 (5.26%) Maven
3 7 (5.26%) Subversion
4 5 (3.76%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.01%) Deequ
6 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.26%) GitLab
6 3 (2.26%) JUnit
7 2 (1.50%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.50%) Gradle
7 2 (1.50%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.50%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.50%) Mockito
7 2 (1.50%) ScalaTest
7 2 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.75%) GoCD
8 1 (0.75%) Terragrunt
General
1 40 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 37 (27.82%) Finance
3 33 (24.81%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.77%) Banking
5 7 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.76%) Marketing
6 5 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.01%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.50%) Czech Language
8 2 (1.50%) Legal
8 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.75%) Games
9 1 (0.75%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (37.59%) Data Engineer
2 28 (21.05%) Developer
3 22 (16.54%) Senior
4 19 (14.29%) Architect
5 15 (11.28%) Azure Data Engineer
5 15 (11.28%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (9.77%) Scala Developer
7 12 (9.02%) Lead
7 12 (9.02%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (8.27%) Java Developer
8 11 (8.27%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (6.02%) AWS Architect
9 8 (6.02%) AWS Solution Architect
10 7 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.76%) Analyst
12 5 (3.76%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.76%) Full Stack Developer
12 5 (3.76%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (37.59%) Kafka
2 41 (30.83%) PySpark
3 9 (6.77%) Apache Avro
3 9 (6.77%) Spark Streaming
4 8 (6.02%) SAML
5 5 (3.76%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (3.76%) JSON
5 5 (3.76%) JSON Schema
6 4 (3.01%) .NET
6 4 (3.01%) ARM Templates
6 4 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.01%) Great Expectations
6 4 (3.01%) Web Services
7 3 (2.26%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.26%) ADO
7 3 (2.26%) Pandas
7 3 (2.26%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.50%) Java Concurrency
8 2 (1.50%) Middleware
8 2 (1.50%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.27%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.02%) Hedge funds
3 6 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.76%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.50%) Derivative
6 2 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.50%) Life Science
6 2 (1.50%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.50%) Multi-touch
6 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.75%) NHS
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.27%) Linux
2 6 (4.51%) Unix
3 2 (1.50%) Android
3 2 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (42.86%) ETL
2 53 (39.85%) Data Pipeline
3 49 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 48 (36.09%) Agile
5 38 (28.57%) Analytics
6 32 (24.06%) Data Engineering
7 30 (22.56%) DevOps
8 28 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
8 28 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 18 (13.53%) Machine Learning
11 16 (12.03%) Data Science
11 16 (12.03%) Test Automation
12 15 (11.28%) SDLC
12 15 (11.28%) Unit Testing
13 12 (9.02%) Scrum
13 12 (9.02%) Software Engineering
14 11 (8.27%) Design Patterns
14 11 (8.27%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 87 (65.41%) Python
2 72 (54.14%) SQL
3 52 (39.10%) Scala
4 47 (35.34%) Java
5 9 (6.77%) C#
6 7 (5.26%) C++
6 7 (5.26%) Shell Script
6 7 (5.26%) T-SQL
7 5 (3.76%) Bash
8 4 (3.01%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.26%) Perl
10 2 (1.50%) C
10 2 (1.50%) Groovy
10 2 (1.50%) Haskell
10 2 (1.50%) R
10 2 (1.50%) U-SQL
11 1 (0.75%) Bicep
11 1 (0.75%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (9.02%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.52%) Degree
3 9 (6.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.01%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (2.26%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.75%) OCP
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.78%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.26%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.75%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (7.52%) Docker
2 9 (6.77%) HDFS
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.75%) Ceph
3 1 (0.75%) NFS
Systems Management
1 16 (12.03%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.27%) Terraform
3 7 (5.26%) Hadoop YARN
4 4 (3.01%) Ansible
5 3 (2.26%) Oozie
6 2 (1.50%) Ambari
6 2 (1.50%) Grafana
6 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.50%) Puppet
7 1 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.75%) Ganglia
7 1 (0.75%) Mesos
7 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.75%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 43 (32.33%) Databricks
2 18 (13.53%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.27%) Talend
4 7 (5.26%) Google
4 7 (5.26%) Oracle
5 6 (4.51%) Informatica
6 5 (3.76%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.26%) Splunk
8 2 (1.50%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.50%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.75%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.75%) Confluent
9 1 (0.75%) Okta
9 1 (0.75%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.75%) SAP
9 1 (0.75%) Symantec
9 1 (0.75%) Teradata
9 1 (0.75%) Varonis