Spark Streaming Job Trends

Apache Spark Streaming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Spark Streaming skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 636 715 690
Rank change year-on-year +79 -25 +343
Permanent jobs citing Spark Streaming 10 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.002% 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.008% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.06%
75th Percentile - - £81,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £77,500
% change year-on-year - - +14.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Spark Streaming falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,955 12,574 13,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 21.56% 26.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,232 7,704 10,626
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,383 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

Spark Streaming
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spark Streaming relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Spark Streaming job vacancy trend in the UK

Spark Streaming
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spark Streaming.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spark Streaming

Spark Streaming
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spark Streaming within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +94 10 - - 2
London +81 10 - - 1

Spark Streaming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (80.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 8 (80.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 10 (100.00%) Big Data
1 10 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 8 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (80.00%) Apache Hive
2 8 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (20.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) CircleCI
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
1 10 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) Senior
2 8 (80.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Kafka
2 8 (80.00%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (100.00%) e-Learning
2 8 (80.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 10 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Data Governance
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Security
3 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) Scala
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Databricks