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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 783 749
Rank change year-on-year +127 -34 +346
Permanent jobs citing Spark Streaming 14 3 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.004% 0.037%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.020% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile - £82,500 -
25th Percentile £91,250 £86,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £95,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +24.59% -10.29%
75th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £81,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £77,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.13%

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 7,837 15,210 16,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.95% 19.61% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,961 9,829 13,754
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% -3.76% +2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Spark Streaming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spark Streaming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spark Streaming 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 15 September 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 +131 14 £92,500 -2.63% 8
London +97 14 £92,500 -2.63% 7

Spark Streaming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (35.71%) AWS Step Functions
3 5 (35.71%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) Big Data
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (50.00%) Hadoop
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (35.71%) Apache Hive
3 5 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (28.57%) Apache Iceberg
4 4 (28.57%) Spark SQL
5 3 (21.43%) OLAP
6 2 (14.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) CircleCI
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (78.57%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Financial Institution
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (28.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Data Engineer
2 9 (64.29%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (57.14%) Senior
3 8 (57.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 6 (42.86%) Python Engineer
5 5 (35.71%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (28.57%) AWS Software Engineer
6 4 (28.57%) Java Engineer
6 4 (28.57%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (28.57%) Lead
6 4 (28.57%) Lead Java Engineer
6 4 (28.57%) Lead Software Engineer
6 4 (28.57%) Python Software Engineer
6 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
7 2 (14.29%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) Kafka
2 5 (35.71%) boto
3 3 (21.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (78.57%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (50.00%) e-Learning
3 5 (35.71%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 14 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 9 (64.29%) Data Transformation
4 8 (57.14%) ETL
5 7 (50.00%) Data Governance
5 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (42.86%) Migration
7 5 (35.71%) Data Engineering
7 5 (35.71%) DevOps
7 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
8 4 (28.57%) Auto-Scaling
8 4 (28.57%) Batch Processing
8 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (28.57%) CQRS
8 4 (28.57%) Multithreading
8 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (28.57%) Physical Data Model
8 4 (28.57%) Use Case
8 4 (28.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (78.57%) Java
3 7 (50.00%) Scala
4 6 (42.86%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Databricks