Apache Spark
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Apache Spark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Apache Spark over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 246 253
Rank change year-on-year -35 +7 +16
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 1,036 1,486 2,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 1.47% 1.61%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.68% 12.85% 11.55%
Number of salaries quoted 294 608 883
10th Percentile £50,000 £56,950 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,180 £66,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% +10.34%
75th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £93,125
90th Percentile £118,750 £150,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,447 £70,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year -0.79% +13.36% -1.20%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,708 11,567 21,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.80% 11.41% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,116 7,728 11,580
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,653
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.64% +4.10%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £94,375 £96,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark.

Salary trend for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +111 766 £69,447 -0.79% 60
Scotland +151 622 £47,500 -20.83% 11
England -236 391 £80,000 -8.57% 123
London -143 248 £90,000 -5.26% 79
Work from Home -211 190 £80,000 -20.00% 102
South West -41 51 £80,000 +10.34% 11
North of England -97 50 £55,000 -21.43% 10
North West +3 37 £62,500 -16.67% 4
Midlands -26 16 £72,750 +3.93% 8
South East -62 14 £52,000 -25.71% 6
Yorkshire -43 12 £51,528 -20.73% 4
East Midlands -21 10 £60,000 - 2
Wales +7 7 £51,528 -1.85% 1
West Midlands +1 6 £73,000 +4.29% 6
East of England -22 5 £101,250 +102.50% 8
Northern Ireland +26 1 £70,000 -30.00% 5
North East -22 1 £75,000 - 2

Apache Spark
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
1 296 (28.57%) Apache
2 169 (16.31%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.61%) Jupyter
4 17 (1.64%) nginx
5 16 (1.54%) SAS
6 6 (0.58%) Confluence
7 3 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.19%) Luigi
9 1 (0.097%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 704 (67.95%) AWS
2 215 (20.75%) Azure
3 180 (17.37%) GCP
4 103 (9.94%) Serverless
5 99 (9.56%) Amazon EKS
6 95 (9.17%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (7.82%) Amazon SQS
8 72 (6.95%) Amazon EMR
9 70 (6.76%) Amazon S3
10 58 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
11 56 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
12 46 (4.44%) Snowflake
13 45 (4.34%) OpenShift
14 40 (3.86%) Power Platform
15 39 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 36 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 35 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
18 33 (3.19%) SaaS
19 29 (2.80%) GitHub
20 24 (2.32%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.51%) AMQP
2 20 (1.93%) Wireless
3 18 (1.74%) DSL
4 7 (0.68%) Firewall
5 5 (0.48%) Network Security
6 2 (0.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 718 (69.31%) Big Data
2 428 (41.31%) Hadoop
3 419 (40.44%) NoSQL
4 165 (15.93%) Apache Hive
5 110 (10.62%) Data Lake
6 105 (10.14%) HBase
7 88 (8.49%) Data Warehouse
8 60 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
9 54 (5.21%) Electronic Patient Records
10 50 (4.83%) Data Mining
11 45 (4.34%) Flink
12 43 (4.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 40 (3.86%) SQL Server
14 38 (3.67%) Power BI
14 38 (3.67%) Tableau
15 32 (3.09%) BigQuery
16 28 (2.70%) Presto
17 27 (2.61%) Redis
18 26 (2.51%) Cloudera CDH
19 25 (2.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 139 (13.42%) Jenkins
2 129 (12.45%) Git
3 86 (8.30%) Bitbucket Server
4 17 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (1.25%) Spinnaker
6 8 (0.77%) CircleCI
6 8 (0.77%) JIRA
6 8 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (0.77%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.39%) MLflow
8 3 (0.29%) Deequ
8 3 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.19%) JUnit
9 2 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.097%) Ant
10 1 (0.097%) ERwin
10 1 (0.097%) Gradle
10 1 (0.097%) Maven
General
1 676 (65.25%) Finance
2 638 (61.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 597 (57.63%) Law
4 323 (31.18%) Marketing
5 280 (27.03%) Legal
6 165 (15.93%) Influencing Skills
7 127 (12.26%) Social Skills
8 112 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
9 77 (7.43%) Banking
10 72 (6.95%) Financial Institution
11 32 (3.09%) Retail
12 29 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (2.51%) Aerospace
14 21 (2.03%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.93%) Games
16 13 (1.25%) Private Banking
17 12 (1.16%) Public Sector
18 10 (0.97%) Electronics
19 9 (0.87%) Retail Finance
20 8 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 597 (57.63%) Software Engineer
2 396 (38.22%) Big Data Engineer
3 378 (36.49%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 337 (32.53%) Data Engineer
5 236 (22.78%) Senior
6 228 (22.01%) Lead
7 216 (20.85%) Scala Engineer
7 216 (20.85%) Scala Software Engineer
8 194 (18.73%) Java Engineer
9 193 (18.63%) AWS Engineer
9 193 (18.63%) Java Software Engineer
10 187 (18.05%) Lead Software Engineer
11 181 (17.47%) AWS Software Engineer
12 148 (14.29%) Lead Big Data Engineer
13 138 (13.32%) Python Engineer
14 119 (11.49%) Java Scala Software Engineer
15 116 (11.20%) Python Software Engineer
16 103 (9.94%) Senior Software Engineer
17 97 (9.36%) Lead Java Engineer
18 89 (8.59%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (21.33%) Kafka
2 172 (16.60%) PySpark
3 114 (11.00%) Spring
4 85 (8.20%) Spring Boot
5 62 (5.98%) React
6 51 (4.92%) AngularJS
7 47 (4.54%) RabbitMQ
8 46 (4.44%) REST
9 34 (3.28%) Apache Beam
10 29 (2.80%) Node.js
11 27 (2.61%) gRPC
12 26 (2.51%) Material-UI
12 26 (2.51%) OpenAPI
12 26 (2.51%) Pandas
12 26 (2.51%) Swagger
13 23 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
13 23 (2.22%) GraphQL
14 22 (2.12%) ActiveMQ
15 20 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
16 17 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 258 (24.90%) Algorithms
2 229 (22.10%) Cloud Native
3 68 (6.56%) Data Structures
4 43 (4.15%) Legacy Code
5 38 (3.67%) Management Information System
6 35 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 32 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (2.70%) Product Ownership
9 18 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (1.45%) Credit Risk
11 15 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
14 8 (0.77%) BBC
15 7 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
16 6 (0.58%) Mainframe
16 6 (0.58%) Onboarding
17 4 (0.39%) IoT
17 4 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 104 (10.04%) Unix
2 67 (6.47%) Linux
3 26 (2.51%) CentOS
3 26 (2.51%) Debian
3 26 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (2.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 735 (70.95%) Agile
2 722 (69.69%) Software Engineering
3 614 (59.27%) CI/CD
4 560 (54.05%) SDLC
5 498 (48.07%) Operational Stability
6 387 (37.36%) Machine Learning
7 328 (31.66%) Artificial Intelligence
8 310 (29.92%) Risk Management
9 278 (26.83%) Visualisation
10 264 (25.48%) Community of Practice
11 234 (22.59%) Performance Tuning
12 217 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
13 215 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 191 (18.44%) Microservices
15 180 (17.37%) Decision-Making
16 174 (16.80%) Data Engineering
17 163 (15.73%) Data Modelling
18 149 (14.38%) Data Pipeline
19 138 (13.32%) Analytics
20 137 (13.22%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 623 (60.14%) SQL
2 608 (58.69%) Java
3 597 (57.63%) Python
4 401 (38.71%) Scala
5 105 (10.14%) PL/SQL
6 49 (4.73%) Go
7 42 (4.05%) Bash
8 37 (3.57%) R
9 32 (3.09%) JavaScript
10 24 (2.32%) C#
11 23 (2.22%) Kotlin
12 22 (2.12%) C
13 20 (1.93%) Shell Script
14 15 (1.45%) C++
15 10 (0.97%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.77%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.68%) VB
19 6 (0.58%) Clojure
20 4 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 136 (13.13%) Degree
2 56 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 49 (4.73%) DV Cleared
4 35 (3.38%) SC Cleared
5 28 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.97%) PhD
9 6 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.58%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.39%) CIMA
10 4 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.097%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.097%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 37 (3.57%) SLA
3 17 (1.64%) QA
4 15 (1.45%) CRD IV
4 15 (1.45%) IFRS
4 15 (1.45%) IFRS 9
5 4 (0.39%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.19%) GDPR
System Software
1 116 (11.20%) HDFS
2 66 (6.37%) Docker
3 11 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.39%) Ceph
5 3 (0.29%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.19%) IAG
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 204 (19.69%) Kubernetes
2 179 (17.28%) Terraform
3 59 (5.69%) Ansible
4 30 (2.90%) Puppet
5 18 (1.74%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.64%) Grafana
6 17 (1.64%) HAProxy
7 4 (0.39%) Kibana
7 4 (0.39%) Knative
8 3 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.19%) Argo
9 2 (0.19%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.097%) logstash
10 1 (0.097%) Podman
10 1 (0.097%) Rancher
Vendors
1 261 (25.19%) Databricks
2 118 (11.39%) Google
3 91 (8.78%) Informatica
4 89 (8.59%) Cloudera
5 65 (6.27%) Microsoft
6 32 (3.09%) Oracle
7 26 (2.51%) Red Hat
7 26 (2.51%) SaltStack
8 24 (2.32%) Dell
9 20 (1.93%) Cognos
10 18 (1.74%) Alteryx
10 18 (1.74%) Sybase
11 16 (1.54%) Teradata
12 8 (0.77%) YouTube
13 7 (0.68%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.68%) Confluent
14 5 (0.48%) Apple
15 4 (0.39%) Facebook
15 4 (0.39%) SAP
15 4 (0.39%) Splunk