Spark SQL Job Trends in Birmingham

Apache Spark SQL
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 103 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Permanent jobs citing Spark SQL 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.098% 0.087% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.16% 0.46% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £42,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £43,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £42,500 -
% change year-on-year +64.71% - -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Birmingham

Spark SQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 259 217 556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.48% 18.97% 17.49%
Number of salaries quoted 203 177 445
10th Percentile £36,800 £40,450 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,104 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £76,250 £84,985
West Midlands median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% +5.00%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Spark SQL
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Spark SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Spark SQL

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Informatica