Spark SQL Job Trends in the City of London

Apache Spark SQL
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 156 163
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 +83
Permanent jobs citing Spark SQL 2 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.072% 0.040% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.51% 0.15% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £60,313
90th Percentile - - £64,375
Central London median annual salary £70,000 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -26.67%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 393 647 670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 14.20% 25.67% 21.52%
Number of salaries quoted 326 430 611
10th Percentile £52,125 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £59,069 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in the City of London

Spark SQL
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Spark SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Spark SQL

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL