Apache Spark Job Trends in Edinburgh

Apache Spark
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 98 79
Rank change year-on-year -4 -19 +60
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 2 4 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.20% 0.33% 2.31%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.35% 4.17% 18.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £50,172
25th Percentile £85,000 - £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £79,632
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.72%
75th Percentile £95,000 - £127,757
90th Percentile - - £137,913
Scotland median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year - +13.02% +32.72%

All Application Platform Skills
Edinburgh

Apache Spark falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 85 96 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.46% 7.99% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 29 35 89
10th Percentile £24,500 £35,105 £34,750
25th Percentile £26,500 £46,028 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -2.34% +2.40%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,693 £91,934
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,648 £95,508
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks