Apache Spark Jobs in Glasgow

Apache Spark
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Apache Spark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Apache Spark over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 35 120
Rank change year-on-year -21 +85 -25
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 28 423 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.78% 11.82% 0.27%
As % of the Application Platforms category 30.11% 54.58% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £88,500 - -
25th Percentile £90,000 £46,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £47,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £48,750 -
90th Percentile £111,500 - -
Scotland median annual salary £100,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +110.53% -20.83% +4.35%

All Application Platform Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 93 775 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 12.55% 21.66% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 21 70 95
10th Percentile - £28,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £35,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -
75th Percentile £75,360 £55,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £67,600 £72,000
Scotland median annual salary £51,914 £45,000 £47,583
% change year-on-year +15.36% -5.43% -4.83%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Glasgow

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Apache Spark in Glasgow

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 10 (35.71%) Apache
2 3 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon S3
3 5 (17.86%) Azure
4 4 (14.29%) GCP
4 4 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 3 (10.71%) Dagster
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (10.71%) Prefect
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.14%) Serverless
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (75.00%) Big Data
2 12 (42.86%) NoSQL
3 9 (32.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (32.14%) Apache Hive
3 9 (32.14%) Apache Iceberg
4 8 (28.57%) Hadoop
5 5 (17.86%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (17.86%) Apache Hudi
5 5 (17.86%) HBase
5 5 (17.86%) Parquet
6 4 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (14.29%) DynamoDB
6 4 (14.29%) Impala
6 4 (14.29%) Redshift Spectrum
6 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
6 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
8 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Gradle
1 5 (17.86%) JUnit
1 5 (17.86%) Maven
2 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) CircleCI
3 2 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 27 (96.43%) Finance
2 25 (89.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 25 (89.29%) Law
3 12 (42.86%) Marketing
4 11 (39.29%) Banking
5 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (21.43%) Investment Banking
6 4 (14.29%) Legal
6 4 (14.29%) Publishing
7 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 25 (89.29%) Software Engineer
2 13 (46.43%) Python Engineer
2 13 (46.43%) Python Software Engineer
3 9 (32.14%) Java Engineer
3 9 (32.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 8 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 8 (28.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 8 (28.57%) Lead
4 8 (28.57%) Lead Software Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) AWS Software Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Java Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Java Software Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Senior
5 5 (17.86%) Software Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) Kafka
2 5 (17.86%) JPA
2 5 (17.86%) PySpark
2 5 (17.86%) REST
2 5 (17.86%) Spring
3 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Algorithms
2 7 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (17.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) Agile
1 25 (89.29%) Operational Stability
1 25 (89.29%) Software Engineering
2 21 (75.00%) SDLC
3 16 (57.14%) Community of Practice
4 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
5 14 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 13 (46.43%) Machine Learning
6 13 (46.43%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (35.71%) TDD
8 9 (32.14%) Analytics
8 9 (32.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (32.14%) Decision-Making
8 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
8 9 (32.14%) Visualisation
9 8 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (25.00%) Architectural Design
10 7 (25.00%) DevOps
10 7 (25.00%) Information Architecture
11 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (75.00%) SQL
2 18 (64.29%) Python
3 14 (50.00%) Java
4 5 (17.86%) PL/SQL
5 4 (14.29%) Scala
6 2 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 5 (17.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Terraform
2 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.14%) Grafana
3 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Databricks
2 5 (17.86%) Cloudera
3 4 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft