Apache Spark Jobs in London

Apache Spark
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 302 156
Rank change year-on-year +48 -146 +41
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 165 231 757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.28% 0.93% 2.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.80% 6.98% 18.43%
Number of salaries quoted 109 166 407
10th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £64,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £130,000 £160,000
England median annual salary £83,750 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -8.57% +9.38%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,528 3,309 4,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.90% 13.28% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,079 2,391 3,055
10th Percentile £37,200 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +8.98% +5.88%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,316
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.76% +4.21%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in London

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Apache Spark in London

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in London over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in London

Apache Spark
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the London region over the 6 months to 19 June 2025. 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
Central London +50 29 £62,500 -21.88% 72
South London - 2 - - 2
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 76 (46.06%) Apache
2 71 (43.03%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.42%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (1.21%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Maya
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (63.03%) AWS
2 70 (42.42%) Azure
3 53 (32.12%) Serverless
4 50 (30.30%) dbt
4 50 (30.30%) OpenShift
5 49 (29.70%) AWS Lambda
6 48 (29.09%) Amazon ECS
7 35 (21.21%) GCP
8 19 (11.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (8.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (7.88%) Amazon Kinesis
11 12 (7.27%) Power Platform
12 11 (6.67%) Snowflake
13 9 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (3.64%) Amazon S3
15 5 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (2.42%) Amazon EMR
16 4 (2.42%) Azure Functions
16 4 (2.42%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.48%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (33.94%) Apache Iceberg
2 54 (32.73%) Amazon Athena
3 51 (30.91%) Apache Ignite
4 48 (29.09%) Apache Arrow
4 48 (29.09%) Dremio
5 38 (23.03%) Big Data
6 35 (21.21%) Hadoop
7 27 (16.36%) NoSQL
8 24 (14.55%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (13.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (11.52%) BigQuery
11 16 (9.70%) Data Lake
12 12 (7.27%) Power BI
12 12 (7.27%) Relational Database
13 11 (6.67%) Apache Hive
14 10 (6.06%) Metadata
15 8 (4.85%) Delta Lake
15 8 (4.85%) Flink
16 6 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (3.64%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 48 (29.09%) Artifactory
2 16 (9.70%) Git
3 10 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.03%) CircleCI
5 4 (2.42%) JMeter
5 4 (2.42%) Locust
5 4 (2.42%) Postman
5 4 (2.42%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.42%) Selenium
5 4 (2.42%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.61%) GitLab
6 1 (0.61%) MLflow
General
1 97 (58.79%) Finance
2 48 (29.09%) Front Office
3 41 (24.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (23.64%) Social Skills
5 29 (17.58%) Law
6 26 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (13.33%) Banking
8 16 (9.70%) Retail
9 15 (9.09%) Games
10 14 (8.48%) Advertising
11 8 (4.85%) Marketing
12 5 (3.03%) Financial Institution
13 4 (2.42%) Investment Banking
13 4 (2.42%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.82%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.61%) Czech Language
15 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (49.09%) Data Engineer
2 61 (36.97%) Python Engineer
3 52 (31.52%) AWS Engineer
4 50 (30.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 48 (29.09%) AWS DevOps
5 48 (29.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 47 (28.48%) Senior
7 28 (16.97%) Software Engineer
8 22 (13.33%) Lead
9 16 (9.70%) Architect
9 16 (9.70%) Senior Data Engineer
10 14 (8.48%) Data Scientist
10 14 (8.48%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (7.27%) Senior Data Scientist
12 11 (6.67%) Data Architect
13 10 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (4.85%) Python Software Engineer
15 5 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
15 5 (3.03%) Python Data Engineer
16 4 (2.42%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (63.64%) Kafka
2 63 (38.18%) PySpark
3 48 (29.09%) J2EE
4 15 (9.09%) TensorFlow
5 12 (7.27%) Spark Streaming
6 11 (6.67%) PyTorch
7 9 (5.45%) scikit-learn
8 8 (4.85%) pytest
9 7 (4.24%) YAML
10 5 (3.03%) Great Expectations
10 5 (3.03%) OAuth
10 5 (3.03%) React
11 4 (2.42%) Keras
11 4 (2.42%) NumPy
11 4 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.42%) RESTful
11 4 (2.42%) SciPy
11 4 (2.42%) SpaCy
12 3 (1.82%) Apache Beam
13 2 (1.21%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.36%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (12.12%) Data Structures
3 15 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 13 (7.88%) Algorithms
4 13 (7.88%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.85%) FMCG
6 5 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.42%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (2.42%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.61%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.61%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.61%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (59.39%) Agile
2 95 (57.58%) CI/CD
3 91 (55.15%) Software Engineering
4 88 (53.33%) DevOps
5 84 (50.91%) Data Engineering
6 62 (37.58%) Machine Learning
7 57 (34.55%) Asset Management
8 55 (33.33%) Open Source
9 49 (29.70%) Data Pipeline
10 48 (29.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 43 (26.06%) ETL
12 41 (24.85%) Analytics
13 40 (24.24%) Data Modelling
14 35 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (20.61%) Data Science
16 32 (19.39%) Data Governance
17 28 (16.97%) Artificial Intelligence
18 26 (15.76%) Visualisation
19 23 (13.94%) Computer Science
19 23 (13.94%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 143 (86.67%) Python
2 76 (46.06%) SQL
3 71 (43.03%) Java
4 48 (29.09%) Go
5 29 (17.58%) Scala
6 4 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (2.42%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.82%) C
7 3 (1.82%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.21%) Bash
8 2 (1.21%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.21%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.21%) R
9 1 (0.61%) Bicep
9 1 (0.61%) C#
9 1 (0.61%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (18.18%) Degree
2 11 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 11 (6.67%) PhD
3 9 (5.45%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.45%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.42%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.21%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.24%) GDPR
3 6 (3.64%) QA
4 4 (2.42%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (45.45%) Docker
2 5 (3.03%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 78 (47.27%) Kubernetes
1 78 (47.27%) Terraform
2 5 (3.03%) Oozie
3 1 (0.61%) Bugsnag
3 1 (0.61%) Grafana
3 1 (0.61%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 54 (32.73%) Databricks
2 31 (18.79%) Microsoft
3 28 (16.97%) Google
4 14 (8.48%) Apple
5 8 (4.85%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.82%) Informatica
6 3 (1.82%) Talend
7 2 (1.21%) SAP
8 1 (0.61%) Foundry
8 1 (0.61%) Palantir