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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 290 140
Rank change year-on-year +54 -150 +55
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 175 246 906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.35% 1.04% 2.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.08% 7.81% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 136 171 463
10th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £125,000 £154,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -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 1,579 3,149 4,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.21% 13.35% 13.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,155 2,213 3,389
10th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +1.71% +5.88%
75th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.50% +2.73%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +45 34 £62,500 -21.88% 11
South London - 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 93 (53.14%) Apache
2 89 (50.86%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Maya
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.57%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 112 (64.00%) AWS
2 76 (43.43%) dbt
3 71 (40.57%) Serverless
4 70 (40.00%) OpenShift
5 69 (39.43%) AWS Lambda
6 67 (38.29%) Amazon ECS
7 53 (30.29%) Azure
8 21 (12.00%) GCP
9 15 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (8.57%) Power Platform
10 13 (7.43%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (5.71%) Amazon Kinesis
12 9 (5.14%) Snowflake
13 8 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (4.00%) Amazon S3
15 4 (2.29%) Amazon SageMaker
15 4 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
16 3 (1.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 3 (1.71%) GitHub
16 3 (1.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.43%) HTTP
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (41.71%) Amazon Athena
2 70 (40.00%) Apache Ignite
3 68 (38.86%) Dremio
4 67 (38.29%) Apache Arrow
4 67 (38.29%) Apache Iceberg
5 32 (18.29%) Hadoop
6 27 (15.43%) Big Data
7 24 (13.71%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (13.14%) NoSQL
9 18 (10.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (9.14%) Apache Hive
11 15 (8.57%) Data Lake
11 15 (8.57%) Power BI
12 13 (7.43%) BigQuery
13 9 (5.14%) MongoDB
14 8 (4.57%) Relational Database
14 8 (4.57%) Tableau
15 7 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (4.00%) Metadata
15 7 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 67 (38.29%) Artifactory
2 21 (12.00%) Git
3 8 (4.57%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.86%) CircleCI
5 4 (2.29%) JMeter
5 4 (2.29%) Locust
5 4 (2.29%) Postman
5 4 (2.29%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.57%) GitLab
General
1 113 (64.57%) Finance
2 67 (38.29%) Front Office
3 43 (24.57%) Social Skills
4 31 (17.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (12.00%) Retail
6 20 (11.43%) Advertising
6 20 (11.43%) Games
7 17 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (5.71%) Banking
9 9 (5.14%) Law
10 5 (2.86%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.86%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.29%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.57%) Czech Language
14 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.57%) Marketing
14 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (52.00%) Data Engineer
2 72 (41.14%) Python Engineer
3 69 (39.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 68 (38.86%) AWS Engineer
5 67 (38.29%) AWS DevOps
5 67 (38.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 55 (31.43%) Senior
7 22 (12.57%) Software Engineer
8 20 (11.43%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (8.57%) Data Scientist
9 15 (8.57%) Lead
10 14 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
11 13 (7.43%) Senior Data Scientist
12 11 (6.29%) Architect
13 10 (5.71%) Developer
14 7 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (3.43%) Data Architect
15 6 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
16 5 (2.86%) Analyst
16 5 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (68.00%) Kafka
2 80 (45.71%) PySpark
3 67 (38.29%) J2EE
4 13 (7.43%) TensorFlow
5 9 (5.14%) PyTorch
6 8 (4.57%) React
6 8 (4.57%) Spark Streaming
7 7 (4.00%) GraphQL
7 7 (4.00%) pytest
7 7 (4.00%) Redux
7 7 (4.00%) REST
7 7 (4.00%) scikit-learn
7 7 (4.00%) YAML
8 5 (2.86%) OAuth
9 4 (2.29%) Great Expectations
9 4 (2.29%) Keras
9 4 (2.29%) NumPy
9 4 (2.29%) SciPy
9 4 (2.29%) SpaCy
10 3 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (6.29%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.14%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.43%) FMCG
5 6 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.86%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.14%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.57%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (67.43%) Agile
2 105 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 104 (59.43%) CI/CD
4 93 (53.14%) Data Engineering
4 93 (53.14%) DevOps
5 76 (43.43%) Asset Management
6 68 (38.86%) Open Source
7 67 (38.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 61 (34.86%) Machine Learning
9 40 (22.86%) Data Pipeline
10 38 (21.71%) ETL
11 34 (19.43%) Analytics
12 30 (17.14%) Data Science
13 29 (16.57%) Data Modelling
14 27 (15.43%) Data Governance
15 25 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (14.29%) Visualisation
16 24 (13.71%) Computer Science
17 23 (13.14%) Artificial Intelligence
18 20 (11.43%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 153 (87.43%) Python
2 82 (46.86%) Java
3 67 (38.29%) Go
4 64 (36.57%) SQL
5 31 (17.71%) Scala
6 4 (2.29%) R
7 3 (1.71%) Bash
7 3 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.71%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.14%) C
8 2 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.57%) Bicep
9 1 (0.57%) C#
9 1 (0.57%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 34 (19.43%) Degree
2 12 (6.86%) SC Cleared
2 12 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.57%) Master's Degree
3 8 (4.57%) PhD
4 4 (2.29%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.71%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.43%) GDPR
3 4 (2.29%) QA
4 2 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.14%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 86 (49.14%) Docker
2 5 (2.86%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 89 (50.86%) Terraform
2 83 (47.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.86%) Oozie
4 1 (0.57%) Bugsnag
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (24.57%) Databricks
2 33 (18.86%) Google
2 33 (18.86%) Microsoft
3 20 (11.43%) Apple
4 9 (5.14%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.14%) Palantir
6 1 (0.57%) Foundry
6 1 (0.57%) Informatica
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.57%) Talend