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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 286 144
Rank change year-on-year +51 -142 +53
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 164 247 866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.31% 1.04% 2.61%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.92% 7.73% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 122 175 442
10th Percentile £56,250 £63,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £73,125 £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 £124,000 £155,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £88,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -9.09% +10.00%

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 1,502 3,196 4,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.00% 13.44% 13.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,075 2,268 3,269
10th Percentile £37,350 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £106,250 £101,563 £90,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,283
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.71% +4.15%

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 28 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 28 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 +57 31 £62,500 -26.47% 12
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 83 (50.61%) Apache
2 80 (48.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Maya
2 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 105 (64.02%) AWS
2 65 (39.63%) dbt
3 62 (37.80%) Serverless
4 61 (37.20%) OpenShift
5 60 (36.59%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (35.98%) Amazon ECS
7 57 (34.76%) Azure
8 24 (14.63%) GCP
9 16 (9.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (8.54%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (8.54%) Power Platform
11 11 (6.71%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (6.10%) Snowflake
13 8 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (3.66%) Amazon S3
15 5 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
16 4 (2.44%) GitHub
17 3 (1.83%) Amazon EMR
17 3 (1.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.76%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (39.63%) Amazon Athena
2 62 (37.80%) Apache Ignite
3 61 (37.20%) Apache Iceberg
4 59 (35.98%) Apache Arrow
4 59 (35.98%) Dremio
5 30 (18.29%) Hadoop
6 27 (16.46%) Big Data
7 22 (13.41%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (13.41%) NoSQL
8 19 (11.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (9.15%) Data Lake
10 14 (8.54%) Apache Hive
10 14 (8.54%) BigQuery
10 14 (8.54%) Power BI
11 9 (5.49%) Relational Database
12 7 (4.27%) Metadata
12 7 (4.27%) MongoDB
12 7 (4.27%) Tableau
13 6 (3.66%) Delta Lake
13 6 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 59 (35.98%) Artifactory
2 19 (11.59%) Git
3 8 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.05%) CircleCI
5 4 (2.44%) JMeter
5 4 (2.44%) Locust
5 4 (2.44%) Postman
5 4 (2.44%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.44%) Selenium
6 1 (0.61%) GitLab
6 1 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 101 (61.59%) Finance
2 59 (35.98%) Front Office
3 37 (22.56%) Social Skills
4 31 (18.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (10.98%) Retail
7 17 (10.37%) Games
8 16 (9.76%) Advertising
9 13 (7.93%) Banking
9 13 (7.93%) Law
10 5 (3.05%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.44%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.83%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.22%) Marketing
14 1 (0.61%) Czech Language
14 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (52.44%) Data Engineer
2 66 (40.24%) Python Engineer
3 61 (37.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 60 (36.59%) AWS Engineer
5 59 (35.98%) AWS DevOps
5 59 (35.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 51 (31.10%) Senior
7 21 (12.80%) Software Engineer
8 16 (9.76%) Lead
8 16 (9.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 16 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (8.54%) Data Scientist
10 12 (7.32%) Architect
10 12 (7.32%) Senior Data Scientist
11 7 (4.27%) Data Architect
11 7 (4.27%) Developer
11 7 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.05%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (67.07%) Kafka
2 72 (43.90%) PySpark
3 59 (35.98%) J2EE
4 13 (7.93%) TensorFlow
5 9 (5.49%) PyTorch
5 9 (5.49%) Spark Streaming
6 8 (4.88%) pytest
7 7 (4.27%) scikit-learn
7 7 (4.27%) YAML
8 6 (3.66%) React
9 5 (3.05%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.05%) Great Expectations
9 5 (3.05%) OAuth
9 5 (3.05%) Redux
9 5 (3.05%) REST
10 4 (2.44%) Keras
10 4 (2.44%) NumPy
10 4 (2.44%) SciPy
10 4 (2.44%) SpaCy
11 2 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (7.93%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.71%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.49%) Algorithms
4 9 (5.49%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.66%) FMCG
5 6 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.05%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.61%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.61%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.61%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (65.24%) Agile
2 98 (59.76%) CI/CD
3 95 (57.93%) Software Engineering
4 88 (53.66%) DevOps
5 86 (52.44%) Data Engineering
6 68 (41.46%) Asset Management
7 61 (37.20%) Open Source
8 59 (35.98%) Machine Learning
8 59 (35.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 41 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
10 37 (22.56%) ETL
11 35 (21.34%) Analytics
12 31 (18.90%) Data Modelling
12 31 (18.90%) Data Science
13 27 (16.46%) Data Governance
14 26 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (15.24%) Artificial Intelligence
16 23 (14.02%) Visualisation
17 22 (13.41%) Computer Science
18 19 (11.59%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 144 (87.80%) Python
2 76 (46.34%) Java
3 64 (39.02%) SQL
4 59 (35.98%) Go
5 29 (17.68%) Scala
6 4 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.83%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.22%) Bash
8 2 (1.22%) C
8 2 (1.22%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.22%) R
9 1 (0.61%) Bicep
9 1 (0.61%) C#
9 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (18.90%) Degree
2 10 (6.10%) SC Cleared
2 10 (6.10%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.49%) PhD
4 8 (4.88%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.44%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.15%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.88%) GDPR
3 4 (2.44%) QA
4 3 (1.83%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 79 (48.17%) Docker
2 5 (3.05%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 84 (51.22%) Terraform
2 78 (47.56%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.05%) Oozie
4 1 (0.61%) Bugsnag
4 1 (0.61%) Grafana
4 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (27.44%) Databricks
2 32 (19.51%) Microsoft
3 30 (18.29%) Google
4 16 (9.76%) Apple
5 8 (4.88%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.83%) Informatica
6 3 (1.83%) Talend
7 1 (0.61%) Foundry
7 1 (0.61%) Palantir
7 1 (0.61%) Red Hat