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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 280 143
Rank change year-on-year +46 -137 +50
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 171 245 837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.34% 1.02% 2.60%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.19% 7.61% 19.26%
Number of salaries quoted 124 171 428
10th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £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 £156,500
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 1,528 3,218 4,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.96% 13.39% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,083 2,284 3,186
10th Percentile £37,300 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,208 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year - +4.40% +6.84%
75th Percentile £106,875 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,150
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.34% +0.27%

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 31 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 31 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 +46 31 £62,500 -26.47% 9
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 84 (49.12%) Apache
2 81 (47.37%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.17%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Maya
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 109 (63.74%) AWS
2 65 (38.01%) dbt
3 62 (36.26%) Serverless
4 61 (35.67%) Azure
4 61 (35.67%) OpenShift
5 60 (35.09%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (34.50%) Amazon ECS
7 27 (15.79%) GCP
8 16 (9.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (8.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (8.19%) Power Platform
10 11 (6.43%) Amazon Kinesis
10 11 (6.43%) Snowflake
11 9 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.51%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (2.34%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (2.34%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (2.34%) GitHub
15 3 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.36%) HTTP
2 1 (0.58%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (38.01%) Amazon Athena
2 63 (36.84%) Apache Iceberg
3 62 (36.26%) Apache Ignite
4 59 (34.50%) Apache Arrow
4 59 (34.50%) Dremio
5 31 (18.13%) Big Data
5 31 (18.13%) Hadoop
6 23 (13.45%) NoSQL
7 22 (12.87%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (9.36%) Data Lake
10 15 (8.77%) BigQuery
11 14 (8.19%) Apache Hive
11 14 (8.19%) Power BI
12 10 (5.85%) Relational Database
13 8 (4.68%) Metadata
14 7 (4.09%) MongoDB
14 7 (4.09%) Tableau
15 6 (3.51%) Delta Lake
15 6 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 59 (34.50%) Artifactory
2 19 (11.11%) Git
3 8 (4.68%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.92%) CircleCI
5 4 (2.34%) JMeter
5 4 (2.34%) Locust
5 4 (2.34%) Postman
5 4 (2.34%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.34%) Selenium
6 2 (1.17%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.58%) GitLab
General
1 105 (61.40%) Finance
2 59 (34.50%) Front Office
3 38 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 35 (20.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (10.53%) Retail
7 17 (9.94%) Games
7 17 (9.94%) Law
8 16 (9.36%) Advertising
8 16 (9.36%) Banking
9 5 (2.92%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.34%) Marketing
10 4 (2.34%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.75%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.17%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.58%) Czech Language
13 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (51.46%) Data Engineer
2 68 (39.77%) Python Engineer
3 61 (35.67%) AWS Engineer
3 61 (35.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 59 (34.50%) AWS DevOps
4 59 (34.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 51 (29.82%) Senior
6 24 (14.04%) Software Engineer
7 18 (10.53%) Lead
8 16 (9.36%) Senior Data Engineer
8 16 (9.36%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (8.19%) Architect
9 14 (8.19%) Data Scientist
10 12 (7.02%) Senior Data Scientist
11 9 (5.26%) Data Architect
12 8 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.09%) Developer
14 5 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
14 5 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (2.92%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (66.08%) Kafka
2 72 (42.11%) PySpark
3 59 (34.50%) J2EE
4 13 (7.60%) TensorFlow
5 10 (5.85%) Spark Streaming
6 9 (5.26%) PyTorch
7 8 (4.68%) pytest
8 7 (4.09%) scikit-learn
8 7 (4.09%) YAML
9 6 (3.51%) React
10 5 (2.92%) GraphQL
10 5 (2.92%) Great Expectations
10 5 (2.92%) OAuth
10 5 (2.92%) Redux
10 5 (2.92%) REST
11 4 (2.34%) Keras
11 4 (2.34%) NumPy
11 4 (2.34%) SciPy
11 4 (2.34%) SpaCy
12 2 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.45%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (8.77%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.43%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.43%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.85%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.51%) FMCG
5 6 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.92%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.17%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.58%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.58%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (63.74%) Agile
2 100 (58.48%) CI/CD
3 99 (57.89%) Software Engineering
4 90 (52.63%) DevOps
5 88 (51.46%) Data Engineering
6 68 (39.77%) Asset Management
7 62 (36.26%) Open Source
8 61 (35.67%) Machine Learning
9 59 (34.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 44 (25.73%) Data Pipeline
11 38 (22.22%) ETL
12 37 (21.64%) Analytics
13 34 (19.88%) Data Modelling
14 32 (18.71%) Data Science
15 29 (16.96%) Data Governance
15 29 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
17 25 (14.62%) Visualisation
18 24 (14.04%) Computer Science
19 21 (12.28%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 150 (87.72%) Python
2 79 (46.20%) Java
3 69 (40.35%) SQL
4 59 (34.50%) Go
5 30 (17.54%) Scala
6 4 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.75%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.17%) Bash
8 2 (1.17%) C
8 2 (1.17%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.17%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.17%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.17%) R
9 1 (0.58%) Bicep
9 1 (0.58%) C#
Qualifications
1 32 (18.71%) Degree
2 10 (5.85%) SC Cleared
2 10 (5.85%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.26%) PhD
4 4 (2.34%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.34%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.36%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.26%) GDPR
3 4 (2.34%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.34%) QA
4 2 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.17%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (47.95%) Docker
2 5 (2.92%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 85 (49.71%) Terraform
2 82 (47.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.92%) Oozie
4 1 (0.58%) Bugsnag
4 1 (0.58%) Grafana
4 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (28.07%) Databricks
2 33 (19.30%) Microsoft
3 30 (17.54%) Google
4 16 (9.36%) Apple
5 8 (4.68%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.75%) Informatica
6 3 (1.75%) Talend
7 1 (0.58%) Foundry
7 1 (0.58%) Palantir
7 1 (0.58%) Red Hat