Apache Spark Jobs in Scotland

Apache Spark
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 41 192
Rank change year-on-year -95 +151 -29
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 9 622 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.32% 9.23% 0.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.63% 49.37% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile £88,500 - £52,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £46,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £51,851 £67,500
90th Percentile £111,500 £52,884 £74,000
UK median annual salary £82,865 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -8.57% +12.90%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 160 1,260 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.68% 18.71% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 90 222 268
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,914 £46,750 £50,119
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -6.72% +0.24%
75th Percentile £79,648 £54,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £73,675 £77,715
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Scotland

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Apache Spark in Scotland

Apache Spark
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh 0 5 - - 9
Glasgow -18 3 £100,000 +110.53% 5
Aberdeen - 1 - - 1
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (33.33%) Tableau
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
3 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
3 2 (22.22%) Metadata
3 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 2 (22.22%) Power BI
4 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (11.11%) Data Mart
4 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (11.11%) Neo4j
4 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) CircleCI
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Data Science Leader
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Enterprise Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Kafka
2 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Data Fabric
2 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
2 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
3 4 (44.44%) Data Management
4 3 (33.33%) Adaptive Web Design
4 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 3 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
4 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
4 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Personalization
4 3 (33.33%) Product Backlog
4 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
2 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) StreamSets