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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 44 202
Rank change year-on-year -93 +158 -12
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 31 490 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.01% 7.11% 0.42%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.48% 45.71% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £88,500 - £52,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £46,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -20.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £110,000 £48,750 £66,875
90th Percentile £111,500 - £67,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +13.33%

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 230 1,072 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.52% 15.55% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 68 203 237
10th Percentile £30,575 £26,750 £27,800
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,707 £45,000 £50,139
Median % change year-on-year +10.46% -10.25% +0.28%
75th Percentile £93,778 £54,750 £64,654
90th Percentile £98,474 £68,300 £77,542
UK median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,043
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.16% +0.08%

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 21 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
Glasgow -24 28 £100,000 +110.53% 21
Edinburgh +20 2 - - 24
Aberdeen - 1 - - 3
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 10 (32.26%) Apache
2 3 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 20 (64.52%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) Azure
3 6 (19.35%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.90%) GCP
5 4 (12.90%) Snowflake
6 3 (9.68%) Dagster
6 3 (9.68%) GitHub
6 3 (9.68%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (9.68%) Prefect
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.45%) SaaS
7 2 (6.45%) Serverless
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (67.74%) Big Data
2 14 (45.16%) NoSQL
3 10 (32.26%) Hadoop
4 9 (29.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (29.03%) Apache Hive
4 9 (29.03%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (16.13%) Apache Hudi
5 5 (16.13%) HBase
5 5 (16.13%) Parquet
6 4 (12.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (12.90%) DynamoDB
6 4 (12.90%) Impala
6 4 (12.90%) Redshift Spectrum
6 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
6 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Gradle
1 5 (16.13%) JUnit
1 5 (16.13%) Maven
2 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.45%) CircleCI
3 2 (6.45%) GitLab
4 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 27 (87.10%) Finance
1 27 (87.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 25 (80.65%) Law
3 14 (45.16%) Marketing
4 11 (35.48%) Banking
5 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (19.35%) Investment Banking
6 4 (12.90%) Legal
6 4 (12.90%) Publishing
7 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 25 (80.65%) Software Engineer
2 13 (41.94%) Python Engineer
2 13 (41.94%) Python Software Engineer
3 9 (29.03%) Java Engineer
3 9 (29.03%) Java Software Engineer
4 8 (25.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 8 (25.81%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 8 (25.81%) Lead
4 8 (25.81%) Lead Software Engineer
5 7 (22.58%) Senior
6 5 (16.13%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (16.13%) AWS Software Engineer
6 5 (16.13%) Developer
6 5 (16.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (16.13%) Java Developer
6 5 (16.13%) Java Software Developer
6 5 (16.13%) Software Developer
7 4 (12.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) Kafka
2 5 (16.13%) JPA
2 5 (16.13%) PySpark
2 5 (16.13%) REST
2 5 (16.13%) Spring
3 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Algorithms
2 7 (22.58%) Cloud Native
2 7 (22.58%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (16.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.23%) Reference Data
5 1 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (87.10%) Agile
2 25 (80.65%) Operational Stability
2 25 (80.65%) Software Engineering
3 21 (67.74%) SDLC
4 17 (54.84%) CI/CD
5 16 (51.61%) Community of Practice
5 16 (51.61%) Machine Learning
6 14 (45.16%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (32.26%) TDD
9 9 (29.03%) Analytics
9 9 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (29.03%) Decision-Making
9 9 (29.03%) Test Automation
9 9 (29.03%) Visualisation
10 8 (25.81%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (22.58%) Architectural Design
11 7 (22.58%) Data Management
11 7 (22.58%) DevOps
11 7 (22.58%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (77.42%) SQL
2 21 (67.74%) Python
3 15 (48.39%) Java
4 5 (16.13%) PL/SQL
5 4 (12.90%) Scala
6 2 (6.45%) Bash
6 2 (6.45%) C#
6 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (29.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
2 5 (16.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Terraform
2 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.45%) Grafana
3 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (51.61%) Databricks
2 5 (16.13%) Cloudera
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft