Apache Spark Job Trends in Scotland

Apache Spark
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 115 42
Rank change year-on-year -17 -73 +133
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 3 31 519
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.094% 1.40% 8.00%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.23% 13.54% 50.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £88,500 -
25th Percentile £112,500 £90,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +110.53% -20.83%
75th Percentile £117,500 £110,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - £111,500 -
UK median annual salary £83,250 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +6.25% -8.57%

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 93 229 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.91% 10.36% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 56 65 202
10th Percentile £26,500 - £26,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £51,914 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.77% +9.29% -5.45%
75th Percentile £54,436 £93,778 £55,000
90th Percentile £63,663 £98,474 £72,950
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apache Spark relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Scotland

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Apache Spark

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 12 June 2026. 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 +16 3 £115,000 -
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) dbt
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Scala
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks