Apache Spark Jobs in the South East

Apache Spark
England > South East

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

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 378 329
Rank change year-on-year +108 -49 -48
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 35 14 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.36% 0.083% 0.52%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.72% 0.92% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17 10 24
10th Percentile £48,750 £31,250 £52,735
25th Percentile - £43,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.71% +9.80%
75th Percentile £68,750 £58,438 £78,125
90th Percentile £102,000 £66,275 £100,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -8.57% +9.38%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 612 1,525 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.37% 9.03% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 341 1,059 1,151
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,400
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +7.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £59,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £67,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the South East

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the South East.

Salary trend for Apache Spark in the South East

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the South East

Apache Spark
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Surrey - 12 £65,000 - 8
Thames Valley +51 10 £100,000 +81.82% 14
Berkshire +40 8 £105,000 +77.22% 9
Middlesex - 8 - -
Hampshire +63 4 £67,500 +43.62% 6
Oxfordshire +39 1 £42,500 +30.77% 7
Buckinghamshire +31 1 - - 1
West Sussex - 1 £42,500 -
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (40.00%) Apache
2 7 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.86%) Appian
Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) AWS
2 13 (37.14%) Power Platform
3 8 (22.86%) Amazon S3
3 8 (22.86%) GCP
4 7 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (17.14%) OpenShift
6 3 (8.57%) SaaS
7 2 (5.71%) H2O.ai
7 2 (5.71%) IaaS
7 2 (5.71%) PaaS
7 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.71%) Vertex AI
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.86%) MinIO
8 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (80.00%) Big Data
2 25 (71.43%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (54.29%) Hadoop
4 13 (37.14%) Data Lake
4 13 (37.14%) NoSQL
5 12 (34.29%) Power BI
6 7 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
6 7 (20.00%) Delta Lake
7 6 (17.14%) Apache Hudi
7 6 (17.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (17.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (11.43%) Parquet
9 3 (8.57%) Apache Hive
9 3 (8.57%) Impala
9 3 (8.57%) Metadata
9 3 (8.57%) Tableau
10 2 (5.71%) BigQuery
10 2 (5.71%) Bigtable
10 2 (5.71%) HBase
10 2 (5.71%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Bitbucket
2 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.71%) MLflow
4 1 (2.86%) ERwin
4 1 (2.86%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.86%) Selenium
4 1 (2.86%) Snyk
General
1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 14 (40.00%) Law
3 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Data Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Analyst
2 7 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Data Analytics Director
4 5 (14.29%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Design Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Development Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Lead Data Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Python Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
6 3 (8.57%) Java Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Java Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Big Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Junior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (48.57%) Kafka
2 8 (22.86%) Pandas
3 6 (17.14%) PyArrow
3 6 (17.14%) PySpark
4 5 (14.29%) REST
5 3 (8.57%) Spring
5 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.71%) NumPy
6 2 (5.71%) PyTorch
6 2 (5.71%) scikit-learn
6 2 (5.71%) TensorFlow
7 1 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (17.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 21 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (60.00%) ETL
3 20 (57.14%) Analytics
3 20 (57.14%) Data Governance
4 14 (40.00%) Data Science
4 14 (40.00%) Data Security
4 14 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 13 (37.14%) Data Engineering
6 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
6 12 (34.29%) Computer Science
6 12 (34.29%) Data Architecture
6 12 (34.29%) Decision-Making
7 11 (31.43%) Agile
7 11 (31.43%) Data Analytics
7 11 (31.43%) Data Ingestion
7 11 (31.43%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) SQL
2 22 (62.86%) Python
3 10 (28.57%) Java
4 6 (17.14%) Bash
4 6 (17.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
5 5 (14.29%) PL/SQL
6 3 (8.57%) C++
7 2 (5.71%) R
7 2 (5.71%) Ruby
7 2 (5.71%) Scala
8 1 (2.86%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Degree
2 9 (25.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (25.71%) Master's Degree
3 6 (17.14%) AWS Certification
3 6 (17.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (25.71%) Accessibility
3 8 (22.86%) GDPR
4 6 (17.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 11 (31.43%) HDFS
2 2 (5.71%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (37.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Hadoop YARN
2 2 (5.71%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Google
2 6 (17.14%) Red Hat
3 5 (14.29%) Oracle
4 3 (8.57%) Cloudera
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.71%) Dataiku
5 2 (5.71%) Informatica
5 2 (5.71%) MapR
6 1 (2.86%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (2.86%) Black Duck
6 1 (2.86%) SAP
6 1 (2.86%) UiPath
6 1 (2.86%) VMware