Spark SQL Job Trends in the South East

Apache Spark SQL
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Spark SQL 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.031% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.32% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,274 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -14.31% -32.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

Spark SQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 952 1,874 1,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.74% 17.68% 20.92%
Number of salaries quoted 557 1,034 1,126
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spark SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in the South East

Spark SQL
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spark SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spark SQL

Spark SQL
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 Spark SQL within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Hampshire - 2 - - 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £75,000 - 1
Thames Valley - 1 £75,000 - 1
Spark SQL
England

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Delta Lake
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MLflow
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Keras
1 2 (66.67%) Lambda Expressions
1 2 (66.67%) Metaflow
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata Management
2 2 (66.67%) MLOps
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Kubeflow
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks