Apache Spark Jobs in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 231 216
Rank change year-on-year +66 -15 0
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 6 9 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.13% 0.73%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.17% 1.25% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 12
10th Percentile £52,000 - £60,250
25th Percentile £68,125 £31,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -21.43% +9.80%
75th Percentile £112,500 £64,750 £78,125
90th Percentile £117,000 £73,900 £98,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £49,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +32.65% -28.73% +7.84%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 277 722 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.17% 10.72% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 131 479 409
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,950 £28,800
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £47,400
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -2.95% -5.20%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +6.38%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Apache Spark in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the Thames Valley

Apache Spark
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire +48 4 £105,000 +77.22% 6
Buckinghamshire +45 1 - - 4
Oxfordshire +41 1 £42,500 +30.77% 5
Apache Spark
South East

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (66.67%) Big Data
2 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (33.33%) Pinecone
4 2 (33.33%) Weaviate
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
5 1 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
5 1 (16.67%) Impala
5 1 (16.67%) Power BI
5 1 (16.67%) PowerCenter
5 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MLflow
2 1 (16.67%) ERwin
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics Director
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Report Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) NumPy
2 2 (33.33%) Pandas
2 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (33.33%) scikit-learn
2 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (66.67%) Analytics
3 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) ETL
3 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (50.00%) Data Science
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 2 (33.33%) Data Security
5 2 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) R
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) HDFS
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubeflow
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Cloudera
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica