Spark SQL Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Apache Spark SQL
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Spark SQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 72 54
Rank change year-on-year +13 -18 +32
Permanent jobs citing Spark SQL 5 5 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.78% 0.47% 0.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.67% 4.76% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £33,375 - -
25th Percentile £38,438 £44,738 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £100,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% +53.85% -18.75%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £45,000 £100,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -55.00% +53.85% -18.75%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 75 105 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.66% 9.97% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 62 63 68
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,700 £37,741
25th Percentile £28,875 £42,119 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% +6.33%
75th Percentile £53,750 £84,357 £69,649
90th Percentile £68,375 £87,000 £75,000
North East median annual salary £40,662 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -26.07% - +22.22%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Spark SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Spark SQL in Tyne and Wear

Spark SQL
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Spark SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Spark SQL

Spark SQL
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spark SQL in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Spark SQL in Tyne and Wear

Spark SQL
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spark SQL within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +13 5 £45,000 -55.00% 1
Spark SQL
North East

Spark SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 4 (80.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (60.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Metadata
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 3 (60.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (60.00%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (60.00%) HBase
2 3 (60.00%) Metadata Repository
2 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 3 (60.00%) Neo4j
2 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 3 (60.00%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (60.00%) QlikView
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) SQLite
2 3 (60.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) PySpark
2 3 (60.00%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (60.00%) Kafka
2 3 (60.00%) Plotly
2 3 (60.00%) Regular Expression
2 3 (60.00%) Shiny
3 1 (20.00%) Keras
3 1 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (20.00%) Metaflow
3 1 (20.00%) NumPy
3 1 (20.00%) Pandas
3 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Data Science
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Data Development
2 3 (60.00%) Data Matching
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Validation
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Operational Stability
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) PROC SQL
2 3 (60.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Flume
1 3 (60.00%) HDFS
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kibana
1 3 (60.00%) logstash
1 3 (60.00%) Oozie
2 1 (20.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 3 (60.00%) Informatica
2 3 (60.00%) MicroStrategy
2 3 (60.00%) SAP