Spark SQL Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark SQL
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 544 557
Rank change year-on-year +46 +13 +207
Permanent jobs citing Spark SQL 8 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.019% 0.009%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.21% 0.12% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £50,625 - -
25th Percentile £59,063 £61,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £81,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +35.42% -29.41%
75th Percentile £77,500 £100,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £71,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% +4.17% -29.41%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,730 5,637 6,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.89% 15.67% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,357 2,933 5,281
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.00%

Spark SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Spark SQL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Spark SQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Spark SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Spark SQL

Spark SQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spark SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Spark SQL in the UK excluding London

Spark SQL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spark SQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
North of England +14 4 - - 2
Yorkshire - 3 - - 1
South East - 3 £75,000 - 9
North East +4 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £50,000 -
Spark SQL
UK

Spark SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Metadata
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Law
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Fabric
1 1 (12.50%) EPoS
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Analytics
3 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (37.50%) Coaching
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
5 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (37.50%) Observability
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (25.00%) DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) ETL
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (25.00%) Project Management
6 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (87.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle