Apache Spark Jobs in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 304 497
Rank change year-on-year -147 +193 -102
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 125 626 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.77% 0.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.51% 8.89% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 59 86 137
10th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,500 £49,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -0.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £73,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £93,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +13.33%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,770 7,043 5,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.93% 8.61% 9.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,700 4,547 3,781
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £48,579
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -12.51% +4.47%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,043
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.16% +0.08%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Apache Spark in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
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 Apache Spark within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
South East +109 36 £65,000 +18.18% 139
Scotland -93 31 £100,000 +110.53% 57
North of England +43 27 £56,250 +2.27% 119
Midlands +101 17 £64,000 -12.03% 68
East Midlands +49 13 £75,000 +25.00% 32
Yorkshire +71 12 £57,500 +4.55% 50
North West -7 11 £55,000 - 59
Northern Ireland +48 7 £55,000 -21.43% 30
West Midlands +72 4 £57,000 -21.92% 36
North East +57 4 £47,500 -36.67% 10
South West +70 3 £55,000 -31.25% 64
East of England +44 3 £71,500 -29.38% 69
Wales +45 2 £62,562 -13.71% 11
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 48 (38.40%) Apache
2 16 (12.80%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.20%) Appian
4 3 (2.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 70 (56.00%) AWS
2 50 (40.00%) Azure
3 27 (21.60%) Amazon S3
4 26 (20.80%) GCP
5 25 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 17 (13.60%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (13.60%) Serverless
7 12 (9.60%) GitHub
8 10 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.80%) SaaS
9 6 (4.80%) Snowflake
10 5 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.00%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.20%) MinIO
12 3 (2.40%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.40%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (60.80%) Big Data
2 45 (36.00%) Hadoop
3 44 (35.20%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (28.00%) NoSQL
5 24 (19.20%) Apache Hive
5 24 (19.20%) Data Lake
6 21 (16.80%) Power BI
7 18 (14.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (12.00%) Apache Iceberg
9 14 (11.20%) Amazon Athena
10 12 (9.60%) MySQL
10 12 (9.60%) Parquet
10 12 (9.60%) SQL Server
10 12 (9.60%) Tableau
11 11 (8.80%) HBase
11 11 (8.80%) Impala
12 10 (8.00%) Apache Hudi
13 7 (5.60%) Delta Lake
13 7 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (5.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.00%) Git
2 7 (5.60%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.00%) GitLab
3 5 (4.00%) Gradle
3 5 (4.00%) JUnit
3 5 (4.00%) Maven
4 4 (3.20%) Robot Framework
4 4 (3.20%) Selenium
4 4 (3.20%) Snyk
5 2 (1.60%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.60%) MLflow
6 1 (0.80%) ERwin
6 1 (0.80%) JIRA
6 1 (0.80%) Mercurial
General
1 45 (36.00%) Law
2 41 (32.80%) Social Skills
3 36 (28.80%) Finance
4 29 (23.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (13.60%) Marketing
7 13 (10.40%) Banking
8 7 (5.60%) Public Sector
9 6 (4.80%) Investment Banking
9 6 (4.80%) Retail
10 4 (3.20%) Advertising
10 4 (3.20%) Legal
10 4 (3.20%) Publishing
11 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.40%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.60%) Automotive
12 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.80%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 42 (33.60%) Data Engineer
2 34 (27.20%) Senior
3 25 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 24 (19.20%) Senior Data Engineer
5 16 (12.80%) Python Engineer
6 13 (10.40%) Java Engineer
6 13 (10.40%) Lead
6 13 (10.40%) Python Software Engineer
7 12 (9.60%) Developer
8 11 (8.80%) Java Developer
9 9 (7.20%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (7.20%) Data Analytics Director
9 9 (7.20%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) Architect
10 8 (6.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (5.60%) Analyst
11 7 (5.60%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 7 (5.60%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (37.60%) Kafka
2 22 (17.60%) PySpark
3 13 (10.40%) Spring
4 9 (7.20%) Apache NiFi
4 9 (7.20%) REST
5 8 (6.40%) Pandas
5 8 (6.40%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.00%) JPA
6 5 (4.00%) PyArrow
6 5 (4.00%) PyTorch
6 5 (4.00%) TensorFlow
7 4 (3.20%) Dask
7 4 (3.20%) Hibernate
7 4 (3.20%) J2EE
7 4 (3.20%) Java EE
7 4 (3.20%) Polars
7 4 (3.20%) scikit-learn
8 3 (2.40%) React
8 3 (2.40%) Regular Expression
8 3 (2.40%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.60%) Algorithms
3 9 (7.20%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.00%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.20%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.80%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.80%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.80%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.20%) Unix
2 9 (7.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (47.20%) Agile
2 53 (42.40%) Analytics
2 53 (42.40%) Machine Learning
3 48 (38.40%) ETL
4 45 (36.00%) Data Modelling
5 44 (35.20%) Artificial Intelligence
5 44 (35.20%) Data Science
5 44 (35.20%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (34.40%) CI/CD
7 42 (33.60%) Data Pipeline
8 39 (31.20%) Data Engineering
9 38 (30.40%) Business Intelligence
10 37 (29.60%) Software Engineering
11 36 (28.80%) Decision-Making
12 31 (24.80%) Data Governance
13 30 (24.00%) Data Security
13 30 (24.00%) Operational Stability
14 26 (20.80%) Visualisation
15 25 (20.00%) Computer Science
15 25 (20.00%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 100 (80.00%) SQL
2 90 (72.00%) Python
3 39 (31.20%) Java
4 14 (11.20%) Scala
5 12 (9.60%) Bash
6 10 (8.00%) PL/SQL
7 8 (6.40%) R
8 6 (4.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (4.80%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.00%) C#
10 3 (2.40%) PROC SQL
10 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.60%) C++
11 2 (1.60%) Ruby
11 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.80%) Go
12 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (19.20%) Degree
2 17 (13.60%) Master's Degree
3 15 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (11.20%) Azure Certification
5 12 (9.60%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.60%) DBS Check
7 5 (4.00%) Security Cleared
8 4 (3.20%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.20%) PhD
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.80%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (28.00%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.60%) GDPR
3 10 (8.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (6.40%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.20%) QA
System Software
1 19 (15.20%) HDFS
2 10 (8.00%) Docker
3 4 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.40%) Apache Flume
5 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.00%) Terraform
3 4 (3.20%) Ansible
3 4 (3.20%) Kibana
4 3 (2.40%) Grafana
4 3 (2.40%) logstash
4 3 (2.40%) Oozie
4 3 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.60%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (1.60%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.80%) Control-M
Vendors
1 40 (32.00%) Databricks
2 15 (12.00%) Google
2 15 (12.00%) Oracle
3 8 (6.40%) Cloudera
4 7 (5.60%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.20%) BiZZdesign
6 4 (3.20%) Black Duck
6 4 (3.20%) Informatica
6 4 (3.20%) Palantir
6 4 (3.20%) Sybase
6 4 (3.20%) UiPath
6 4 (3.20%) VMware
7 3 (2.40%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (2.40%) SAP
8 2 (1.60%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.60%) MapR
8 2 (1.60%) Talend
9 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.80%) Splunk