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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 265 381
Rank change year-on-year -197 +116 -8
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 109 746 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 1.01% 0.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.15% 10.42% 7.81%
Number of salaries quoted 56 88 120
10th Percentile £45,625 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,313 £50,172 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,724 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% -0.40% +12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,625 £93,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -8.57% +12.90%

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 2,626 7,157 5,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.75% 9.72% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,597 4,590 3,925
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,628 £42,500 £47,710
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -10.92% +6.02%
75th Percentile £61,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,043
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 28 May 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 28 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
South East +114 38 £65,000 +25.00% 224
North of England +26 27 £57,500 -4.17% 150
Scotland -108 16 £100,000 +110.53% 57
Midlands +58 14 £67,500 -7.22% 88
North West -20 14 £55,000 -12.00% 72
Yorkshire +67 11 £57,500 +11.59% 53
East Midlands +40 11 £75,000 +25.00% 35
Northern Ireland +49 7 £55,000 -21.43% 8
East of England +42 4 £71,500 -29.38% 67
West Midlands +61 3 £60,500 -17.12% 47
South West +69 2 £50,000 -37.50% 63
North East +49 2 £67,500 -10.00% 25
Wales +45 1 £75,000 +3.45% 12
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 40 (36.70%) Apache
2 14 (12.84%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.67%) Appian
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (54.13%) AWS
2 44 (40.37%) Azure
3 24 (22.02%) Power Platform
4 23 (21.10%) Amazon S3
5 21 (19.27%) GCP
6 16 (14.68%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (14.68%) Serverless
7 11 (10.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (8.26%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (6.42%) Amazon SageMaker
9 7 (6.42%) Snowflake
10 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.50%) GitHub
10 6 (5.50%) OpenShift
10 6 (5.50%) SaaS
11 5 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (3.67%) MinIO
13 3 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (55.96%) Big Data
2 44 (40.37%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (37.61%) Hadoop
4 26 (23.85%) NoSQL
5 23 (21.10%) Data Lake
6 20 (18.35%) Power BI
7 17 (15.60%) Apache Hive
8 14 (12.84%) Tableau
9 11 (10.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (9.17%) Apache Iceberg
10 10 (9.17%) MySQL
11 9 (8.26%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (8.26%) Parquet
12 8 (7.34%) Apache Hudi
12 8 (7.34%) SQL Server
13 7 (6.42%) Delta Lake
13 7 (6.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (6.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (5.50%) HBase
14 6 (5.50%) Impala
Development Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.50%) Bitbucket
2 6 (5.50%) Git
3 5 (4.59%) GitLab
4 4 (3.67%) Robot Framework
4 4 (3.67%) Selenium
4 4 (3.67%) Snyk
5 2 (1.83%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.83%) Gradle
5 2 (1.83%) JUnit
5 2 (1.83%) Maven
5 2 (1.83%) MLflow
6 1 (0.92%) ERwin
6 1 (0.92%) JIRA
General
1 42 (38.53%) Social Skills
2 27 (24.77%) Law
3 19 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.43%) Finance
4 11 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (8.26%) Marketing
6 7 (6.42%) Banking
7 6 (5.50%) Retail
8 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.67%) Advertising
9 4 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.75%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.75%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.83%) Automotive
11 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.83%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.92%) Legal
12 1 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (36.70%) Data Engineer
2 30 (27.52%) Senior
3 23 (21.10%) Senior Data Engineer
4 13 (11.93%) Architect
4 13 (11.93%) Lead
5 9 (8.26%) Data Analytics Director
5 9 (8.26%) Developer
6 8 (7.34%) Java Developer
6 8 (7.34%) Python Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Data Manager
9 5 (4.59%) Apache Spark Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.59%) Data Scientist
9 5 (4.59%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (41.28%) Kafka
2 17 (15.60%) PySpark
3 10 (9.17%) Spring
4 8 (7.34%) Pandas
4 8 (7.34%) Spring Boot
5 7 (6.42%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (5.50%) PyArrow
6 6 (5.50%) REST
7 5 (4.59%) PyTorch
7 5 (4.59%) TensorFlow
8 4 (3.67%) Dask
8 4 (3.67%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.67%) J2EE
8 4 (3.67%) Java EE
8 4 (3.67%) Polars
8 4 (3.67%) scikit-learn
9 3 (2.75%) XGBoost
10 2 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.83%) Hugging Face
10 2 (1.83%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.26%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.50%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.67%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.92%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.92%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.92%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.17%) Unix
2 9 (8.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (42.20%) Data Science
2 45 (41.28%) Agile
2 45 (41.28%) Machine Learning
3 44 (40.37%) Analytics
4 42 (38.53%) Data Modelling
4 42 (38.53%) ETL
5 40 (36.70%) Data Pipeline
6 36 (33.03%) Artificial Intelligence
7 35 (32.11%) Data Engineering
8 34 (31.19%) CI/CD
8 34 (31.19%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (30.28%) Business Intelligence
10 32 (29.36%) Data Governance
11 29 (26.61%) Data Security
12 27 (24.77%) Decision-Making
13 23 (21.10%) Computer Science
13 23 (21.10%) Data Architecture
14 21 (19.27%) DevOps
15 20 (18.35%) Data Analytics
15 20 (18.35%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 82 (75.23%) SQL
2 80 (73.39%) Python
3 30 (27.52%) Java
4 12 (11.01%) Scala
5 10 (9.17%) Bash
6 7 (6.42%) PL/SQL
7 6 (5.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (5.50%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.59%) C#
9 4 (3.67%) R
10 3 (2.75%) C++
10 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.83%) Ruby
11 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.92%) Go
12 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.92%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (20.18%) Degree
2 15 (13.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (13.76%) Master's Degree
3 13 (11.93%) Azure Certification
4 11 (10.09%) AWS Certification
5 7 (6.42%) DBS Check
6 5 (4.59%) Security Cleared
7 4 (3.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.83%) PhD
9 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (27.52%) Data Quality
2 16 (14.68%) GDPR
3 14 (12.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (8.26%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.67%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.83%) QA
System Software
1 15 (13.76%) HDFS
2 7 (6.42%) Docker
3 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 18 (16.51%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.01%) Terraform
3 4 (3.67%) Ansible
4 3 (2.75%) Grafana
4 3 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.83%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (1.83%) Kibana
5 2 (1.83%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.92%) Control-M
6 1 (0.92%) logstash
6 1 (0.92%) Oozie
Vendors
1 30 (27.52%) Databricks
2 14 (12.84%) Google
3 12 (11.01%) Oracle
4 7 (6.42%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.50%) Cloudera
5 6 (5.50%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.67%) BiZZdesign
6 4 (3.67%) Black Duck
6 4 (3.67%) Palantir
6 4 (3.67%) Sybase
6 4 (3.67%) UiPath
6 4 (3.67%) VMware
7 2 (1.83%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.83%) Informatica
7 2 (1.83%) MapR
7 2 (1.83%) SAP
7 2 (1.83%) Talend
8 1 (0.92%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.92%) Splunk