Apache Iceberg Job Trends

Apache Iceberg
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Apache Iceberg skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 720 436 401
Rank change year-on-year -284 -35 +451
Permanent jobs citing Apache Iceberg 28 256 631
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.32% 3.36% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 15 229 622
10th Percentile £45,743 £100,000 £85,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £105,000 £102,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £115,000 £135,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% -14.81% +17.39%
75th Percentile £87,500 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 - £45,000

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Apache Iceberg 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,672 7,622 16,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.82% 15.55% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,759 4,910 11,670
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,392
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,182 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% +6.40% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

Apache Iceberg
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apache Iceberg relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Apache Iceberg job vacancy trend in the UK

Apache Iceberg
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Iceberg.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Iceberg

Apache Iceberg
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Iceberg over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Iceberg in the UK

Apache Iceberg
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Iceberg within the UK over the 6 months to 11 July 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
England -277 22 £85,000 -26.09% 6
London -219 20 £85,000 -26.09% 3
Work from Home -194 11 £100,000 -13.04% 4
UK excluding London -68 2 £75,000 - 5
North of England - 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 -
Midlands - 1 £75,000 -
North East - 1 - -

Apache Iceberg
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 14 (50.00%) Apache
2 12 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (35.71%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 27 (96.43%) AWS
2 19 (67.86%) Amazon S3
3 9 (32.14%) Azure
4 8 (28.57%) GCP
5 6 (21.43%) Amazon Kinesis
5 6 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (21.43%) Serverless
6 5 (17.86%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (17.86%) Dagster
6 5 (17.86%) Snowflake
7 4 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (14.29%) Vertex AI
8 3 (10.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (10.71%) GitHub
8 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) 4G
1 2 (7.14%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (78.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 18 (64.29%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (42.86%) Delta Lake
4 11 (39.29%) Metadata
5 8 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (25.00%) Data Lake
6 7 (25.00%) Tableau
7 5 (17.86%) Data Vault
7 5 (17.86%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (14.29%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (14.29%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (14.29%) BigQuery
8 4 (14.29%) Looker
8 4 (14.29%) Pinecone
8 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (14.29%) Weaviate
9 3 (10.71%) Parquet
10 2 (7.14%) Redis
10 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
10 2 (7.14%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) MLflow
3 2 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (3.57%) Deequ
4 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 3 (10.71%) Billing
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Data Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) AWS Data Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) Telecoms Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) Senior
5 6 (21.43%) Architect
5 6 (21.43%) Data Architect
6 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 4 (14.29%) Consultant
6 4 (14.29%) Data Consultant
6 4 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (10.71%) Lead
7 3 (10.71%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Developer
8 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) SEO Developer
8 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
9 1 (3.57%) BSS Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) OSS Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) Senior BSS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Kafka
2 5 (17.86%) PySpark
2 5 (17.86%) PyTorch
3 4 (14.29%) Faiss
3 4 (14.29%) JSON
3 4 (14.29%) TensorFlow
3 4 (14.29%) vLLM
4 3 (10.71%) React
5 2 (7.14%) Node.js
5 2 (7.14%) YAML
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Avro
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
6 1 (3.57%) FFmpeg
6 1 (3.57%) Great Expectations
6 1 (3.57%) pytest
6 1 (3.57%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
3 3 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) Analytics
2 21 (75.00%) ETL
3 19 (67.86%) Data Engineering
4 15 (53.57%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (50.00%) Data Modelling
6 13 (46.43%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
7 12 (42.86%) Data Governance
8 10 (35.71%) Roadmaps
9 9 (32.14%) Data Architecture
9 9 (32.14%) Observability
9 9 (32.14%) Use Case
10 8 (28.57%) Metadata Management
11 7 (25.00%) AI
11 7 (25.00%) Clean Code
11 7 (25.00%) Machine Learning
11 7 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
12 6 (21.43%) DevOps
12 6 (21.43%) LLM
12 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) SQL
2 17 (60.71%) Python
3 7 (25.00%) Bash
4 5 (17.86%) Java
5 4 (14.29%) Go
5 4 (14.29%) Scala
6 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Databricks
1 4 (14.29%) Palantir