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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 472 640
Rank change year-on-year -74 +168 +378
Permanent jobs citing Apache Iceberg 89 246 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.45% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.35% 2.52% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 79 234 59
10th Percentile £91,500 £77,500 £86,250
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £106,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £110,000 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £153,750
90th Percentile - £147,500 £155,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 -
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

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 6,610 9,779 10,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.16% 17.80% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,197 5,511 8,376
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -

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 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Iceberg in the UK

Apache Iceberg
Top 9 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 2 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
England -89 84 £130,000 +18.18% 10
Work from Home -64 77 £130,000 +18.18% 5
London -90 76 £130,000 +18.18% 8
UK excluding London +47 9 £60,000 -4.00% 4
North of England - 5 £60,000 -
East of England - 3 - - 2
Yorkshire - 3 £60,000 -
North West - 2 £50,000 -
Wales - 1 £95,000 -

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 74 (83.15%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (52.81%) Apache
3 14 (15.73%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 88 (98.88%) AWS
2 68 (76.40%) dbt
3 40 (44.94%) Snowflake
4 34 (38.20%) GCP
5 21 (23.60%) Amazon S3
6 10 (11.24%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (11.24%) Serverless
7 7 (7.87%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (5.62%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (4.49%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (4.49%) Azure
9 4 (4.49%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (4.49%) Dagster
9 4 (4.49%) GitHub
9 4 (4.49%) Vertex AI
10 3 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.37%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (79.78%) Amazon Athena
2 62 (69.66%) Apache Arrow
2 62 (69.66%) Dremio
3 38 (42.70%) Data Lake
4 34 (38.20%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (37.08%) Apache Ignite
6 17 (19.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (10.11%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (10.11%) Tableau
8 6 (6.74%) Delta Lake
9 5 (5.62%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (5.62%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (5.62%) BigQuery
9 5 (5.62%) Metadata
10 4 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (4.49%) Looker
10 4 (4.49%) Pinecone
10 4 (4.49%) Weaviate
11 3 (3.37%) Data Vault
12 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Git
2 4 (4.49%) MLflow
3 1 (1.12%) Deequ
3 1 (1.12%) GitLab
3 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
General
1 68 (76.40%) Finance
2 62 (69.66%) Front Office
3 33 (37.08%) Banking
3 33 (37.08%) Investment Banking
4 8 (8.99%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 71 (79.78%) AWS Engineer
2 62 (69.66%) AWS Software Engineer
2 62 (69.66%) Python Engineer
2 62 (69.66%) Python Software Engineer
2 62 (69.66%) Software Engineer
3 38 (42.70%) Senior
4 33 (37.08%) Java Engineer
4 33 (37.08%) Java Software Engineer
5 31 (34.83%) Senior Java Engineer
5 31 (34.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 31 (34.83%) Senior Software Engineer
6 29 (32.58%) AWS Developer
6 29 (32.58%) Developer
6 29 (32.58%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 29 (32.58%) Python Developer
7 19 (21.35%) Data Engineer
8 9 (10.11%) AWS Data Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Lead
9 6 (6.74%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (73.03%) Pandas
2 62 (69.66%) NumPy
2 62 (69.66%) SciPy
3 33 (37.08%) gRPC
3 33 (37.08%) Protocol Buffers
4 29 (32.58%) AngularJS
4 29 (32.58%) Node.js
4 29 (32.58%) React
4 29 (32.58%) Vue
5 6 (6.74%) Kafka
6 4 (4.49%) Faiss
6 4 (4.49%) PyTorch
6 4 (4.49%) TensorFlow
6 4 (4.49%) vLLM
7 3 (3.37%) PySpark
7 3 (3.37%) pytest
8 1 (1.12%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 62 (69.66%) Equities
1 62 (69.66%) Fixed Income
1 62 (69.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 33 (37.08%) Derivative
2 33 (37.08%) Hedge funds
2 33 (37.08%) Pricing Data
3 5 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.37%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (79.78%) Agile
2 65 (73.03%) Software Engineering
3 62 (69.66%) Asset Management
3 62 (69.66%) Investment Management
4 30 (33.71%) Risk Management
5 29 (32.58%) Fintech
5 29 (32.58%) Order Management
5 29 (32.58%) Performance Attribution
6 20 (22.47%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (21.35%) CI/CD
8 18 (20.22%) Data Engineering
9 14 (15.73%) Analytics
9 14 (15.73%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (15.73%) ETL
10 11 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (11.24%) Data Modelling
11 10 (11.24%) Data Science
12 9 (10.11%) Clean Code
12 9 (10.11%) Data Architecture
12 9 (10.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 86 (96.63%) Python
2 62 (69.66%) JavaScript
2 62 (69.66%) TypeScript
3 37 (41.57%) Java
4 17 (19.10%) SQL
5 9 (10.11%) Bash
6 4 (4.49%) Go
6 4 (4.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (4.49%) Degree
2 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.48%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (10.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (6.74%) Databricks
2 4 (4.49%) Palantir
3 3 (3.37%) Microsoft