Apache Spark
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Apache Spark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Apache Spark over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 253 258
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 +13
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 1,034 1,518 2,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 1.45% 1.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.67% 12.59% 11.47%
Number of salaries quoted 284 612 905
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,275 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,180 £67,188 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +12.90% +6.16%
75th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £117,625 £150,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,447 £69,135 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.45% +10.62% +2.28%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Apache Spark is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,690 12,060 21,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.90% 11.52% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 7,047 7,947 11,793
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,290 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark.

Salary trend for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +106 762 £69,447 +0.45% 56
Scotland +150 621 £47,500 -20.83% 12
England -240 390 £80,000 -11.11% 124
London -138 251 £90,000 -5.26% 77
Work from Home -198 194 £80,000 -20.00% 102
South West -12 51 £80,000 +6.67% 9
North of England -106 51 £55,000 -20.80% 13
North West +3 38 £62,500 -16.67% 7
South East -40 13 £49,000 -26.04% 6
Midlands -13 12 £73,000 +4.29% 6
Yorkshire -45 12 £51,528 -20.73% 3
Wales +16 7 £51,528 -1.85%
East Midlands -22 7 £60,000 - 2
East of England -28 6 £101,250 +102.50% 9
West Midlands +13 5 £73,000 +4.29% 4
Northern Ireland +30 1 £70,000 -30.00% 2
North East -20 1 £75,000 - 3

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 302 (29.21%) Apache
2 169 (16.34%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.61%) Jupyter
4 17 (1.64%) nginx
5 16 (1.55%) SAS
6 6 (0.58%) Confluence
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.19%) Luigi
8 1 (0.097%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 704 (68.09%) AWS
2 214 (20.70%) Azure
3 186 (17.99%) GCP
4 102 (9.86%) Serverless
5 96 (9.28%) Amazon EKS
6 95 (9.19%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
8 74 (7.16%) Amazon EMR
9 72 (6.96%) Amazon S3
10 58 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
11 56 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
12 49 (4.74%) Power Platform
13 46 (4.45%) Snowflake
14 43 (4.16%) OpenShift
15 38 (3.68%) GitHub
16 37 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (3.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 35 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
19 33 (3.19%) SaaS
20 26 (2.51%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.32%) AMQP
2 22 (2.13%) Wireless
3 18 (1.74%) DSL
4 8 (0.77%) Firewall
5 5 (0.48%) Network Security
6 2 (0.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 724 (70.02%) Big Data
2 431 (41.68%) Hadoop
3 428 (41.39%) NoSQL
4 167 (16.15%) Apache Hive
5 120 (11.61%) Data Lake
6 105 (10.15%) HBase
7 88 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
8 63 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
9 54 (5.22%) Electronic Patient Records
10 52 (5.03%) Data Mining
11 47 (4.55%) Power BI
11 47 (4.55%) Tableau
12 45 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 42 (4.06%) Flink
14 38 (3.68%) SQL Server
15 37 (3.58%) BigQuery
16 35 (3.38%) Relational Database
17 28 (2.71%) Presto
18 27 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
18 27 (2.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 147 (14.22%) Jenkins
2 129 (12.48%) Git
3 86 (8.32%) Bitbucket Server
4 17 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (1.35%) Spinnaker
6 8 (0.77%) CircleCI
6 8 (0.77%) JIRA
6 8 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (0.77%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.39%) MLflow
8 3 (0.29%) Deequ
8 3 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.19%) JUnit
9 2 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.097%) Ant
10 1 (0.097%) ERwin
10 1 (0.097%) Gradle
10 1 (0.097%) Maven
General
1 682 (65.96%) Finance
2 635 (61.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 593 (57.35%) Law
4 323 (31.24%) Marketing
5 276 (26.69%) Legal
6 169 (16.34%) Influencing Skills
7 130 (12.57%) Social Skills
8 116 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
9 88 (8.51%) Banking
10 72 (6.96%) Financial Institution
11 40 (3.87%) Retail
12 29 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (2.32%) Aerospace
14 21 (2.03%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.93%) Games
16 13 (1.26%) Private Banking
17 12 (1.16%) Public Sector
18 10 (0.97%) Electronics
19 9 (0.87%) Retail Finance
20 8 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 585 (56.58%) Software Engineer
2 396 (38.30%) Big Data Engineer
3 378 (36.56%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 336 (32.50%) Data Engineer
5 235 (22.73%) Senior
6 228 (22.05%) Lead
7 216 (20.89%) Scala Engineer
7 216 (20.89%) Scala Software Engineer
8 194 (18.76%) Java Engineer
9 193 (18.67%) AWS Engineer
9 193 (18.67%) Java Software Engineer
10 182 (17.60%) Lead Software Engineer
11 181 (17.50%) AWS Software Engineer
12 148 (14.31%) Lead Big Data Engineer
13 138 (13.35%) Python Engineer
14 119 (11.51%) Java Scala Software Engineer
15 116 (11.22%) Python Software Engineer
16 98 (9.48%) Senior Software Engineer
17 97 (9.38%) Lead Java Engineer
18 89 (8.61%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (21.66%) Kafka
2 171 (16.54%) PySpark
3 112 (10.83%) Spring
4 83 (8.03%) Spring Boot
5 57 (5.51%) React
6 49 (4.74%) AngularJS
7 44 (4.26%) REST
8 41 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
9 34 (3.29%) Apache Beam
10 29 (2.80%) Node.js
11 26 (2.51%) Pandas
12 25 (2.42%) gRPC
13 24 (2.32%) Material-UI
13 24 (2.32%) OpenAPI
13 24 (2.32%) Swagger
14 23 (2.22%) GraphQL
15 22 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
16 21 (2.03%) ActiveMQ
17 20 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
18 17 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 257 (24.85%) Algorithms
2 227 (21.95%) Cloud Native
3 62 (6.00%) Data Structures
4 43 (4.16%) Legacy Code
5 39 (3.77%) Management Information System
6 35 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 30 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (2.71%) Product Ownership
9 18 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (1.45%) Credit Risk
11 15 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
14 8 (0.77%) BBC
14 8 (0.77%) Onboarding
15 7 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
16 6 (0.58%) Mainframe
17 4 (0.39%) IoT
18 3 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 104 (10.06%) Unix
2 59 (5.71%) Linux
3 24 (2.32%) CentOS
3 24 (2.32%) Debian
3 24 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (2.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 747 (72.24%) Agile
2 711 (68.76%) Software Engineering
3 618 (59.77%) CI/CD
4 562 (54.35%) SDLC
5 498 (48.16%) Operational Stability
6 391 (37.81%) Machine Learning
7 335 (32.40%) Artificial Intelligence
8 306 (29.59%) Risk Management
9 290 (28.05%) Visualisation
10 264 (25.53%) Community of Practice
11 235 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
12 215 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 215 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
13 188 (18.18%) Microservices
14 186 (17.99%) Decision-Making
15 178 (17.21%) Data Engineering
16 161 (15.57%) Data Modelling
17 151 (14.60%) Data Pipeline
18 148 (14.31%) Analytics
19 145 (14.02%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 621 (60.06%) SQL
2 601 (58.12%) Java
3 590 (57.06%) Python
4 401 (38.78%) Scala
5 105 (10.15%) PL/SQL
6 45 (4.35%) Go
7 42 (4.06%) Bash
8 40 (3.87%) R
9 29 (2.80%) JavaScript
10 24 (2.32%) C#
11 20 (1.93%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.64%) C
13 16 (1.55%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.97%) C++
16 8 (0.77%) MATLAB
16 8 (0.77%) VB
17 7 (0.68%) TypeScript
18 3 (0.29%) Clojure
19 2 (0.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 141 (13.64%) Degree
2 53 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 46 (4.45%) DV Cleared
4 33 (3.19%) SC Cleared
5 31 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (0.87%) PhD
9 6 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.39%) CIMA
10 4 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.097%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.097%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 37 (3.58%) SLA
3 17 (1.64%) QA
4 15 (1.45%) CRD IV
4 15 (1.45%) IFRS
4 15 (1.45%) IFRS 9
5 4 (0.39%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.097%) HIPAA
System Software
1 116 (11.22%) HDFS
2 62 (6.00%) Docker
3 7 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.29%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.19%) IAG
6 1 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 191 (18.47%) Kubernetes
2 180 (17.41%) Terraform
3 53 (5.13%) Ansible
4 28 (2.71%) Puppet
5 18 (1.74%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.64%) Grafana
6 17 (1.64%) HAProxy
7 4 (0.39%) Kibana
8 3 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.19%) Argo
9 2 (0.19%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.097%) logstash
10 1 (0.097%) Podman
10 1 (0.097%) Rancher
Vendors
1 258 (24.95%) Databricks
2 127 (12.28%) Google
3 92 (8.90%) Informatica
4 89 (8.61%) Cloudera
5 70 (6.77%) Microsoft
6 32 (3.09%) Oracle
7 24 (2.32%) Dell
7 24 (2.32%) Red Hat
7 24 (2.32%) SaltStack
8 20 (1.93%) Cognos
9 18 (1.74%) Alteryx
9 18 (1.74%) Sybase
10 16 (1.55%) Teradata
11 8 (0.77%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.77%) Confluent
11 8 (0.77%) YouTube
12 5 (0.48%) Apple
13 4 (0.39%) Facebook
13 4 (0.39%) SAP
13 4 (0.39%) Splunk