Spotify Job Trends

Spotify
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Spotify products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Spotify over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Spotify.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 695 704
Rank change year-on-year +46 +9 +261
Permanent jobs citing Spotify 4 4 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.007% 0.031%
As % of the Vendors category 0.021% 0.020% 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 16
10th Percentile £53,500 £36,500 £49,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £44,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% -15.31%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £93,125
90th Percentile £70,500 £63,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -25.00% +27.27%

All Vendors
UK

Spotify falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,903 19,941 21,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.51% 37.26% 39.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10,702 10,075 16,773
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,750 £50,000 £47,657
% change year-on-year -14.50% +4.92% -4.69%

Spotify
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Spotify job vacancy trend in the UK

Spotify
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spotify.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spotify

Spotify
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spotify over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Spotify in the UK

Spotify
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spotify within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 +62 4 £60,000 +14.29% 11
UK excluding London +57 3 £60,000 +14.29% 6
North West +20 3 £60,000 +14.29%
North of England +9 3 £60,000 +14.29%
Work from Home +67 1 - - 2
London - 1 - - 6

Spotify
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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Music Industry
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (25.00%) Publishing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Coach
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Delivery Coach
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (25.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) GxP
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam