Apache Spark Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apache Spark
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 407 200
Rank change year-on-year +176 -207 +117
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 177 190 731
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.18% 0.56% 1.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.82% 4.76% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 141 147 302
10th Percentile £56,250 £50,172 £57,500
25th Percentile £59,043 £61,180 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £111,750 £160,000
UK median annual salary £82,865 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -8.57% +12.90%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,802 3,989 5,290
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.05% 11.79% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,303 2,838 3,804
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,772 £78,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%

Apache Spark
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Apache Spark trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Apache Spark
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Apache Spark.

Apache Spark salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Apache Spark salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 108 (61.02%) Apache
2 91 (51.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 103 (58.19%) AWS
2 82 (46.33%) AWS Lambda
2 82 (46.33%) Serverless
3 80 (45.20%) OpenShift
4 74 (41.81%) dbt
5 71 (40.11%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (22.03%) Azure
7 20 (11.30%) Power Platform
8 14 (7.91%) GCP
9 13 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (5.08%) Snowflake
11 8 (4.52%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (3.39%) GitHub
13 5 (2.82%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.69%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (1.13%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (45.20%) Apache Iceberg
2 78 (44.07%) Amazon Athena
3 71 (40.11%) Apache Arrow
3 71 (40.11%) Apache Ignite
3 71 (40.11%) Dremio
4 41 (23.16%) Big Data
4 41 (23.16%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (17.51%) Hadoop
6 20 (11.30%) Power BI
7 17 (9.60%) Data Lake
8 16 (9.04%) NoSQL
9 14 (7.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (6.21%) Delta Lake
10 11 (6.21%) Tableau
11 10 (5.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (5.08%) Apache Hive
12 9 (5.08%) Apache Hudi
12 9 (5.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (4.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 71 (40.11%) Artifactory
2 9 (5.08%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.82%) Git
4 4 (2.26%) GitLab
5 2 (1.13%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.56%) JIRA
6 1 (0.56%) JMeter
6 1 (0.56%) Locust
6 1 (0.56%) Postman
6 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 100 (56.50%) Finance
2 71 (40.11%) Front Office
3 46 (25.99%) Social Skills
4 28 (15.82%) Retail
5 23 (12.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (11.86%) Advertising
6 21 (11.86%) Games
7 18 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (7.91%) Law
9 5 (2.82%) Banking
10 4 (2.26%) Marketing
11 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.13%) Legal
13 1 (0.56%) Billing
13 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.56%) Police
13 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 112 (63.28%) Data Engineer
2 78 (44.07%) Python Engineer
3 74 (41.81%) AWS Engineer
4 71 (40.11%) AWS DevOps
4 71 (40.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 71 (40.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 55 (31.07%) Senior
6 21 (11.86%) Senior Data Engineer
6 21 (11.86%) Senior Software Engineer
6 21 (11.86%) Software Engineer
7 14 (7.91%) Lead
8 13 (7.34%) Analyst
8 13 (7.34%) Architect
8 13 (7.34%) Data Architect
8 13 (7.34%) Lead Data Engineer
9 9 (5.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (3.95%) Data Manager
10 7 (3.95%) Python Data Engineer
11 6 (3.39%) Data Scientist
12 5 (2.82%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (64.97%) Kafka
2 90 (50.85%) PySpark
3 71 (40.11%) J2EE
4 9 (5.08%) PyArrow
5 8 (4.52%) Pandas
6 5 (2.82%) Dask
7 4 (2.26%) FastAPI
7 4 (2.26%) Flask
7 4 (2.26%) Polars
7 4 (2.26%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.26%) scikit-learn
7 4 (2.26%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.69%) XGBoost
9 2 (1.13%) Apache Beam
9 2 (1.13%) CSS
9 2 (1.13%) HTML
9 2 (1.13%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (1.13%) Node.js
9 2 (1.13%) React
10 1 (0.56%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.43%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.82%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.69%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.13%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.78%) Unix
2 7 (3.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (59.89%) Agile
2 100 (56.50%) Data Engineering
3 97 (54.80%) Software Engineering
4 85 (48.02%) CI/CD
5 84 (47.46%) DevOps
6 73 (41.24%) Open Source
7 71 (40.11%) Asset Management
7 71 (40.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 44 (24.86%) Machine Learning
9 40 (22.60%) Data Modelling
10 38 (21.47%) ETL
11 36 (20.34%) Data Science
12 34 (19.21%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (16.38%) Computer Science
13 29 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (15.25%) Data Governance
15 26 (14.69%) Analytics
16 21 (11.86%) Performance Metrics
16 21 (11.86%) Programmatic Advertising
17 20 (11.30%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 165 (93.22%) Python
2 90 (50.85%) Java
3 75 (42.37%) SQL
4 73 (41.24%) Go
5 34 (19.21%) Scala
6 9 (5.08%) Bash
7 8 (4.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (4.52%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.26%) C#
8 4 (2.26%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.69%) R
10 2 (1.13%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (16.95%) Degree
2 8 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (4.52%) DBS Check
3 5 (2.82%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.82%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.13%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.56%) PhD
6 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (17.51%) Data Quality
2 15 (8.47%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.39%) GDPR
4 2 (1.13%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 78 (44.07%) Docker
2 14 (7.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 90 (50.85%) Kubernetes
2 80 (45.20%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 38 (21.47%) Databricks
2 34 (19.21%) Microsoft
3 30 (16.95%) Google
4 21 (11.86%) Apple
5 9 (5.08%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.95%) Oracle
7 6 (3.39%) SAP
7 6 (3.39%) Teradata
8 4 (2.26%) Informatica
9 2 (1.13%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.13%) Palantir
9 2 (1.13%) Talend
10 1 (0.56%) Dell
10 1 (0.56%) Foundry