Spark SQL Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apache Spark SQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Spark SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Spark SQL 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 388 579 671
Rank change year-on-year +191 +92 +135
Permanent jobs citing Spark SQL 9 13 2
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.060% 0.038% 0.005%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.28% 0.17% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 0 8 2
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £55,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - -38.89% +28.57%
UK median annual salary £90,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -25.00% +21.21%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Spark SQL 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,263 7,737 10,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.82% 22.86% 24.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,407 6,233 7,238
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,199 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

Spark SQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Spark SQL
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Spark SQL salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Spark SQL
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 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (33.33%) Parquet
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (33.33%) Tableau
2 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Marketing
2 3 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Data Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) PySpark
2 3 (33.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Data Transformation
2 6 (66.67%) Migration
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Data Integration
3 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (55.56%) Ontologies
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Data Science
4 3 (33.33%) Data Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 3 (33.33%) Objectives and Key Results
4 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (88.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Foundry
1 5 (55.56%) Palantir
2 4 (44.44%) Databricks