Apache Spark Jobs in Scotland

Apache Spark
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 189 182
Rank change year-on-year +149 -7 -47
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 620 33 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.25% 0.72% 1.22%
As % of the Application Platforms category 50.49% 8.42% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 33
10th Percentile - £52,500 £32,300
25th Percentile £46,250 £54,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £48,750 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £51,230 £72,375 £68,950
UK median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +12.90% +4.73%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,228 392 806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.31% 8.59% 13.66%
Number of salaries quoted 199 258 357
10th Percentile £27,350 £28,000 £29,600
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,063 £36,527
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,238 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +0.48% +5.26%
75th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £64,000
90th Percentile £72,600 £77,715 £71,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,667 £54,882
% change year-on-year -10.18% +1.43% +4.54%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in Scotland

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Apache Spark in Scotland

Apache Spark
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Glasgow +94 593 £47,500 -38.71% 8
Edinburgh +55 24 £51,528 -14.12% 2
Midlothian - 3 - -
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 116 (18.71%) Apache
2 105 (16.94%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.32%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 469 (75.65%) AWS
2 74 (11.94%) Amazon SQS
3 67 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
4 51 (8.23%) Amazon EC2
4 51 (8.23%) Amazon ECS
4 51 (8.23%) Amazon EMR
4 51 (8.23%) AWS Lambda
4 51 (8.23%) Serverless
5 28 (4.52%) GCP
6 23 (3.71%) Amazon S3
6 23 (3.71%) Google Docs
6 23 (3.71%) Lucidchart
6 23 (3.71%) Miro
6 23 (3.71%) SaaS
6 23 (3.71%) Slack
7 6 (0.97%) Azure
8 4 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (0.65%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.90%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 511 (82.42%) Big Data
2 349 (56.29%) NoSQL
3 260 (41.94%) Hadoop
4 131 (21.13%) Apache Hive
5 102 (16.45%) HBase
6 51 (8.23%) Electronic Patient Records
7 23 (3.71%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.71%) Redis
7 23 (3.71%) Scylla
8 22 (3.55%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.90%) DB2
9 18 (2.90%) MongoDB
9 18 (2.90%) Tableau
10 16 (2.58%) Impala
11 10 (1.61%) Flink
12 5 (0.81%) SQL Server
13 4 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.65%) Power BI
14 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 86 (13.87%) Bitbucket Server
1 86 (13.87%) Git
1 86 (13.87%) Jenkins
General
1 612 (98.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 589 (95.00%) Finance
3 588 (94.84%) Law
4 304 (49.03%) Marketing
5 271 (43.71%) Legal
6 161 (25.97%) Influencing Skills
7 72 (11.61%) Financial Institution
8 33 (5.32%) Banking
9 27 (4.35%) Social Skills
10 19 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (3.06%) Investment Banking
11 13 (2.10%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.16%) Games
12 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 530 (85.48%) Software Engineer
2 378 (60.97%) Big Data Engineer
2 378 (60.97%) Big Data Software Engineer
3 209 (33.71%) Scala Engineer
3 209 (33.71%) Scala Software Engineer
4 192 (30.97%) Data Engineer
4 192 (30.97%) Java Engineer
4 192 (30.97%) Java Software Engineer
5 182 (29.35%) Lead
5 182 (29.35%) Lead Software Engineer
6 181 (29.19%) AWS Engineer
6 181 (29.19%) AWS Software Engineer
7 148 (23.87%) Lead Big Data Engineer
8 119 (19.19%) Java Scala Software Engineer
9 116 (18.71%) Python Engineer
9 116 (18.71%) Python Software Engineer
10 96 (15.48%) Lead Java Engineer
11 87 (14.03%) Senior
12 85 (13.71%) Senior Software Engineer
13 69 (11.13%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (19.84%) PySpark
2 92 (14.84%) Kafka
3 82 (13.23%) Spring
4 53 (8.55%) Spring Boot
5 26 (4.19%) React
6 23 (3.71%) AngularJS
6 23 (3.71%) GraphQL
7 16 (2.58%) JPA
7 16 (2.58%) REST
8 3 (0.48%) MLlib
8 3 (0.48%) MXNet
8 3 (0.48%) NumPy
8 3 (0.48%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.48%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.48%) SciPy
8 3 (0.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 219 (35.32%) Algorithms
2 185 (29.84%) Cloud Native
3 43 (6.94%) Legacy Code
4 36 (5.81%) Data Structures
5 35 (5.65%) Public Cloud
6 25 (4.03%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.90%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.48%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.16%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.16%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.16%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 102 (16.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 614 (99.03%) Software Engineering
2 580 (93.55%) Agile
3 534 (86.13%) SDLC
4 492 (79.35%) CI/CD
4 492 (79.35%) Operational Stability
5 284 (45.81%) Artificial Intelligence
5 284 (45.81%) Machine Learning
6 279 (45.00%) Risk Management
7 264 (42.58%) Community of Practice
8 230 (37.10%) Performance Tuning
9 203 (32.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 198 (31.94%) Visualisation
11 168 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
12 153 (24.68%) Decision-Making
13 146 (23.55%) Microservices
14 104 (16.77%) Test Automation
15 94 (15.16%) Coaching
16 93 (15.00%) Mentoring
17 87 (14.03%) TDD
18 86 (13.87%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 480 (77.42%) Java
2 430 (69.35%) SQL
3 321 (51.77%) Scala
4 297 (47.90%) Python
5 104 (16.77%) PL/SQL
6 23 (3.71%) Bash
6 23 (3.71%) Go
7 2 (0.32%) R
8 1 (0.16%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (2.74%) Degree
2 3 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.48%) SLA
3 1 (0.16%) CRD IV
3 1 (0.16%) IFRS
3 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 102 (16.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 90 (14.52%) Kubernetes
2 86 (13.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 150 (24.19%) Databricks
2 86 (13.87%) Informatica
3 72 (11.61%) Cloudera
4 27 (4.35%) Google
5 23 (3.71%) Dell
6 19 (3.06%) Oracle
7 18 (2.90%) Alteryx
7 18 (2.90%) Cognos
7 18 (2.90%) Sybase
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.16%) Teradata