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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 258 256
Rank change year-on-year -34 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 1,034 1,441 2,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.45% 1.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.68% 12.74% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 295 592 898
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,750 £67,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +12.90% +3.33%
75th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,250 £150,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,447 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +12.00% -

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 10,685 11,308 22,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.70% 11.40% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,087 7,629 11,596
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,663
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,667 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +1.21% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,875 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,710 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.92% +6.02% -

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 18 May 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 18 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
UK excluding London +97 763 £69,447 -0.79% 95
Scotland +148 620 £47,500 -20.83% 11
England -236 392 £80,000 -8.57% 178
London -135 249 £90,000 -5.26% 121
Work from Home -202 185 £80,000 -20.00% 81
South West -46 52 £80,000 +6.67% 17
North of England -92 49 £55,000 -21.43% 18
North West -11 37 £62,500 -16.11% 5
Midlands -23 16 £72,750 +3.93% 11
South East -56 14 £52,000 -25.71% 27
Yorkshire -34 11 £51,528 -20.73% 9
East Midlands -13 10 £60,000 - 3
Wales +9 6 £62,014 +18.12% 1
West Midlands +3 6 £73,000 +4.29% 8
East of England -39 5 £101,250 +102.50% 5
Northern Ireland +19 1 £70,000 -30.00% 5
North East -24 1 £75,000 - 4

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
1 296 (28.63%) Apache
2 171 (16.54%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.61%) Jupyter
4 17 (1.64%) nginx
5 13 (1.26%) SAS
6 6 (0.58%) Confluence
7 3 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.19%) Luigi
9 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
2 215 (20.79%) Azure
3 181 (17.50%) GCP
4 104 (10.06%) Serverless
5 100 (9.67%) Amazon EKS
6 96 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
8 72 (6.96%) Amazon EMR
9 70 (6.77%) Amazon S3
10 58 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
11 56 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (4.35%) OpenShift
12 45 (4.35%) Snowflake
13 40 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
14 39 (3.77%) Power Platform
15 37 (3.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 36 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (3.09%) SaaS
18 29 (2.80%) GitHub
19 24 (2.32%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.61%) AMQP
2 18 (1.74%) DSL
2 18 (1.74%) Wireless
3 7 (0.68%) Firewall
4 5 (0.48%) Network Security
5 2 (0.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 716 (69.25%) Big Data
2 426 (41.20%) Hadoop
3 419 (40.52%) NoSQL
4 167 (16.15%) Apache Hive
5 107 (10.35%) Data Lake
6 104 (10.06%) HBase
7 86 (8.32%) Data Warehouse
8 56 (5.42%) Elasticsearch
9 54 (5.22%) Electronic Patient Records
10 47 (4.55%) Data Mining
11 43 (4.16%) Flink
12 42 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 42 (4.06%) SQL Server
13 38 (3.68%) Tableau
14 37 (3.58%) Power BI
15 32 (3.09%) BigQuery
16 30 (2.90%) Presto
17 27 (2.61%) Cloudera CDH
17 27 (2.61%) Redis
17 27 (2.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 139 (13.44%) Jenkins
2 129 (12.48%) Git
3 86 (8.32%) Bitbucket Server
4 17 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (1.26%) 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%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.097%) Ant
10 1 (0.097%) ERwin
10 1 (0.097%) Gradle
10 1 (0.097%) JUnit
10 1 (0.097%) Maven
General
1 672 (64.99%) Finance
2 636 (61.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 597 (57.74%) Law
4 323 (31.24%) Marketing
5 280 (27.08%) Legal
6 165 (15.96%) Influencing Skills
7 124 (11.99%) Social Skills
8 108 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
9 75 (7.25%) Banking
10 72 (6.96%) Financial Institution
11 30 (2.90%) Retail
12 27 (2.61%) Aerospace
12 27 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.03%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.93%) Games
15 13 (1.26%) Private Banking
16 12 (1.16%) Electronics
16 12 (1.16%) Public Sector
17 9 (0.87%) Retail Finance
18 8 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 601 (58.12%) Software Engineer
2 396 (38.30%) Big Data Engineer
3 378 (36.56%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 337 (32.59%) Data Engineer
5 232 (22.44%) Senior
6 229 (22.15%) Lead
7 218 (21.08%) Scala Engineer
7 218 (21.08%) Scala Software Engineer
8 194 (18.76%) Java Engineer
9 193 (18.67%) AWS Engineer
9 193 (18.67%) Java Software Engineer
10 187 (18.09%) 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
16 104 (10.06%) Senior Software Engineer
17 97 (9.38%) Lead Java Engineer
18 90 (8.70%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (21.08%) Kafka
2 172 (16.63%) PySpark
3 115 (11.12%) Spring
4 86 (8.32%) Spring Boot
5 63 (6.09%) React
6 51 (4.93%) AngularJS
7 49 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
8 47 (4.55%) REST
9 34 (3.29%) Apache Beam
10 30 (2.90%) Node.js
11 28 (2.71%) gRPC
12 27 (2.61%) Material-UI
12 27 (2.61%) OpenAPI
12 27 (2.61%) Swagger
13 25 (2.42%) Pandas
14 23 (2.22%) ActiveMQ
14 23 (2.22%) GraphQL
15 22 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
16 20 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
17 17 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 259 (25.05%) Algorithms
2 229 (22.15%) Cloud Native
3 68 (6.58%) Data Structures
4 43 (4.16%) Legacy Code
5 40 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 35 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 31 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (2.71%) Product Ownership
9 19 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.16%) Credit Risk
13 11 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
15 8 (0.77%) BBC
16 7 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
17 6 (0.58%) Mainframe
17 6 (0.58%) Onboarding
18 4 (0.39%) IoT
18 4 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 104 (10.06%) Unix
2 67 (6.48%) Linux
3 27 (2.61%) CentOS
3 27 (2.61%) Debian
3 27 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (2.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 732 (70.79%) Agile
2 727 (70.31%) Software Engineering
3 618 (59.77%) CI/CD
4 560 (54.16%) SDLC
5 498 (48.16%) Operational Stability
6 389 (37.62%) Machine Learning
7 329 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
8 307 (29.69%) Risk Management
9 273 (26.40%) Visualisation
10 264 (25.53%) Community of Practice
11 233 (22.53%) Performance Tuning
12 218 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
13 215 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 195 (18.86%) Microservices
15 180 (17.41%) Decision-Making
16 175 (16.92%) Data Engineering
17 163 (15.76%) Data Modelling
18 150 (14.51%) Data Pipeline
19 140 (13.54%) Analytics
20 137 (13.25%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 621 (60.06%) SQL
2 612 (59.19%) Java
3 595 (57.54%) Python
4 402 (38.88%) Scala
5 105 (10.15%) PL/SQL
6 49 (4.74%) Go
7 41 (3.97%) Bash
8 33 (3.19%) R
9 32 (3.09%) JavaScript
10 27 (2.61%) Kotlin
11 24 (2.32%) C
11 24 (2.32%) C#
12 20 (1.93%) Shell Script
13 18 (1.74%) C++
14 11 (1.06%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.77%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.68%) Clojure
17 6 (0.58%) VB
18 5 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 133 (12.86%) Degree
2 57 (5.51%) Security Cleared
3 50 (4.84%) DV Cleared
4 36 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 30 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.97%) PhD
9 6 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.58%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.39%) CIMA
10 4 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.097%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.097%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 37 (3.58%) SLA
3 19 (1.84%) QA
4 12 (1.16%) CRD IV
4 12 (1.16%) IFRS
4 12 (1.16%) IFRS 9
5 4 (0.39%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.19%) GDPR
System Software
1 116 (11.22%) HDFS
2 64 (6.19%) Docker
3 14 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.48%) Ceph
5 3 (0.29%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.19%) IAG
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 206 (19.92%) Kubernetes
2 183 (17.70%) Terraform
3 61 (5.90%) Ansible
4 31 (3.00%) Puppet
5 18 (1.74%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.64%) Grafana
6 17 (1.64%) HAProxy
7 5 (0.48%) Knative
8 4 (0.39%) Kibana
9 3 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.19%) Argo
10 2 (0.19%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.097%) logstash
11 1 (0.097%) Podman
Vendors
1 262 (25.34%) Databricks
2 117 (11.32%) Google
3 91 (8.80%) Informatica
4 89 (8.61%) Cloudera
5 63 (6.09%) Microsoft
6 34 (3.29%) Oracle
7 27 (2.61%) Red Hat
7 27 (2.61%) SaltStack
8 23 (2.22%) Dell
9 20 (1.93%) Cognos
10 18 (1.74%) Alteryx
10 18 (1.74%) Sybase
11 16 (1.55%) Teradata
12 8 (0.77%) YouTube
13 7 (0.68%) Confluent
14 6 (0.58%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.48%) Apple
16 4 (0.39%) Facebook
16 4 (0.39%) SAP
16 4 (0.39%) Splunk