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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 249 253
Rank change year-on-year -28 +4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 1,038 1,505 2,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 1.45% 1.59%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.67% 12.66% 11.47%
Number of salaries quoted 289 608 903
10th Percentile £49,800 £56,950 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,180 £65,938 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% +10.34%
75th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £94,375
90th Percentile £118,750 £150,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,447 £69,447 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +11.12% +0.23%

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 10,731 11,885 21,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.88% 11.45% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,090 7,873 11,772
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,255
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.37% +3.34%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,200 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -

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 3 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 3 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 +122 764 £69,447 - 54
Scotland +144 622 £47,500 -20.83% 8
England -235 393 £80,000 -8.57% 127
London -130 252 £90,000 -5.26% 82
Work from Home -197 191 £80,000 -20.00% 103
South West -37 52 £80,000 +6.67% 9
North of England -105 50 £55,000 -20.80% 11
North West -3 37 £62,500 -16.67% 6
Midlands -6 13 £73,000 +4.29% 7
South East -57 13 £49,000 -30.00% 7
Yorkshire -56 12 £51,528 -20.73% 1
East Midlands -12 8 £60,000 - 3
Wales +10 7 £51,528 -1.85% 1
East of England -25 6 £101,250 +102.50% 10
West Midlands +4 5 £73,000 +4.29% 4
Northern Ireland +28 1 £70,000 -30.00% 2
North East -22 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
1 303 (29.19%) Apache
2 169 (16.28%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.60%) Jupyter
4 17 (1.64%) nginx
5 16 (1.54%) SAS
6 6 (0.58%) Confluence
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.19%) Luigi
8 1 (0.096%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 706 (68.02%) AWS
2 217 (20.91%) Azure
3 185 (17.82%) GCP
4 104 (10.02%) Serverless
5 98 (9.44%) Amazon EKS
6 96 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (7.80%) Amazon SQS
8 74 (7.13%) Amazon EMR
9 72 (6.94%) Amazon S3
10 58 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
11 56 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
12 46 (4.43%) Snowflake
13 45 (4.34%) Power Platform
14 44 (4.24%) OpenShift
15 38 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
16 37 (3.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 36 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
18 33 (3.18%) GitHub
18 33 (3.18%) SaaS
19 26 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.41%) AMQP
2 20 (1.93%) Wireless
3 18 (1.73%) DSL
4 7 (0.67%) Firewall
5 5 (0.48%) Network Security
6 2 (0.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 721 (69.46%) Big Data
2 432 (41.62%) Hadoop
3 423 (40.75%) NoSQL
4 167 (16.09%) Apache Hive
5 116 (11.18%) Data Lake
6 105 (10.12%) HBase
7 89 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
8 63 (6.07%) Elasticsearch
9 54 (5.20%) Electronic Patient Records
10 53 (5.11%) Data Mining
11 45 (4.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 44 (4.24%) Flink
13 43 (4.14%) Power BI
13 43 (4.14%) Tableau
14 40 (3.85%) SQL Server
15 35 (3.37%) BigQuery
16 31 (2.99%) Relational Database
17 28 (2.70%) Presto
18 27 (2.60%) Redis
19 26 (2.50%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 143 (13.78%) Jenkins
2 129 (12.43%) Git
3 86 (8.29%) Bitbucket Server
4 17 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (1.25%) 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%) JUnit
9 2 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.096%) Ant
10 1 (0.096%) ERwin
10 1 (0.096%) Gradle
10 1 (0.096%) Maven
General
1 679 (65.41%) Finance
2 638 (61.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 596 (57.42%) Law
4 323 (31.12%) Marketing
5 279 (26.88%) Legal
6 167 (16.09%) Influencing Skills
7 130 (12.52%) Social Skills
8 115 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
9 82 (7.90%) Banking
10 72 (6.94%) Financial Institution
11 36 (3.47%) Retail
12 29 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (2.41%) Aerospace
14 21 (2.02%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.93%) Games
16 13 (1.25%) Private Banking
17 12 (1.16%) Public Sector
18 10 (0.96%) Electronics
19 9 (0.87%) Retail Finance
20 8 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 591 (56.94%) Software Engineer
2 396 (38.15%) Big Data Engineer
3 378 (36.42%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 339 (32.66%) Data Engineer
5 237 (22.83%) Senior
6 229 (22.06%) Lead
7 216 (20.81%) Scala Engineer
7 216 (20.81%) Scala Software Engineer
8 194 (18.69%) Java Engineer
9 193 (18.59%) AWS Engineer
9 193 (18.59%) Java Software Engineer
10 185 (17.82%) Lead Software Engineer
11 181 (17.44%) AWS Software Engineer
12 148 (14.26%) Lead Big Data Engineer
13 138 (13.29%) Python Engineer
14 119 (11.46%) Java Scala Software Engineer
15 116 (11.18%) Python Software Engineer
16 101 (9.73%) Senior Software Engineer
17 97 (9.34%) Lead Java Engineer
18 89 (8.57%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (21.48%) Kafka
2 172 (16.57%) PySpark
3 113 (10.89%) Spring
4 84 (8.09%) Spring Boot
5 59 (5.68%) React
6 50 (4.82%) AngularJS
7 45 (4.34%) REST
8 44 (4.24%) RabbitMQ
9 34 (3.28%) Apache Beam
10 30 (2.89%) Node.js
11 26 (2.50%) gRPC
12 25 (2.41%) Material-UI
12 25 (2.41%) OpenAPI
12 25 (2.41%) Pandas
12 25 (2.41%) Swagger
13 23 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
13 23 (2.22%) GraphQL
14 21 (2.02%) ActiveMQ
15 20 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
16 17 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 257 (24.76%) Algorithms
2 228 (21.97%) Cloud Native
3 65 (6.26%) Data Structures
4 43 (4.14%) Legacy Code
5 39 (3.76%) Management Information System
6 35 (3.37%) Public Cloud
7 32 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (2.70%) Product Ownership
9 18 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (1.45%) Credit Risk
11 15 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
14 8 (0.77%) BBC
14 8 (0.77%) Onboarding
15 7 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
16 6 (0.58%) Mainframe
17 4 (0.39%) IoT
18 3 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 104 (10.02%) Unix
2 62 (5.97%) Linux
3 25 (2.41%) CentOS
3 25 (2.41%) Debian
3 25 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (2.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 743 (71.58%) Agile
2 718 (69.17%) Software Engineering
3 616 (59.34%) CI/CD
4 562 (54.14%) SDLC
5 498 (47.98%) Operational Stability
6 390 (37.57%) Machine Learning
7 332 (31.98%) Artificial Intelligence
8 309 (29.77%) Risk Management
9 286 (27.55%) Visualisation
10 264 (25.43%) Community of Practice
11 235 (22.64%) Performance Tuning
12 217 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
13 215 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 190 (18.30%) Microservices
15 184 (17.73%) Decision-Making
16 178 (17.15%) Data Engineering
17 163 (15.70%) Data Modelling
18 150 (14.45%) Data Pipeline
19 146 (14.07%) Analytics
20 144 (13.87%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 624 (60.12%) SQL
2 606 (58.38%) Java
3 597 (57.51%) Python
4 403 (38.82%) Scala
5 105 (10.12%) PL/SQL
6 47 (4.53%) Go
7 42 (4.05%) Bash
8 39 (3.76%) R
9 31 (2.99%) JavaScript
10 23 (2.22%) C#
11 20 (1.93%) C
11 20 (1.93%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.83%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.16%) C++
14 10 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.77%) MATLAB
15 8 (0.77%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.67%) VB
17 4 (0.39%) Clojure
18 2 (0.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 142 (13.68%) Degree
2 55 (5.30%) Security Cleared
3 48 (4.62%) DV Cleared
4 34 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 31 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.96%) PhD
9 6 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.39%) CIMA
10 4 (0.39%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.096%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.096%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 37 (3.56%) SLA
3 17 (1.64%) QA
4 15 (1.45%) CRD IV
4 15 (1.45%) IFRS
4 15 (1.45%) IFRS 9
5 4 (0.39%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.096%) HIPAA
System Software
1 116 (11.18%) HDFS
2 64 (6.17%) Docker
3 9 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.29%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.19%) Ceph
5 2 (0.19%) IAG
6 1 (0.096%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 197 (18.98%) Kubernetes
2 180 (17.34%) Terraform
3 56 (5.39%) Ansible
4 29 (2.79%) Puppet
5 18 (1.73%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.64%) Grafana
6 17 (1.64%) HAProxy
7 4 (0.39%) Kibana
8 3 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.19%) Argo
9 2 (0.19%) Knative
9 2 (0.19%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.096%) logstash
10 1 (0.096%) Podman
10 1 (0.096%) Rancher
Vendors
1 260 (25.05%) Databricks
2 125 (12.04%) Google
3 92 (8.86%) Informatica
4 89 (8.57%) Cloudera
5 69 (6.65%) Microsoft
6 32 (3.08%) Oracle
7 25 (2.41%) Red Hat
7 25 (2.41%) SaltStack
8 24 (2.31%) Dell
9 20 (1.93%) Cognos
10 18 (1.73%) Alteryx
10 18 (1.73%) Sybase
11 16 (1.54%) Teradata
12 8 (0.77%) YouTube
13 7 (0.67%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.67%) Confluent
14 5 (0.48%) Apple
15 4 (0.39%) Facebook
15 4 (0.39%) SAP
15 4 (0.39%) Splunk