Apache Spark Job Trends in the City of London

Apache Spark
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 125 148
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 +53
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 10 39 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.43% 1.47% 0.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.95% 10.43% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10 34 9
10th Percentile £74,600 - £48,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.00% -21.88% -8.57%
75th Percentile £130,938 £68,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £143,250 £95,250 £131,750
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £62,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +52.00% -21.88% -8.57%

All Application Platform Skills
City of London

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 requiring application platform skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 168 374 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.24% 14.09% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 128 257 297
10th Percentile £32,650 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £50,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £90,000
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -4.58%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apache Spark relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the City of London

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the City of London

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (20.00%) Luigi
3 1 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Dagster
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Prefect
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (40.00%) Big Data
2 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (10.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Deequ
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DataOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DataOps Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (10.00%) Great Expectations
3 1 (10.00%) JDBC
3 1 (10.00%) LangChain
3 1 (10.00%) LDAP
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (10.00%) ODBC
3 1 (10.00%) Pandas
3 1 (10.00%) pydantic
3 1 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (10.00%) pytest
3 1 (10.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) AI
1 7 (70.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (60.00%) Analytics
2 6 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (50.00%) Data Science
3 5 (50.00%) ETL
4 4 (40.00%) Data Architecture
4 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) MLOps
5 3 (30.00%) Observability
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
6 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Java
4 3 (30.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (20.00%) Puppet
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle