Apache Spark Job Trends in London

Apache Spark
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 236 319
Rank change year-on-year -29 +83 -126
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 165 160 188
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.74% 1.28% 0.81%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.60% 10.24% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 71 95 135
10th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £63,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £92,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% - -
75th Percentile £136,250 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £138,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%

All Application Platform Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,310 1,562 3,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.89% 12.54% 13.61%
Number of salaries quoted 911 1,127 2,354
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,900 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -6.45% +12.61%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.50%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in London

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in London over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in London

Apache Spark
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the London region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. 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
Central London -5 21 £97,500 +18.18% 4
South London +16 10 - - 1
West London - 8 £82,500 - 1
East London - 6 - - 1
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 65 (39.39%) Apache
2 63 (38.18%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.03%) Apache Pig
4 4 (2.42%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.82%) SAS
6 1 (0.61%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.61%) GeoServer
Applications
1 9 (5.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.61%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 99 (60.00%) AWS
2 69 (41.82%) Azure
3 54 (32.73%) GCP
4 31 (18.79%) Power Platform
5 29 (17.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 26 (15.76%) dbt
6 26 (15.76%) Snowflake
7 25 (15.15%) Amazon S3
8 22 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 22 (13.33%) Serverless
9 17 (10.30%) OpenShift
10 14 (8.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
11 11 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (5.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (5.45%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (4.85%) SaaS
15 5 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.64%) BGP
1 6 (3.64%) DNS
1 6 (3.64%) IPsec
1 6 (3.64%) VPN
2 5 (3.03%) Broadband
2 5 (3.03%) Internet
3 2 (1.21%) 4G
3 2 (1.21%) 5G
4 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (29.70%) Big Data
2 47 (28.48%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (25.45%) Tableau
4 39 (23.64%) Elasticsearch
5 37 (22.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 35 (21.21%) NoSQL
7 34 (20.61%) Data Lake
8 33 (20.00%) Hadoop
9 30 (18.18%) Power BI
10 29 (17.58%) Apache Hive
11 21 (12.73%) BigQuery
11 21 (12.73%) Relational Database
12 18 (10.91%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (10.91%) Spark SQL
13 17 (10.30%) Parquet
14 16 (9.70%) Impala
14 16 (9.70%) Looker
14 16 (9.70%) Metadata
14 16 (9.70%) Oracle Database
15 13 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (18.79%) Git
2 19 (11.52%) MLflow
3 16 (9.70%) IBM UrbanCode
4 6 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.61%) Deequ
6 1 (0.61%) JIRA
6 1 (0.61%) JUnit
General
1 82 (49.70%) Finance
2 61 (36.97%) Social Skills
3 39 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (18.79%) Banking
5 15 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 14 (8.48%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.45%) Military
8 8 (4.85%) Legal
9 6 (3.64%) Marketing
9 6 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.03%) Law
11 4 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.42%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.21%) Billing
12 2 (1.21%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.61%) Advertising
13 1 (0.61%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 68 (41.21%) Senior
2 53 (32.12%) Data Engineer
3 21 (12.73%) Lead
4 19 (11.52%) Senior Data Engineer
5 18 (10.91%) Python Engineer
6 17 (10.30%) Data Scientist
6 17 (10.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 16 (9.70%) Analyst
7 16 (9.70%) Senior Data Scientist
7 16 (9.70%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (8.48%) Developer
8 14 (8.48%) Transformation Analyst
9 13 (7.88%) Banking Analyst
9 13 (7.88%) Lead Data Engineer
9 13 (7.88%) Python Developer
10 12 (7.27%) Architect
11 9 (5.45%) Business Analyst
11 9 (5.45%) Consultant
11 9 (5.45%) Python Data Engineer
12 8 (4.85%) AWS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (56.97%) Kafka
2 33 (20.00%) PySpark
3 18 (10.91%) PyTorch
3 18 (10.91%) TensorFlow
4 17 (10.30%) LangChain
4 17 (10.30%) scikit-learn
5 16 (9.70%) LlamaIndex
5 16 (9.70%) pgvector
6 15 (9.09%) Pandas
6 15 (9.09%) REST
7 14 (8.48%) SpaCy
8 7 (4.24%) Spring
8 7 (4.24%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.64%) Node.js
9 6 (3.64%) NumPy
10 5 (3.03%) RESTful
11 3 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
12 2 (1.21%) FastAPI
12 2 (1.21%) Flask
13 1 (0.61%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.97%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.30%) Public Cloud
3 16 (9.70%) Clustering
4 14 (8.48%) e-Learning
4 14 (8.48%) Onboarding
5 12 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (6.06%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.64%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (3.03%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (2.42%) Anti-Piracy
9 4 (2.42%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (2.42%) Social Media
10 3 (1.82%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (1.21%) Replication
11 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.61%) Derivative
12 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (61.21%) Analytics
1 101 (61.21%) Data Engineering
2 85 (51.52%) Data Pipeline
3 80 (48.48%) CI/CD
4 77 (46.67%) AI
5 71 (43.03%) ETL
6 70 (42.42%) Data Modelling
7 68 (41.21%) Data Science
8 63 (38.18%) Data Governance
8 63 (38.18%) Machine Learning
9 45 (27.27%) Agile
9 45 (27.27%) DevOps
10 44 (26.67%) Use Case
11 42 (25.45%) Computer Science
12 39 (23.64%) Generative AI
13 37 (22.42%) Business Intelligence
13 37 (22.42%) Performance Tuning
14 33 (20.00%) Software Engineering
15 31 (18.79%) Mentoring
16 30 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 139 (84.24%) Python
2 120 (72.73%) SQL
3 28 (16.97%) Scala
4 25 (15.15%) Java
5 7 (4.24%) C#
6 6 (3.64%) C
6 6 (3.64%) PHP
6 6 (3.64%) Ruby
7 5 (3.03%) C++
8 3 (1.82%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.21%) Bicep
9 2 (1.21%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.61%) Bash
10 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.61%) R
10 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (23.64%) Degree
2 20 (12.12%) PhD
3 14 (8.48%) Master's Degree
4 13 (7.88%) Security Cleared
5 12 (7.27%) AWS Certification
6 11 (6.67%) Azure Certification
7 10 (6.06%) SC Cleared
8 9 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.03%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.61%) CEH
11 1 (0.61%) CISM
11 1 (0.61%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (36.97%) Data Quality
2 24 (14.55%) GDPR
3 23 (13.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (4.24%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.21%) QA
6 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (13.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (13.94%) Kubernetes
2 20 (12.12%) Terraform
3 6 (3.64%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (3.03%) Grafana
4 5 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.42%) Ansible
6 3 (1.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 43 (26.06%) Databricks
2 23 (13.94%) Oracle
3 17 (10.30%) Dell
3 17 (10.30%) Microsoft
3 17 (10.30%) Red Hat
4 16 (9.70%) Cloudera
5 7 (4.24%) IBM
6 6 (3.64%) HP
6 6 (3.64%) SAP
7 3 (1.82%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.21%) Google
9 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.61%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.61%) Confluent
9 1 (0.61%) Informatica
9 1 (0.61%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.61%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.61%) Talend