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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 257 227
Rank change year-on-year +5 -30 -64
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 120 178 242
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.86% 1.14% 1.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.67% 10.09% 10.50%
Number of salaries quoted 65 137 140
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £62,368
25th Percentile £75,000 £59,043 £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £131,250
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -3.03%

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 1,125 1,764 2,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.08% 11.31% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 787 1,170 1,706
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £35,563
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £48,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,520
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +14.47% -2.93%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £122,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -11.50% +4.63% -1.82%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +16 14 £95,000 +52.00% 12
West London - 2 £80,000 - 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 24 (20.00%) Apache
2 23 (19.17%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.50%) Luigi
4 1 (0.83%) SAS
Business Applications
1 8 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.83%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 79 (65.83%) AWS
2 64 (53.33%) Azure
3 44 (36.67%) GCP
4 17 (14.17%) Serverless
5 16 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
5 16 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 14 (11.67%) Amazon Kinesis
8 12 (10.00%) Power Platform
8 12 (10.00%) Snowflake
9 11 (9.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (5.83%) dbt
12 6 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (4.17%) OpenShift
14 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
15 2 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
15 2 (1.67%) Dagster
15 2 (1.67%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (52.50%) Big Data
2 48 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (40.00%) Hadoop
3 32 (26.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 21 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (15.00%) Data Lake
7 15 (12.50%) SQL Server
8 14 (11.67%) Apache Hive
8 14 (11.67%) MySQL
8 14 (11.67%) Relational Database
9 13 (10.83%) MongoDB
10 12 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (10.00%) Metadata
10 12 (10.00%) Power BI
11 11 (9.17%) DynamoDB
11 11 (9.17%) RDBMS
12 10 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (8.33%) DataStage
12 10 (8.33%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 11 (9.17%) Git
2 6 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.00%) MLflow
3 3 (2.50%) GitLab
4 2 (1.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.83%) Deequ
General
1 56 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 51 (42.50%) Finance
3 22 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (15.00%) Financial Institution
4 18 (15.00%) Law
5 11 (9.17%) Banking
6 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.50%) Front Office
8 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.67%) Legal
8 2 (1.67%) Marketing
8 2 (1.67%) Retail
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Electronics
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (39.17%) Data Engineer
2 26 (21.67%) Senior
3 16 (13.33%) Developer
4 15 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
4 15 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
5 14 (11.67%) Python Developer
6 13 (10.83%) Principal Engineer
7 10 (8.33%) Data Scientist
8 9 (7.50%) Lead
9 8 (6.67%) Product Lead
10 7 (5.83%) Architect
10 7 (5.83%) Data Architect
10 7 (5.83%) Senior Data Scientist
11 5 (4.17%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) Data Manager
12 4 (3.33%) Machine Learning Scientist
13 3 (2.50%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (52.50%) Kafka
2 15 (12.50%) PySpark
3 13 (10.83%) PyTorch
3 13 (10.83%) REST
3 13 (10.83%) TensorFlow
4 10 (8.33%) Spark Streaming
5 8 (6.67%) boto
5 8 (6.67%) scikit-learn
6 7 (5.83%) SpaCy
7 5 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (4.17%) LDAP
7 5 (4.17%) OAuth
7 5 (4.17%) OAuth2
7 5 (4.17%) Pandas
8 4 (3.33%) pytest
9 3 (2.50%) JDBC
9 3 (2.50%) ODBC
10 2 (1.67%) NumPy
10 2 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (35.83%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 17 (14.17%) e-Learning
4 15 (12.50%) Cloud Native
5 10 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (8.33%) Management Information System
6 9 (7.50%) Algorithms
6 9 (7.50%) FMCG
7 8 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (3.33%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.50%) Equities
10 3 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.83%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.83%) Genomics
12 1 (0.83%) IoT
12 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.83%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.67%) Linux
2 7 (5.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (57.50%) Data Engineering
2 67 (55.83%) Data Pipeline
3 65 (54.17%) Analytics
4 61 (50.83%) CI/CD
5 53 (44.17%) Data Modelling
6 48 (40.00%) Data Science
6 48 (40.00%) Machine Learning
7 47 (39.17%) ETL
8 43 (35.83%) Data Governance
9 40 (33.33%) DevOps
10 37 (30.83%) Software Engineering
11 34 (28.33%) Business Intelligence
12 32 (26.67%) AI
13 30 (25.00%) Mentoring
14 29 (24.17%) Computer Science
15 28 (23.33%) Observability
16 27 (22.50%) Fintech
17 23 (19.17%) Collaborative Culture
17 23 (19.17%) Roadmaps
18 20 (16.67%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 104 (86.67%) Python
2 78 (65.00%) SQL
3 40 (33.33%) Java
4 25 (20.83%) Scala
5 3 (2.50%) R
6 2 (1.67%) C++
7 1 (0.83%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.83%) C#
7 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (24.17%) Degree
2 13 (10.83%) PhD
3 12 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 10 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.00%) Security Cleared
6 5 (4.17%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (27.50%) Data Quality
2 12 (10.00%) QA
3 8 (6.67%) GDPR
4 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (15.83%) Docker
2 8 (6.67%) HDFS
3 5 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (15.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.50%) Terraform
3 8 (6.67%) Ansible
4 5 (4.17%) Grafana
4 5 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.50%) Kibana
5 3 (2.50%) Kubeflow
5 3 (2.50%) logstash
6 2 (1.67%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (30.83%) Databricks
2 13 (10.83%) Oracle
3 10 (8.33%) Informatica
3 10 (8.33%) SAP
3 10 (8.33%) Talend
4 7 (5.83%) Dell
5 5 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.67%) Google
7 1 (0.83%) OpenAI