Apache Spark Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 416 254
Rank change year-on-year -90 -162 +92
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 67 96 755
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.33% 1.10%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.02% 3.98% 11.14%
Number of salaries quoted 28 54 104
10th Percentile £50,125 £45,600 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -6.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £85,250 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,375 £93,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,221 2,413 6,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.39% 8.37% 9.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,687 1,585 4,676
10th Percentile £27,430 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the UK excluding London

Apache Spark
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
North of England -52 23 £80,000 +39.13% 19
East of England +2 18 £75,000 -7.69%
South West -35 15 £75,000 +50.00% 9
Yorkshire -46 12 £80,000 +39.13% 2
North West -15 8 £85,000 +54.55% 7
Scotland -7 5 £102,500 +2.50% 1
South East -48 4 £57,500 -11.54% 9
North East -42 3 £57,500 -28.13% 10
Wales -29 1 £95,000 +48.44%
East Midlands -36 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -49 1 £50,000 -25.93% 5
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 31 (46.27%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (37.31%) Apache
3 2 (2.99%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (1.49%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 54 (80.60%) AWS
2 43 (64.18%) Azure
3 35 (52.24%) GCP
4 17 (25.37%) Amazon S3
5 16 (23.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (23.88%) dbt
5 16 (23.88%) Power Platform
6 13 (19.40%) OpenShift
7 10 (14.93%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (14.93%) Snowflake
8 9 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (13.43%) Serverless
9 5 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (5.97%) GitHub
10 4 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.49%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) AMQP
2 1 (1.49%) Broadband
2 1 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.49%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (37.31%) Tableau
2 24 (35.82%) Big Data
3 18 (26.87%) Data Lake
4 17 (25.37%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (23.88%) Power BI
6 15 (22.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (20.90%) BigQuery
7 14 (20.90%) Spark SQL
8 12 (17.91%) Hadoop
9 11 (16.42%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (14.93%) Parquet
11 9 (13.43%) Apache Hive
11 9 (13.43%) Impala
11 9 (13.43%) Oracle Database
12 8 (11.94%) Looker
13 7 (10.45%) Metadata
13 7 (10.45%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (5.97%) Cloudera CDH
14 4 (5.97%) Delta Lake
15 3 (4.48%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) Git
2 9 (13.43%) IBM UrbanCode
2 9 (13.43%) MLflow
3 4 (5.97%) GitLab
4 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.49%) JIRA
5 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (40.30%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (28.36%) Finance
3 17 (25.37%) Social Skills
4 12 (17.91%) Banking
5 9 (13.43%) Investment Banking
6 7 (10.45%) Legal
7 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
8 4 (5.97%) Law
9 3 (4.48%) Aerospace
9 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.49%) Games
11 1 (1.49%) Tech for Good
11 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (38.81%) Data Engineer
2 16 (23.88%) Senior
3 10 (14.93%) Analyst
4 9 (13.43%) Banking Analyst
4 9 (13.43%) Transformation Analyst
5 7 (10.45%) Architect
5 7 (10.45%) Lead
5 7 (10.45%) Senior Data Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Lead Data Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Data Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.87%) Kafka
2 16 (23.88%) PySpark
3 9 (13.43%) PyTorch
3 9 (13.43%) scikit-learn
3 9 (13.43%) TensorFlow
4 8 (11.94%) Node.js
5 7 (10.45%) LangChain
5 7 (10.45%) LlamaIndex
5 7 (10.45%) Pandas
5 7 (10.45%) pgvector
6 5 (7.46%) REST
7 4 (5.97%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.97%) gRPC
7 4 (5.97%) OAuth
7 4 (5.97%) OpenID
7 4 (5.97%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (5.97%) React
7 4 (5.97%) Spring
7 4 (5.97%) Spring Boot
7 4 (5.97%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.45%) Clustering
2 7 (10.45%) Public Cloud
3 6 (8.96%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.97%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.49%) Anti-Piracy
7 1 (1.49%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.49%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.49%) NHS
7 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.97%) CentOS
1 4 (5.97%) Debian
1 4 (5.97%) Linux
1 4 (5.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (5.97%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (73.13%) Analytics
2 44 (65.67%) Data Pipeline
3 37 (55.22%) ETL
4 33 (49.25%) Data Engineering
5 32 (47.76%) Machine Learning
6 31 (46.27%) AI
6 31 (46.27%) Data Science
7 29 (43.28%) CI/CD
7 29 (43.28%) Data Governance
8 26 (38.81%) Agile
9 22 (32.84%) Data Modelling
10 16 (23.88%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (22.39%) Scrum
12 14 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (20.90%) Use Case
13 13 (19.40%) Generative AI
13 13 (19.40%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (17.91%) Data Management
14 12 (17.91%) Feature Engineering
15 11 (16.42%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 62 (92.54%) Python
2 48 (71.64%) SQL
3 15 (22.39%) Scala
4 14 (20.90%) Java
5 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.48%) R
6 3 (4.48%) VBA
7 2 (2.99%) Bicep
8 1 (1.49%) C++
8 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.49%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 8 (11.94%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.96%) Degree
2 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.97%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.49%) MBA
6 1 (1.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (40.30%) Data Quality
2 15 (22.39%) GDPR
3 12 (17.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (7.46%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.99%) IFRS
5 2 (2.99%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.99%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (7.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Kubernetes
1 9 (13.43%) Terraform
2 4 (5.97%) Ansible
2 4 (5.97%) Puppet
3 1 (1.49%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (44.78%) Databricks
2 13 (19.40%) Red Hat
3 11 (16.42%) Oracle
4 8 (11.94%) Cloudera
5 7 (10.45%) Dell
5 7 (10.45%) Google
6 4 (5.97%) SaltStack
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.99%) Palantir
8 1 (1.49%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (1.49%) Informatica
8 1 (1.49%) Pega
8 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.49%) Splunk
8 1 (1.49%) UiPath