Apache Spark
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 362 268
Rank change year-on-year -148 -94 -23
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 225 303 1,025
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.71% 1.07%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.16% 7.30% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 100 209 287
10th Percentile £54,875 £52,350 £49,600
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £83,230 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +4.04% -8.57%
75th Percentile £125,313 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +23.08% -6.40% -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,651 4,148 10,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.04% 9.76% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,553 2,897 7,101
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,250 £67,968
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,236 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -1.70% +5.88% -10.53%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the UK

Apache Spark
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Top 15 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 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
England -104 203 £85,000 - 103
London -45 137 £95,000 -13.64% 57
UK excluding London -107 65 £80,000 +23.08% 51
Work from Home -101 58 £84,000 -23.64% 53
North of England -62 23 £80,000 +39.13% 26
East of England -4 18 £75,000 -7.69% 1
South West -43 13 £82,000 +64.00% 8
Yorkshire -54 13 £72,500 +26.09% 2
North West -25 8 £95,000 +58.33% 15
Scotland -24 5 £102,500 +2.50% 2
South East -57 4 £57,500 -11.54% 9
North East -33 2 £68,750 -14.06% 9
Wales -29 1 £95,000 +48.44%
East Midlands -46 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -48 1 £50,000 -21.88% 6

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 107 (47.56%) Apache Airflow
2 79 (35.11%) Apache
3 3 (1.33%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.89%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.44%) Camunda
5 1 (0.44%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 151 (67.11%) AWS
2 114 (50.67%) Azure
3 97 (43.11%) GCP
4 50 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 48 (21.33%) Amazon S3
6 47 (20.89%) Snowflake
7 44 (19.56%) dbt
8 42 (18.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 32 (14.22%) OpenShift
10 28 (12.44%) Serverless
11 24 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (10.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (7.56%) Dagster
14 15 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
15 11 (4.89%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (4.89%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (4.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 10 (4.44%) GitHub
16 10 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.11%) Broadband
2 5 (2.22%) AMQP
3 2 (0.89%) 4G
3 2 (0.89%) 5G
4 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.44%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (33.33%) Tableau
2 72 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (28.89%) Big Data
4 51 (22.67%) Data Lake
5 49 (21.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 49 (21.78%) Power BI
6 46 (20.44%) BigQuery
6 46 (20.44%) Elasticsearch
7 33 (14.67%) Looker
8 32 (14.22%) Hadoop
9 31 (13.78%) Spark SQL
10 28 (12.44%) Apache Hive
10 28 (12.44%) Snowflake Schema
11 26 (11.56%) Parquet
12 25 (11.11%) Impala
12 25 (11.11%) Oracle Database
13 23 (10.22%) Delta Lake
14 22 (9.78%) Relational Database
15 21 (9.33%) MySQL
16 20 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (18.67%) Git
2 38 (16.89%) MLflow
3 25 (11.11%) IBM UrbanCode
4 10 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.67%) GitLab
6 2 (0.89%) JIRA
7 1 (0.44%) Deequ
7 1 (0.44%) JUnit
7 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (36.00%) Finance
2 72 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (28.44%) Social Skills
4 34 (15.11%) Banking
5 24 (10.67%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.22%) Law
6 14 (6.22%) Legal
7 8 (3.56%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.78%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.78%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.78%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.89%) Advertising
9 2 (0.89%) Billing
9 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.89%) Retail
10 1 (0.44%) Games
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Marketing
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (32.44%) Data Engineer
2 70 (31.11%) Senior
3 26 (11.56%) Analyst
4 24 (10.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.22%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.22%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (9.78%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (9.78%) Developer
7 21 (9.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 19 (8.44%) Lead
8 19 (8.44%) Python Engineer
9 18 (8.00%) Architect
10 17 (7.56%) Python Developer
11 15 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (5.78%) Business Analyst
13 12 (5.33%) AWS Data Engineer
13 12 (5.33%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (5.33%) Technical Analyst
14 11 (4.89%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (46.67%) Kafka
2 55 (24.44%) PySpark
3 41 (18.22%) PyTorch
3 41 (18.22%) TensorFlow
4 28 (12.44%) scikit-learn
5 25 (11.11%) REST
6 24 (10.67%) LangChain
7 23 (10.22%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (10.22%) pgvector
8 22 (9.78%) Pandas
9 15 (6.67%) Spring
10 14 (6.22%) Spring Boot
11 10 (4.44%) Node.js
12 9 (4.00%) Faiss
12 9 (4.00%) vLLM
13 7 (3.11%) NumPy
13 7 (3.11%) React
14 6 (2.67%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (2.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (18.67%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.22%) Clustering
2 23 (10.22%) Public Cloud
3 18 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 17 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.89%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (3.11%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.67%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.67%) Social Media
9 5 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.22%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.78%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.33%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.33%) NHS
12 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.56%) Linux
2 5 (2.22%) CentOS
2 5 (2.22%) Debian
2 5 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.22%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (65.33%) Data Pipeline
2 134 (59.56%) Analytics
3 132 (58.67%) Data Engineering
4 112 (49.78%) ETL
5 107 (47.56%) AI
6 102 (45.33%) CI/CD
7 91 (40.44%) Data Governance
7 91 (40.44%) Machine Learning
8 89 (39.56%) Data Science
9 86 (38.22%) Data Modelling
10 68 (30.22%) Agile
11 67 (29.78%) Business Intelligence
12 52 (23.11%) Computer Science
13 50 (22.22%) Generative AI
14 48 (21.33%) Use Case
15 46 (20.44%) DevOps
15 46 (20.44%) Software Engineering
16 42 (18.67%) Performance Tuning
17 41 (18.22%) Feature Engineering
18 37 (16.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 207 (92.00%) Python
2 166 (73.78%) SQL
3 51 (22.67%) Java
4 42 (18.67%) Scala
5 10 (4.44%) Bash
6 9 (4.00%) Go
7 8 (3.56%) C++
8 6 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.67%) R
9 4 (1.78%) Bicep
10 3 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.33%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.44%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.44%) Ruby
11 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (16.44%) Degree
2 27 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.44%) PhD
6 9 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.00%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.56%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.67%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.44%) CEH
11 1 (0.44%) CISM
11 1 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.44%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (39.11%) Data Quality
2 38 (16.89%) GDPR
3 35 (15.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.33%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.78%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.89%) IFRS
6 2 (0.89%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.89%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.44%) QA
7 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (15.11%) Terraform
2 32 (14.22%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.67%) Ansible
4 8 (3.56%) Grafana
5 7 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.22%) Puppet
7 3 (1.33%) Packer
8 1 (0.44%) Argo
Vendors
1 85 (37.78%) Databricks
2 34 (15.11%) Oracle
3 32 (14.22%) Red Hat
4 24 (10.67%) Cloudera
4 24 (10.67%) Dell
5 14 (6.22%) Palantir
6 12 (5.33%) Microsoft
7 10 (4.44%) Google
8 7 (3.11%) Informatica
9 6 (2.67%) Talend
10 5 (2.22%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.44%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.44%) Confluent
12 1 (0.44%) Mapbox
12 1 (0.44%) Pega
12 1 (0.44%) Refinitiv
12 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.44%) UiPath