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 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 514 403 360
Rank change year-on-year -111 -43 -28
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 273 302 745
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.61% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.33% 6.83% 7.77%
Number of salaries quoted 131 156 242
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,313 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £117,500 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,805 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.79% +2.00% -10.71%

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 4,313 4,423 9,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.37% 9.00% 9.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,115 2,944 6,846
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,195
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £109,625 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -11.46%

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 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Top 16 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 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
England -63 256 £82,500 +3.13% 81
London -29 165 £100,000 +8.11% 53
UK excluding London -134 86 £66,805 +4.79% 41
Work from Home -61 56 £66,805 -19.02% 28
North of England -24 39 £57,500 - 11
South West -42 18 £70,000 +27.27% 6
North West +3 16 £55,000 - 6
East of England -1 15 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North East -46 14 £55,000 +15.79% 4
Yorkshire -39 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South East -43 7 £65,000 - 16
Midlands -35 3 £58,403 -13.48% 4
Scotland -15 2 £115,000 +15.00%
West Midlands -34 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
Wales -54 2 £80,000 +27.87% 1
East Midlands -46 1 £50,000 -33.33% 3

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
1 119 (43.59%) Apache
2 102 (37.36%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (5.86%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.83%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.10%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.10%) SAS
6 2 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.76%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.37%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 182 (66.67%) AWS
2 129 (47.25%) Azure
3 90 (32.97%) GCP
4 58 (21.25%) Amazon S3
5 48 (17.58%) Power Platform
6 45 (16.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (13.92%) dbt
8 37 (13.55%) Snowflake
9 36 (13.19%) Serverless
10 30 (10.99%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (10.99%) OpenShift
11 23 (8.42%) Amazon Kinesis
12 22 (8.06%) Amazon EMR
12 22 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (5.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 13 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (4.76%) GitHub
16 12 (4.40%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (4.40%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.56%) Broadband
2 6 (2.20%) BGP
2 6 (2.20%) DNS
2 6 (2.20%) IPsec
2 6 (2.20%) VPN
3 5 (1.83%) Internet
4 4 (1.47%) AMQP
5 2 (0.73%) 4G
5 2 (0.73%) 5G
6 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (30.04%) Big Data
2 71 (26.01%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (24.18%) Tableau
4 56 (20.51%) Elasticsearch
5 53 (19.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 53 (19.41%) Data Lake
6 47 (17.22%) Power BI
7 40 (14.65%) Hadoop
8 38 (13.92%) Apache Hive
8 38 (13.92%) NoSQL
9 35 (12.82%) BigQuery
9 35 (12.82%) Spark SQL
10 27 (9.89%) Parquet
11 26 (9.52%) Looker
12 25 (9.16%) Impala
12 25 (9.16%) Oracle Database
12 25 (9.16%) Snowflake Schema
13 23 (8.42%) Delta Lake
13 23 (8.42%) Metadata
14 22 (8.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (16.85%) Git
2 32 (11.72%) MLflow
3 25 (9.16%) IBM UrbanCode
4 17 (6.23%) GitLab
5 12 (4.40%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.73%) JIRA
6 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.37%) Deequ
7 1 (0.37%) JUnit
General
1 104 (38.10%) Finance
2 81 (29.67%) Social Skills
3 67 (24.54%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (15.38%) Banking
5 24 (8.79%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.33%) Law
7 17 (6.23%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.86%) Legal
9 14 (5.13%) Financial Institution
10 9 (3.30%) Military
11 8 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.20%) Marketing
12 6 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.83%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.83%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.47%) Games
15 3 (1.10%) Retail
16 2 (0.73%) Billing
16 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (39.56%) Data Engineer
2 96 (35.16%) Senior
3 36 (13.19%) Lead
4 33 (12.09%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (9.52%) Analyst
6 24 (8.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.42%) Lead Data Engineer
7 23 (8.42%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.42%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.42%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (8.06%) Banking Analyst
9 19 (6.96%) Architect
9 19 (6.96%) Data Scientist
10 18 (6.59%) Developer
11 16 (5.86%) Senior Data Scientist
12 13 (4.76%) Business Analyst
12 13 (4.76%) Python Developer
13 12 (4.40%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.40%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (45.05%) Kafka
2 73 (26.74%) PySpark
3 28 (10.26%) PyTorch
3 28 (10.26%) TensorFlow
4 24 (8.79%) LangChain
4 24 (8.79%) scikit-learn
5 23 (8.42%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.42%) pgvector
6 21 (7.69%) Pandas
7 19 (6.96%) REST
8 16 (5.86%) Node.js
9 14 (5.13%) SpaCy
9 14 (5.13%) Spring
9 14 (5.13%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.56%) React
11 6 (2.20%) NumPy
12 5 (1.83%) OAuth
12 5 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.83%) RESTful
13 4 (1.47%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 50 (18.32%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.16%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.42%) Clustering
4 18 (6.59%) Data Structures
5 17 (6.23%) Product Ownership
6 16 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (5.13%) e-Learning
7 14 (5.13%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.66%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.20%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.20%) Social Media
10 5 (1.83%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.10%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.10%) NHS
12 2 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.13%) Linux
2 4 (1.47%) CentOS
2 4 (1.47%) Debian
2 4 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.47%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (62.64%) Analytics
2 167 (61.17%) Data Engineering
3 165 (60.44%) Data Pipeline
4 131 (47.99%) CI/CD
5 117 (42.86%) ETL
6 114 (41.76%) Data Modelling
7 111 (40.66%) AI
8 102 (37.36%) Data Science
9 100 (36.63%) Machine Learning
10 94 (34.43%) Data Governance
11 86 (31.50%) Agile
12 73 (26.74%) DevOps
13 63 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
14 62 (22.71%) Use Case
15 53 (19.41%) Mentoring
16 51 (18.68%) Computer Science
16 51 (18.68%) Generative AI
17 50 (18.32%) Performance Tuning
17 50 (18.32%) Validation
18 44 (16.12%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 239 (87.55%) Python
2 204 (74.73%) SQL
3 51 (18.68%) Scala
4 42 (15.38%) Java
5 8 (2.93%) Bash
5 8 (2.93%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.56%) C#
6 7 (2.56%) C++
7 6 (2.20%) C
7 6 (2.20%) PHP
7 6 (2.20%) Ruby
8 5 (1.83%) Bicep
8 5 (1.83%) VBA
9 4 (1.47%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.10%) Go
10 3 (1.10%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.10%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (17.95%) Degree
1 49 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 37 (13.55%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.33%) PhD
4 18 (6.59%) Master's Degree
5 14 (5.13%) AWS Certification
6 13 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 13 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.03%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.10%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.37%) CEH
9 1 (0.37%) CISM
9 1 (0.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (35.90%) Data Quality
2 38 (13.92%) GDPR
3 35 (12.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.40%) HIPAA
5 8 (2.93%) QA
6 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.73%) IFRS
7 2 (0.73%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.73%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (16.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (17.58%) Terraform
2 36 (13.19%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.76%) Ansible
4 6 (2.20%) Grafana
4 6 (2.20%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.83%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.47%) Puppet
7 3 (1.10%) Kibana
7 3 (1.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 96 (35.16%) Databricks
2 32 (11.72%) Oracle
3 30 (10.99%) Red Hat
4 24 (8.79%) Cloudera
4 24 (8.79%) Dell
5 20 (7.33%) Microsoft
6 8 (2.93%) Google
6 8 (2.93%) Informatica
7 7 (2.56%) IBM
8 6 (2.20%) HP
8 6 (2.20%) SAP
9 5 (1.83%) Palantir
10 4 (1.47%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.10%) Talend
12 2 (0.73%) Foundry
13 1 (0.37%) Cognizant
13 1 (0.37%) Pega
13 1 (0.37%) Splunk
13 1 (0.37%) Trend Micro