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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 436 406
Rank change year-on-year -92 -30 -56
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 278 262 472
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.53% 0.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.11% 6.21% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 140 116 205
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,618 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% -10.63% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £109,375 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,250 £66,199
% change year-on-year -4.56% -8.99% -11.74%

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 4,552 4,216 7,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.13% 8.47% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,227 2,855 4,678
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,350 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,625 £36,230 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year - -4.26% -1.05%

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 September 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 3 September 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 -55 259 £80,000 +11.89% 399
London -31 159 £95,000 +11.76% 311
UK excluding London -121 99 £57,500 -4.56% 154
Work from Home -37 56 £66,805 -2.83% 157
North of England -26 50 £55,000 -4.35% 34
South West -52 27 £55,000 +10.00% 25
North East -40 23 £55,000 +15.79% 7
North West -6 17 £55,000 -18.52% 23
Yorkshire -60 10 £80,000 +39.13% 4
East of England -33 6 £77,500 +8.39% 9
South East -54 6 £62,500 -7.41% 33
Scotland -11 5 £115,000 - 38
Midlands -55 4 £54,500 -14.84% 5
West Midlands -34 3 £60,653 +0.25%
Wales -62 2 £80,000 +27.87% 2
East Midlands -30 1 £50,000 -33.33% 5

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
1 121 (43.53%) Apache
2 62 (22.30%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.83%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.80%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.08%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.08%) SAS
6 2 (0.72%) Luigi
6 2 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.72%) Tornado
7 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 169 (60.79%) AWS
2 148 (53.24%) Azure
3 90 (32.37%) GCP
4 45 (16.19%) Power Platform
5 42 (15.11%) Amazon S3
6 41 (14.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (14.03%) Serverless
8 37 (13.31%) Azure Data Factory
9 28 (10.07%) Snowflake
10 26 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (8.27%) Amazon EMR
12 22 (7.91%) dbt
13 21 (7.55%) Amazon Kinesis
13 21 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (6.83%) Azure Databricks
15 17 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (6.12%) GitHub
16 16 (5.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 15 (5.40%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (5.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.16%) BGP
1 6 (2.16%) DNS
1 6 (2.16%) IPsec
1 6 (2.16%) VPN
2 5 (1.80%) AMQP
2 5 (1.80%) Internet
3 1 (0.36%) 4G
3 1 (0.36%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (33.81%) Big Data
2 65 (23.38%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (21.94%) Data Lake
4 55 (19.78%) Hadoop
5 49 (17.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 48 (17.27%) Elasticsearch
7 44 (15.83%) NoSQL
7 44 (15.83%) Power BI
8 35 (12.59%) Tableau
9 26 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (8.99%) Delta Lake
11 24 (8.63%) Metadata
12 22 (7.91%) Relational Database
13 19 (6.83%) Flink
14 18 (6.47%) BigQuery
15 16 (5.76%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (5.76%) Looker
15 16 (5.76%) Milvus
16 15 (5.40%) Snowflake Schema
17 14 (5.04%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 34 (12.23%) Git
2 22 (7.91%) GitLab
3 21 (7.55%) MLflow
4 19 (6.83%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.72%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.72%) JIRA
5 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.36%) ERwin
General
1 113 (40.65%) Finance
2 70 (25.18%) Social Skills
3 47 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.15%) Banking
5 22 (7.91%) Financial Institution
5 22 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.19%) Law
7 19 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.68%) Marketing
9 11 (3.96%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.60%) Military
11 9 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.52%) Games
13 6 (2.16%) Legal
13 6 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.16%) Retail
14 3 (1.08%) Front Office
15 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.72%) Local Government
15 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (46.76%) Data Engineer
2 90 (32.37%) Senior
3 49 (17.63%) Lead
4 36 (12.95%) Data Scientist
5 32 (11.51%) Senior Data Engineer
6 30 (10.79%) Senior Data Scientist
7 29 (10.43%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (8.63%) Databricks Engineer
9 21 (7.55%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 19 (6.83%) Python Engineer
11 18 (6.47%) Architect
12 15 (5.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 15 (5.40%) Systems Engineer
13 14 (5.04%) Developer
14 13 (4.68%) Data Architect
14 13 (4.68%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
16 10 (3.60%) Python Developer
17 9 (3.24%) Consultant
17 9 (3.24%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (41.37%) Kafka
2 57 (20.50%) PySpark
3 52 (18.71%) Terraform
4 21 (7.55%) SpaCy
5 17 (6.12%) PyTorch
5 17 (6.12%) scikit-learn
6 16 (5.76%) LangChain
6 16 (5.76%) Node.js
6 16 (5.76%) pgvector
6 16 (5.76%) REST
6 16 (5.76%) TensorFlow
7 15 (5.40%) LlamaIndex
8 12 (4.32%) Spring
8 12 (4.32%) Spring Boot
9 11 (3.96%) Pandas
10 9 (3.24%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (2.88%) React
11 8 (2.88%) RESTful
12 6 (2.16%) gRPC
12 6 (2.16%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.42%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.55%) e-Learning
3 19 (6.83%) Product Ownership
3 19 (6.83%) Public Cloud
4 18 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (6.12%) Data Structures
6 15 (5.40%) Clustering
7 14 (5.04%) Onboarding
8 12 (4.32%) Algorithms
9 11 (3.96%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (2.16%) NHS
12 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.44%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
15 2 (0.72%) Life Science
15 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.32%) Linux
2 5 (1.80%) CentOS
2 5 (1.80%) Debian
2 5 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (61.15%) Data Engineering
2 164 (58.99%) Analytics
3 150 (53.96%) Data Pipeline
4 138 (49.64%) CI/CD
5 117 (42.09%) Data Science
6 115 (41.37%) Machine Learning
7 114 (41.01%) Data Modelling
8 102 (36.69%) DevOps
9 98 (35.25%) AI
10 92 (33.09%) ETL
11 82 (29.50%) Agile
12 71 (25.54%) Lakehouse
13 68 (24.46%) Mentoring
14 58 (20.86%) Data Governance
14 58 (20.86%) Use Case
15 57 (20.50%) Business Intelligence
16 55 (19.78%) Infrastructure as Code
17 47 (16.91%) Generative AI
17 47 (16.91%) Software Engineering
18 45 (16.19%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 236 (84.89%) Python
2 183 (65.83%) SQL
3 53 (19.06%) Scala
4 43 (15.47%) Java
5 10 (3.60%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.52%) C#
7 6 (2.16%) C
7 6 (2.16%) PHP
7 6 (2.16%) Ruby
8 5 (1.80%) Bash
8 5 (1.80%) VBA
9 4 (1.44%) Bicep
9 4 (1.44%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.72%) R
11 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.50%) Degree
3 52 (18.71%) SC Cleared
4 28 (10.07%) PhD
5 26 (9.35%) Master's Degree
6 18 (6.47%) Azure Certification
7 17 (6.12%) AWS Certification
8 16 (5.76%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.36%) CEH
13 1 (0.36%) CISM
13 1 (0.36%) CISSP
13 1 (0.36%) OCP
13 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (30.94%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.27%) GDPR
3 17 (6.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.68%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.88%) QA
6 3 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.72%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (21.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (16.91%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.76%) Ansible
3 6 (2.16%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.80%) Argo
4 5 (1.80%) Grafana
4 5 (1.80%) Puppet
5 3 (1.08%) Kibana
5 3 (1.08%) Packer
5 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 103 (37.05%) Databricks
2 31 (11.15%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.76%) Cloudera
4 15 (5.40%) Dell
5 11 (3.96%) Oracle
6 8 (2.88%) Google
6 8 (2.88%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.16%) HP
7 6 (2.16%) IBM
7 6 (2.16%) Informatica
7 6 (2.16%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.16%) SAP
8 5 (1.80%) SaltStack
8 5 (1.80%) Splunk
9 4 (1.44%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.08%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.08%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.72%) Foundry
11 2 (0.72%) Palantir