Apache Spark Job Trends

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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 403 288
Rank change year-on-year -81 -115 -42
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 179 304 735
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.61% 0.98%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.99% 6.47% 9.28%
Number of salaries quoted 95 210 284
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,625 £50,172
25th Percentile £70,875 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £103,125
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £57,501 £70,576
% change year-on-year +17.39% -18.53% +3.79%

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 3,588 4,699 7,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.34% 9.47% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,386 2,727 6,043
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,281 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £106,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.87% +8.24% -9.57%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -42 161 £85,000 -8.11% 102
London -43 117 £95,000 -13.64% 36
Work from Home -82 49 £87,000 -20.91% 55
UK excluding London -38 43 £67,500 +17.39% 78
North of England +8 27 £65,000 +18.18% 24
Yorkshire - 17 £65,000 - 7
North West +3 9 £75,000 +42.86% 12
South West -13 5 £70,000 -9.68% 14
East of England +20 4 - - 3
Scotland -18 3 £90,000 - 7
South East -18 2 £65,000 +13.04% 24
West Midlands +14 1 - - 3
Wales +1 1 £95,000 +79.25% 1
North East -4 1 - - 5
Midlands -5 1 - - 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 50 (27.93%) Apache
2 47 (26.26%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.12%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 119 (66.48%) AWS
2 96 (53.63%) Azure
3 77 (43.02%) GCP
4 35 (19.55%) Serverless
5 32 (17.88%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (13.41%) Snowflake
7 21 (11.73%) Amazon S3
7 21 (11.73%) dbt
8 18 (10.06%) Power Platform
9 17 (9.50%) Amazon EMR
10 16 (8.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (8.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (7.26%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (7.26%) Dagster
13 12 (6.70%) Azure Machine Learning
14 11 (6.15%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (6.15%) OpenShift
15 9 (5.03%) Amazon SageMaker
15 9 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (5.03%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.79%) AMQP
2 4 (2.23%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.12%) Broadband
4 1 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.56%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (44.69%) Big Data
2 67 (37.43%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (32.96%) Hadoop
4 44 (24.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (19.55%) Data Lake
6 24 (13.41%) Tableau
7 20 (11.17%) NoSQL
8 19 (10.61%) BigQuery
9 18 (10.06%) Apache Iceberg
9 18 (10.06%) MySQL
9 18 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (10.06%) Power BI
10 17 (9.50%) Delta Lake
11 16 (8.94%) MongoDB
11 16 (8.94%) Relational Database
12 15 (8.38%) SQL Server
13 13 (7.26%) Apache Hive
14 12 (6.70%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (5.59%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (7.82%) Git
2 12 (6.70%) MLflow
3 7 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.23%) GitLab
5 2 (1.12%) Deequ
6 1 (0.56%) JUnit
General
1 78 (43.58%) Social Skills
2 63 (35.20%) Finance
3 41 (22.91%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.82%) Banking
4 14 (7.82%) Financial Institution
5 13 (7.26%) Law
6 9 (5.03%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.23%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Front Office
8 3 (1.68%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.68%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.12%) Advertising
9 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.12%) Legal
9 2 (1.12%) Marketing
9 2 (1.12%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (42.46%) Data Engineer
2 55 (30.73%) Senior
3 28 (15.64%) Senior Data Engineer
4 25 (13.97%) Developer
5 18 (10.06%) AWS Data Engineer
5 18 (10.06%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (9.50%) Python Developer
7 13 (7.26%) Architect
8 12 (6.70%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (6.15%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.59%) Data Scientist
11 9 (5.03%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 9 (5.03%) Consultant
11 9 (5.03%) Data Architect
11 9 (5.03%) Data Consultant
11 9 (5.03%) Lead
11 9 (5.03%) Senior Consultant
12 7 (3.91%) Senior Data Scientist
13 5 (2.79%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 5 (2.79%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (40.78%) Kafka
2 24 (13.41%) PySpark
3 22 (12.29%) PyTorch
3 22 (12.29%) REST
3 22 (12.29%) TensorFlow
4 13 (7.26%) Pandas
5 11 (6.15%) Spring
6 10 (5.59%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.03%) Faiss
7 9 (5.03%) vLLM
8 8 (4.47%) NumPy
8 8 (4.47%) scikit-learn
9 7 (3.91%) boto
9 7 (3.91%) React
9 7 (3.91%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (3.35%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.35%) Node.js
10 6 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (3.35%) SpaCy
11 5 (2.79%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.23%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (13.41%) Cloud Native
3 23 (12.85%) Product Ownership
4 13 (7.26%) e-Learning
5 12 (6.70%) Algorithms
6 10 (5.59%) Management Information System
7 9 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (3.91%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.23%) FMCG
10 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.68%) Equities
10 3 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.68%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.12%) NHS
12 1 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.56%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.38%) Linux
2 8 (4.47%) Unix
3 5 (2.79%) CentOS
3 5 (2.79%) Debian
3 5 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (59.22%) Data Pipeline
2 99 (55.31%) Data Engineering
3 86 (48.04%) CI/CD
4 85 (47.49%) Analytics
5 69 (38.55%) Data Science
6 66 (36.87%) ETL
7 65 (36.31%) Machine Learning
8 63 (35.20%) Data Modelling
9 51 (28.49%) AI
10 50 (27.93%) Computer Science
10 50 (27.93%) Data Governance
11 49 (27.37%) Business Intelligence
12 48 (26.82%) DevOps
12 48 (26.82%) Software Engineering
13 43 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (22.35%) Agile
15 36 (20.11%) Mentoring
15 36 (20.11%) Roadmaps
16 29 (16.20%) Fintech
16 29 (16.20%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 162 (90.50%) Python
2 115 (64.25%) SQL
3 68 (37.99%) Java
4 39 (21.79%) Scala
5 10 (5.59%) Bash
6 9 (5.03%) Go
6 9 (5.03%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.47%) R
8 5 (2.79%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.68%) C#
9 3 (1.68%) C++
10 2 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.56%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.56%) Ruby
11 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (24.02%) Degree
2 17 (9.50%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.26%) PhD
4 13 (7.26%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.70%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.35%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (29.61%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.47%) GDPR
3 7 (3.91%) QA
4 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (20.11%) Docker
2 8 (4.47%) HDFS
3 5 (2.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (18.44%) Kubernetes
2 22 (12.29%) Terraform
3 13 (7.26%) Ansible
4 9 (5.03%) Grafana
4 9 (5.03%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.79%) Puppet
6 3 (1.68%) Kibana
6 3 (1.68%) logstash
7 1 (0.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 58 (32.40%) Databricks
2 16 (8.94%) Oracle
3 13 (7.26%) Palantir
4 12 (6.70%) Google
5 11 (6.15%) Informatica
6 10 (5.59%) Microsoft
6 10 (5.59%) Talend
7 7 (3.91%) Dell
7 7 (3.91%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.79%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.79%) SAP
9 4 (2.23%) IBM
10 1 (0.56%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.56%) Pega
10 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.56%) UiPath