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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 422 301
Rank change year-on-year -68 -121 -53
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 184 300 719
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.60% 0.97%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.15% 6.41% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 97 212 280
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £70,000 £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 £132,500 £115,000 £103,125
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £58,750 £70,576
% change year-on-year +10.64% -16.76% +4.56%

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 3,573 4,678 7,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.37% 9.39% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,363 2,756 5,947
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +13.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,507 £102,625 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.87% +8.24% -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 12 February 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 12 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 -60 166 £85,000 -8.11% 100
London -28 122 £95,000 -13.64% 49
Work from Home -78 52 £87,000 -20.91% 58
UK excluding London -15 43 £65,000 +10.64% 76
North of England +4 26 £65,000 +23.81% 20
Yorkshire - 16 £65,000 - 4
North West +8 9 £75,000 +50.00% 11
South West -21 5 £70,000 -9.68% 16
East of England +13 4 - - 3
Scotland -15 3 £90,000 - 7
South East -13 2 £65,000 +13.04% 23
Midlands -16 2 - - 7
West Midlands +12 1 - - 4
Wales -1 1 £95,000 +79.25% 1
North East -4 1 - - 5
East Midlands -22 1 - - 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 49 (26.63%) Apache
2 47 (25.54%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.63%) Luigi
4 2 (1.09%) SAS
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.54%) Camunda
5 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 125 (67.93%) AWS
2 97 (52.72%) Azure
3 79 (42.93%) GCP
4 37 (20.11%) Serverless
5 33 (17.93%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (12.50%) Snowflake
7 22 (11.96%) Amazon S3
8 19 (10.33%) dbt
9 17 (9.24%) Amazon EMR
9 17 (9.24%) Power Platform
10 15 (8.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (8.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (7.61%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (7.07%) Dagster
13 12 (6.52%) AWS Step Functions
13 12 (6.52%) Azure Machine Learning
14 11 (5.98%) OpenShift
15 9 (4.89%) Amazon SageMaker
15 9 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (4.89%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.72%) AMQP
2 4 (2.17%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.09%) Broadband
4 1 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.54%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (44.57%) Big Data
2 68 (36.96%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (34.24%) Hadoop
4 46 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (18.48%) Data Lake
6 23 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 23 (12.50%) Tableau
7 21 (11.41%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (9.78%) Apache Iceberg
8 18 (9.78%) BigQuery
8 18 (9.78%) MySQL
9 17 (9.24%) Delta Lake
9 17 (9.24%) Power BI
10 16 (8.70%) MongoDB
10 16 (8.70%) Relational Database
11 15 (8.15%) SQL Server
12 14 (7.61%) Apache Hive
13 12 (6.52%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (5.98%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (7.61%) Git
2 12 (6.52%) MLflow
3 7 (3.80%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.17%) GitLab
5 2 (1.09%) Deequ
6 1 (0.54%) JUnit
General
1 77 (41.85%) Social Skills
2 64 (34.78%) Finance
3 40 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.70%) Financial Institution
5 15 (8.15%) Banking
6 14 (7.61%) Law
7 9 (4.89%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.17%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.63%) Front Office
9 3 (1.63%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.09%) Advertising
10 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.09%) Legal
10 2 (1.09%) Marketing
10 2 (1.09%) Retail
11 1 (0.54%) Electronics
11 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (42.93%) Data Engineer
2 56 (30.43%) Senior
3 29 (15.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 25 (13.59%) Developer
5 19 (10.33%) AWS Data Engineer
5 19 (10.33%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (9.24%) Python Developer
7 14 (7.61%) Architect
8 12 (6.52%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (5.98%) Data Scientist
9 11 (5.98%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.43%) Data Architect
11 9 (4.89%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 9 (4.89%) Consultant
11 9 (4.89%) Data Consultant
11 9 (4.89%) Lead
11 9 (4.89%) Senior Consultant
12 8 (4.35%) Senior Data Scientist
13 5 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (2.72%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (41.85%) Kafka
2 24 (13.04%) PySpark
3 22 (11.96%) PyTorch
3 22 (11.96%) REST
3 22 (11.96%) TensorFlow
4 13 (7.07%) Pandas
5 10 (5.43%) Spring
6 9 (4.89%) Faiss
6 9 (4.89%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.89%) vLLM
7 8 (4.35%) boto
7 8 (4.35%) NumPy
7 8 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (4.35%) scikit-learn
7 8 (4.35%) Spark Streaming
8 7 (3.80%) React
8 7 (3.80%) SpaCy
9 6 (3.26%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.26%) Node.js
10 5 (2.72%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.28%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 24 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 15 (8.15%) e-Learning
4 14 (7.61%) Algorithms
5 10 (5.43%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.72%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.72%) FMCG
9 3 (1.63%) Equities
9 3 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.09%) NHS
11 1 (0.54%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.15%) Linux
2 8 (4.35%) Unix
3 5 (2.72%) CentOS
3 5 (2.72%) Debian
3 5 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (57.61%) Data Pipeline
2 101 (54.89%) Data Engineering
3 88 (47.83%) CI/CD
4 86 (46.74%) Analytics
5 72 (39.13%) Data Science
6 70 (38.04%) Machine Learning
7 68 (36.96%) ETL
8 65 (35.33%) Data Modelling
9 54 (29.35%) AI
10 51 (27.72%) Computer Science
10 51 (27.72%) Data Governance
10 51 (27.72%) DevOps
11 49 (26.63%) Business Intelligence
11 49 (26.63%) Software Engineering
12 43 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (21.74%) Agile
14 38 (20.65%) Mentoring
15 35 (19.02%) Roadmaps
16 29 (15.76%) Fintech
16 29 (15.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 165 (89.67%) Python
2 116 (63.04%) SQL
3 71 (38.59%) Java
4 43 (23.37%) Scala
5 10 (5.43%) Bash
6 9 (4.89%) Go
6 9 (4.89%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.35%) R
8 5 (2.72%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.63%) C#
9 3 (1.63%) C++
10 2 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.54%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.54%) Ruby
11 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (24.46%) Degree
2 17 (9.24%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (7.61%) PhD
5 13 (7.07%) Master's Degree
5 13 (7.07%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.26%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.26%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.72%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.54%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (28.26%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.89%) GDPR
3 8 (4.35%) QA
4 4 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (19.02%) Docker
2 9 (4.89%) HDFS
3 5 (2.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 21 (11.41%) Terraform
3 15 (8.15%) Ansible
4 8 (4.35%) Grafana
4 8 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.80%) Puppet
6 3 (1.63%) Kibana
6 3 (1.63%) logstash
7 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.54%) Argo
Vendors
1 60 (32.61%) Databricks
2 16 (8.70%) Oracle
3 13 (7.07%) Palantir
4 11 (5.98%) Google
4 11 (5.98%) Informatica
5 10 (5.43%) Microsoft
5 10 (5.43%) Talend
6 7 (3.80%) Dell
6 7 (3.80%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.26%) SAP
8 5 (2.72%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.17%) IBM
10 1 (0.54%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.54%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.54%) Pega
10 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.54%) UiPath