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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 398 330
Rank change year-on-year -91 -68 -35
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 247 297 866
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.66% 0.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.18% 7.04% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 123 170 271
10th Percentile £51,500 £47,900 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% +4.69% -8.57%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +3.85% -6.40% -0.79%

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 3,997 4,221 10,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.27% 9.44% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,865 2,786 7,138
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,270 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -13.21%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -75 223 £84,000 +0.30% 98
London -41 143 £100,000 -4.76% 57
UK excluding London -103 81 £67,500 +3.85% 61
Work from Home -76 56 £67,500 -31.12% 43
North of England -31 33 £57,500 +4.55% 19
South West -43 20 £70,000 +27.27% 14
East of England -3 17 £75,000 +4.90% 3
North West +11 13 £55,000 - 11
North East -40 11 £55,000 +15.79% 8
Yorkshire -38 9 £80,000 +39.13%
South East -49 4 £57,500 -11.54% 12
Scotland -15 3 £115,000 +15.00% 2
Midlands -39 2 £50,000 -21.88% 3
Wales -44 2 £80,000 +6.67% 2
West Midlands -21 1 - - 2
East Midlands -34 1 £50,000 -33.33% 1

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
1 110 (44.53%) Apache
1 110 (44.53%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.67%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.21%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.21%) SAS
4 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.40%) Camunda
4 1 (0.40%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.26%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 170 (68.83%) AWS
2 121 (48.99%) Azure
3 98 (39.68%) GCP
4 57 (23.08%) Amazon S3
5 49 (19.84%) Power Platform
6 43 (17.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 42 (17.00%) Snowflake
8 41 (16.60%) dbt
9 31 (12.55%) OpenShift
10 29 (11.74%) Serverless
11 26 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (9.31%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (5.67%) Amazon EMR
13 14 (5.67%) Dagster
14 13 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (5.26%) GitHub
15 12 (4.86%) Azure Machine Learning
15 12 (4.86%) Microsoft Purview
16 11 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.83%) Broadband
2 5 (2.02%) AMQP
3 2 (0.81%) 4G
3 2 (0.81%) 5G
4 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (30.36%) Big Data
1 75 (30.36%) Data Warehouse
1 75 (30.36%) Tableau
2 57 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 52 (21.05%) Data Lake
3 52 (21.05%) Elasticsearch
4 48 (19.43%) Power BI
5 41 (16.60%) BigQuery
6 34 (13.77%) Spark SQL
7 31 (12.55%) Looker
8 29 (11.74%) Hadoop
9 27 (10.93%) Apache Hive
9 27 (10.93%) Snowflake Schema
10 26 (10.53%) Parquet
11 25 (10.12%) Delta Lake
11 25 (10.12%) Impala
11 25 (10.12%) Oracle Database
12 23 (9.31%) NoSQL
13 22 (8.91%) Relational Database
14 18 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (18.62%) Git
2 36 (14.57%) MLflow
3 25 (10.12%) IBM UrbanCode
4 15 (6.07%) GitLab
5 11 (4.45%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.81%) JIRA
6 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.40%) Deequ
7 1 (0.40%) JUnit
General
1 88 (35.63%) Finance
2 71 (28.74%) Analytical Skills
2 71 (28.74%) Social Skills
3 41 (16.60%) Banking
4 24 (9.72%) Investment Banking
5 16 (6.48%) Law
5 16 (6.48%) Legal
6 11 (4.45%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.05%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.62%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Billing
11 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Front Office
12 1 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 94 (38.06%) Data Engineer
2 82 (33.20%) Senior
3 32 (12.96%) Lead
4 26 (10.53%) Analyst
4 26 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
5 24 (9.72%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.31%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.31%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (8.91%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (8.91%) Developer
7 22 (8.91%) Python Engineer
8 20 (8.10%) Lead Data Engineer
9 19 (7.69%) Architect
10 15 (6.07%) Data Scientist
11 14 (5.67%) Python Developer
12 13 (5.26%) Business Analyst
12 13 (5.26%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.86%) Data Architect
13 12 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.86%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (42.11%) Kafka
2 66 (26.72%) PySpark
3 36 (14.57%) PyTorch
3 36 (14.57%) TensorFlow
4 27 (10.93%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.72%) LangChain
6 23 (9.31%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.31%) pgvector
7 22 (8.91%) Pandas
8 21 (8.50%) REST
9 15 (6.07%) Spring
9 15 (6.07%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.45%) Node.js
11 10 (4.05%) SpaCy
12 9 (3.64%) NumPy
13 8 (3.24%) Faiss
13 8 (3.24%) React
13 8 (3.24%) vLLM
14 6 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (2.02%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.65%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.12%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.31%) Clustering
4 17 (6.88%) Product Ownership
5 15 (6.07%) Data Structures
6 12 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.05%) e-Learning
8 9 (3.64%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.64%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.43%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.43%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.43%) Social Media
10 5 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.21%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.21%) NHS
12 2 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.24%) Linux
2 5 (2.02%) CentOS
2 5 (2.02%) Debian
2 5 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.02%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (63.56%) Data Pipeline
2 153 (61.94%) Data Engineering
3 149 (60.32%) Analytics
4 116 (46.96%) CI/CD
5 114 (46.15%) ETL
6 103 (41.70%) AI
7 98 (39.68%) Data Modelling
8 93 (37.65%) Data Science
9 90 (36.44%) Data Governance
10 87 (35.22%) Machine Learning
11 84 (34.01%) Agile
12 68 (27.53%) Business Intelligence
13 60 (24.29%) DevOps
14 59 (23.89%) Use Case
15 48 (19.43%) Performance Tuning
16 47 (19.03%) Generative AI
17 45 (18.22%) Validation
18 44 (17.81%) Computer Science
18 44 (17.81%) Software Engineering
19 39 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 225 (91.09%) Python
2 181 (73.28%) SQL
3 54 (21.86%) Scala
4 47 (19.03%) Java
5 13 (5.26%) Bash
6 8 (3.24%) Go
6 8 (3.24%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.83%) C++
8 5 (2.02%) Bicep
8 5 (2.02%) VBA
9 4 (1.62%) R
9 4 (1.62%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.21%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.40%) C#
12 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.57%) Degree
3 30 (12.15%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.67%) Master's Degree
6 11 (4.45%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.45%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.45%) PhD
7 8 (3.24%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.40%) CEH
10 1 (0.40%) CISM
10 1 (0.40%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (40.08%) Data Quality
2 37 (14.98%) GDPR
3 35 (14.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.86%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.02%) QA
6 4 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.81%) IFRS
7 2 (0.81%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.81%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (18.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (18.62%) Terraform
2 35 (14.17%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.26%) Ansible
4 6 (2.43%) Grafana
5 5 (2.02%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.02%) Puppet
6 3 (1.21%) Kibana
6 3 (1.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 90 (36.44%) Databricks
2 31 (12.55%) Red Hat
3 26 (10.53%) Oracle
4 24 (9.72%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.72%) Dell
5 10 (4.05%) Google
6 9 (3.64%) Microsoft
6 9 (3.64%) Palantir
7 5 (2.02%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.21%) Informatica
8 3 (1.21%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.81%) Talend
10 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.40%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.40%) Foundry
10 1 (0.40%) IBM
10 1 (0.40%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.40%) Pega
10 1 (0.40%) Splunk
10 1 (0.40%) Trend Micro