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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 398 326
Rank change year-on-year -103 -72 -36
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 250 298 866
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.66% 0.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.21% 7.04% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 125 171 269
10th Percentile £51,750 £47,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -8.57%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £119,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +8.00% -10.00% -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 4,025 4,230 10,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.29% 9.43% 9.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,885 2,792 7,154
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% -9.13%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -12.51%

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 19 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 19 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 -90 227 £84,000 +0.30% 68
London -45 148 £100,000 -4.76% 36
UK excluding London -107 80 £67,500 +8.00% 48
Work from Home -72 55 £67,500 -29.87% 27
North of England -24 32 £57,500 +2.22% 15
South West -38 20 £70,000 +27.27% 11
East of England -4 17 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North West +3 12 £55,000 - 7
North East -35 11 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -43 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South East -57 4 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Scotland -17 3 £115,000 +15.00%
Midlands -32 2 £50,000 -21.88% 3
Wales -46 2 £80,000 +27.87% 2
West Midlands -16 1 - - 2
East Midlands -35 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
1 113 (45.20%) Apache
2 109 (43.60%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (5.60%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.20%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.20%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.40%) Camunda
5 1 (0.40%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.20%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 170 (68.00%) AWS
2 120 (48.00%) Azure
3 96 (38.40%) GCP
4 57 (22.80%) Amazon S3
5 49 (19.60%) Power Platform
6 44 (17.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 41 (16.40%) dbt
7 41 (16.40%) Snowflake
8 31 (12.40%) OpenShift
9 30 (12.00%) Serverless
10 26 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (9.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (5.60%) Amazon EMR
13 13 (5.20%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (5.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (5.20%) Dagster
13 13 (5.20%) GitHub
14 12 (4.80%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.80%) Broadband
2 5 (2.00%) AMQP
3 2 (0.80%) 4G
3 2 (0.80%) 5G
4 1 (0.40%) BGP
4 1 (0.40%) DNS
4 1 (0.40%) IPsec
4 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (30.80%) Big Data
2 75 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (29.60%) Tableau
4 56 (22.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 53 (21.20%) Data Lake
5 53 (21.20%) Elasticsearch
6 48 (19.20%) Power BI
7 40 (16.00%) BigQuery
8 34 (13.60%) Spark SQL
9 32 (12.80%) Hadoop
10 30 (12.00%) Looker
11 28 (11.20%) Apache Hive
12 27 (10.80%) Snowflake Schema
13 26 (10.40%) Parquet
14 25 (10.00%) Impala
14 25 (10.00%) NoSQL
14 25 (10.00%) Oracle Database
15 24 (9.60%) Delta Lake
16 22 (8.80%) Relational Database
17 18 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (18.40%) Git
2 35 (14.00%) MLflow
3 25 (10.00%) IBM UrbanCode
4 15 (6.00%) GitLab
5 11 (4.40%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.80%) JIRA
6 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.40%) Deequ
7 1 (0.40%) JUnit
General
1 92 (36.80%) Finance
2 74 (29.60%) Social Skills
3 70 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (16.40%) Banking
5 24 (9.60%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.40%) Law
6 16 (6.40%) Legal
7 11 (4.40%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.00%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.60%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Billing
12 2 (0.80%) Military
13 1 (0.40%) Advertising
13 1 (0.40%) Front Office
13 1 (0.40%) Games
13 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 96 (38.40%) Data Engineer
2 84 (33.60%) Senior
3 34 (13.60%) Lead
4 27 (10.80%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (10.40%) Analyst
6 24 (9.60%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (9.20%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (9.20%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (8.80%) Banking Analyst
8 22 (8.80%) Developer
8 22 (8.80%) Python Engineer
9 21 (8.40%) Lead Data Engineer
10 19 (7.60%) Architect
11 15 (6.00%) Data Scientist
12 14 (5.60%) Python Developer
13 13 (5.20%) Business Analyst
14 12 (4.80%) Data Architect
14 12 (4.80%) Data Business Analyst
14 12 (4.80%) Software Engineer
14 12 (4.80%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (42.40%) Kafka
2 66 (26.40%) PySpark
3 35 (14.00%) PyTorch
3 35 (14.00%) TensorFlow
4 27 (10.80%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.60%) LangChain
6 23 (9.20%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.20%) pgvector
7 22 (8.80%) Pandas
8 21 (8.40%) REST
9 15 (6.00%) Spring
9 15 (6.00%) Spring Boot
10 12 (4.80%) Node.js
11 10 (4.00%) SpaCy
12 9 (3.60%) NumPy
13 8 (3.20%) React
14 7 (2.80%) Faiss
14 7 (2.80%) vLLM
15 6 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (2.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.40%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.20%) Clustering
4 17 (6.80%) Product Ownership
5 15 (6.00%) Data Structures
6 12 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.00%) e-Learning
8 9 (3.60%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.60%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.40%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.40%) Social Media
10 5 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.20%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.20%) NHS
12 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.60%) Linux
2 5 (2.00%) CentOS
2 5 (2.00%) Debian
2 5 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (62.40%) Data Pipeline
2 154 (61.60%) Data Engineering
3 152 (60.80%) Analytics
4 116 (46.40%) CI/CD
5 115 (46.00%) ETL
6 103 (41.20%) AI
7 102 (40.80%) Data Modelling
8 95 (38.00%) Data Science
9 91 (36.40%) Data Governance
10 87 (34.80%) Machine Learning
11 83 (33.20%) Agile
12 67 (26.80%) Business Intelligence
13 61 (24.40%) Use Case
14 60 (24.00%) DevOps
15 50 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
16 47 (18.80%) Generative AI
17 45 (18.00%) Validation
18 44 (17.60%) Computer Science
19 43 (17.20%) Software Engineering
20 39 (15.60%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 225 (90.00%) Python
2 182 (72.80%) SQL
3 54 (21.60%) Scala
4 46 (18.40%) Java
5 12 (4.80%) Bash
6 8 (3.20%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.80%) C++
7 7 (2.80%) Go
8 5 (2.00%) Bicep
8 5 (2.00%) VBA
9 4 (1.60%) R
9 4 (1.60%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.80%) C#
11 2 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.40%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.40%) Degree
3 30 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.60%) Master's Degree
5 11 (4.40%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.40%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.40%) PhD
6 9 (3.60%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.40%) CEH
9 1 (0.40%) CISM
9 1 (0.40%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 37 (14.80%) GDPR
3 35 (14.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.80%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.00%) QA
6 4 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.80%) IFRS
7 2 (0.80%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.80%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (18.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (18.40%) Terraform
2 35 (14.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.20%) Ansible
4 6 (2.40%) Grafana
5 5 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.00%) Puppet
6 3 (1.20%) Kibana
6 3 (1.20%) Packer
7 1 (0.40%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 89 (35.60%) Databricks
2 31 (12.40%) Red Hat
3 27 (10.80%) Oracle
4 24 (9.60%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.60%) Dell
5 11 (4.40%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.00%) Google
7 8 (3.20%) Palantir
8 5 (2.00%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.20%) Informatica
9 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.80%) IBM
10 2 (0.80%) Talend
11 1 (0.40%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.40%) Foundry
11 1 (0.40%) HP
11 1 (0.40%) Pega
11 1 (0.40%) SAP
11 1 (0.40%) Splunk
11 1 (0.40%) Trend Micro