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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 400 356
Rank change year-on-year -87 -44 -51
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 261 307 796
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.66% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.27% 7.16% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 127 167 255
10th Percentile £52,000 £47,600 £48,100
25th Percentile £64,375 £57,000 £62,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £136,500 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year - -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 4,160 4,286 9,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.36% 9.27% 9.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,993 2,831 7,113
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% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -12.37%

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 28 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 28 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 -85 239 £82,500 -1.49% 73
London -31 151 £100,000 +1.52% 42
UK excluding London -122 85 £62,500 - 45
Work from Home -61 55 £67,500 -28.95% 34
North of England -44 38 £57,500 - 14
South West -50 20 £70,000 +27.27% 10
North West +4 16 £55,000 - 6
East of England +2 16 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North East -38 13 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -42 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South East -54 4 £57,500 -11.54% 13
Scotland -9 3 £115,000 +15.00%
Wales -40 2 £80,000 +27.87% 2
Midlands -51 2 £50,000 -21.88% 5
West Midlands -25 1 - - 4
East Midlands -32 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
1 121 (46.36%) Apache
2 109 (41.76%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (5.75%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.15%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.15%) SAS
5 2 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.38%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.98%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 176 (67.43%) AWS
2 126 (48.28%) Azure
3 97 (37.16%) GCP
4 60 (22.99%) Amazon S3
5 50 (19.16%) Power Platform
6 44 (16.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (15.33%) dbt
7 40 (15.33%) Snowflake
8 34 (13.03%) Serverless
9 32 (12.26%) OpenShift
10 29 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (10.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (6.13%) Amazon EMR
13 14 (5.36%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (5.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 14 (5.36%) GitHub
14 13 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (4.60%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.68%) Broadband
2 6 (2.30%) AMQP
3 2 (0.77%) 4G
3 2 (0.77%) 5G
3 2 (0.77%) BGP
3 2 (0.77%) DNS
3 2 (0.77%) IPsec
3 2 (0.77%) VPN
4 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (29.50%) Big Data
2 74 (28.35%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (27.59%) Tableau
4 56 (21.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 56 (21.46%) Data Lake
5 54 (20.69%) Elasticsearch
6 49 (18.77%) Power BI
7 39 (14.94%) BigQuery
8 35 (13.41%) Spark SQL
9 33 (12.64%) Hadoop
10 29 (11.11%) Apache Hive
10 29 (11.11%) Looker
11 28 (10.73%) NoSQL
12 27 (10.34%) Parquet
13 26 (9.96%) Snowflake Schema
14 25 (9.58%) Delta Lake
14 25 (9.58%) Impala
14 25 (9.58%) Oracle Database
15 22 (8.43%) Relational Database
16 21 (8.05%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 46 (17.62%) Git
2 35 (13.41%) MLflow
3 25 (9.58%) IBM UrbanCode
4 16 (6.13%) GitLab
5 12 (4.60%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.77%) JIRA
6 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.38%) Deequ
7 1 (0.38%) JUnit
General
1 99 (37.93%) Finance
2 77 (29.50%) Social Skills
3 68 (26.05%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (16.09%) Banking
5 24 (9.20%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.66%) Law
7 16 (6.13%) Legal
8 11 (4.21%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.21%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.92%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.53%) Games
11 4 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.53%) Military
12 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.15%) Retail
13 2 (0.77%) Billing
13 2 (0.77%) Front Office
13 2 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 103 (39.46%) Data Engineer
2 91 (34.87%) Senior
3 35 (13.41%) Lead
4 29 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (9.96%) Analyst
6 24 (9.20%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.81%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.81%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.81%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (8.43%) Banking Analyst
8 22 (8.43%) Lead Data Engineer
9 20 (7.66%) Architect
10 19 (7.28%) Developer
11 16 (6.13%) Data Scientist
12 13 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.98%) Business Analyst
12 13 (4.98%) Data Architect
12 13 (4.98%) Python Developer
12 13 (4.98%) Senior Data Scientist
13 12 (4.60%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (41.00%) Kafka
2 70 (26.82%) PySpark
3 32 (12.26%) PyTorch
3 32 (12.26%) TensorFlow
4 25 (9.58%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.20%) LangChain
6 23 (8.81%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (8.81%) pgvector
7 21 (8.05%) Pandas
7 21 (8.05%) REST
8 16 (6.13%) Spring
8 16 (6.13%) Spring Boot
9 14 (5.36%) Node.js
10 11 (4.21%) SpaCy
11 9 (3.45%) React
12 7 (2.68%) NumPy
12 7 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.30%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.30%) OpenAPI
13 6 (2.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (20.31%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.58%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.81%) Clustering
4 19 (7.28%) Product Ownership
5 17 (6.51%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.21%) e-Learning
7 9 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.68%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.30%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.30%) Social Media
10 5 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.92%) NHS
11 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.15%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.21%) Linux
2 6 (2.30%) CentOS
2 6 (2.30%) Debian
2 6 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.30%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (63.22%) Data Pipeline
2 164 (62.84%) Data Engineering
3 158 (60.54%) Analytics
4 124 (47.51%) CI/CD
5 117 (44.83%) ETL
6 110 (42.15%) Data Modelling
7 101 (38.70%) AI
8 98 (37.55%) Data Science
9 96 (36.78%) Data Governance
10 90 (34.48%) Machine Learning
11 86 (32.95%) Agile
12 67 (25.67%) Business Intelligence
13 64 (24.52%) DevOps
14 62 (23.75%) Use Case
15 51 (19.54%) Performance Tuning
16 48 (18.39%) Validation
17 46 (17.62%) Software Engineering
18 45 (17.24%) Generative AI
19 44 (16.86%) Computer Science
20 42 (16.09%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 233 (89.27%) Python
2 192 (73.56%) SQL
3 54 (20.69%) Scala
4 45 (17.24%) Java
5 11 (4.21%) Bash
6 10 (3.83%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.68%) C++
8 6 (2.30%) Go
9 5 (1.92%) Bicep
9 5 (1.92%) VBA
10 4 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.15%) C#
11 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.15%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.77%) C
12 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.77%) PHP
12 2 (0.77%) R
12 2 (0.77%) Ruby
13 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 46 (17.62%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.56%) Degree
3 32 (12.26%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.75%) Master's Degree
5 13 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.60%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.60%) PhD
7 11 (4.21%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.45%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.38%) CEH
11 1 (0.38%) CISM
11 1 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (38.31%) Data Quality
2 37 (14.18%) GDPR
3 35 (13.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.60%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.07%) QA
6 6 (2.30%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.77%) IFRS
7 2 (0.77%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.77%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (17.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (19.16%) Terraform
2 38 (14.56%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.75%) Ansible
4 6 (2.30%) Grafana
4 6 (2.30%) Puppet
5 5 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.15%) Kibana
6 3 (1.15%) Packer
7 2 (0.77%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 96 (36.78%) Databricks
2 32 (12.26%) Red Hat
3 28 (10.73%) Oracle
4 24 (9.20%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.20%) Dell
5 13 (4.98%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.21%) Google
7 8 (3.07%) Palantir
8 6 (2.30%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.53%) Informatica
10 3 (1.15%) IBM
10 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.15%) Talend
11 2 (0.77%) Foundry
11 2 (0.77%) HP
11 2 (0.77%) SAP
12 1 (0.38%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.38%) Pega
12 1 (0.38%) Splunk
12 1 (0.38%) Trend Micro