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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 392 332
Rank change year-on-year -114 -60 -44
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 253 298 861
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.66% 0.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.22% 7.04% 8.50%
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 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -5.88%
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 4,065 4,232 10,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.31% 9.41% 9.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,912 2,802 7,149
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 £72,000 £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 21 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 21 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 -78 229 £84,000 -1.18% 74
London -29 147 £100,000 -4.76% 40
UK excluding London -115 80 £67,500 +8.00% 55
Work from Home -67 55 £67,500 -30.77% 34
North of England -25 32 £57,500 +2.22% 17
South West -42 20 £70,000 +27.27% 12
East of England 0 17 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North West +4 12 £55,000 - 9
North East -40 11 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -39 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South East -57 4 £57,500 -11.54% 17
Scotland -25 3 £115,000 +15.00%
Midlands -34 2 £50,000 -21.88% 3
Wales -50 2 £80,000 +27.87% 2
West Midlands -25 1 - - 2
East Midlands -37 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
1 114 (45.06%) Apache
2 109 (43.08%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (5.53%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.19%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.19%) SAS
5 2 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.40%) Camunda
6 1 (0.40%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (5.14%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 173 (68.38%) AWS
2 122 (48.22%) Azure
3 98 (38.74%) GCP
4 58 (22.92%) Amazon S3
5 50 (19.76%) Power Platform
6 43 (17.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 41 (16.21%) Snowflake
8 40 (15.81%) dbt
9 31 (12.25%) OpenShift
9 31 (12.25%) Serverless
10 27 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (9.49%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (5.53%) Amazon EMR
12 14 (5.53%) GitHub
13 13 (5.14%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (5.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (5.14%) Dagster
14 12 (4.74%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.77%) Broadband
2 5 (1.98%) AMQP
3 2 (0.79%) 4G
3 2 (0.79%) 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 78 (30.83%) Big Data
2 75 (29.64%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (29.64%) Tableau
3 56 (22.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 53 (20.95%) Data Lake
4 53 (20.95%) Elasticsearch
5 49 (19.37%) Power BI
6 40 (15.81%) BigQuery
7 35 (13.83%) Spark SQL
8 32 (12.65%) Hadoop
9 30 (11.86%) Looker
10 28 (11.07%) Apache Hive
11 27 (10.67%) Snowflake Schema
12 26 (10.28%) NoSQL
12 26 (10.28%) Parquet
13 25 (9.88%) Delta Lake
13 25 (9.88%) Impala
13 25 (9.88%) Oracle Database
14 22 (8.70%) Relational Database
15 19 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (18.18%) Git
2 36 (14.23%) MLflow
3 25 (9.88%) IBM UrbanCode
4 15 (5.93%) GitLab
5 12 (4.74%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.79%) JIRA
6 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.40%) Deequ
7 1 (0.40%) JUnit
General
1 95 (37.55%) Finance
2 73 (28.85%) Social Skills
3 70 (27.67%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (16.21%) Banking
5 24 (9.49%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.32%) Law
6 16 (6.32%) Legal
7 11 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.95%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.58%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.58%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Billing
12 2 (0.79%) 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 98 (38.74%) Data Engineer
2 86 (33.99%) Senior
3 34 (13.44%) Lead
4 28 (11.07%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (10.28%) Analyst
6 24 (9.49%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (9.09%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (8.70%) Banking Analyst
8 22 (8.70%) Developer
8 22 (8.70%) Python Engineer
9 21 (8.30%) Lead Data Engineer
10 20 (7.91%) Architect
11 15 (5.93%) Data Scientist
12 14 (5.53%) Python Developer
13 13 (5.14%) Business Analyst
13 13 (5.14%) Data Architect
14 12 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.74%) Software Engineer
14 12 (4.74%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (41.90%) Kafka
2 67 (26.48%) PySpark
3 35 (13.83%) PyTorch
3 35 (13.83%) TensorFlow
4 27 (10.67%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.49%) LangChain
6 23 (9.09%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.09%) pgvector
7 22 (8.70%) Pandas
8 21 (8.30%) REST
9 15 (5.93%) Spring
9 15 (5.93%) Spring Boot
10 12 (4.74%) Node.js
11 10 (3.95%) SpaCy
12 9 (3.56%) NumPy
13 8 (3.16%) React
14 7 (2.77%) Faiss
14 7 (2.77%) vLLM
15 6 (2.37%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (1.98%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.88%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.09%) Clustering
4 18 (7.11%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.93%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.95%) e-Learning
8 9 (3.56%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.56%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.37%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.37%) Social Media
10 5 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.58%) NHS
12 3 (1.19%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.56%) Linux
2 5 (1.98%) CentOS
2 5 (1.98%) Debian
2 5 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.98%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (62.85%) Data Pipeline
2 156 (61.66%) Data Engineering
3 153 (60.47%) Analytics
4 119 (47.04%) CI/CD
5 115 (45.45%) ETL
6 105 (41.50%) Data Modelling
7 103 (40.71%) AI
8 94 (37.15%) Data Science
9 93 (36.76%) Data Governance
10 88 (34.78%) Machine Learning
11 84 (33.20%) Agile
12 68 (26.88%) Business Intelligence
13 61 (24.11%) DevOps
13 61 (24.11%) Use Case
14 50 (19.76%) Performance Tuning
15 47 (18.58%) Generative AI
16 45 (17.79%) Validation
17 44 (17.39%) Computer Science
17 44 (17.39%) Software Engineering
18 40 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 227 (89.72%) Python
2 185 (73.12%) SQL
3 54 (21.34%) Scala
4 45 (17.79%) Java
5 12 (4.74%) Bash
6 9 (3.56%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.77%) C++
7 7 (2.77%) Go
8 5 (1.98%) Bicep
8 5 (1.98%) VBA
9 4 (1.58%) R
9 4 (1.58%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.19%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.79%) C#
11 2 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.40%) C
12 1 (0.40%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.23%) Degree
3 30 (11.86%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.53%) Master's Degree
5 11 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.35%) PhD
6 9 (3.56%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.19%) 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 99 (39.13%) Data Quality
2 37 (14.62%) GDPR
3 35 (13.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.74%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.98%) QA
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.79%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (17.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (18.58%) Terraform
2 36 (14.23%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.53%) Ansible
4 6 (2.37%) Grafana
5 5 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.98%) Puppet
6 3 (1.19%) Kibana
6 3 (1.19%) Packer
7 1 (0.40%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 91 (35.97%) Databricks
2 31 (12.25%) Red Hat
3 27 (10.67%) Oracle
4 24 (9.49%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.49%) Dell
5 11 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 10 (3.95%) Google
7 9 (3.56%) Palantir
8 5 (1.98%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.58%) Informatica
10 3 (1.19%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.19%) Talend
11 2 (0.79%) Foundry
11 2 (0.79%) IBM
12 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.40%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.40%) HP
12 1 (0.40%) SAP
12 1 (0.40%) Splunk
12 1 (0.40%) Trend Micro