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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 425 396
Rank change year-on-year -106 -29 -47
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 278 258 464
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.52% 0.59%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.03% 6.33% 6.74%
Number of salaries quoted 140 110 207
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,724 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £57,563 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £73,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% -7.81% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £110,125 £123,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £61,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.50% -1.60% -16.67%

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 4,613 4,077 6,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.13% 8.29% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,261 2,733 4,287
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,285 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -1.30% -0.27%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 -63 259 £80,000 +6.67% 398
London -32 160 £95,000 +11.76% 314
UK excluding London -114 98 £57,500 -6.50% 152
Work from Home -38 55 £66,805 -7.86% 365
North of England -40 50 £55,000 -4.35% 35
South West -60 26 £55,000 +10.00% 20
North East -45 23 £55,000 +15.79% 8
North West -11 17 £55,000 -18.52% 25
Yorkshire -45 10 £80,000 +36.17% 2
East of England -28 6 £77,500 +8.39% 10
South East -56 6 £62,500 -5.66% 33
Scotland -23 5 £115,000 - 37
Midlands -49 4 £54,500 -14.84% 4
West Midlands -37 3 £60,653 +0.25%
Wales -68 2 £80,000 +59.60% 1
East Midlands -42 1 £50,000 -33.33% 4

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
1 120 (43.17%) Apache
2 60 (21.58%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.83%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.80%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.08%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.08%) SAS
6 2 (0.72%) Luigi
6 2 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.72%) Tornado
7 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 167 (60.07%) AWS
2 151 (54.32%) Azure
3 91 (32.73%) GCP
4 46 (16.55%) Power Platform
5 42 (15.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 39 (14.03%) Amazon S3
6 39 (14.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 39 (14.03%) Serverless
7 28 (10.07%) Snowflake
8 26 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (8.27%) Amazon EMR
10 22 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (7.91%) dbt
11 21 (7.55%) Amazon Kinesis
12 20 (7.19%) Azure Databricks
13 17 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (6.12%) GitHub
14 16 (5.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 15 (5.40%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (5.40%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.16%) BGP
1 6 (2.16%) DNS
1 6 (2.16%) IPsec
1 6 (2.16%) VPN
2 5 (1.80%) AMQP
2 5 (1.80%) Internet
3 1 (0.36%) 4G
3 1 (0.36%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (34.17%) Big Data
2 67 (24.10%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (22.30%) Data Lake
4 55 (19.78%) Hadoop
5 50 (17.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (16.91%) Elasticsearch
7 45 (16.19%) NoSQL
7 45 (16.19%) Power BI
8 34 (12.23%) Tableau
9 26 (9.35%) Delta Lake
9 26 (9.35%) Metadata
9 26 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (8.27%) Relational Database
11 19 (6.83%) Flink
12 18 (6.47%) BigQuery
13 16 (5.76%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (5.76%) Looker
13 16 (5.76%) Milvus
14 15 (5.40%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (5.04%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 33 (11.87%) Git
2 21 (7.55%) GitLab
2 21 (7.55%) MLflow
3 20 (7.19%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.72%) JIRA
4 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.36%) ERwin
General
1 113 (40.65%) Finance
2 72 (25.90%) Social Skills
3 46 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.79%) Banking
5 23 (8.27%) Financial Institution
6 22 (7.91%) Public Sector
7 20 (7.19%) Law
8 19 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (4.68%) Marketing
10 11 (3.96%) Aerospace
11 10 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.60%) Military
12 7 (2.52%) Games
13 6 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.16%) Retail
14 5 (1.80%) Legal
15 3 (1.08%) Front Office
16 2 (0.72%) Local Government
16 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 132 (47.48%) Data Engineer
2 92 (33.09%) Senior
3 50 (17.99%) Lead
4 37 (13.31%) Data Scientist
5 33 (11.87%) Senior Data Engineer
6 31 (11.15%) Senior Data Scientist
7 30 (10.79%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (8.63%) Databricks Engineer
9 21 (7.55%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 18 (6.47%) Architect
10 18 (6.47%) Python Engineer
11 15 (5.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 15 (5.40%) Systems Engineer
12 14 (5.04%) Developer
13 13 (4.68%) Data Architect
13 13 (4.68%) Software Engineer
14 10 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.60%) Python Developer
15 9 (3.24%) Consultant
15 9 (3.24%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (41.73%) Kafka
2 56 (20.14%) PySpark
3 52 (18.71%) Terraform
4 22 (7.91%) SpaCy
5 17 (6.12%) PyTorch
5 17 (6.12%) scikit-learn
6 16 (5.76%) LangChain
6 16 (5.76%) pgvector
6 16 (5.76%) REST
6 16 (5.76%) TensorFlow
7 15 (5.40%) LlamaIndex
7 15 (5.40%) Node.js
8 12 (4.32%) Spring
8 12 (4.32%) Spring Boot
9 10 (3.60%) Pandas
10 9 (3.24%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (2.88%) React
11 8 (2.88%) RESTful
12 6 (2.16%) gRPC
12 6 (2.16%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.42%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.91%) e-Learning
3 20 (7.19%) Product Ownership
4 19 (6.83%) Public Cloud
5 18 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (6.12%) Data Structures
7 15 (5.40%) Clustering
8 14 (5.04%) Onboarding
9 12 (4.32%) Algorithms
10 11 (3.96%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (2.16%) NHS
13 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (1.44%) AI Agents
14 4 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
15 3 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
16 2 (0.72%) Data Fabric
16 2 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.32%) Linux
2 5 (1.80%) CentOS
2 5 (1.80%) Debian
2 5 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (61.87%) Data Engineering
2 162 (58.27%) Analytics
3 150 (53.96%) Data Pipeline
4 138 (49.64%) CI/CD
5 119 (42.81%) Data Science
6 116 (41.73%) Data Modelling
7 115 (41.37%) Machine Learning
8 105 (37.77%) DevOps
9 95 (34.17%) AI
10 91 (32.73%) ETL
11 81 (29.14%) Agile
12 72 (25.90%) Lakehouse
13 69 (24.82%) Mentoring
14 58 (20.86%) Business Intelligence
14 58 (20.86%) Data Governance
14 58 (20.86%) Use Case
15 55 (19.78%) Infrastructure as Code
16 47 (16.91%) Generative AI
16 47 (16.91%) Software Engineering
17 46 (16.55%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 236 (84.89%) Python
2 183 (65.83%) SQL
3 53 (19.06%) Scala
4 43 (15.47%) Java
5 11 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.52%) C#
7 6 (2.16%) C
7 6 (2.16%) PHP
7 6 (2.16%) Ruby
8 5 (1.80%) Bash
8 5 (1.80%) VBA
9 4 (1.44%) Bicep
9 4 (1.44%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.08%) R
11 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 58 (20.86%) Degree
3 53 (19.06%) SC Cleared
4 29 (10.43%) PhD
5 27 (9.71%) Master's Degree
6 19 (6.83%) Azure Certification
7 17 (6.12%) AWS Certification
8 16 (5.76%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.36%) CEH
13 1 (0.36%) CISM
13 1 (0.36%) CISSP
13 1 (0.36%) OCP
13 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (30.94%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.91%) GDPR
3 16 (5.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.68%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.88%) QA
6 3 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.72%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (21.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (16.91%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.76%) Ansible
3 6 (2.16%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.80%) Argo
4 5 (1.80%) Grafana
4 5 (1.80%) Puppet
5 3 (1.08%) Kibana
5 3 (1.08%) Packer
5 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 104 (37.41%) Databricks
2 32 (11.51%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.76%) Cloudera
4 15 (5.40%) Dell
5 9 (3.24%) Oracle
6 8 (2.88%) Google
7 6 (2.16%) HP
7 6 (2.16%) IBM
7 6 (2.16%) Informatica
7 6 (2.16%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.16%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.16%) SAP
8 5 (1.80%) SaltStack
8 5 (1.80%) Splunk
9 4 (1.44%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.08%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.08%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.72%) Foundry
11 2 (0.72%) Palantir