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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 422 359
Rank change year-on-year -76 -63 -20
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 311 276 605
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.55% 0.73%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.89% 6.28% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 141 130 201
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,724 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £112,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £66,199
% change year-on-year -8.00% -5.59% -11.74%

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 4,511 4,393 7,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.24% 8.80% 9.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,190 2,940 5,168
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £36,158 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -6.19%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.48%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -22 292 £80,000 +11.89% 183
London -9 180 £95,000 +11.76% 139
UK excluding London -119 111 £57,500 -8.00% 65
Work from Home -40 64 £66,805 -10.93% 77
North of England -29 48 £55,000 -4.35% 19
South West -37 29 £67,500 +35.00% 10
North East -44 22 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North West +1 16 £55,000 - 7
East of England -8 15 £75,000 +4.90% 2
Yorkshire -44 10 £80,000 +39.13% 3
South East -55 8 £62,500 -3.85% 15
Scotland -19 6 £115,000 +21.05% 10
Midlands -41 3 £58,403 -13.48% 5
West Midlands -30 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
Wales -62 2 £80,000 +27.87% 2
East Midlands -36 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
1 141 (45.34%) Apache
2 103 (33.12%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.11%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.61%) Apache Pig
5 3 (0.96%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.96%) SAS
6 2 (0.64%) Luigi
6 2 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.64%) Tornado
7 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.32%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.18%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 204 (65.59%) AWS
2 150 (48.23%) Azure
3 100 (32.15%) GCP
4 64 (20.58%) Amazon S3
5 53 (17.04%) Power Platform
6 46 (14.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (12.86%) Serverless
8 38 (12.22%) dbt
8 38 (12.22%) Snowflake
9 34 (10.93%) Azure Data Factory
10 32 (10.29%) OpenShift
11 26 (8.36%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (7.72%) Amazon EMR
13 23 (7.40%) Amazon Kinesis
14 20 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (5.47%) GitHub
16 16 (5.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 15 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.93%) BGP
1 6 (1.93%) DNS
1 6 (1.93%) IPsec
1 6 (1.93%) VPN
2 5 (1.61%) AMQP
2 5 (1.61%) Broadband
2 5 (1.61%) Internet
3 2 (0.64%) 4G
3 2 (0.64%) 5G
4 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (30.87%) Big Data
2 75 (24.12%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (21.54%) Data Lake
4 64 (20.58%) Tableau
5 56 (18.01%) Elasticsearch
5 56 (18.01%) Hadoop
6 55 (17.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 52 (16.72%) Power BI
8 44 (14.15%) NoSQL
9 38 (12.22%) Apache Hive
10 35 (11.25%) Spark SQL
11 31 (9.97%) BigQuery
12 28 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
13 27 (8.68%) Metadata
13 27 (8.68%) Parquet
13 27 (8.68%) Relational Database
14 26 (8.36%) Delta Lake
15 25 (8.04%) Impala
15 25 (8.04%) Oracle Database
16 24 (7.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (18.01%) Git
2 30 (9.65%) MLflow
3 25 (8.04%) IBM UrbanCode
4 22 (7.07%) GitLab
5 16 (5.14%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.64%) JIRA
6 2 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.32%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.32%) ERwin
General
1 130 (41.80%) Finance
2 77 (24.76%) Social Skills
3 71 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (16.08%) Banking
5 27 (8.68%) Law
6 24 (7.72%) Investment Banking
7 22 (7.07%) Public Sector
8 19 (6.11%) Financial Institution
8 19 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (5.47%) Legal
10 13 (4.18%) Marketing
11 11 (3.54%) Aerospace
12 10 (3.22%) Military
13 7 (2.25%) Games
14 6 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.93%) Retail
15 3 (0.96%) Front Office
15 3 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.64%) Billing
Job Titles
1 134 (43.09%) Data Engineer
2 102 (32.80%) Senior
3 46 (14.79%) Lead
4 36 (11.58%) Senior Data Engineer
5 32 (10.29%) Data Scientist
6 27 (8.68%) Senior Data Scientist
7 26 (8.36%) Analyst
7 26 (8.36%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (7.72%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 23 (7.40%) Systems Engineer
9 23 (7.40%) Transformation Analyst
10 22 (7.07%) Banking Analyst
10 22 (7.07%) Python Engineer
11 18 (5.79%) Architect
12 14 (4.50%) Developer
13 13 (4.18%) Business Analyst
13 13 (4.18%) Data Architect
13 13 (4.18%) Software Engineer
14 12 (3.86%) Data Business Analyst
14 12 (3.86%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (42.77%) Kafka
2 78 (25.08%) PySpark
3 25 (8.04%) PyTorch
3 25 (8.04%) scikit-learn
4 24 (7.72%) LangChain
4 24 (7.72%) Pandas
4 24 (7.72%) pgvector
4 24 (7.72%) TensorFlow
5 23 (7.40%) LlamaIndex
6 19 (6.11%) REST
7 18 (5.79%) SpaCy
8 17 (5.47%) Node.js
9 14 (4.50%) Spring
9 14 (4.50%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.22%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (2.57%) React
12 7 (2.25%) NumPy
13 6 (1.93%) gRPC
13 6 (1.93%) RESTful
14 5 (1.61%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 63 (20.26%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.68%) Public Cloud
3 23 (7.40%) Clustering
4 22 (7.07%) Data Structures
5 19 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (5.79%) e-Learning
7 15 (4.82%) Product Ownership
8 14 (4.50%) Onboarding
9 12 (3.86%) Algorithms
9 12 (3.86%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.61%) Anti-Piracy
11 5 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.61%) NHS
11 5 (1.61%) Social Media
12 4 (1.29%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.96%) Data Fabric
13 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.18%) Linux
2 5 (1.61%) CentOS
2 5 (1.61%) Debian
2 5 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.61%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (64.31%) Analytics
2 190 (61.09%) Data Engineering
3 186 (59.81%) Data Pipeline
4 158 (50.80%) CI/CD
5 132 (42.44%) AI
6 130 (41.80%) ETL
7 126 (40.51%) Data Science
8 125 (40.19%) Data Modelling
8 125 (40.19%) Machine Learning
9 107 (34.41%) Agile
10 96 (30.87%) DevOps
11 93 (29.90%) Data Governance
12 66 (21.22%) Business Intelligence
13 65 (20.90%) Mentoring
13 65 (20.90%) Use Case
14 60 (19.29%) Validation
15 59 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
16 54 (17.36%) Generative AI
17 50 (16.08%) Performance Tuning
17 50 (16.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 270 (86.82%) Python
2 218 (70.10%) SQL
3 55 (17.68%) Scala
4 50 (16.08%) Java
5 10 (3.22%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.25%) C#
7 6 (1.93%) C
7 6 (1.93%) C++
7 6 (1.93%) PHP
7 6 (1.93%) Ruby
8 5 (1.61%) Bash
8 5 (1.61%) Bicep
8 5 (1.61%) VBA
9 4 (1.29%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.64%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.64%) R
11 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 70 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 55 (17.68%) Degree
3 51 (16.40%) SC Cleared
4 25 (8.04%) PhD
5 23 (7.40%) Master's Degree
6 18 (5.79%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.47%) AWS Certification
8 16 (5.14%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.96%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.32%) CEH
13 1 (0.32%) CISM
13 1 (0.32%) CISSP
13 1 (0.32%) OCP
13 1 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (35.69%) Data Quality
2 42 (13.50%) GDPR
3 36 (11.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.18%) HIPAA
5 12 (3.86%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.57%) QA
7 3 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.64%) IFRS
8 2 (0.64%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.64%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (19.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (18.01%) Terraform
2 48 (15.43%) Kubernetes
3 18 (5.79%) Ansible
4 7 (2.25%) Grafana
5 6 (1.93%) Hadoop YARN
6 5 (1.61%) Argo
6 5 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.61%) Puppet
7 3 (0.96%) Kibana
7 3 (0.96%) Packer
8 1 (0.32%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 109 (35.05%) Databricks
2 35 (11.25%) Oracle
3 31 (9.97%) Red Hat
4 29 (9.32%) Microsoft
5 24 (7.72%) Cloudera
5 24 (7.72%) Dell
6 8 (2.57%) Google
7 7 (2.25%) Informatica
7 7 (2.25%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.93%) HP
8 6 (1.93%) IBM
8 6 (1.93%) SAP
9 5 (1.61%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.61%) Splunk
10 4 (1.29%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.96%) LexisNexis
11 3 (0.96%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (0.96%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.64%) Palantir
12 2 (0.64%) Talend