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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 435 425
Rank change year-on-year -99 -10 -59
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 279 258 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.52% 0.53%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.92% 6.33% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 138 111 205
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £111,875 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £131,500 £115,000 £124,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -13.33%

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 4,710 4,077 6,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.09% 8.25% 8.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,254 2,722 4,116
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,625 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% -2.39% -2.70%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -1.04%

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 18 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 18 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 -66 259 £80,000 +6.67% 456
London -42 158 £95,000 +5.56% 331
UK excluding London -139 100 £57,500 -8.00% 178
Work from Home -24 57 £66,805 -10.93% 184
North of England -44 51 £55,000 -8.33% 48
South West -64 26 £55,000 - 23
North East -49 24 £55,000 +15.79% 11
North West -3 18 £55,000 -31.25% 27
Yorkshire -54 9 £80,000 +33.33% 10
South East -52 8 £62,500 -7.41% 26
Scotland -18 5 £115,000 - 34
Midlands -56 5 £54,500 -14.84% 16
East of England -30 4 £80,000 +11.89% 10
West Midlands -47 4 £60,653 +0.25% 11
Wales -69 2 £80,000 +59.60% 3
East Midlands -51 1 £50,000 -33.33% 5

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 (43.01%) Apache
2 52 (18.64%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (7.17%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.79%) 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%) Confluence
7 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (1.79%) 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 (59.86%) AWS
2 155 (55.56%) Azure
3 91 (32.62%) GCP
4 42 (15.05%) Azure Data Factory
4 42 (15.05%) Power Platform
5 41 (14.70%) Serverless
6 38 (13.62%) Amazon S3
7 36 (12.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 29 (10.39%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (8.60%) Amazon EMR
9 24 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (8.60%) Snowflake
10 21 (7.53%) Amazon Kinesis
10 21 (7.53%) Azure Databricks
11 18 (6.45%) dbt
11 18 (6.45%) GitHub
12 16 (5.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (5.73%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (5.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.51%) AMQP
2 6 (2.15%) BGP
2 6 (2.15%) DNS
2 6 (2.15%) IPsec
2 6 (2.15%) VPN
3 5 (1.79%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) 4G
4 1 (0.36%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (34.77%) Big Data
2 64 (22.94%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (21.15%) Data Lake
4 58 (20.79%) Hadoop
5 46 (16.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 46 (16.49%) NoSQL
6 41 (14.70%) Power BI
7 39 (13.98%) Elasticsearch
8 32 (11.47%) Tableau
9 27 (9.68%) Metadata
10 26 (9.32%) Delta Lake
11 25 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
12 22 (7.89%) Relational Database
13 19 (6.81%) Flink
14 17 (6.09%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (5.73%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (4.66%) BigQuery
16 13 (4.66%) Spark SQL
17 12 (4.30%) Apache Hive
17 12 (4.30%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (13.26%) Git
2 22 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.53%) GitLab
4 17 (6.09%) MLflow
5 2 (0.72%) JIRA
5 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.36%) ERwin
6 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 115 (41.22%) Finance
2 73 (26.16%) Social Skills
3 45 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.11%) Banking
5 24 (8.60%) Financial Institution
5 24 (8.60%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.17%) Law
7 19 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (5.38%) Aerospace
9 13 (4.66%) Marketing
10 10 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.58%) Military
11 6 (2.15%) Games
11 6 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.15%) Retail
12 5 (1.79%) Legal
13 4 (1.43%) Front Office
14 2 (0.72%) Aviation
14 2 (0.72%) Local Government
14 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 135 (48.39%) Data Engineer
2 88 (31.54%) Senior
3 49 (17.56%) Lead
4 39 (13.98%) Data Scientist
5 34 (12.19%) Senior Data Engineer
6 32 (11.47%) Senior Data Scientist
7 28 (10.04%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (8.60%) Databricks Engineer
9 21 (7.53%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 17 (6.09%) Architect
11 15 (5.38%) Python Engineer
11 15 (5.38%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.66%) Data Architect
13 12 (4.30%) Developer
14 10 (3.58%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 10 (3.58%) Systems Engineer
15 9 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
15 9 (3.23%) Consultant
15 9 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (39.07%) Kafka
2 59 (21.15%) PySpark
3 55 (19.71%) Terraform
4 23 (8.24%) SpaCy
5 16 (5.73%) Node.js
6 15 (5.38%) REST
7 14 (5.02%) PyTorch
7 14 (5.02%) scikit-learn
7 14 (5.02%) Spring
7 14 (5.02%) Spring Boot
8 13 (4.66%) TensorFlow
9 11 (3.94%) LangChain
9 11 (3.94%) Pandas
9 11 (3.94%) pgvector
10 10 (3.58%) gRPC
10 10 (3.58%) LlamaIndex
10 10 (3.58%) React
11 9 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
12 8 (2.87%) RESTful
13 7 (2.51%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.28%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.24%) e-Learning
2 23 (8.24%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 18 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.38%) Onboarding
5 14 (5.02%) Algorithms
5 14 (5.02%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.94%) Distributed Computing
7 10 (3.58%) Clustering
8 7 (2.51%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.15%) NHS
10 5 (1.79%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.72%) Life Science
12 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.02%) Linux
2 7 (2.51%) CentOS
2 7 (2.51%) Debian
2 7 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (60.57%) Data Engineering
2 159 (56.99%) Analytics
3 149 (53.41%) Data Pipeline
4 143 (51.25%) CI/CD
5 118 (42.29%) Data Science
6 114 (40.86%) Data Modelling
7 113 (40.50%) Machine Learning
8 107 (38.35%) DevOps
9 94 (33.69%) AI
10 88 (31.54%) ETL
11 86 (30.82%) Agile
12 74 (26.52%) Mentoring
13 67 (24.01%) Lakehouse
14 58 (20.79%) Infrastructure as Code
15 54 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
16 53 (19.00%) Data Governance
17 51 (18.28%) Use Case
18 49 (17.56%) Software Engineering
19 47 (16.85%) Validation
20 45 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 236 (84.59%) Python
2 182 (65.23%) SQL
3 56 (20.07%) Scala
4 45 (16.13%) Java
5 15 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.87%) C#
7 6 (2.15%) Bash
7 6 (2.15%) C
7 6 (2.15%) PHP
7 6 (2.15%) Ruby
8 5 (1.79%) VBA
9 4 (1.43%) Bicep
9 4 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.43%) R
9 4 (1.43%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.08%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.36%) C++
11 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (30.47%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 59 (21.15%) Degree
4 32 (11.47%) PhD
5 29 (10.39%) Master's Degree
6 20 (7.17%) Azure Certification
7 18 (6.45%) AWS Certification
7 18 (6.45%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.36%) CEH
12 1 (0.36%) CISM
12 1 (0.36%) CISSP
12 1 (0.36%) OCP
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (32.26%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.09%) GDPR
3 13 (4.66%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (2.87%) 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 59 (21.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 49 (17.56%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.45%) Ansible
3 7 (2.51%) Puppet
4 6 (2.15%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.79%) Argo
6 4 (1.43%) Grafana
7 3 (1.08%) Kibana
7 3 (1.08%) Packer
7 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.36%) Control-M
8 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 105 (37.63%) Databricks
2 32 (11.47%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.94%) Cloudera
4 10 (3.58%) Dell
4 10 (3.58%) Google
5 9 (3.23%) Oracle
6 8 (2.87%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.51%) Informatica
7 7 (2.51%) SaltStack
8 6 (2.15%) HP
8 6 (2.15%) IBM
8 6 (2.15%) SAP
9 5 (1.79%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.79%) Splunk
10 4 (1.43%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.08%) LexisNexis
11 3 (1.08%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.72%) Foundry
12 2 (0.72%) Talend