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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 440 372
Rank change year-on-year -56 -68 -31
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 305 269 559
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.54% 0.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.74% 6.21% 7.33%
Number of salaries quoted 138 126 199
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,618 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,781 £56,250 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% -10.63% -3.03%
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £109,375 £123,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,500 £64,849
% change year-on-year -4.96% -6.71% -13.53%

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 4,525 4,329 7,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.21% 8.68% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,175 2,935 5,061
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,563 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -4.42%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,150 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.38%

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 20 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 20 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 -44 286 £80,000 +11.89% 128
London -10 177 £95,000 +11.76% 84
UK excluding London -114 110 £57,500 -4.96% 67
Work from Home -36 58 £66,805 -2.83% 45
North of England -21 49 £55,000 -4.35% 17
South West -47 28 £55,000 +10.00% 13
North East -42 23 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North West -9 16 £55,000 - 6
East of England -10 14 £75,000 +4.90% 7
Yorkshire -41 10 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -55 8 £62,500 -3.85% 17
Scotland -24 6 £115,000 +21.05% 8
Midlands -41 3 £58,403 -13.48% 2
West Midlands -33 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
Wales -63 2 £80,000 +27.87% 2
East Midlands -36 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
1 139 (45.57%) Apache
2 94 (30.82%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.23%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.64%) Apache Pig
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.98%) SAS
6 2 (0.66%) Luigi
6 2 (0.66%) Tornado
7 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (3.93%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 198 (64.92%) AWS
2 153 (50.16%) Azure
3 96 (31.48%) GCP
4 62 (20.33%) Amazon S3
5 54 (17.70%) Power Platform
6 48 (15.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (12.79%) Serverless
8 37 (12.13%) Snowflake
9 36 (11.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 32 (10.49%) dbt
11 31 (10.16%) OpenShift
12 25 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (7.54%) Amazon EMR
14 22 (7.21%) Amazon Kinesis
15 21 (6.89%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (5.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (5.57%) GitHub
17 16 (5.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 15 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
19 14 (4.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.97%) BGP
1 6 (1.97%) DNS
1 6 (1.97%) IPsec
1 6 (1.97%) VPN
2 5 (1.64%) AMQP
2 5 (1.64%) Internet
3 1 (0.33%) 4G
3 1 (0.33%) 5G
3 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (31.15%) Big Data
2 75 (24.59%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (22.30%) Data Lake
4 64 (20.98%) Tableau
5 56 (18.36%) Elasticsearch
5 56 (18.36%) Hadoop
6 55 (18.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 53 (17.38%) Power BI
8 44 (14.43%) NoSQL
9 37 (12.13%) Apache Hive
10 33 (10.82%) Spark SQL
11 27 (8.85%) Delta Lake
11 27 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (8.52%) BigQuery
12 26 (8.52%) Parquet
13 25 (8.20%) Relational Database
14 24 (7.87%) Impala
14 24 (7.87%) Looker
14 24 (7.87%) Oracle Database
14 24 (7.87%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (18.36%) Git
2 30 (9.84%) MLflow
3 24 (7.87%) IBM UrbanCode
4 22 (7.21%) GitLab
5 17 (5.57%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.66%) JIRA
6 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.33%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.33%) ERwin
General
1 130 (42.62%) Finance
2 71 (23.28%) Social Skills
3 67 (21.97%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (16.39%) Banking
5 23 (7.54%) Investment Banking
6 22 (7.21%) Public Sector
7 21 (6.89%) Law
8 20 (6.56%) Financial Institution
9 19 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (5.57%) Legal
11 13 (4.26%) Marketing
12 11 (3.61%) Aerospace
13 10 (3.28%) Military
14 7 (2.30%) Games
14 7 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.97%) Retail
16 3 (0.98%) Front Office
17 2 (0.66%) Local Government
17 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (42.30%) Data Engineer
2 97 (31.80%) Senior
3 47 (15.41%) Lead
4 33 (10.82%) Data Scientist
5 31 (10.16%) Senior Data Engineer
6 28 (9.18%) Senior Data Scientist
7 27 (8.85%) Lead Data Engineer
8 25 (8.20%) Analyst
9 23 (7.54%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 23 (7.54%) Systems Engineer
9 23 (7.54%) Transformation Analyst
10 22 (7.21%) Banking Analyst
11 21 (6.89%) Python Engineer
12 19 (6.23%) Architect
13 14 (4.59%) Data Architect
13 14 (4.59%) Developer
14 13 (4.26%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.93%) Business Analyst
15 12 (3.93%) Data Business Analyst
15 12 (3.93%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (41.31%) Kafka
2 78 (25.57%) PySpark
3 54 (17.70%) Terraform
4 25 (8.20%) PyTorch
4 25 (8.20%) scikit-learn
5 24 (7.87%) LangChain
5 24 (7.87%) pgvector
5 24 (7.87%) TensorFlow
6 23 (7.54%) LlamaIndex
7 22 (7.21%) Pandas
8 19 (6.23%) SpaCy
9 18 (5.90%) REST
10 17 (5.57%) Node.js
11 13 (4.26%) Spring
11 13 (4.26%) Spring Boot
12 9 (2.95%) Apache NiFi
13 8 (2.62%) React
14 7 (2.30%) RESTful
15 6 (1.97%) gRPC
15 6 (1.97%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 63 (20.66%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.85%) Public Cloud
3 23 (7.54%) Clustering
4 20 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (6.23%) e-Learning
6 17 (5.57%) Data Structures
7 16 (5.25%) Product Ownership
8 14 (4.59%) Onboarding
9 12 (3.93%) Algorithms
10 11 (3.61%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.64%) NHS
13 4 (1.31%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.98%) Data Fabric
14 3 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.26%) Linux
2 5 (1.64%) CentOS
2 5 (1.64%) Debian
2 5 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.64%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (62.95%) Analytics
2 187 (61.31%) Data Engineering
3 180 (59.02%) Data Pipeline
4 157 (51.48%) CI/CD
5 129 (42.30%) AI
6 124 (40.66%) Machine Learning
7 123 (40.33%) Data Science
7 123 (40.33%) ETL
8 120 (39.34%) Data Modelling
9 106 (34.75%) Agile
10 98 (32.13%) DevOps
11 87 (28.52%) Data Governance
12 67 (21.97%) Business Intelligence
13 66 (21.64%) Mentoring
14 64 (20.98%) Use Case
15 58 (19.02%) Infrastructure as Code
16 56 (18.36%) Validation
17 54 (17.70%) Generative AI
18 49 (16.07%) Performance Tuning
18 49 (16.07%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 264 (86.56%) Python
2 211 (69.18%) SQL
3 51 (16.72%) Scala
4 45 (14.75%) Java
5 10 (3.28%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.30%) C#
7 6 (1.97%) C
7 6 (1.97%) PHP
7 6 (1.97%) Ruby
8 5 (1.64%) Bash
8 5 (1.64%) Bicep
8 5 (1.64%) VBA
9 4 (1.31%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.66%) R
11 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.33%) C++
12 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 70 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 57 (18.69%) Degree
3 51 (16.72%) SC Cleared
4 26 (8.52%) PhD
5 24 (7.87%) Master's Degree
6 19 (6.23%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.57%) AWS Certification
8 15 (4.92%) DV Cleared
9 12 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.98%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.33%) CEH
13 1 (0.33%) CISM
13 1 (0.33%) CISSP
13 1 (0.33%) OCP
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (36.07%) Data Quality
2 42 (13.77%) GDPR
3 36 (11.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.26%) HIPAA
5 12 (3.93%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.62%) QA
7 3 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.66%) IFRS
8 2 (0.66%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.66%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (19.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (15.41%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.90%) Ansible
3 6 (1.97%) Grafana
3 6 (1.97%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.64%) Argo
4 5 (1.64%) Puppet
5 4 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.98%) Kibana
6 3 (0.98%) Packer
7 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 110 (36.07%) Databricks
2 34 (11.15%) Oracle
3 30 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 30 (9.84%) Red Hat
4 24 (7.87%) Cloudera
4 24 (7.87%) Dell
5 8 (2.62%) Google
6 7 (2.30%) Informatica
6 7 (2.30%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.97%) HP
7 6 (1.97%) IBM
7 6 (1.97%) SAP
8 5 (1.64%) SaltStack
8 5 (1.64%) Splunk
9 4 (1.31%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.98%) LexisNexis
10 3 (0.98%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (0.98%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.66%) Talend
12 1 (0.33%) Palantir