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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 425 386
Rank change year-on-year -90 -39 -34
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 284 264 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.53% 0.61%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.28% 6.15% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 136 118 202
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,415 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,844 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% -10.63% -2.29%
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £109,125 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,250 £64,849
% change year-on-year -4.56% -7.09% -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 4,522 4,293 7,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.13% 8.58% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,190 2,910 5,002
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,531 £35,387 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,793
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.18% -0.96%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,828
% change year-on-year - -1.81% -3.52%

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 27 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 27 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 -59 265 £80,000 +11.89% 220
London -19 166 £95,000 +11.76% 156
UK excluding London -129 100 £57,500 -4.56% 101
Work from Home -53 58 £66,805 +0.84% 86
North of England -29 49 £55,000 -4.35% 29
South West -50 27 £55,000 +10.00% 22
North East -42 23 £55,000 +15.79% 12
North West -5 16 £55,000 - 15
Yorkshire -44 10 £80,000 +39.13% 2
East of England -27 7 £75,000 +4.90% 7
Scotland -14 6 £115,000 - 25
South East -51 6 £62,500 -5.66% 10
Midlands -43 3 £58,403 -8.75% 4
West Midlands -38 2 £66,805 +10.42% 2
Wales -65 2 £80,000 +27.87%
East Midlands -29 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2

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 (42.25%) Apache
2 72 (25.35%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.69%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.76%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.06%) SAS
6 2 (0.70%) Luigi
6 2 (0.70%) Tornado
7 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 177 (62.32%) AWS
2 153 (53.87%) Azure
3 96 (33.80%) GCP
4 54 (19.01%) Power Platform
5 49 (17.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 41 (14.44%) Amazon S3
7 38 (13.38%) Serverless
8 36 (12.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 36 (12.68%) Snowflake
9 31 (10.92%) dbt
10 24 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (8.10%) Amazon EMR
12 21 (7.39%) Amazon Kinesis
12 21 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (5.99%) GitHub
14 16 (5.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 15 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (4.93%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.11%) BGP
1 6 (2.11%) DNS
1 6 (2.11%) IPsec
1 6 (2.11%) VPN
2 5 (1.76%) AMQP
2 5 (1.76%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) 4G
3 1 (0.35%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (33.10%) Big Data
2 75 (26.41%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (24.30%) Data Lake
4 57 (20.07%) Elasticsearch
5 56 (19.72%) Hadoop
6 55 (19.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 53 (18.66%) Power BI
8 44 (15.49%) NoSQL
8 44 (15.49%) Tableau
9 27 (9.51%) Delta Lake
9 27 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (9.15%) BigQuery
11 24 (8.45%) Looker
11 24 (8.45%) Relational Database
12 23 (8.10%) Metadata
12 23 (8.10%) Snowflake Schema
13 19 (6.69%) Flink
14 16 (5.63%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (5.63%) Apache Hive
15 13 (4.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (12.32%) Git
2 30 (10.56%) MLflow
3 22 (7.75%) GitLab
4 17 (5.99%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.41%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.70%) JIRA
6 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.35%) ERwin
General
1 111 (39.08%) Finance
2 70 (24.65%) Social Skills
3 56 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.92%) Banking
5 22 (7.75%) Public Sector
6 21 (7.39%) Financial Institution
6 21 (7.39%) Law
7 19 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.58%) Marketing
9 11 (3.87%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.52%) Military
11 8 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.46%) Games
12 7 (2.46%) Legal
13 6 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.11%) Retail
14 4 (1.41%) Investment Banking
15 3 (1.06%) Front Office
16 2 (0.70%) Local Government
16 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 128 (45.07%) Data Engineer
2 97 (34.15%) Senior
3 48 (16.90%) Lead
4 34 (11.97%) Data Scientist
5 31 (10.92%) Senior Data Engineer
6 29 (10.21%) Senior Data Scientist
7 28 (9.86%) Lead Data Engineer
8 23 (8.10%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 23 (8.10%) Systems Engineer
9 20 (7.04%) Python Engineer
10 18 (6.34%) Architect
11 14 (4.93%) Developer
12 13 (4.58%) Data Architect
12 13 (4.58%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.52%) Python Developer
15 9 (3.17%) Consultant
15 9 (3.17%) Python Data Engineer
16 8 (2.82%) AWS Consultant
16 8 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (44.01%) Kafka
2 57 (20.07%) PySpark
3 53 (18.66%) Terraform
4 25 (8.80%) PyTorch
4 25 (8.80%) scikit-learn
5 24 (8.45%) LangChain
5 24 (8.45%) pgvector
5 24 (8.45%) TensorFlow
6 23 (8.10%) LlamaIndex
7 20 (7.04%) SpaCy
8 17 (5.99%) Node.js
8 17 (5.99%) REST
9 12 (4.23%) Pandas
9 12 (4.23%) Spring
9 12 (4.23%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.17%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (2.82%) React
11 8 (2.82%) RESTful
12 6 (2.11%) gRPC
12 6 (2.11%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 63 (22.18%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.51%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.10%) Clustering
4 20 (7.04%) e-Learning
5 19 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (5.99%) Data Structures
6 17 (5.99%) Product Ownership
7 14 (4.93%) Onboarding
8 12 (4.23%) Algorithms
9 11 (3.87%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (2.46%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.76%) NHS
12 4 (1.41%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.06%) Data Fabric
13 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.23%) Linux
2 5 (1.76%) CentOS
2 5 (1.76%) Debian
2 5 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (61.97%) Data Engineering
2 173 (60.92%) Analytics
3 158 (55.63%) Data Pipeline
4 138 (48.59%) CI/CD
5 124 (43.66%) Data Science
5 124 (43.66%) Machine Learning
6 120 (42.25%) Data Modelling
7 107 (37.68%) AI
8 103 (36.27%) ETL
9 100 (35.21%) DevOps
10 84 (29.58%) Agile
11 67 (23.59%) Business Intelligence
11 67 (23.59%) Data Governance
11 67 (23.59%) Mentoring
12 65 (22.89%) Use Case
13 57 (20.07%) Infrastructure as Code
14 54 (19.01%) Generative AI
15 47 (16.55%) Software Engineering
16 46 (16.20%) Data Ingestion
17 45 (15.85%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 242 (85.21%) Python
2 190 (66.90%) SQL
3 52 (18.31%) Scala
4 43 (15.14%) Java
5 10 (3.52%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.46%) C#
7 6 (2.11%) C
7 6 (2.11%) PHP
7 6 (2.11%) Ruby
8 5 (1.76%) Bash
8 5 (1.76%) Bicep
8 5 (1.76%) VBA
9 4 (1.41%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.70%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.70%) R
11 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.35%) C++
12 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 70 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 58 (20.42%) Degree
3 51 (17.96%) SC Cleared
4 27 (9.51%) PhD
5 25 (8.80%) Master's Degree
6 19 (6.69%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.99%) AWS Certification
8 15 (5.28%) DV Cleared
9 12 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.35%) CEH
13 1 (0.35%) CISM
13 1 (0.35%) CISSP
13 1 (0.35%) OCP
13 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (31.34%) Data Quality
2 32 (11.27%) GDPR
3 26 (9.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.23%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.82%) QA
6 3 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (20.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.99%) Ansible
3 6 (2.11%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.76%) Argo
4 5 (1.76%) Grafana
4 5 (1.76%) Puppet
5 3 (1.06%) Kibana
5 3 (1.06%) Packer
5 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 109 (38.38%) Databricks
2 31 (10.92%) Microsoft
3 24 (8.45%) Cloudera
4 23 (8.10%) Dell
5 14 (4.93%) Oracle
6 10 (3.52%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.82%) Google
8 7 (2.46%) Informatica
8 7 (2.46%) OpenAI
9 6 (2.11%) HP
9 6 (2.11%) IBM
9 6 (2.11%) SAP
10 5 (1.76%) SaltStack
10 5 (1.76%) Splunk
11 4 (1.41%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.06%) LexisNexis
12 3 (1.06%) PeopleSoft
12 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.70%) Talend
14 1 (0.35%) Trend Micro