Apache Spark Job Trends

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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 387 279
Rank change year-on-year -81 -108 -23
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 210 301 859
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.69% 1.03%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.85% 6.99% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 94 207 270
10th Percentile £54,875 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £72,875 £56,250 £61,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £131,875 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £69,724
% change year-on-year +30.43% -17.53% +7.27%

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 3,592 4,308 8,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.92% 9.82% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,397 2,816 6,686
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,625 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,250 £102,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -10.53%

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 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Top 15 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 11 March 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 -98 191 £85,000 -8.11% 92
London -25 135 £95,000 -13.64% 36
UK excluding London -65 55 £75,000 +30.43% 54
Work from Home -94 54 £83,000 -24.55% 48
North of England -31 23 £65,000 +18.18% 18
Yorkshire -31 14 £65,000 +13.04% 10
East of England +8 13 - - 2
South West -14 9 £80,000 - 11
North West -16 8 £95,000 +72.73% 6
Scotland -19 4 £90,000 -5.26% 2
South East -50 4 £65,000 +13.04% 16
West Midlands -7 1 - - 2
Wales -9 1 £95,000 +48.44% 3
North East -17 1 - - 2
Midlands -25 1 - - 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 90 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
2 75 (35.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.48%) Camunda
3 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 141 (67.14%) AWS
2 94 (44.76%) Azure
3 79 (37.62%) GCP
4 47 (22.38%) Amazon S3
5 37 (17.62%) OpenShift
6 34 (16.19%) dbt
7 33 (15.71%) Snowflake
8 31 (14.76%) Serverless
9 29 (13.81%) Power Platform
10 28 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (8.57%) Dagster
13 17 (8.10%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
15 13 (6.19%) Amazon EMR
16 11 (5.24%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (4.29%) Amazon SageMaker
17 9 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (4.29%) Vertex AI
18 8 (3.81%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.33%) Broadband
2 5 (2.38%) AMQP
2 5 (2.38%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.48%) 4G
3 1 (0.48%) 5G
3 1 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.48%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (32.86%) Big Data
2 67 (31.90%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (26.67%) Tableau
4 46 (21.90%) Hadoop
5 42 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 41 (19.52%) Data Lake
7 36 (17.14%) Apache Hive
8 32 (15.24%) BigQuery
9 29 (13.81%) Power BI
10 28 (13.33%) Spark SQL
11 26 (12.38%) Parquet
12 25 (11.90%) Impala
12 25 (11.90%) Oracle Database
13 22 (10.48%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (9.05%) Apache Iceberg
14 19 (9.05%) Delta Lake
15 18 (8.57%) Looker
16 16 (7.62%) MySQL
16 16 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (7.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (20.00%) Git
2 25 (11.90%) IBM UrbanCode
3 22 (10.48%) MLflow
4 7 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.86%) GitLab
6 2 (0.95%) Deequ
7 1 (0.48%) JUnit
General
1 83 (39.52%) Finance
2 79 (37.62%) Social Skills
3 59 (28.10%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (16.67%) Banking
5 25 (11.90%) Investment Banking
6 13 (6.19%) Law
6 13 (6.19%) Legal
7 9 (4.29%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.81%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.90%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.95%) Advertising
10 2 (0.95%) Front Office
10 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.95%) Marketing
10 2 (0.95%) Retail
10 2 (0.95%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.48%) Electronics
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 80 (38.10%) Data Engineer
2 64 (30.48%) Senior
3 29 (13.81%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (12.38%) Analyst
4 26 (12.38%) Developer
5 23 (10.95%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.48%) Banking Analyst
7 19 (9.05%) Python Developer
8 16 (7.62%) AWS Data Engineer
8 16 (7.62%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (6.19%) Architect
9 13 (6.19%) Business Analyst
10 12 (5.71%) Data Business Analyst
10 12 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
11 11 (5.24%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 11 (5.24%) Software Engineer
12 10 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (4.29%) Data Consultant
13 9 (4.29%) Senior Consultant
13 9 (4.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (40.95%) Kafka
2 50 (23.81%) PySpark
3 29 (13.81%) PyTorch
3 29 (13.81%) TensorFlow
4 27 (12.86%) Pandas
5 25 (11.90%) REST
6 15 (7.14%) scikit-learn
7 13 (6.19%) Spring
8 12 (5.71%) Spring Boot
9 11 (5.24%) LangChain
10 9 (4.29%) Faiss
10 9 (4.29%) NumPy
10 9 (4.29%) vLLM
11 8 (3.81%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (3.81%) Node.js
11 8 (3.81%) OAuth
11 8 (3.81%) pgvector
12 7 (3.33%) React
13 6 (2.86%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.86%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.71%) Cloud Native
2 30 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.10%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.24%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (3.81%) Clustering
6 8 (3.81%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.81%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.33%) e-Learning
7 7 (3.33%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.86%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.86%) Social Media
9 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.95%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.62%) Linux
2 8 (3.81%) Unix
3 5 (2.38%) CentOS
3 5 (2.38%) Debian
3 5 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (64.29%) Data Pipeline
2 117 (55.71%) Analytics
3 116 (55.24%) Data Engineering
4 102 (48.57%) CI/CD
5 99 (47.14%) ETL
6 91 (43.33%) AI
7 83 (39.52%) Data Governance
8 76 (36.19%) Data Science
9 74 (35.24%) Machine Learning
10 70 (33.33%) Data Modelling
11 66 (31.43%) Agile
12 55 (26.19%) Computer Science
13 54 (25.71%) Business Intelligence
14 49 (23.33%) Software Engineering
15 41 (19.52%) DevOps
16 40 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
17 36 (17.14%) Data Transformation
17 36 (17.14%) Roadmaps
17 36 (17.14%) Scrum
18 32 (15.24%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 196 (93.33%) Python
2 152 (72.38%) SQL
3 64 (30.48%) Java
4 39 (18.57%) Scala
5 10 (4.76%) Bash
6 9 (4.29%) Go
7 8 (3.81%) C++
8 7 (3.33%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.86%) R
10 3 (1.43%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.48%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.48%) Bicep
12 1 (0.48%) C#
12 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.48%) Ruby
12 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (20.48%) Degree
2 18 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.76%) PhD
5 9 (4.29%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.81%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.38%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.48%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (38.57%) Data Quality
2 25 (11.90%) GDPR
3 20 (9.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.71%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.43%) QA
7 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (19.52%) Docker
2 6 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.90%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (18.57%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.86%) Terraform
3 16 (7.62%) Ansible
4 11 (5.24%) Grafana
4 11 (5.24%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.38%) Puppet
6 3 (1.43%) Kibana
6 3 (1.43%) logstash
7 1 (0.48%) Argo
Vendors
1 62 (29.52%) Databricks
2 37 (17.62%) Oracle
3 32 (15.24%) Red Hat
4 16 (7.62%) Dell
5 14 (6.67%) Palantir
6 12 (5.71%) Microsoft
7 10 (4.76%) Google
8 8 (3.81%) Cloudera
8 8 (3.81%) Informatica
9 7 (3.33%) Talend
10 5 (2.38%) SaltStack
11 4 (1.90%) IBM
12 2 (0.95%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.48%) Automation Anywhere
13 1 (0.48%) Foundry
13 1 (0.48%) Pega
13 1 (0.48%) SAP
13 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.48%) UiPath