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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 370 273
Rank change year-on-year -118 -97 -27
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 221 307 1,031
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.73% 1.08%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.02% 7.48% 10.15%
Number of salaries quoted 95 208 285
10th Percentile £54,650 £52,275 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,865 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.58% +3.58% -8.57%
75th Percentile £131,250 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £117,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +23.08% -6.40% +0.91%

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 3,674 4,106 10,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.13% 9.77% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,568 2,901 7,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £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 £72,500 £77,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -122 200 £85,000 +2.13% 83
London -56 136 £95,000 -13.64% 41
UK excluding London -114 63 £80,000 +23.08% 58
Work from Home -108 55 £84,000 -23.64% 78
North of England -64 22 £72,500 +26.09% 17
East of England -18 18 £75,000 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire -52 13 £62,500 +8.70% 1
South West -34 11 £82,000 +64.00% 13
North West -33 8 £95,000 +58.33% 7
Scotland -25 5 £102,500 +2.50% 3
South East -71 4 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Midlands -54 2 £50,000 -21.88% 4
Wales -30 1 £95,000 +48.44%
West Midlands -34 1 - - 3
North East -45 1 £80,000 - 9
East Midlands -65 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
1 106 (47.96%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (35.29%) Apache
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.45%) Camunda
4 1 (0.45%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 150 (67.87%) AWS
2 110 (49.77%) Azure
3 96 (43.44%) GCP
4 51 (23.08%) Power Platform
5 48 (21.72%) Amazon S3
6 46 (20.81%) Snowflake
7 45 (20.36%) dbt
8 40 (18.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 33 (14.93%) OpenShift
10 29 (13.12%) Serverless
11 25 (11.31%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (9.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (7.69%) Dagster
14 15 (6.79%) Azure Machine Learning
15 11 (4.98%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (4.98%) Amazon Kinesis
16 10 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (4.52%) GitHub
17 9 (4.07%) Amazon SageMaker
17 9 (4.07%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.17%) Broadband
2 5 (2.26%) AMQP
3 2 (0.90%) 4G
3 2 (0.90%) 5G
3 2 (0.90%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.45%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (33.94%) Tableau
2 73 (33.03%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (29.41%) Big Data
4 50 (22.62%) Amazon Redshift
4 50 (22.62%) Data Lake
4 50 (22.62%) Power BI
5 46 (20.81%) BigQuery
6 44 (19.91%) Elasticsearch
7 34 (15.38%) Hadoop
8 33 (14.93%) Looker
9 30 (13.57%) Apache Hive
9 30 (13.57%) Spark SQL
10 28 (12.67%) Snowflake Schema
11 26 (11.76%) Parquet
12 25 (11.31%) Impala
12 25 (11.31%) Oracle Database
13 22 (9.95%) Delta Lake
14 21 (9.50%) Relational Database
15 20 (9.05%) MySQL
16 18 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (18.55%) Git
2 37 (16.74%) MLflow
3 25 (11.31%) IBM UrbanCode
4 9 (4.07%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.71%) GitLab
6 2 (0.90%) JIRA
7 1 (0.45%) Deequ
7 1 (0.45%) JUnit
General
1 82 (37.10%) Finance
2 72 (32.58%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (29.41%) Social Skills
4 33 (14.93%) Banking
5 24 (10.86%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.33%) Law
7 13 (5.88%) Legal
8 7 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.81%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.81%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.90%) Advertising
10 2 (0.90%) Billing
10 2 (0.90%) Retail
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Marketing
11 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 74 (33.48%) Data Engineer
2 72 (32.58%) Senior
3 26 (11.76%) Analyst
4 24 (10.86%) Senior Data Engineer
4 24 (10.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.41%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.41%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (9.95%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (9.95%) Developer
7 18 (8.14%) Python Developer
7 18 (8.14%) Python Engineer
8 17 (7.69%) Lead
9 16 (7.24%) Architect
10 13 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
10 13 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (5.88%) Business Analyst
10 13 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
11 12 (5.43%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (5.43%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (4.98%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (47.06%) Kafka
2 54 (24.43%) PySpark
3 41 (18.55%) PyTorch
3 41 (18.55%) TensorFlow
4 28 (12.67%) scikit-learn
5 26 (11.76%) REST
6 24 (10.86%) LangChain
7 23 (10.41%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (10.41%) Pandas
7 23 (10.41%) pgvector
8 14 (6.33%) Spring
9 13 (5.88%) Spring Boot
10 10 (4.52%) Node.js
11 9 (4.07%) Faiss
11 9 (4.07%) vLLM
12 7 (3.17%) NumPy
12 7 (3.17%) React
13 6 (2.71%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.71%) OAuth
13 6 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.55%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.41%) Clustering
2 23 (10.41%) Public Cloud
3 18 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.52%) Algorithms
6 8 (3.62%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (3.17%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.71%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.71%) Social Media
9 5 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.26%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.81%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.36%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.36%) NHS
11 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.90%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.07%) Linux
2 5 (2.26%) CentOS
2 5 (2.26%) Debian
2 5 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.26%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (66.52%) Data Pipeline
2 132 (59.73%) Data Engineering
3 131 (59.28%) Analytics
4 110 (49.77%) ETL
5 106 (47.96%) AI
6 101 (45.70%) CI/CD
7 91 (41.18%) Data Governance
8 90 (40.72%) Machine Learning
9 88 (39.82%) Data Science
10 86 (38.91%) Data Modelling
11 69 (31.22%) Business Intelligence
12 66 (29.86%) Agile
13 55 (24.89%) Computer Science
14 50 (22.62%) Generative AI
15 47 (21.27%) Software Engineering
16 46 (20.81%) Use Case
17 44 (19.91%) DevOps
18 42 (19.00%) Performance Tuning
19 40 (18.10%) Feature Engineering
20 36 (16.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 205 (92.76%) Python
2 165 (74.66%) SQL
3 52 (23.53%) Java
4 42 (19.00%) Scala
5 10 (4.52%) Bash
6 9 (4.07%) Go
7 8 (3.62%) C++
8 6 (2.71%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.71%) R
9 4 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.36%) Bicep
10 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.45%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.45%) Ruby
11 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (17.19%) Degree
2 24 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (7.24%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.07%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.07%) PhD
6 8 (3.62%) Master's Degree
7 7 (3.17%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.71%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.45%) CEH
11 1 (0.45%) CISM
11 1 (0.45%) CISSP
11 1 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (38.91%) Data Quality
2 38 (17.19%) GDPR
3 35 (15.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.43%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) IFRS
6 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.45%) QA
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 37 (16.74%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (14.93%) Kubernetes
2 32 (14.48%) Terraform
3 15 (6.79%) Ansible
4 8 (3.62%) Grafana
5 7 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.26%) Puppet
7 2 (0.90%) Packer
8 1 (0.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 82 (37.10%) Databricks
2 34 (15.38%) Oracle
3 32 (14.48%) Red Hat
4 25 (11.31%) Dell
5 24 (10.86%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.33%) Palantir
7 13 (5.88%) Microsoft
8 10 (4.52%) Google
9 7 (3.17%) Informatica
10 6 (2.71%) Talend
11 5 (2.26%) SaltStack
12 3 (1.36%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.45%) Automation Anywhere
13 1 (0.45%) Cognizant
13 1 (0.45%) Confluent
13 1 (0.45%) IBM
13 1 (0.45%) Mapbox
13 1 (0.45%) Pega
13 1 (0.45%) Refinitiv
13 1 (0.45%) UiPath