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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 415 360
Rank change year-on-year -82 -55 -12
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 291 291 636
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.59% 0.72%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.59% 6.57% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 137 147 205
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £101,875 £98,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -14.68%

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 4,415 4,429 8,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.36% 8.96% 9.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,171 2,955 5,778
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £28,944
25th Percentile £35,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -6.25%
75th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.35%

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 July 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 July 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 -51 273 £80,000 +1.59% 112
London +6 172 £95,000 +2.70% 82
UK excluding London -108 96 £62,500 -1.96% 46
Work from Home -61 62 £66,805 -13.80% 40
North of England -21 43 £55,000 -4.35% 14
South West -41 23 £70,000 +27.27% 6
North East -39 17 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North West 0 16 £55,000 -10.20% 3
East of England -3 15 £75,000 +4.90% 2
Yorkshire -41 10 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -51 8 £62,500 -3.85% 18
Midlands -46 3 £58,403 -13.48% 4
Scotland -16 2 £115,000 +15.00%
West Midlands -30 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
Wales -56 2 £80,000 +27.87% 1
East Midlands -38 1 £50,000 -33.33% 3

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
1 125 (42.96%) Apache
2 103 (35.40%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (5.84%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.72%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.03%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.03%) SAS
6 2 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.34%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.47%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 191 (65.64%) AWS
2 139 (47.77%) Azure
3 94 (32.30%) GCP
4 59 (20.27%) Amazon S3
5 51 (17.53%) Power Platform
6 47 (16.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (13.75%) Snowflake
8 38 (13.06%) dbt
9 36 (12.37%) Serverless
10 34 (11.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (10.31%) OpenShift
12 22 (7.56%) Amazon EMR
12 22 (7.56%) Amazon Kinesis
12 22 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (5.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 14 (4.81%) GitHub
16 13 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (4.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.06%) BGP
1 6 (2.06%) Broadband
1 6 (2.06%) DNS
1 6 (2.06%) IPsec
1 6 (2.06%) VPN
2 5 (1.72%) Internet
3 4 (1.37%) AMQP
4 2 (0.69%) 4G
4 2 (0.69%) 5G
5 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (30.93%) Big Data
2 73 (25.09%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (22.68%) Tableau
4 57 (19.59%) Data Lake
5 56 (19.24%) Elasticsearch
6 53 (18.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 50 (17.18%) Power BI
8 46 (15.81%) Hadoop
9 40 (13.75%) NoSQL
10 38 (13.06%) Apache Hive
11 36 (12.37%) Spark SQL
12 34 (11.68%) BigQuery
13 27 (9.28%) Parquet
14 26 (8.93%) Metadata
14 26 (8.93%) Relational Database
15 25 (8.59%) Delta Lake
15 25 (8.59%) Impala
15 25 (8.59%) Looker
15 25 (8.59%) Oracle Database
15 25 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 49 (16.84%) Git
2 31 (10.65%) MLflow
3 25 (8.59%) IBM UrbanCode
4 17 (5.84%) GitLab
5 13 (4.47%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.69%) JIRA
6 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.34%) JUnit
General
1 119 (40.89%) Finance
2 81 (27.84%) Social Skills
3 70 (24.05%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (16.15%) Banking
5 24 (8.25%) Investment Banking
6 22 (7.56%) Law
7 18 (6.19%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.50%) Legal
9 15 (5.15%) Financial Institution
10 12 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (3.09%) Military
12 7 (2.41%) Aerospace
12 7 (2.41%) Marketing
13 6 (2.06%) Games
13 6 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.37%) Retail
14 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.03%) Front Office
16 2 (0.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 122 (41.92%) Data Engineer
2 100 (34.36%) Senior
3 39 (13.40%) Lead
4 36 (12.37%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (8.93%) Analyst
6 25 (8.59%) Lead Data Engineer
7 24 (8.25%) Data Scientist
7 24 (8.25%) Python Engineer
7 24 (8.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 23 (7.90%) Systems Engineer
8 23 (7.90%) Transformation Analyst
9 22 (7.56%) Banking Analyst
10 19 (6.53%) Senior Data Scientist
11 18 (6.19%) Architect
12 17 (5.84%) Developer
13 13 (4.47%) Business Analyst
14 12 (4.12%) Data Architect
14 12 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.12%) Python Developer
14 12 (4.12%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (43.99%) Kafka
2 76 (26.12%) PySpark
3 27 (9.28%) PyTorch
4 26 (8.93%) TensorFlow
5 24 (8.25%) Pandas
5 24 (8.25%) pgvector
5 24 (8.25%) scikit-learn
6 23 (7.90%) LangChain
6 23 (7.90%) LlamaIndex
7 20 (6.87%) REST
8 16 (5.50%) Node.js
9 15 (5.15%) SpaCy
10 14 (4.81%) Spring
10 14 (4.81%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.41%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (2.41%) NumPy
11 7 (2.41%) React
12 5 (1.72%) gRPC
12 5 (1.72%) OAuth
12 5 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.56%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.93%) Public Cloud
3 23 (7.90%) Clustering
4 19 (6.53%) Data Structures
5 17 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (5.50%) Product Ownership
7 15 (5.15%) e-Learning
8 14 (4.81%) Onboarding
9 11 (3.78%) Distributed Computing
10 9 (3.09%) Algorithms
11 6 (2.06%) Anti-Piracy
11 6 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (2.06%) Social Media
12 5 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.37%) NHS
14 3 (1.03%) Data Fabric
14 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
15 2 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.47%) Linux
2 4 (1.37%) CentOS
2 4 (1.37%) Debian
2 4 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (63.23%) Analytics
2 178 (61.17%) Data Engineering
3 176 (60.48%) Data Pipeline
4 141 (48.45%) CI/CD
5 123 (42.27%) AI
6 122 (41.92%) ETL
7 120 (41.24%) Data Modelling
8 115 (39.52%) Data Science
9 113 (38.83%) Machine Learning
10 96 (32.99%) Agile
10 96 (32.99%) Data Governance
11 84 (28.87%) DevOps
12 65 (22.34%) Business Intelligence
12 65 (22.34%) Use Case
13 57 (19.59%) Mentoring
14 55 (18.90%) Validation
15 51 (17.53%) Generative AI
16 50 (17.18%) Computer Science
17 49 (16.84%) Performance Tuning
18 48 (16.49%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 255 (87.63%) Python
2 213 (73.20%) SQL
3 55 (18.90%) Scala
4 46 (15.81%) Java
5 9 (3.09%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.41%) C#
6 7 (2.41%) C++
7 6 (2.06%) Bash
7 6 (2.06%) C
7 6 (2.06%) PHP
7 6 (2.06%) Ruby
8 5 (1.72%) Bicep
8 5 (1.72%) VBA
9 4 (1.37%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.69%) Go
11 2 (0.69%) R
12 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 59 (20.27%) Security Cleared
2 52 (17.87%) Degree
3 44 (15.12%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.22%) PhD
5 20 (6.87%) Master's Degree
6 16 (5.50%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.47%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.47%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.34%) CEH
11 1 (0.34%) CISM
11 1 (0.34%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (36.08%) Data Quality
2 39 (13.40%) GDPR
3 35 (12.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.12%) HIPAA
5 7 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.41%) QA
6 2 (0.69%) IFRS
6 2 (0.69%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.69%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (17.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (17.87%) Terraform
2 42 (14.43%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.81%) Ansible
4 6 (2.06%) Grafana
4 6 (2.06%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.37%) Puppet
7 3 (1.03%) Kibana
7 3 (1.03%) Packer
8 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 104 (35.74%) Databricks
2 33 (11.34%) Oracle
3 30 (10.31%) Red Hat
4 25 (8.59%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.25%) Cloudera
5 24 (8.25%) Dell
6 8 (2.75%) Informatica
7 7 (2.41%) Google
8 6 (2.06%) HP
8 6 (2.06%) IBM
8 6 (2.06%) SAP
9 4 (1.37%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.37%) Palantir
9 4 (1.37%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.03%) Talend
11 2 (0.69%) Foundry
12 1 (0.34%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.34%) Splunk
12 1 (0.34%) UiPath