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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 367 275
Rank change year-on-year -135 -92 -28
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 220 310 1,019
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.74% 1.07%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.93% 7.52% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 91 210 285
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,425 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -8.57%
75th Percentile £136,250 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
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 3,707 4,124 10,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.21% 9.83% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,596 2,922 7,075
10th Percentile £28,000 £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 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £110,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +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 23 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 23 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 -107 200 £85,000 +3.03% 92
London -46 136 £95,000 -13.64% 55
UK excluding London -106 63 £80,000 +23.08% 56
Work from Home -105 55 £82,500 -25.00% 48
North of England -66 22 £65,000 +13.04% 16
East of England -22 18 £75,000 -7.69% 2
Yorkshire -48 12 £60,000 +4.35% 1
South West -38 11 £82,000 +64.00% 10
North West -34 8 £95,000 +58.33% 9
Scotland -26 5 £102,500 +2.50% 2
South East -72 4 £57,500 -11.54% 17
North East -44 2 £80,000 - 6
Midlands -48 2 £50,000 -21.88% 5
Wales -23 1 £95,000 +48.44%
West Midlands -29 1 - - 4
East Midlands -56 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 (48.18%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (35.45%) Apache
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.45%) Camunda
3 1 (0.45%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.91%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 149 (67.73%) AWS
2 109 (49.55%) Azure
3 95 (43.18%) GCP
4 50 (22.73%) Power Platform
5 47 (21.36%) Amazon S3
6 46 (20.91%) Snowflake
7 45 (20.45%) dbt
8 40 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 33 (15.00%) OpenShift
10 29 (13.18%) Serverless
11 25 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (8.18%) Dagster
14 15 (6.82%) Azure Machine Learning
15 12 (5.45%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
16 11 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (4.55%) GitHub
18 9 (4.09%) Amazon SageMaker
18 9 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.18%) Broadband
2 5 (2.27%) AMQP
3 2 (0.91%) 4G
3 2 (0.91%) 5G
3 2 (0.91%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.45%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (34.09%) Data Warehouse
1 75 (34.09%) Tableau
2 67 (30.45%) Big Data
3 51 (23.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 50 (22.73%) Data Lake
5 49 (22.27%) Power BI
6 46 (20.91%) BigQuery
7 42 (19.09%) Elasticsearch
8 35 (15.91%) Hadoop
9 33 (15.00%) Looker
10 31 (14.09%) Apache Hive
11 30 (13.64%) Spark SQL
12 28 (12.73%) Snowflake Schema
13 26 (11.82%) Parquet
14 25 (11.36%) Impala
14 25 (11.36%) Oracle Database
15 22 (10.00%) Delta Lake
16 21 (9.55%) Relational Database
17 20 (9.09%) MySQL
18 17 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (19.09%) Git
2 37 (16.82%) MLflow
3 25 (11.36%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.73%) GitLab
6 2 (0.91%) JIRA
7 1 (0.45%) Deequ
7 1 (0.45%) JUnit
General
1 83 (37.73%) Finance
2 73 (33.18%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 33 (15.00%) Banking
5 24 (10.91%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.36%) Law
7 13 (5.91%) Legal
8 7 (3.18%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.27%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.82%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.91%) Advertising
11 2 (0.91%) Billing
11 2 (0.91%) Retail
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Marketing
12 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 74 (33.64%) Data Engineer
2 73 (33.18%) Senior
3 26 (11.82%) Analyst
4 25 (11.36%) Senior Data Engineer
5 24 (10.91%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.45%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.45%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (10.00%) Developer
8 18 (8.18%) Python Developer
8 18 (8.18%) Python Engineer
9 16 (7.27%) Architect
10 14 (6.36%) AWS Data Engineer
10 14 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (6.36%) Lead
11 13 (5.91%) Business Analyst
12 12 (5.45%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.45%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (5.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 11 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (47.27%) Kafka
2 53 (24.09%) PySpark
3 41 (18.64%) PyTorch
3 41 (18.64%) TensorFlow
4 28 (12.73%) scikit-learn
5 26 (11.82%) REST
6 24 (10.91%) LangChain
6 24 (10.91%) Pandas
7 23 (10.45%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (10.45%) pgvector
8 13 (5.91%) Spring
9 12 (5.45%) Spring Boot
10 10 (4.55%) Node.js
11 9 (4.09%) Faiss
11 9 (4.09%) vLLM
12 8 (3.64%) NumPy
13 7 (3.18%) React
14 6 (2.73%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.73%) OAuth
14 6 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.45%) Clustering
2 23 (10.45%) Public Cloud
3 19 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (7.73%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.55%) Algorithms
6 9 (4.09%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (3.18%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.73%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.73%) Social Media
9 5 (2.27%) e-Learning
9 5 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
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 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.09%) Linux
2 5 (2.27%) CentOS
2 5 (2.27%) Debian
2 5 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.27%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (65.91%) Data Pipeline
2 131 (59.55%) Analytics
2 131 (59.55%) Data Engineering
3 111 (50.45%) ETL
4 105 (47.73%) AI
5 101 (45.91%) CI/CD
6 92 (41.82%) Data Governance
7 89 (40.45%) Machine Learning
8 88 (40.00%) Data Science
9 85 (38.64%) Data Modelling
10 69 (31.36%) Business Intelligence
11 66 (30.00%) Agile
12 56 (25.45%) Computer Science
13 50 (22.73%) Generative AI
14 47 (21.36%) Software Engineering
15 46 (20.91%) Use Case
16 44 (20.00%) DevOps
17 42 (19.09%) Performance Tuning
18 40 (18.18%) Feature Engineering
19 36 (16.36%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 204 (92.73%) Python
2 165 (75.00%) SQL
3 52 (23.64%) Java
4 43 (19.55%) Scala
5 10 (4.55%) Bash
6 9 (4.09%) Go
7 8 (3.64%) C++
8 6 (2.73%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.73%) R
9 3 (1.36%) Bicep
9 3 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.45%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.45%) Ruby
10 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (17.73%) Degree
2 23 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.09%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.09%) Master's Degree
5 9 (4.09%) PhD
6 7 (3.18%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.73%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.45%) CEH
10 1 (0.45%) CISM
10 1 (0.45%) CISSP
10 1 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (38.18%) Data Quality
2 39 (17.73%) GDPR
3 35 (15.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.45%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.82%) 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 38 (17.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (15.45%) Kubernetes
2 31 (14.09%) Terraform
3 14 (6.36%) Ansible
4 8 (3.64%) Grafana
5 7 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.27%) Puppet
7 1 (0.45%) Argo
7 1 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 81 (36.82%) Databricks
2 34 (15.45%) Oracle
3 32 (14.55%) Red Hat
4 25 (11.36%) Dell
5 24 (10.91%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.36%) Palantir
7 13 (5.91%) Microsoft
8 10 (4.55%) Google
9 7 (3.18%) Informatica
10 6 (2.73%) Talend
11 5 (2.27%) 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