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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 433 359
Rank change year-on-year -59 -74 -19
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 303 285 615
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.57% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.77% 6.39% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 141 141 202
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £62,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year -6.00% -1.57% -15.33%

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 4,475 4,460 7,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.32% 8.97% 9.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,205 2,980 5,306
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,844 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +2.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £81,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £122,500
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 3 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 3 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 -31 284 £82,500 +10.00% 173
London -8 179 £95,000 +5.56% 123
UK excluding London -127 102 £58,750 -6.00% 68
Work from Home -42 62 £66,805 -10.93% 88
North of England -26 46 £55,000 -4.35% 17
South West -49 24 £67,500 +22.73% 9
North East -40 20 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North West +6 16 £55,000 -10.20% 1
East of England -13 15 £75,000 +4.90% 2
Yorkshire -45 10 £80,000 +39.13% 7
South East -46 8 £62,500 -3.85% 25
Scotland -18 4 £115,000 +15.00% 2
Midlands -44 3 £58,403 -13.48% 7
West Midlands -36 2 £66,805 +10.42% 4
Wales -59 2 £80,000 +27.87% 2
East Midlands -31 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
1 133 (43.89%) Apache
2 106 (34.98%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (5.94%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.65%) Apache Pig
5 3 (0.99%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.99%) SAS
6 2 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.33%) Luigi
7 1 (0.33%) Tornado
Applications
1 13 (4.29%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 195 (64.36%) AWS
2 142 (46.86%) Azure
3 96 (31.68%) GCP
4 61 (20.13%) Amazon S3
5 52 (17.16%) Power Platform
6 47 (15.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 42 (13.86%) dbt
8 40 (13.20%) Snowflake
9 37 (12.21%) Serverless
10 34 (11.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (9.90%) OpenShift
12 23 (7.59%) Amazon EMR
12 23 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (7.26%) Amazon Kinesis
14 19 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (5.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 16 (5.28%) GitHub
16 14 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.98%) BGP
1 6 (1.98%) Broadband
1 6 (1.98%) DNS
1 6 (1.98%) IPsec
1 6 (1.98%) VPN
2 5 (1.65%) Internet
3 4 (1.32%) AMQP
4 2 (0.66%) 4G
4 2 (0.66%) 5G
5 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (30.36%) Big Data
2 75 (24.75%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (21.12%) Tableau
4 61 (20.13%) Data Lake
5 57 (18.81%) Elasticsearch
6 54 (17.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 51 (16.83%) Power BI
8 49 (16.17%) Hadoop
9 42 (13.86%) NoSQL
10 38 (12.54%) Apache Hive
11 36 (11.88%) Spark SQL
12 34 (11.22%) BigQuery
13 29 (9.57%) Relational Database
14 28 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
15 27 (8.91%) Metadata
15 27 (8.91%) Parquet
16 26 (8.58%) Delta Lake
17 25 (8.25%) Impala
17 25 (8.25%) Oracle Database
18 24 (7.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (17.49%) Git
2 30 (9.90%) MLflow
3 25 (8.25%) IBM UrbanCode
4 20 (6.60%) GitLab
5 16 (5.28%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.66%) JIRA
6 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 126 (41.58%) Finance
2 80 (26.40%) Social Skills
3 70 (23.10%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (15.51%) Banking
5 25 (8.25%) Law
6 24 (7.92%) Investment Banking
7 19 (6.27%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.28%) Financial Institution
8 16 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (5.28%) Legal
9 10 (3.30%) Marketing
10 9 (2.97%) Military
11 8 (2.64%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.98%) Games
12 6 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.65%) Retail
14 3 (0.99%) Front Office
14 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.66%) Billing
Job Titles
1 132 (43.56%) Data Engineer
2 102 (33.66%) Senior
3 43 (14.19%) Lead
4 38 (12.54%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (8.58%) Analyst
5 26 (8.58%) Data Scientist
5 26 (8.58%) Lead Data Engineer
6 24 (7.92%) Python Engineer
6 24 (7.92%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (7.59%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (7.59%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (7.26%) Banking Analyst
9 21 (6.93%) Senior Data Scientist
10 17 (5.61%) Architect
11 16 (5.28%) Developer
12 13 (4.29%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.96%) Data Architect
13 12 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.96%) Python Developer
13 12 (3.96%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (44.55%) Kafka
2 76 (25.08%) PySpark
3 26 (8.58%) PyTorch
4 25 (8.25%) TensorFlow
5 24 (7.92%) Pandas
5 24 (7.92%) pgvector
5 24 (7.92%) scikit-learn
6 23 (7.59%) LangChain
6 23 (7.59%) LlamaIndex
7 20 (6.60%) REST
8 16 (5.28%) Node.js
8 16 (5.28%) SpaCy
9 15 (4.95%) Spring
9 15 (4.95%) Spring Boot
10 8 (2.64%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (2.31%) NumPy
11 7 (2.31%) React
12 5 (1.65%) gRPC
12 5 (1.65%) OAuth
12 5 (1.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.48%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.58%) Public Cloud
3 23 (7.59%) Clustering
4 22 (7.26%) Data Structures
5 17 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (5.28%) e-Learning
7 15 (4.95%) Product Ownership
8 14 (4.62%) Onboarding
9 12 (3.96%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (3.30%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.98%) Anti-Piracy
11 6 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.98%) Social Media
12 5 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.32%) NHS
14 3 (0.99%) Data Fabric
14 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
15 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.96%) Linux
2 4 (1.32%) CentOS
2 4 (1.32%) Debian
2 4 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (63.70%) Analytics
2 186 (61.39%) Data Engineering
3 183 (60.40%) Data Pipeline
4 151 (49.83%) CI/CD
5 127 (41.91%) AI
5 127 (41.91%) ETL
6 125 (41.25%) Data Modelling
7 117 (38.61%) Data Science
8 115 (37.95%) Machine Learning
9 102 (33.66%) Agile
10 96 (31.68%) Data Governance
11 87 (28.71%) DevOps
12 65 (21.45%) Business Intelligence
12 65 (21.45%) Use Case
13 60 (19.80%) Mentoring
14 58 (19.14%) Validation
15 54 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
16 52 (17.16%) Generative AI
17 50 (16.50%) Performance Tuning
18 49 (16.17%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 265 (87.46%) Python
2 219 (72.28%) SQL
3 56 (18.48%) Scala
4 49 (16.17%) Java
5 9 (2.97%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.31%) C#
6 7 (2.31%) C++
7 6 (1.98%) C
7 6 (1.98%) PHP
7 6 (1.98%) Ruby
8 5 (1.65%) Bash
8 5 (1.65%) Bicep
8 5 (1.65%) VBA
9 4 (1.32%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.99%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.99%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.66%) R
11 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 63 (20.79%) Security Cleared
2 52 (17.16%) Degree
3 46 (15.18%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.26%) PhD
5 20 (6.60%) Master's Degree
6 16 (5.28%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.95%) AWS Certification
8 14 (4.62%) DV Cleared
9 12 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.99%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.33%) CEH
12 1 (0.33%) CISM
12 1 (0.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (36.30%) Data Quality
2 40 (13.20%) GDPR
3 35 (11.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (3.96%) HIPAA
5 9 (2.97%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.31%) QA
7 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.66%) IFRS
7 2 (0.66%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.66%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (19.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (18.15%) Terraform
2 47 (15.51%) Kubernetes
3 16 (5.28%) Ansible
4 8 (2.64%) Grafana
5 7 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.98%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (1.32%) Puppet
8 3 (0.99%) Argo
8 3 (0.99%) Kibana
8 3 (0.99%) Packer
9 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 105 (34.65%) Databricks
2 34 (11.22%) Oracle
3 29 (9.57%) Red Hat
4 27 (8.91%) Microsoft
5 24 (7.92%) Cloudera
5 24 (7.92%) Dell
6 8 (2.64%) Google
6 8 (2.64%) Informatica
7 6 (1.98%) HP
7 6 (1.98%) IBM
7 6 (1.98%) SAP
8 5 (1.65%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.32%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.99%) Palantir
10 3 (0.99%) Splunk
10 3 (0.99%) Talend
11 2 (0.66%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.66%) LexisNexis
11 2 (0.66%) PeopleSoft
11 2 (0.66%) Salesforce