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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 405 354
Rank change year-on-year -102 -51 -23
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 278 297 687
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.60% 0.73%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.40% 6.73% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 133 150 222
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £102,688 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £118,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,805 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.78% +4.00% -13.79%

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 4,344 4,412 8,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.34% 8.97% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,143 2,937 6,261
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.91% -8.43%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £115,000
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 21 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 21 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 -36 261 £82,500 +3.13% 107
London +2 169 £100,000 +8.11% 77
UK excluding London -124 87 £66,805 +2.78% 49
Work from Home -66 57 £66,805 -16.49% 43
North of England -20 39 £57,500 - 12
South West -43 19 £70,000 +27.27% 7
North West 0 16 £55,000 - 5
East of England +1 15 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North East -39 14 £55,000 +15.79% 5
Yorkshire -44 9 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -63 7 £65,000 - 21
Midlands -49 3 £58,403 -13.48% 4
Scotland -15 2 £115,000 +15.00%
West Midlands -25 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
Wales -57 2 £80,000 +27.87% 1
East Midlands -33 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
1 119 (42.81%) Apache
2 101 (36.33%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (5.76%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.80%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.08%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.08%) SAS
6 2 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.68%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 183 (65.83%) AWS
2 133 (47.84%) Azure
3 90 (32.37%) GCP
4 58 (20.86%) Amazon S3
5 50 (17.99%) Power Platform
6 46 (16.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (13.67%) dbt
8 37 (13.31%) Snowflake
9 36 (12.95%) Serverless
10 33 (11.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (10.79%) OpenShift
12 23 (8.27%) Amazon Kinesis
13 22 (7.91%) Amazon EMR
13 22 (7.91%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (5.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 13 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (4.68%) GitHub
16 13 (4.68%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.16%) BGP
1 6 (2.16%) Broadband
1 6 (2.16%) DNS
1 6 (2.16%) IPsec
1 6 (2.16%) VPN
2 5 (1.80%) Internet
3 4 (1.44%) AMQP
4 2 (0.72%) 4G
4 2 (0.72%) 5G
5 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (30.58%) Big Data
2 72 (25.90%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (24.10%) Tableau
4 56 (20.14%) Elasticsearch
5 54 (19.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 54 (19.42%) Data Lake
6 49 (17.63%) Power BI
7 41 (14.75%) Hadoop
8 38 (13.67%) Apache Hive
8 38 (13.67%) NoSQL
9 36 (12.95%) Spark SQL
10 34 (12.23%) BigQuery
11 27 (9.71%) Parquet
12 26 (9.35%) Looker
12 26 (9.35%) Metadata
13 25 (8.99%) Delta Lake
13 25 (8.99%) Impala
13 25 (8.99%) Oracle Database
13 25 (8.99%) Snowflake Schema
14 23 (8.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (16.55%) Git
2 32 (11.51%) MLflow
3 25 (8.99%) IBM UrbanCode
4 17 (6.12%) GitLab
5 13 (4.68%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.72%) JIRA
6 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.36%) Deequ
7 1 (0.36%) JUnit
General
1 110 (39.57%) Finance
2 81 (29.14%) Social Skills
3 69 (24.82%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (16.19%) Banking
5 24 (8.63%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.19%) Law
7 17 (6.12%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.76%) Legal
9 15 (5.40%) Financial Institution
10 9 (3.24%) Military
11 8 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.16%) Marketing
12 6 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.80%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.44%) Games
14 4 (1.44%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.08%) Front Office
15 3 (1.08%) Retail
16 2 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 112 (40.29%) Data Engineer
2 97 (34.89%) Senior
3 36 (12.95%) Lead
4 33 (11.87%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (9.35%) Analyst
6 24 (8.63%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.27%) Lead Data Engineer
7 23 (8.27%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.27%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.27%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (7.91%) Banking Analyst
9 20 (7.19%) Data Scientist
10 19 (6.83%) Architect
11 18 (6.47%) Developer
12 17 (6.12%) Senior Data Scientist
13 13 (4.68%) Business Analyst
13 13 (4.68%) Python Developer
14 12 (4.32%) Consultant
14 12 (4.32%) Data Architect
14 12 (4.32%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (44.60%) Kafka
2 75 (26.98%) PySpark
3 28 (10.07%) PyTorch
3 28 (10.07%) TensorFlow
4 24 (8.63%) LangChain
4 24 (8.63%) scikit-learn
5 23 (8.27%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.27%) pgvector
6 21 (7.55%) Pandas
7 19 (6.83%) REST
8 16 (5.76%) Node.js
9 15 (5.40%) SpaCy
10 14 (5.04%) Spring
10 14 (5.04%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.52%) React
12 6 (2.16%) NumPy
13 5 (1.80%) OAuth
13 5 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (1.80%) RESTful
14 4 (1.44%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.06%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.99%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.27%) Clustering
4 18 (6.47%) Data Structures
5 17 (6.12%) Product Ownership
6 16 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (5.40%) e-Learning
8 14 (5.04%) Onboarding
9 10 (3.60%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.16%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.16%) Social Media
11 5 (1.80%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.08%) NHS
13 2 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.68%) Linux
2 4 (1.44%) CentOS
2 4 (1.44%) Debian
2 4 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.44%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (62.23%) Analytics
2 171 (61.51%) Data Engineering
3 169 (60.79%) Data Pipeline
4 134 (48.20%) CI/CD
5 118 (42.45%) ETL
6 117 (42.09%) Data Modelling
7 113 (40.65%) AI
8 106 (38.13%) Data Science
9 103 (37.05%) Machine Learning
10 96 (34.53%) Data Governance
11 88 (31.65%) Agile
12 77 (27.70%) DevOps
13 65 (23.38%) Business Intelligence
14 64 (23.02%) Use Case
15 54 (19.42%) Mentoring
16 52 (18.71%) Validation
17 51 (18.35%) Generative AI
18 50 (17.99%) Computer Science
18 50 (17.99%) Performance Tuning
19 45 (16.19%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 243 (87.41%) Python
2 207 (74.46%) SQL
3 55 (19.78%) Scala
4 43 (15.47%) Java
5 9 (3.24%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.52%) Bash
6 7 (2.52%) C#
6 7 (2.52%) C++
7 6 (2.16%) C
7 6 (2.16%) PHP
7 6 (2.16%) Ruby
8 5 (1.80%) Bicep
8 5 (1.80%) VBA
9 4 (1.44%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.08%) Go
10 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.08%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.72%) R
12 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 52 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.63%) Degree
3 39 (14.03%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.55%) PhD
5 19 (6.83%) Master's Degree
6 14 (5.04%) AWS Certification
6 14 (5.04%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.96%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.36%) CEH
11 1 (0.36%) CISM
11 1 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (35.97%) Data Quality
2 39 (14.03%) GDPR
3 35 (12.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.32%) HIPAA
5 8 (2.88%) QA
6 4 (1.44%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.72%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (16.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (16.91%) Terraform
2 38 (13.67%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.68%) Ansible
4 6 (2.16%) Grafana
4 6 (2.16%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.44%) Puppet
7 3 (1.08%) Kibana
7 3 (1.08%) Packer
Vendors
1 99 (35.61%) Databricks
2 32 (11.51%) Oracle
3 30 (10.79%) Red Hat
4 24 (8.63%) Cloudera
4 24 (8.63%) Dell
5 22 (7.91%) Microsoft
6 8 (2.88%) Google
6 8 (2.88%) Informatica
7 7 (2.52%) IBM
8 6 (2.16%) HP
8 6 (2.16%) SAP
9 5 (1.80%) Palantir
10 4 (1.44%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.08%) Talend
12 2 (0.72%) Foundry
13 1 (0.36%) Cognizant
13 1 (0.36%) Pega
13 1 (0.36%) Splunk
13 1 (0.36%) Trend Micro