Apache Spark Job Trends

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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 493 380
Rank change year-on-year +69 -113 -77
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 246 273 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.40% 0.72%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.22% 4.92% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 103 185 269
10th Percentile £50,450 £49,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £111,250 £101,250 £97,290
90th Percentile £140,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £76,250
% change year-on-year +4.35% -24.59% +17.31%

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 3,957 5,545 5,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.47% 8.16% 11.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,680 3,389 4,753
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £118,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 +61 217 £78,000 +0.65% 205
London +47 145 £95,000 - 134
UK excluding London +79 95 £60,000 +4.35% 93
Work from Home -5 40 £75,000 +7.91% 124
North of England +35 32 £60,000 +20.00% 32
Scotland +19 25 - - 9
Yorkshire +21 20 £60,000 +21.77% 8
South East +22 14 £65,000 +13.04% 28
Midlands +64 13 £52,500 -14.29% 7
East Midlands +26 8 £52,500 +5.00% 2
North West +27 6 £54,250 -1.36% 21
North East +12 6 £47,500 -3.60% 3
West Midlands +42 5 £55,000 -21.43% 4
East of England +23 5 £71,500 -37.83% 4
South West +12 5 £55,000 -29.03% 7
Wales +8 2 £50,124 -24.28% 4

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 58 (23.58%) Apache
2 47 (19.11%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.44%) SAS
4 5 (2.03%) Appian
5 4 (1.63%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (1.63%) Apache Synapse
6 3 (1.22%) Luigi
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 13 (5.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 178 (72.36%) AWS
2 126 (51.22%) Azure
3 83 (33.74%) GCP
4 48 (19.51%) Amazon S3
5 32 (13.01%) Serverless
6 30 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (9.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (8.94%) Power Platform
10 21 (8.54%) Snowflake
11 19 (7.72%) Amazon ELB
12 17 (6.91%) Amazon EMR
12 17 (6.91%) Amazon Kinesis
13 15 (6.10%) GitHub
14 14 (5.69%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (4.88%) dbt
16 10 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
17 9 (3.66%) Prefect
18 8 (3.25%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.63%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.22%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.81%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (48.37%) Big Data
2 83 (33.74%) Hadoop
3 71 (28.86%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (25.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 63 (25.61%) NoSQL
5 41 (16.67%) Data Lake
5 41 (16.67%) Metadata
6 33 (13.41%) DynamoDB
7 32 (13.01%) Delta Lake
8 29 (11.79%) Spark SQL
9 26 (10.57%) Apache Hive
10 25 (10.16%) SQL Server
11 24 (9.76%) Apache Iceberg
12 23 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
13 19 (7.72%) Relational Database
14 17 (6.91%) Power BI
15 16 (6.50%) BigQuery
15 16 (6.50%) MySQL
16 14 (5.69%) MongoDB
17 13 (5.28%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 29 (11.79%) MLflow
2 13 (5.28%) Git
3 9 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.44%) Gradle
5 5 (2.03%) JUnit
5 5 (2.03%) Maven
5 5 (2.03%) Robot Framework
5 5 (2.03%) Selenium
5 5 (2.03%) Snyk
6 4 (1.63%) Terragrunt
7 3 (1.22%) GitLab
8 2 (0.81%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.41%) Deequ
9 1 (0.41%) Mercurial
General
1 114 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 88 (35.77%) Finance
3 76 (30.89%) Law
4 56 (22.76%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (18.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (12.60%) Banking
7 23 (9.35%) Marketing
8 18 (7.32%) Financial Institution
9 13 (5.28%) Public Sector
10 10 (4.07%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.44%) Legal
12 5 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.03%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.63%) Front Office
13 4 (1.63%) Publishing
13 4 (1.63%) Retail
14 2 (0.81%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.81%) Electronics
14 2 (0.81%) Games
14 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (34.55%) Data Engineer
2 54 (21.95%) Senior
3 44 (17.89%) Software Engineer
4 35 (14.23%) Senior Data Engineer
5 33 (13.41%) Lead
6 26 (10.57%) Python Engineer
7 25 (10.16%) Architect
8 22 (8.94%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (8.54%) Developer
9 21 (8.54%) Python Software Engineer
10 20 (8.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 19 (7.72%) Operations Engineer
12 14 (5.69%) Data Architect
12 14 (5.69%) Java Engineer
13 13 (5.28%) AWS Data Engineer
13 13 (5.28%) Java Software Engineer
13 13 (5.28%) Product Lead
14 12 (4.88%) Data Scientist
14 12 (4.88%) Lead Software Engineer
15 11 (4.47%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (45.53%) Kafka
2 46 (18.70%) PySpark
3 37 (15.04%) PyTorch
3 37 (15.04%) TensorFlow
4 32 (13.01%) scikit-learn
5 28 (11.38%) Pandas
6 23 (9.35%) NumPy
7 19 (7.72%) Keras
7 19 (7.72%) Lambda Expressions
7 19 (7.72%) Metaflow
7 19 (7.72%) YAML
8 16 (6.50%) REST
9 14 (5.69%) Spark Streaming
10 9 (3.66%) Apache NiFi
10 9 (3.66%) React
10 9 (3.66%) Spring
11 8 (3.25%) boto
11 8 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.85%) Hugging Face
12 7 (2.85%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 56 (22.76%) Distributed Systems
2 48 (19.51%) Cloud Native
3 23 (9.35%) Algorithms
4 22 (8.94%) Linux Command Line
5 21 (8.54%) Product Ownership
6 18 (7.32%) e-Learning
7 15 (6.10%) Management Information System
8 14 (5.69%) Data Structures
8 14 (5.69%) FMCG
9 13 (5.28%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (2.03%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.63%) Mobile Banking
13 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
14 3 (1.22%) Equities
14 3 (1.22%) Robotics
14 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 2 (0.81%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.63%) Unix
2 11 (4.47%) Linux
3 2 (0.81%) CentOS
3 2 (0.81%) Debian
3 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (51.22%) CI/CD
2 121 (49.19%) Machine Learning
3 110 (44.72%) Data Pipeline
4 107 (43.50%) Data Engineering
5 100 (40.65%) Analytics
6 96 (39.02%) Data Science
7 95 (38.62%) ETL
8 93 (37.80%) AI
9 86 (34.96%) Data Modelling
9 86 (34.96%) Software Engineering
10 85 (34.55%) DevOps
11 75 (30.49%) Agile
12 67 (27.24%) Problem-Solving
13 58 (23.58%) Data Governance
14 54 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
15 53 (21.54%) Containerisation
16 51 (20.73%) Visualisation
17 49 (19.92%) Decision-Making
18 45 (18.29%) MLOps
19 44 (17.89%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 200 (81.30%) Python
2 177 (71.95%) SQL
3 74 (30.08%) Java
4 36 (14.63%) Scala
5 9 (3.66%) R
6 5 (2.03%) Bash
6 5 (2.03%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.03%) Kotlin
6 5 (2.03%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.22%) C#
7 3 (1.22%) C++
7 3 (1.22%) PROC SQL
7 3 (1.22%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 44 (17.89%) Degree
2 27 (10.98%) Master's Degree
3 20 (8.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (6.91%) PhD
5 14 (5.69%) Azure Certification
6 13 (5.28%) AWS Certification
7 12 (4.88%) Security Cleared
8 8 (3.25%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.85%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (22.76%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.13%) QA
3 19 (7.72%) GDPR
4 7 (2.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.81%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 63 (25.61%) Docker
2 17 (6.91%) HDFS
3 6 (2.44%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.22%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 68 (27.64%) Kubernetes
2 52 (21.14%) Terraform
3 26 (10.57%) Kubeflow
4 16 (6.50%) Ansible
5 6 (2.44%) Kibana
5 6 (2.44%) logstash
5 6 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.03%) Grafana
7 4 (1.63%) Puppet
8 3 (1.22%) Oozie
9 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 104 (42.28%) Databricks
2 21 (8.54%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.13%) Oracle
4 19 (7.72%) SAP
5 16 (6.50%) Google
6 13 (5.28%) Informatica
7 9 (3.66%) Talend
8 7 (2.85%) Dell
9 6 (2.44%) Cloudera
10 5 (2.03%) BiZZdesign
10 5 (2.03%) Black Duck
10 5 (2.03%) UiPath
10 5 (2.03%) VMware
11 4 (1.63%) Palantir
12 3 (1.22%) IBM
12 3 (1.22%) MicroStrategy
13 2 (0.81%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.81%) SaltStack
14 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.41%) Salesforce