Apache Spark Jobs

Apache Spark
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Apache Spark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Apache Spark over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 333 301
Rank change year-on-year -109 -32 -50
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 298 879 1,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.79% 1.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.53% 8.25% 10.32%
Number of salaries quoted 171 269 563
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £119,500 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £69,447 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -0.79% +12.00%

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 4,561 10,658 10,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.13% 9.57% 11.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,874 7,159 7,189
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £109,625 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £48,579
% change year-on-year +5.88% -12.51% +5.61%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark.

Salary trend for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Top 17 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 19 June 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 +69 252 £83,750 +4.69% 1,287
London +48 165 £105,000 +16.67% 771
Work from Home +101 137 £96,250 +20.31% 446
UK excluding London -154 124 £62,500 -10.00% 609
South East +113 37 £65,000 +18.18% 134
Scotland -91 31 £100,000 +110.53% 66
North of England +54 27 £56,250 +2.27% 137
Midlands +98 15 £64,000 -12.03% 79
Yorkshire +70 12 £57,500 +4.55% 56
East Midlands +53 11 £75,000 +25.00% 37
North West +5 11 £55,000 - 67
Northern Ireland +49 7 £55,000 -21.43% 26
West Midlands +70 4 £57,000 -21.92% 42
North East +53 4 £47,500 -36.67% 14
South West +60 3 £55,000 -31.25% 77
East of England +39 3 £71,500 -29.38% 80
Wales +40 2 £62,562 -13.71% 14

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 128 (42.95%) Apache
2 88 (29.53%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.34%) Apache Pulsar
3 4 (1.34%) Appian
4 3 (1.01%) SAS
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.01%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 181 (60.74%) AWS
2 125 (41.95%) Azure
3 70 (23.49%) Serverless
4 68 (22.82%) GCP
5 66 (22.15%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (18.79%) OpenShift
7 51 (17.11%) dbt
8 48 (16.11%) Amazon ECS
9 43 (14.43%) Power Platform
10 33 (11.07%) Amazon S3
11 29 (9.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 26 (8.72%) Azure Data Factory
13 24 (8.05%) Snowflake
14 16 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (4.70%) GitHub
16 13 (4.36%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
18 10 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
18 10 (3.36%) Amazon EMR
19 7 (2.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.70%) HTTP
2 3 (1.01%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (39.26%) Big Data
2 88 (29.53%) Hadoop
3 78 (26.17%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (24.16%) Apache Iceberg
5 69 (23.15%) Amazon Athena
6 65 (21.81%) NoSQL
7 51 (17.11%) Apache Ignite
8 48 (16.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (16.11%) Apache Arrow
8 48 (16.11%) Dremio
9 47 (15.77%) Data Lake
10 39 (13.09%) Apache Hive
10 39 (13.09%) Power BI
11 30 (10.07%) BigQuery
12 20 (6.71%) Metadata
12 20 (6.71%) Relational Database
12 20 (6.71%) Tableau
13 16 (5.37%) Delta Lake
13 16 (5.37%) SQL Server
14 13 (4.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 48 (16.11%) Artifactory
2 27 (9.06%) Git
3 18 (6.04%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.68%) Robot Framework
4 8 (2.68%) Selenium
5 7 (2.35%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.01%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.01%) GitLab
7 5 (1.68%) Gradle
7 5 (1.68%) JUnit
7 5 (1.68%) Maven
8 4 (1.34%) JMeter
8 4 (1.34%) Locust
8 4 (1.34%) Postman
8 4 (1.34%) Snyk
8 4 (1.34%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.01%) MLflow
10 1 (0.34%) ERwin
10 1 (0.34%) JIRA
10 1 (0.34%) Spinnaker
General
1 133 (44.63%) Finance
2 80 (26.85%) Social Skills
3 77 (25.84%) Law
4 70 (23.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (16.44%) Front Office
7 35 (11.74%) Banking
8 25 (8.39%) Marketing
9 22 (7.38%) Retail
10 18 (6.04%) Advertising
11 16 (5.37%) Games
12 10 (3.36%) Investment Banking
12 10 (3.36%) Public Sector
13 8 (2.68%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.34%) Legal
14 4 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.34%) Publishing
14 4 (1.34%) Retail Banking
15 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 128 (42.95%) Data Engineer
2 82 (27.52%) Senior
3 78 (26.17%) Python Engineer
4 62 (20.81%) AWS Engineer
5 53 (17.79%) Software Engineer
6 52 (17.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 48 (16.11%) AWS DevOps
7 48 (16.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 40 (13.42%) Senior Data Engineer
9 36 (12.08%) Lead
10 29 (9.73%) Architect
11 21 (7.05%) Python Software Engineer
12 20 (6.71%) Data Architect
13 19 (6.38%) Data Scientist
14 18 (6.04%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (5.70%) Java Engineer
16 14 (4.70%) Developer
17 13 (4.36%) Java Software Engineer
18 12 (4.03%) Lead Software Engineer
18 12 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (52.01%) Kafka
2 86 (28.86%) PySpark
3 52 (17.45%) J2EE
4 20 (6.71%) TensorFlow
5 16 (5.37%) PyTorch
6 13 (4.36%) scikit-learn
6 13 (4.36%) Spark Streaming
6 13 (4.36%) Spring
7 11 (3.69%) REST
8 10 (3.36%) Apache NiFi
8 10 (3.36%) Pandas
9 8 (2.68%) pytest
9 8 (2.68%) React
9 8 (2.68%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.35%) YAML
11 6 (2.01%) NumPy
11 6 (2.01%) PyArrow
12 5 (1.68%) Great Expectations
12 5 (1.68%) JPA
12 5 (1.68%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.42%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.74%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.39%) Algorithms
4 20 (6.71%) Data Structures
5 18 (6.04%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.69%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.68%) FMCG
8 6 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.01%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.68%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.34%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.34%) Mobile Banking
11 3 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.67%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.03%) Unix
2 11 (3.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (52.68%) Agile
2 145 (48.66%) CI/CD
3 128 (42.95%) Software Engineering
4 127 (42.62%) Data Engineering
5 119 (39.93%) DevOps
6 114 (38.26%) Machine Learning
7 100 (33.56%) ETL
8 95 (31.88%) Analytics
9 94 (31.54%) Data Pipeline
10 91 (30.54%) Data Modelling
11 86 (28.86%) Problem-Solving
12 83 (27.85%) Data Science
13 73 (24.50%) Artificial Intelligence
14 70 (23.49%) Data Governance
15 64 (21.48%) Open Source
16 57 (19.13%) Asset Management
17 55 (18.46%) Visualisation
18 52 (17.45%) Business Intelligence
18 52 (17.45%) Computer Science
19 50 (16.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 236 (79.19%) Python
2 184 (61.74%) SQL
3 114 (38.26%) Java
4 49 (16.44%) Go
5 45 (15.10%) Scala
6 14 (4.70%) Bash
6 14 (4.70%) PL/SQL
7 10 (3.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (2.68%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.68%) R
9 6 (2.01%) C#
10 4 (1.34%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.34%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.01%) C
11 3 (1.01%) C++
11 3 (1.01%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.01%) PROC SQL
11 3 (1.01%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.67%) Ruby
12 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (19.46%) Degree
2 30 (10.07%) Master's Degree
3 22 (7.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (6.71%) Azure Certification
5 16 (5.37%) Security Cleared
6 15 (5.03%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.36%) PhD
8 11 (3.69%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.35%) DBS Check
10 6 (2.01%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.34%) ISTQB
12 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (20.81%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.71%) GDPR
3 10 (3.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (3.36%) QA
4 9 (3.02%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (28.52%) Docker
2 24 (8.05%) HDFS
3 8 (2.68%) Apache Flume
4 4 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 99 (33.22%) Kubernetes
2 94 (31.54%) Terraform
3 8 (2.68%) Oozie
4 5 (1.68%) Ansible
5 4 (1.34%) Grafana
5 4 (1.34%) Kibana
5 4 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.01%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.01%) logstash
7 2 (0.67%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.34%) Bugsnag
8 1 (0.34%) Control-M
Vendors
1 101 (33.89%) Databricks
2 50 (16.78%) Google
3 45 (15.10%) Microsoft
4 19 (6.38%) Oracle
5 16 (5.37%) Cloudera
6 14 (4.70%) Apple
7 11 (3.69%) SAP
8 9 (3.02%) Informatica
9 6 (2.01%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.68%) Palantir
10 5 (1.68%) Talend
11 4 (1.34%) BiZZdesign
11 4 (1.34%) Black Duck
11 4 (1.34%) Sybase
11 4 (1.34%) Teradata
11 4 (1.34%) UiPath
11 4 (1.34%) VMware
12 3 (1.01%) MicroStrategy
13 2 (0.67%) Dataiku
13 2 (0.67%) MapR