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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 454 280
Rank change year-on-year -16 -174 -32
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 173 281 579
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.52% 1.05%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.08% 5.73% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 94 195 254
10th Percentile £53,250 £53,000 £50,172
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £67,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £127,500 £113,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £127,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -13.79% +11.54%

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 3,405 4,901 6,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.72% 9.13% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,281 2,870 4,536
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £47,500 £45,828
% change year-on-year -12.63% +3.65% -3.52%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -14 161 £83,000 +3.75% 116
London 0 118 £97,500 -2.50% 46
Work from Home -24 44 £87,000 -8.42% 82
UK excluding London +4 42 £62,500 - 87
North of England +25 27 £60,000 +14.29% 23
Yorkshire - 18 £60,000 - 6
North West +16 8 £54,250 +8.50% 12
East of England +14 4 - - 12
South East +5 3 £65,000 +13.04% 34
Scotland +1 3 £90,000 - 5
Midlands +17 2 - - 5
South West -14 2 £50,000 -35.48% 8
West Midlands +19 1 - - 2
North East +6 1 - - 5
Wales +3 1 £95,000 +79.25% 3
East Midlands -1 1 - - 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 44 (25.43%) Apache
2 38 (21.97%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.73%) Luigi
4 2 (1.16%) SAS
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.58%) Appian
5 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 8 (4.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 120 (69.36%) AWS
2 99 (57.23%) Azure
3 73 (42.20%) GCP
4 32 (18.50%) Serverless
5 28 (16.18%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (12.72%) Amazon S3
7 19 (10.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (10.40%) Amazon EMR
8 18 (10.40%) Snowflake
9 17 (9.83%) dbt
9 17 (9.83%) Power Platform
10 16 (9.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (8.67%) Amazon Kinesis
12 14 (8.09%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (5.20%) OpenShift
14 8 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (4.62%) Dagster
15 7 (4.05%) Azure Machine Learning
16 6 (3.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.31%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.73%) AMQP
3 1 (0.58%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (46.82%) Big Data
2 67 (38.73%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (37.57%) Hadoop
4 49 (28.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (19.08%) Data Lake
6 26 (15.03%) NoSQL
7 22 (12.72%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (10.98%) MySQL
9 18 (10.40%) MongoDB
10 17 (9.83%) SQL Server
11 16 (9.25%) Power BI
11 16 (9.25%) Tableau
12 14 (8.09%) Apache Hive
12 14 (8.09%) Apache Iceberg
12 14 (8.09%) BigQuery
12 14 (8.09%) Metadata
12 14 (8.09%) Relational Database
13 13 (7.51%) Delta Lake
13 13 (7.51%) DynamoDB
14 12 (6.94%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 12 (6.94%) Git
2 10 (5.78%) MLflow
3 8 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.73%) GitLab
5 2 (1.16%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.58%) Deequ
6 1 (0.58%) Gradle
6 1 (0.58%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.58%) Selenium
6 1 (0.58%) Snyk
General
1 77 (44.51%) Social Skills
2 56 (32.37%) Finance
3 42 (24.28%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.40%) Financial Institution
4 18 (10.40%) Law
5 12 (6.94%) Banking
5 12 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.31%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.73%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.73%) Front Office
7 3 (1.73%) Marketing
8 2 (1.16%) Electronics
8 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.16%) Legal
8 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.16%) Retail
8 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (42.77%) Data Engineer
2 50 (28.90%) Senior
3 29 (16.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 23 (13.29%) Developer
5 16 (9.25%) AWS Data Engineer
5 16 (9.25%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (8.09%) Python Developer
7 13 (7.51%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (6.94%) Architect
8 12 (6.94%) Lead
9 10 (5.78%) Data Scientist
9 10 (5.78%) Software Engineer
10 9 (5.20%) Data Architect
11 8 (4.62%) Product Lead
12 7 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 7 (4.05%) Senior Data Scientist
13 6 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
14 5 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
14 5 (2.89%) Azure Data Engineer
14 5 (2.89%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (41.62%) Kafka
2 21 (12.14%) PyTorch
2 21 (12.14%) TensorFlow
3 19 (10.98%) PySpark
4 17 (9.83%) REST
5 14 (8.09%) Pandas
6 11 (6.36%) scikit-learn
7 10 (5.78%) Spark Streaming
8 8 (4.62%) boto
9 7 (4.05%) NumPy
9 7 (4.05%) SpaCy
10 6 (3.47%) Spring
11 5 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (2.89%) Faiss
11 5 (2.89%) LDAP
11 5 (2.89%) OAuth
11 5 (2.89%) OAuth2
11 5 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.89%) React
11 5 (2.89%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.86%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (14.45%) Product Ownership
3 23 (13.29%) Cloud Native
4 17 (9.83%) e-Learning
5 13 (7.51%) Algorithms
6 11 (6.36%) Management Information System
7 10 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (5.20%) FMCG
9 8 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (4.05%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (2.31%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.73%) Equities
12 3 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.73%) Virtual Team
13 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
14 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
14 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.94%) Linux
2 9 (5.20%) Unix
3 3 (1.73%) CentOS
3 3 (1.73%) Debian
3 3 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (58.38%) Data Pipeline
2 91 (52.60%) Data Engineering
3 86 (49.71%) Analytics
4 83 (47.98%) CI/CD
5 72 (41.62%) Machine Learning
6 70 (40.46%) Data Science
7 67 (38.73%) Data Modelling
7 67 (38.73%) ETL
8 54 (31.21%) DevOps
9 49 (28.32%) AI
9 49 (28.32%) Business Intelligence
10 45 (26.01%) Data Governance
10 45 (26.01%) Software Engineering
11 41 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (23.12%) Computer Science
13 38 (21.97%) Mentoring
14 37 (21.39%) Agile
15 30 (17.34%) Observability
16 27 (15.61%) Fintech
16 27 (15.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 152 (87.86%) Python
2 110 (63.58%) SQL
3 65 (37.57%) Java
4 41 (23.70%) Scala
5 8 (4.62%) R
6 7 (4.05%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.89%) Bash
7 5 (2.89%) Go
8 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.73%) C#
10 2 (1.16%) C++
10 2 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.58%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (23.12%) Degree
2 15 (8.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.09%) Master's Degree
4 13 (7.51%) PhD
4 13 (7.51%) Security Cleared
5 11 (6.36%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.89%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.89%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.89%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.58%) MBA
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (27.17%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.94%) QA
3 9 (5.20%) GDPR
4 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (17.34%) Docker
2 9 (5.20%) HDFS
3 5 (2.89%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (16.76%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.25%) Terraform
3 14 (8.09%) Ansible
4 7 (4.05%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.47%) Grafana
6 5 (2.89%) Puppet
7 3 (1.73%) Kibana
7 3 (1.73%) logstash
8 2 (1.16%) Kubeflow
8 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.58%) Argo
Vendors
1 57 (32.95%) Databricks
2 20 (11.56%) Oracle
3 13 (7.51%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.36%) SAP
5 10 (5.78%) Informatica
5 10 (5.78%) Palantir
5 10 (5.78%) Talend
6 8 (4.62%) Google
7 7 (4.05%) Dell
8 4 (2.31%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.73%) IBM
9 3 (1.73%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.58%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.58%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.58%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.58%) UiPath
10 1 (0.58%) VMware