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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 435 278
Rank change year-on-year -33 -157 -36
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 181 295 707
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.56% 1.04%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.25% 6.11% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 96 207 276
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £66,875 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £119,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £61,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.12% -15.52% +7.41%

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 3,448 4,832 7,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.45% 9.22% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,282 2,814 5,491
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £39,063 £35,195
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,811 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +11.62% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,625 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,740 £46,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -9.26% +5.75% -6.61%

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 29 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 29 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 -37 166 £85,000 -2.86% 126
London -8 120 £95,000 -9.52% 59
Work from Home -56 48 £87,000 -20.91% 74
UK excluding London -19 45 £65,000 +6.12% 96
North of England +22 28 £65,000 +30.00% 20
Yorkshire - 17 £65,000 - 6
North West +17 10 £55,000 +10.00% 9
South West -6 6 £60,000 -22.58% 11
East of England +23 4 - - 8
Scotland -6 3 £90,000 - 10
Midlands -3 2 - - 7
West Midlands +26 1 - - 4
Wales +9 1 £95,000 +79.25% 3
North East -2 1 - - 5
South East -7 1 £65,000 +13.04% 37
East Midlands -18 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 50 (27.62%) Apache
2 43 (23.76%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.66%) Luigi
4 2 (1.10%) SAS
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 5 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 127 (70.17%) AWS
2 102 (56.35%) Azure
3 81 (44.75%) GCP
4 37 (20.44%) Serverless
5 33 (18.23%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (12.71%) Amazon S3
7 20 (11.05%) Snowflake
8 18 (9.94%) Amazon EMR
9 17 (9.39%) Power Platform
10 16 (8.84%) Amazon Kinesis
10 16 (8.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (8.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (8.84%) dbt
11 12 (6.63%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (6.08%) OpenShift
13 10 (5.52%) Azure Machine Learning
13 10 (5.52%) Dagster
14 9 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.87%) Amazon SageMaker
15 7 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.76%) AMQP
2 4 (2.21%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.55%) Broadband
3 1 (0.55%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (47.51%) Big Data
2 67 (37.02%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (35.91%) Hadoop
4 48 (26.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (18.78%) Data Lake
6 24 (13.26%) NoSQL
7 21 (11.60%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (10.50%) MySQL
8 19 (10.50%) Tableau
9 18 (9.94%) MongoDB
10 17 (9.39%) BigQuery
10 17 (9.39%) Power BI
10 17 (9.39%) SQL Server
11 16 (8.84%) Apache Iceberg
12 15 (8.29%) Delta Lake
13 14 (7.73%) Apache Hive
13 14 (7.73%) Relational Database
14 12 (6.63%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (6.63%) DynamoDB
14 12 (6.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (7.73%) Git
2 12 (6.63%) MLflow
3 8 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.21%) GitLab
5 2 (1.10%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.10%) Deequ
General
1 75 (41.44%) Social Skills
2 62 (34.25%) Finance
3 41 (22.65%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.94%) Financial Institution
5 15 (8.29%) Banking
5 15 (8.29%) Law
6 11 (6.08%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.21%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.66%) Front Office
8 3 (1.66%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.10%) Advertising
9 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.10%) Legal
9 2 (1.10%) Marketing
9 2 (1.10%) Retail
9 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.55%) Electronics
10 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 80 (44.20%) Data Engineer
2 51 (28.18%) Senior
3 28 (15.47%) Senior Data Engineer
4 24 (13.26%) Developer
5 19 (10.50%) AWS Data Engineer
5 19 (10.50%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (8.29%) Python Developer
7 13 (7.18%) Architect
7 13 (7.18%) Principal Engineer
8 11 (6.08%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.52%) Data Architect
9 10 (5.52%) Data Scientist
9 10 (5.52%) Lead
10 7 (3.87%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 7 (3.87%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 7 (3.87%) Consultant
10 7 (3.87%) Data Consultant
10 7 (3.87%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (3.87%) Senior Data Scientist
11 6 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (39.78%) Kafka
2 24 (13.26%) PySpark
3 22 (12.15%) PyTorch
3 22 (12.15%) TensorFlow
4 20 (11.05%) REST
5 12 (6.63%) Pandas
6 10 (5.52%) scikit-learn
6 10 (5.52%) Spark Streaming
7 8 (4.42%) boto
8 7 (3.87%) Faiss
8 7 (3.87%) NumPy
8 7 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (3.87%) React
8 7 (3.87%) SpaCy
8 7 (3.87%) Spring
8 7 (3.87%) vLLM
9 6 (3.31%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.31%) Node.js
9 6 (3.31%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.76%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 44 (24.31%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (13.81%) Cloud Native
3 24 (13.26%) Product Ownership
4 17 (9.39%) e-Learning
5 16 (8.84%) Algorithms
6 11 (6.08%) Management Information System
7 10 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (3.87%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (3.31%) FMCG
11 4 (2.21%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.66%) Equities
12 3 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.66%) Virtual Team
13 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.10%) NHS
14 1 (0.55%) Culture of Ownership
14 1 (0.55%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.73%) Linux
2 9 (4.97%) Unix
3 5 (2.76%) CentOS
3 5 (2.76%) Debian
3 5 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (58.56%) Data Pipeline
2 98 (54.14%) Data Engineering
3 88 (48.62%) Analytics
4 85 (46.96%) CI/CD
5 74 (40.88%) Machine Learning
6 73 (40.33%) Data Science
7 72 (39.78%) ETL
8 66 (36.46%) Data Modelling
9 51 (28.18%) AI
10 50 (27.62%) Data Governance
11 49 (27.07%) Business Intelligence
11 49 (27.07%) DevOps
12 47 (25.97%) Software Engineering
13 44 (24.31%) Computer Science
14 43 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (20.44%) Agile
15 37 (20.44%) Mentoring
16 31 (17.13%) Roadmaps
17 28 (15.47%) Fintech
18 27 (14.92%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 161 (88.95%) Python
2 116 (64.09%) SQL
3 68 (37.57%) Java
4 43 (23.76%) Scala
5 9 (4.97%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.42%) Bash
6 8 (4.42%) R
7 7 (3.87%) Go
8 5 (2.76%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.66%) C#
10 2 (1.10%) C++
10 2 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.55%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.55%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (23.20%) Degree
2 16 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.73%) Master's Degree
3 14 (7.73%) PhD
4 13 (7.18%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.31%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.55%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (27.62%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.52%) QA
3 9 (4.97%) GDPR
4 4 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (16.57%) Docker
2 9 (4.97%) HDFS
3 5 (2.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (16.02%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.94%) Terraform
3 14 (7.73%) Ansible
4 7 (3.87%) Puppet
5 6 (3.31%) Grafana
5 6 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.66%) Kibana
6 3 (1.66%) logstash
7 2 (1.10%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.55%) Argo
Vendors
1 60 (33.15%) Databricks
2 19 (10.50%) Oracle
3 12 (6.63%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.63%) Palantir
4 11 (6.08%) Google
4 11 (6.08%) Informatica
5 10 (5.52%) Talend
6 7 (3.87%) Dell
6 7 (3.87%) SAP
7 6 (3.31%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.76%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.21%) IBM
10 1 (0.55%) Cloudera