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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 355 260
Rank change year-on-year -125 -95 -7
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 223 311 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.76% 1.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.97% 7.62% 10.47%
Number of salaries quoted 94 209 283
10th Percentile £54,425 £52,500 £49,200
25th Percentile £71,938 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £138,125 £115,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,250 £69,447
% change year-on-year +24.48% -13.24% +2.88%

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 3,737 4,080 9,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.51% 9.98% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,567 2,881 7,008
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,543 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -118 201 £82,500 -2.94% 99
London -56 136 £95,000 -13.64% 63
UK excluding London -109 65 £75,000 +24.48% 60
Work from Home -113 54 £81,000 -26.36% 47
North of England -76 23 £65,000 +13.04% 16
East of England -11 18 £75,000 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire -55 13 £65,000 +13.04% 1
South West -23 11 £80,000 +60.00% 10
North West -39 8 £95,000 +72.73% 11
Scotland -15 5 £102,500 +2.50% 3
South East -68 5 £61,250 -5.77% 24
North East -32 2 £80,000 - 4
Midlands -51 2 £50,000 -25.93% 4
West Midlands -24 1 - - 2
Wales -29 1 £95,000 +48.44% 2
East Midlands -61 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2

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
1 107 (47.98%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (34.53%) Apache
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.45%) Camunda
3 1 (0.45%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (5.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 150 (67.26%) AWS
2 105 (47.09%) Azure
3 92 (41.26%) GCP
4 50 (22.42%) Power Platform
5 47 (21.08%) Amazon S3
6 46 (20.63%) dbt
6 46 (20.63%) Snowflake
7 37 (16.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 33 (14.80%) OpenShift
9 29 (13.00%) Serverless
10 25 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (8.07%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (8.07%) Dagster
12 15 (6.73%) Azure Machine Learning
13 11 (4.93%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (4.48%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (4.48%) GitHub
15 9 (4.04%) Amazon SageMaker
15 9 (4.04%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.14%) Broadband
2 5 (2.24%) AMQP
3 2 (0.90%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.45%) 4G
4 1 (0.45%) 5G
4 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.45%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (33.63%) Data Warehouse
1 75 (33.63%) Tableau
2 68 (30.49%) Big Data
3 51 (22.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 50 (22.42%) Data Lake
5 49 (21.97%) Power BI
6 47 (21.08%) BigQuery
7 40 (17.94%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (17.49%) Hadoop
9 33 (14.80%) Looker
10 32 (14.35%) Apache Hive
11 29 (13.00%) Spark SQL
12 28 (12.56%) Snowflake Schema
13 26 (11.66%) Parquet
14 25 (11.21%) Impala
14 25 (11.21%) Oracle Database
15 22 (9.87%) Delta Lake
16 18 (8.07%) MySQL
16 18 (8.07%) Relational Database
17 16 (7.17%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 43 (19.28%) Git
2 37 (16.59%) MLflow
3 25 (11.21%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (3.59%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.14%) GitLab
6 2 (0.90%) JIRA
7 1 (0.45%) Deequ
7 1 (0.45%) JUnit
General
1 82 (36.77%) Finance
2 72 (32.29%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (31.84%) Social Skills
4 32 (14.35%) Banking
5 24 (10.76%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.28%) Law
7 13 (5.83%) Legal
8 8 (3.59%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.79%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.90%) Advertising
10 2 (0.90%) Marketing
10 2 (0.90%) Retail
10 2 (0.90%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.45%) Billing
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (34.98%) Data Engineer
2 75 (33.63%) Senior
3 27 (12.11%) Developer
3 27 (12.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (11.66%) Analyst
5 24 (10.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.31%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.31%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (9.87%) Banking Analyst
8 20 (8.97%) Python Developer
9 15 (6.73%) Python Engineer
10 14 (6.28%) Architect
11 13 (5.83%) AWS Data Engineer
11 13 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (5.83%) Business Analyst
12 12 (5.38%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.38%) Lead
12 12 (5.38%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (4.93%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
14 10 (4.48%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (47.09%) Kafka
2 53 (23.77%) PySpark
3 42 (18.83%) PyTorch
3 42 (18.83%) TensorFlow
4 29 (13.00%) scikit-learn
5 28 (12.56%) REST
6 26 (11.66%) Pandas
7 25 (11.21%) LangChain
8 23 (10.31%) LlamaIndex
8 23 (10.31%) pgvector
9 13 (5.83%) Spring
10 12 (5.38%) Spring Boot
11 10 (4.48%) Node.js
11 10 (4.48%) NumPy
12 9 (4.04%) Faiss
12 9 (4.04%) vLLM
13 7 (3.14%) React
14 6 (2.69%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.69%) OAuth
14 6 (2.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.31%) Clustering
2 23 (10.31%) Public Cloud
3 20 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (7.62%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.93%) Algorithms
6 9 (4.04%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.59%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.69%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.69%) Social Media
9 5 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.79%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.35%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.04%) Linux
2 5 (2.24%) CentOS
2 5 (2.24%) Debian
2 5 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.24%) Ubuntu
3 4 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (65.47%) Data Pipeline
2 128 (57.40%) Analytics
2 128 (57.40%) Data Engineering
3 112 (50.22%) ETL
4 106 (47.53%) AI
5 101 (45.29%) CI/CD
6 93 (41.70%) Data Governance
7 87 (39.01%) Machine Learning
8 85 (38.12%) Data Science
9 84 (37.67%) Data Modelling
10 71 (31.84%) Business Intelligence
11 68 (30.49%) Agile
12 57 (25.56%) Computer Science
13 50 (22.42%) Generative AI
14 48 (21.52%) Software Engineering
15 44 (19.73%) Use Case
16 42 (18.83%) DevOps
16 42 (18.83%) Performance Tuning
17 39 (17.49%) Feature Engineering
18 38 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 209 (93.72%) Python
2 168 (75.34%) SQL
3 56 (25.11%) Java
4 44 (19.73%) Scala
5 10 (4.48%) Bash
6 9 (4.04%) Go
7 8 (3.59%) C++
8 6 (2.69%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.69%) R
9 3 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.35%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.45%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.45%) Bicep
10 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.45%) Ruby
10 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (17.04%) Degree
2 21 (9.42%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (7.17%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.04%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.14%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.14%) PhD
7 6 (2.69%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.69%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (36.32%) Data Quality
2 39 (17.49%) GDPR
3 35 (15.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.38%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 41 (18.39%) Docker
2 3 (1.35%) HDFS
3 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (16.59%) Kubernetes
2 29 (13.00%) Terraform
3 14 (6.28%) Ansible
4 8 (3.59%) Grafana
5 7 (3.14%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.24%) Puppet
7 1 (0.45%) Argo
7 1 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 81 (36.32%) Databricks
2 34 (15.25%) Oracle
3 32 (14.35%) Red Hat
4 25 (11.21%) Dell
5 24 (10.76%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.28%) Palantir
7 12 (5.38%) Microsoft
8 11 (4.93%) Google
9 7 (3.14%) Informatica
10 6 (2.69%) Talend
11 5 (2.24%) SaltStack
12 4 (1.79%) IBM
13 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.45%) Automation Anywhere
14 1 (0.45%) Cognizant
14 1 (0.45%) Foundry
14 1 (0.45%) Mapbox
14 1 (0.45%) SAP
14 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.45%) UiPath