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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 445 306
Rank change year-on-year -11 -139 -30
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 201 289 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.51% 0.99%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.59% 5.49% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 99 203 234
10th Percentile £57,250 £47,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £99,375
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,501 £75,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -23.33% +15.38%

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 3,593 5,262 5,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.09% 9.32% 11.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,445 3,226 4,387
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,792 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,600 £110,000 £91,961
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,750 £47,500 £46,011
% change year-on-year -12.11% +3.24% -3.13%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +19 193 £81,000 +4.52% 46
London +32 132 £95,000 -2.56% 27
UK excluding London +16 60 £65,000 +13.04% 32
Work from Home -37 44 £83,000 +3.75% 37
North of England +30 33 £60,000 +20.00% 8
Yorkshire +18 21 £60,000 +21.77% 4
Midlands +23 11 £67,500 +12.50% 1
North West +26 9 £54,250 +3.33% 2
East Midlands +2 7 - -
South East +17 5 £65,000 +13.04% 14
West Midlands +29 4 £67,500 +3.85% 1
East of England +23 4 - - 4
North East +8 3 £90,000 +82.65% 2
South West -15 3 £50,000 -35.48% 4
Scotland +3 2 £90,000 - 2
Wales -1 2 £95,000 +59.40% 1

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 45 (22.39%) Apache
2 40 (19.90%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.49%) Apache Synapse
3 3 (1.49%) Luigi
3 3 (1.49%) SAS
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.50%) Appian
4 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 11 (5.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 141 (70.15%) AWS
2 106 (52.74%) Azure
3 71 (35.32%) GCP
4 41 (20.40%) Amazon S3
5 33 (16.42%) Serverless
6 26 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (11.94%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (10.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 20 (9.95%) Snowflake
10 19 (9.45%) Amazon ELB
10 19 (9.45%) Amazon EMR
10 19 (9.45%) Power Platform
11 16 (7.96%) dbt
12 15 (7.46%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (6.97%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (6.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (4.48%) GitHub
14 9 (4.48%) OpenShift
15 8 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.49%) AMQP
3 1 (0.50%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (43.78%) Big Data
2 70 (34.83%) Hadoop
3 67 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (25.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (18.41%) NoSQL
6 36 (17.91%) Metadata
7 33 (16.42%) Data Lake
7 33 (16.42%) DynamoDB
8 32 (15.92%) Delta Lake
9 25 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (10.45%) Spark SQL
11 20 (9.95%) MySQL
11 20 (9.95%) SQL Server
12 19 (9.45%) MongoDB
13 18 (8.96%) Power BI
14 15 (7.46%) Relational Database
15 14 (6.97%) Apache Hive
16 13 (6.47%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (6.47%) BigQuery
17 12 (5.97%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 30 (14.93%) MLflow
2 12 (5.97%) Git
3 10 (4.98%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.49%) GitLab
5 2 (1.00%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.50%) Deequ
6 1 (0.50%) Gradle
6 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.50%) Selenium
6 1 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 108 (53.73%) Social Skills
2 58 (28.86%) Finance
3 49 (24.38%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (13.43%) Law
5 18 (8.96%) Financial Institution
6 12 (5.97%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.98%) Banking
8 5 (2.49%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.99%) Front Office
9 4 (1.99%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.49%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.49%) Marketing
11 2 (1.00%) Advertising
11 2 (1.00%) Electronics
11 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Legal
11 2 (1.00%) Retail
11 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (36.32%) Data Engineer
2 51 (25.37%) Senior
3 32 (15.92%) Senior Data Engineer
4 20 (9.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 19 (9.45%) Developer
5 19 (9.45%) Operations Engineer
6 16 (7.96%) Architect
7 15 (7.46%) Lead
8 14 (6.97%) AWS Data Engineer
8 14 (6.97%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (6.97%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (6.47%) Data Scientist
9 13 (6.47%) Python Developer
10 11 (5.47%) Data Architect
10 11 (5.47%) Product Lead
11 9 (4.48%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.98%) Senior Data Scientist
13 4 (1.99%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 4 (1.99%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (1.99%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (39.80%) Kafka
2 39 (19.40%) PyTorch
2 39 (19.40%) TensorFlow
3 38 (18.91%) PySpark
4 31 (15.42%) scikit-learn
5 30 (14.93%) Pandas
6 23 (11.44%) NumPy
7 19 (9.45%) Keras
7 19 (9.45%) Lambda Expressions
7 19 (9.45%) Metaflow
7 19 (9.45%) YAML
8 16 (7.96%) REST
9 10 (4.98%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (3.98%) boto
10 8 (3.98%) React
11 7 (3.48%) SpaCy
12 6 (2.99%) Spring
13 5 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (2.49%) LDAP
13 5 (2.49%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.38%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (11.94%) Product Ownership
3 22 (10.95%) Cloud Native
3 22 (10.95%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (8.46%) e-Learning
5 12 (5.97%) Algorithms
5 12 (5.97%) FMCG
5 12 (5.97%) Management Information System
6 11 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (3.48%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.99%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.49%) Equities
11 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.00%) Mainframe
12 2 (1.00%) Robotics
13 1 (0.50%) Culture of Ownership
13 1 (0.50%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.93%) Unix
2 12 (5.97%) Linux
3 3 (1.49%) CentOS
3 3 (1.49%) Debian
3 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (52.24%) CI/CD
1 105 (52.24%) Data Pipeline
2 97 (48.26%) Data Engineering
3 96 (47.76%) Machine Learning
4 92 (45.77%) Analytics
5 88 (43.78%) Data Science
6 76 (37.81%) ETL
7 74 (36.82%) Data Modelling
8 67 (33.33%) AI
9 64 (31.84%) DevOps
10 53 (26.37%) Data Governance
11 48 (23.88%) Software Engineering
12 47 (23.38%) Business Intelligence
13 45 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (21.39%) Containerisation
14 43 (21.39%) MLOps
15 40 (19.90%) Agile
15 40 (19.90%) Computer Science
15 40 (19.90%) Mentoring
16 38 (18.91%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 174 (86.57%) Python
2 141 (70.15%) SQL
3 60 (29.85%) Java
4 37 (18.41%) Scala
5 7 (3.48%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.48%) R
6 4 (1.99%) Bash
6 4 (1.99%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.49%) C#
8 2 (1.00%) C++
8 2 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.00%) Go
8 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.50%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (20.40%) Degree
2 18 (8.96%) Master's Degree
3 17 (8.46%) PhD
4 14 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.47%) Security Cleared
6 11 (5.47%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.99%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.49%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.50%) MBA
11 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (23.88%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.46%) QA
3 10 (4.98%) GDPR
4 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 52 (25.87%) Docker
2 9 (4.48%) HDFS
3 5 (2.49%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (25.87%) Kubernetes
2 39 (19.40%) Terraform
3 25 (12.44%) Kubeflow
4 14 (6.97%) Ansible
5 7 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.99%) Grafana
7 5 (2.49%) Puppet
8 3 (1.49%) Kibana
8 3 (1.49%) logstash
9 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 82 (40.80%) Databricks
2 21 (10.45%) Oracle
3 14 (6.97%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.97%) SAP
4 12 (5.97%) Informatica
5 11 (5.47%) Talend
6 8 (3.98%) Google
7 7 (3.48%) Dell
7 7 (3.48%) Palantir
8 4 (1.99%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.49%) IBM
9 3 (1.49%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.50%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.50%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.50%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.50%) UiPath
10 1 (0.50%) VMware