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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 444 485
Rank change year-on-year -99 +41 -130
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 275 247 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.70% 6.17% 4.92%
Number of salaries quoted 139 106 195
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,625 £49,250
25th Percentile £56,125 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +0.46%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,500 £133,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% -5.77% -13.33%

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 4,823 4,005 6,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.08% 8.07% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,287 2,653 3,833
10th Percentile £29,046 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.63%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -

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 2 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Top 15 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 2 October 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 -90 255 £75,000 -6.25% 537
London -51 151 £85,000 -8.11% 392
UK excluding London -128 102 £60,000 -2.04% 218
Work from Home -24 61 £66,805 -10.93% 245
North of England -39 54 £57,500 -4.17% 52
South West -46 28 £59,500 +8.18% 32
North East -42 25 £55,000 +15.79% 11
North West -20 19 £55,000 -18.52% 33
Yorkshire -39 10 £80,000 +33.33% 8
South East -56 10 £63,002 -4.90% 41
Scotland -14 4 - - 41
West Midlands -44 4 £60,653 +13.37% 11
Midlands -60 4 £60,653 +13.37% 17
Wales -75 2 £80,000 +59.60% 5
East of England -44 1 £80,000 +11.89% 14

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
1 127 (46.18%) Apache
2 46 (16.73%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (8.00%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.82%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.09%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.09%) SAS
6 2 (0.73%) Luigi
6 2 (0.73%) Tornado
7 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.36%) Confluence
7 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 158 (57.45%) AWS
2 148 (53.82%) Azure
3 82 (29.82%) GCP
4 44 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 43 (15.64%) Serverless
6 39 (14.18%) Amazon S3
7 31 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (10.55%) Power Platform
9 26 (9.45%) Amazon EMR
9 26 (9.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (8.00%) Amazon Kinesis
11 22 (8.00%) Azure Databricks
12 17 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (6.18%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (5.82%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (5.82%) GitHub
13 16 (5.82%) Snowflake
14 14 (5.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 13 (4.73%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.55%) AMQP
2 6 (2.18%) BGP
2 6 (2.18%) DNS
2 6 (2.18%) IPsec
2 6 (2.18%) VPN
3 5 (1.82%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) 4G
4 1 (0.36%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (34.91%) Big Data
2 59 (21.45%) Hadoop
3 58 (21.09%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (18.18%) Data Lake
5 47 (17.09%) NoSQL
6 40 (14.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 29 (10.55%) Power BI
8 28 (10.18%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (10.18%) Metadata
9 27 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (9.09%) Relational Database
11 23 (8.36%) Delta Lake
12 21 (7.64%) Tableau
13 19 (6.91%) Amazon Athena
13 19 (6.91%) Flink
14 17 (6.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 14 (5.09%) Spark SQL
16 12 (4.36%) Apache Hive
16 12 (4.36%) DynamoDB
16 12 (4.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (16.36%) Git
2 23 (8.36%) GitLab
2 23 (8.36%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.91%) MLflow
4 2 (0.73%) JIRA
4 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.36%) ERwin
5 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 118 (42.91%) Finance
2 74 (26.91%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.00%) Banking
5 27 (9.82%) Public Sector
6 26 (9.45%) Financial Institution
7 20 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (6.91%) Law
9 15 (5.45%) Aerospace
10 13 (4.73%) Marketing
11 10 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.64%) Military
12 6 (2.18%) Games
12 6 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.18%) Retail
13 5 (1.82%) Legal
14 4 (1.45%) Front Office
15 2 (0.73%) Aviation
15 2 (0.73%) Local Government
15 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 140 (50.91%) Data Engineer
2 84 (30.55%) Senior
3 49 (17.82%) Lead
4 41 (14.91%) Data Scientist
5 37 (13.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 34 (12.36%) Senior Data Scientist
7 28 (10.18%) Lead Data Engineer
8 23 (8.36%) Databricks Engineer
9 20 (7.27%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 18 (6.55%) Python Engineer
11 17 (6.18%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.73%) Architect
13 11 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (4.00%) Data Architect
14 10 (3.64%) Developer
15 9 (3.27%) AWS Data Engineer
15 9 (3.27%) Azure Engineer
15 9 (3.27%) Consultant
15 9 (3.27%) Python Data Engineer
16 8 (2.91%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (36.00%) Kafka
2 61 (22.18%) PySpark
2 61 (22.18%) Terraform
3 25 (9.09%) SpaCy
4 15 (5.45%) Node.js
5 14 (5.09%) Spring
5 14 (5.09%) Spring Boot
6 13 (4.73%) REST
7 12 (4.36%) React
8 11 (4.00%) Pandas
9 10 (3.64%) gRPC
10 9 (3.27%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.27%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (2.91%) FastAPI
11 8 (2.91%) RESTful
12 7 (2.55%) Material-UI
12 7 (2.55%) NumPy
12 7 (2.55%) OpenAPI
12 7 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.64%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.09%) e-Learning
3 23 (8.36%) Product Ownership
4 18 (6.55%) Data Structures
4 18 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.45%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.09%) Algorithms
7 11 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.18%) NHS
10 5 (1.82%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.45%) CUDA
11 4 (1.45%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.73%) Derivative
13 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.73%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.45%) Linux
2 7 (2.55%) CentOS
2 7 (2.55%) Debian
2 7 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (61.45%) Data Engineering
2 153 (55.64%) Analytics
3 151 (54.91%) CI/CD
4 145 (52.73%) Data Pipeline
5 116 (42.18%) Data Science
6 111 (40.36%) DevOps
7 107 (38.91%) Data Modelling
8 105 (38.18%) Machine Learning
9 91 (33.09%) Agile
10 84 (30.55%) AI
11 82 (29.82%) ETL
12 81 (29.45%) Mentoring
13 64 (23.27%) Infrastructure as Code
14 52 (18.91%) Lakehouse
14 52 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
15 51 (18.55%) Validation
16 49 (17.82%) Software Engineering
17 45 (16.36%) Natural Language Processing
18 44 (16.00%) Data Governance
18 44 (16.00%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 233 (84.73%) Python
2 171 (62.18%) SQL
3 55 (20.00%) Scala
4 45 (16.36%) Java
5 16 (5.82%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.91%) C#
7 7 (2.55%) R
8 6 (2.18%) Bash
8 6 (2.18%) C
8 6 (2.18%) PHP
8 6 (2.18%) Ruby
8 6 (2.18%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.82%) VBA
10 4 (1.45%) Bicep
10 4 (1.45%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (32.36%) Security Cleared
2 66 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 64 (23.27%) Degree
4 34 (12.36%) PhD
5 32 (11.64%) Master's Degree
6 21 (7.64%) AWS Certification
6 21 (7.64%) Azure Certification
7 19 (6.91%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.36%) CEH
12 1 (0.36%) CISM
12 1 (0.36%) CISSP
12 1 (0.36%) OCP
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (34.18%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.91%) QA
4 7 (2.55%) GDPR
5 5 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.73%) IFRS
6 2 (0.73%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.73%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (23.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 53 (19.27%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.55%) Ansible
3 7 (2.55%) Puppet
4 6 (2.18%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.82%) Argo
6 4 (1.45%) Grafana
7 3 (1.09%) Kibana
7 3 (1.09%) Packer
7 3 (1.09%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.36%) Control-M
8 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 99 (36.00%) Databricks
2 33 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.36%) Google
4 9 (3.27%) Oracle
5 8 (2.91%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.55%) Informatica
6 7 (2.55%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.18%) HP
7 6 (2.18%) IBM
7 6 (2.18%) SAP
8 5 (1.82%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.45%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.45%) Foundry
9 4 (1.45%) Splunk
10 3 (1.09%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.09%) Palantir
10 3 (1.09%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.73%) Talend
11 2 (0.73%) Thales