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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 387 283
Rank change year-on-year -108 -104 -36
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 235 289 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.68% 1.01%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.11% 7.22% 9.92%
Number of salaries quoted 108 185 281
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £73,438 £57,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £120,938 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £69,724
% change year-on-year +19.23% -6.77% -0.40%

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 3,845 4,003 10,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.13% 9.37% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,743 2,658 7,073
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%
75th Percentile £72,250 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £96,908
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.92%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -101 211 £85,000 - 126
London -51 143 £100,000 -9.09% 58
UK excluding London -105 69 £77,500 +19.23% 80
Work from Home -86 53 £77,500 -29.55% 51
North of England -43 25 £75,000 +30.43% 37
East of England -15 17 £75,000 +4.90% 2
South West -42 17 £80,000 +60.00% 22
North West -11 9 £75,000 +36.36% 19
Yorkshire -53 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
North East -39 7 £57,500 -14.81% 17
South East -54 4 £57,500 -11.54% 7
Scotland -12 3 £115,000 +15.00% 2
Wales -38 2 £87,500 +16.67% 6
East Midlands -37 1 £50,000 -33.33% 3
Midlands -46 1 £50,000 -25.93% 5

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
1 106 (45.11%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (40.00%) Apache
3 10 (4.26%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.28%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.28%) SAS
5 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.43%) Camunda
5 1 (0.43%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.53%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 159 (67.66%) AWS
2 113 (48.09%) Azure
3 94 (40.00%) GCP
4 52 (22.13%) Amazon S3
5 47 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 44 (18.72%) Snowflake
7 41 (17.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 41 (17.45%) dbt
8 31 (13.19%) OpenShift
9 29 (12.34%) Serverless
10 25 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (9.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (6.38%) Dagster
13 13 (5.53%) Amazon EMR
13 13 (5.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (5.53%) Azure Machine Learning
14 12 (5.11%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (4.68%) GitHub
16 10 (4.26%) Amazon Kinesis
16 10 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.98%) Broadband
2 5 (2.13%) AMQP
3 2 (0.85%) 4G
3 2 (0.85%) 5G
4 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.43%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (32.34%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (31.91%) Tableau
3 74 (31.49%) Big Data
4 54 (22.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 50 (21.28%) Elasticsearch
6 48 (20.43%) Data Lake
7 46 (19.57%) Power BI
8 44 (18.72%) BigQuery
9 33 (14.04%) Spark SQL
10 32 (13.62%) Looker
11 31 (13.19%) Hadoop
12 27 (11.49%) Apache Hive
12 27 (11.49%) Snowflake Schema
13 26 (11.06%) Parquet
14 25 (10.64%) Impala
14 25 (10.64%) Oracle Database
14 25 (10.64%) Relational Database
15 24 (10.21%) NoSQL
16 23 (9.79%) Delta Lake
17 20 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (17.45%) Git
2 37 (15.74%) MLflow
3 25 (10.64%) IBM UrbanCode
4 10 (4.26%) GitLab
4 10 (4.26%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.85%) JIRA
6 1 (0.43%) Deequ
6 1 (0.43%) JUnit
6 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 89 (37.87%) Finance
2 71 (30.21%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (27.66%) Social Skills
4 38 (16.17%) Banking
5 24 (10.21%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.81%) Legal
7 14 (5.96%) Law
8 8 (3.40%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.40%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.70%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Advertising
11 2 (0.85%) Billing
11 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Front Office
12 1 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 81 (34.47%) Data Engineer
2 77 (32.77%) Senior
3 26 (11.06%) Analyst
3 26 (11.06%) Lead
4 24 (10.21%) Developer
4 24 (10.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (9.79%) Senior Data Engineer
5 23 (9.79%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (9.79%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (9.36%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (9.36%) Python Engineer
7 18 (7.66%) Architect
7 18 (7.66%) Lead Data Engineer
8 16 (6.81%) Python Developer
9 13 (5.53%) Business Analyst
9 13 (5.53%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (5.11%) Data Business Analyst
10 12 (5.11%) Data Scientist
10 12 (5.11%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (43.83%) Kafka
2 58 (24.68%) PySpark
3 39 (16.60%) PyTorch
3 39 (16.60%) TensorFlow
4 27 (11.49%) scikit-learn
5 24 (10.21%) LangChain
5 24 (10.21%) REST
6 23 (9.79%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.79%) Pandas
6 23 (9.79%) pgvector
7 14 (5.96%) Spring
7 14 (5.96%) Spring Boot
8 11 (4.68%) Node.js
9 9 (3.83%) Faiss
9 9 (3.83%) NumPy
9 9 (3.83%) vLLM
10 8 (3.40%) React
10 8 (3.40%) SpaCy
11 6 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 45 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.21%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.79%) Clustering
4 21 (8.94%) Product Ownership
5 16 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.26%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.26%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.83%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (3.40%) e-Learning
9 6 (2.55%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.55%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.55%) Social Media
10 5 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.28%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.28%) NHS
13 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.40%) Linux
2 5 (2.13%) CentOS
2 5 (2.13%) Debian
2 5 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.13%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (65.53%) Data Pipeline
2 142 (60.43%) Data Engineering
3 141 (60.00%) Analytics
4 115 (48.94%) ETL
5 111 (47.23%) CI/CD
6 104 (44.26%) AI
7 91 (38.72%) Data Modelling
7 91 (38.72%) Data Science
8 90 (38.30%) Data Governance
9 86 (36.60%) Machine Learning
10 80 (34.04%) Agile
11 66 (28.09%) Business Intelligence
12 55 (23.40%) Use Case
13 50 (21.28%) Computer Science
14 49 (20.85%) DevOps
14 49 (20.85%) Generative AI
15 48 (20.43%) Software Engineering
16 45 (19.15%) Performance Tuning
17 39 (16.60%) Feature Engineering
18 38 (16.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 220 (93.62%) Python
2 175 (74.47%) SQL
3 52 (22.13%) Java
4 47 (20.00%) Scala
5 12 (5.11%) Bash
6 9 (3.83%) Go
7 8 (3.40%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.98%) C++
9 5 (2.13%) R
10 4 (1.70%) Bicep
10 4 (1.70%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.28%) VBA
12 2 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.43%) C#
13 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (16.17%) Degree
2 31 (13.19%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.11%) Master's Degree
5 12 (5.11%) PhD
6 10 (4.26%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.83%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.55%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.43%) CEH
11 1 (0.43%) CISM
11 1 (0.43%) CISSP
11 1 (0.43%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (38.72%) Data Quality
2 37 (15.74%) GDPR
3 35 (14.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.11%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.70%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.28%) QA
7 2 (0.85%) IFRS
7 2 (0.85%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.85%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (17.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (16.17%) Terraform
2 33 (14.04%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.53%) Ansible
4 6 (2.55%) Grafana
5 5 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.13%) Puppet
6 3 (1.28%) Kibana
6 3 (1.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 79 (33.62%) Databricks
2 31 (13.19%) Red Hat
3 29 (12.34%) Oracle
4 24 (10.21%) Cloudera
4 24 (10.21%) Dell
5 10 (4.26%) Google
5 10 (4.26%) Palantir
6 9 (3.83%) Microsoft
7 6 (2.55%) Informatica
8 5 (2.13%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.13%) Talend
9 3 (1.28%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.43%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.43%) Confluent
10 1 (0.43%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.43%) Pega
10 1 (0.43%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.43%) UiPath