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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 437 275
Rank change year-on-year -43 -162 -31
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 179 290 680
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.55% 1.04%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.18% 5.97% 9.67%
Number of salaries quoted 94 202 274
10th Percentile £53,250 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £65,625 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £81,615 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% +2.02% -3.03%
75th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £121,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -13.79% +11.54%

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 3,457 4,854 7,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.53% 9.14% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,286 2,836 5,289
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £88,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,000 £44,033
% change year-on-year -9.57% +6.74% -6.31%

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 24 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 24 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 -25 164 £85,000 +6.25% 231
London -1 119 £95,000 -5.00% 45
Work from Home -41 49 £88,500 -11.50% 91
UK excluding London -15 44 £65,000 +4.00% 220
North of England +25 29 £62,500 +19.05% 42
Yorkshire - 18 £65,000 - 17
North West +14 10 £55,000 +10.00% 17
East of England +24 4 - - 32
South West -8 4 £50,000 -35.48% 31
Scotland -12 3 £90,000 - 13
Midlands +5 2 - - 27
West Midlands +32 1 - - 8
Wales +7 1 £95,000 +79.25% 11
South East +6 1 £65,000 +13.04% 64
North East +1 1 - - 8
East Midlands -9 1 - - 19

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 (27.93%) Apache
2 41 (22.91%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.68%) Luigi
4 2 (1.12%) SAS
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 6 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 126 (70.39%) AWS
2 102 (56.98%) Azure
3 80 (44.69%) GCP
4 37 (20.67%) Serverless
5 33 (18.44%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (12.85%) Amazon S3
7 20 (11.17%) Snowflake
8 18 (10.06%) Amazon EMR
9 17 (9.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (9.50%) dbt
9 17 (9.50%) Power Platform
10 16 (8.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (8.38%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (7.26%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (6.15%) OpenShift
14 10 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (5.59%) Azure Machine Learning
14 10 (5.59%) Dagster
15 8 (4.47%) GitHub
16 7 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.79%) AMQP
2 4 (2.23%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.56%) Broadband
3 1 (0.56%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (46.93%) Big Data
2 68 (37.99%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (36.87%) Hadoop
4 49 (27.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (19.55%) Data Lake
6 25 (13.97%) NoSQL
7 21 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (10.61%) MySQL
8 19 (10.61%) Tableau
9 18 (10.06%) MongoDB
10 17 (9.50%) Apache Iceberg
10 17 (9.50%) BigQuery
10 17 (9.50%) Power BI
10 17 (9.50%) SQL Server
11 15 (8.38%) Delta Lake
12 14 (7.82%) Apache Hive
12 14 (7.82%) Relational Database
13 13 (7.26%) Metadata
14 12 (6.70%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (6.70%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (7.26%) Git
2 12 (6.70%) MLflow
3 8 (4.47%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.23%) GitLab
5 2 (1.12%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.12%) Deequ
General
1 75 (41.90%) Social Skills
2 59 (32.96%) Finance
3 41 (22.91%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.06%) Financial Institution
5 16 (8.94%) Law
6 13 (7.26%) Banking
7 11 (6.15%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.23%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.68%) Front Office
9 3 (1.68%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.12%) Legal
10 2 (1.12%) Marketing
10 2 (1.12%) Retail
10 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.56%) Advertising
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (43.58%) Data Engineer
2 53 (29.61%) Senior
3 29 (16.20%) Senior Data Engineer
4 23 (12.85%) Developer
5 18 (10.06%) AWS Data Engineer
5 18 (10.06%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (7.82%) Python Developer
7 13 (7.26%) Architect
7 13 (7.26%) Principal Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Lead
8 11 (6.15%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.59%) Data Architect
9 10 (5.59%) Data Scientist
10 7 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 7 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 7 (3.91%) Consultant
10 7 (3.91%) Data Consultant
10 7 (3.91%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (3.91%) Senior Data Scientist
11 6 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (39.66%) Kafka
2 23 (12.85%) PySpark
2 23 (12.85%) PyTorch
2 23 (12.85%) TensorFlow
3 19 (10.61%) REST
4 14 (7.82%) Pandas
5 11 (6.15%) scikit-learn
6 10 (5.59%) Spark Streaming
7 8 (4.47%) boto
8 7 (3.91%) Faiss
8 7 (3.91%) NumPy
8 7 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (3.91%) React
8 7 (3.91%) SpaCy
8 7 (3.91%) Spring
8 7 (3.91%) vLLM
9 6 (3.35%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.35%) Node.js
9 6 (3.35%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.79%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.02%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (13.97%) Product Ownership
3 24 (13.41%) Cloud Native
4 17 (9.50%) e-Learning
5 14 (7.82%) Algorithms
6 11 (6.15%) Management Information System
7 10 (5.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (3.91%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (3.91%) FMCG
10 4 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.23%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.68%) Equities
11 3 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.12%) NHS
13 1 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
13 1 (0.56%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.82%) Linux
2 9 (5.03%) Unix
3 5 (2.79%) CentOS
3 5 (2.79%) Debian
3 5 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (58.10%) Data Pipeline
2 97 (54.19%) Data Engineering
3 87 (48.60%) Analytics
4 85 (47.49%) CI/CD
5 73 (40.78%) Machine Learning
6 72 (40.22%) Data Science
7 71 (39.66%) ETL
8 67 (37.43%) Data Modelling
9 51 (28.49%) AI
10 50 (27.93%) Business Intelligence
10 50 (27.93%) DevOps
11 49 (27.37%) Data Governance
12 46 (25.70%) Software Engineering
13 44 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (24.02%) Computer Science
15 38 (21.23%) Agile
16 37 (20.67%) Mentoring
17 31 (17.32%) Roadmaps
18 29 (16.20%) Observability
19 27 (15.08%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 159 (88.83%) Python
2 115 (64.25%) SQL
3 68 (37.99%) Java
4 43 (24.02%) Scala
5 9 (5.03%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.47%) Bash
6 8 (4.47%) R
7 7 (3.91%) Go
8 4 (2.23%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.68%) C#
10 2 (1.12%) C++
10 2 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.56%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (24.02%) Degree
2 16 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.82%) Master's Degree
3 14 (7.82%) PhD
4 13 (7.26%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.35%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.56%) MBA
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (27.37%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.59%) QA
3 9 (5.03%) GDPR
4 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (17.32%) Docker
2 9 (5.03%) HDFS
3 5 (2.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (16.20%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.06%) Terraform
3 14 (7.82%) Ansible
4 7 (3.91%) Puppet
5 6 (3.35%) Grafana
5 6 (3.35%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.68%) Kibana
6 3 (1.68%) logstash
7 2 (1.12%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 59 (32.96%) Databricks
2 19 (10.61%) Oracle
3 13 (7.26%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.70%) Palantir
5 11 (6.15%) Google
5 11 (6.15%) Informatica
6 10 (5.59%) Talend
7 8 (4.47%) SAP
8 7 (3.91%) Dell
9 6 (3.35%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.79%) SaltStack
11 4 (2.23%) IBM
12 1 (0.56%) Cloudera