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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 398 271
Rank change year-on-year -88 -127 -26
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 231 285 1,024
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.66% 1.06%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.24% 6.82% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 106 198 294
10th Percentile £54,375 £51,225 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £104,375
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +23.08% -6.40% -0.79%

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 3,702 4,177 10,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.08% 9.62% 10.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,823 7,078
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,494 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,175 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,375 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +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 14 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 14 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 -81 208 £85,000 - 94
London -45 140 £100,000 -9.09% 54
UK excluding London -93 69 £80,000 +23.08% 51
Work from Home -97 58 £80,500 -26.82% 79
North of England -25 24 £80,000 +39.13% 20
East of England -1 18 £75,000 -7.69%
South West -30 16 £75,000 +50.00% 12
Yorkshire -59 12 £80,000 +39.13% 2
North West -4 8 £85,000 +54.55% 6
Scotland -4 5 £102,500 +2.50% 2
North East -33 4 £57,500 -28.13% 13
South East -43 4 £57,500 -11.54% 9
Wales -30 1 £95,000 +48.44% 3
East Midlands -34 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -47 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
1 108 (46.75%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (36.80%) Apache
3 5 (2.16%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.30%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.43%) Camunda
5 1 (0.43%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (5.63%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 156 (67.53%) AWS
2 114 (49.35%) Azure
3 97 (41.99%) GCP
4 49 (21.21%) Amazon S3
5 48 (20.78%) Power Platform
6 47 (20.35%) Snowflake
7 45 (19.48%) dbt
8 44 (19.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 32 (13.85%) OpenShift
10 29 (12.55%) Serverless
11 25 (10.82%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (6.93%) Dagster
14 13 (5.63%) Azure Machine Learning
15 12 (5.19%) Amazon EMR
16 11 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 11 (4.76%) GitHub
17 9 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (3.90%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.03%) Broadband
2 5 (2.16%) AMQP
3 2 (0.87%) 4G
3 2 (0.87%) 5G
4 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.43%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (32.47%) Tableau
2 72 (31.17%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (30.74%) Big Data
4 53 (22.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 49 (21.21%) Data Lake
6 48 (20.78%) Elasticsearch
7 47 (20.35%) Power BI
8 46 (19.91%) BigQuery
9 33 (14.29%) Hadoop
9 33 (14.29%) Looker
10 32 (13.85%) Spark SQL
11 28 (12.12%) Snowflake Schema
12 27 (11.69%) Apache Hive
13 26 (11.26%) Parquet
14 25 (10.82%) Impala
14 25 (10.82%) Oracle Database
15 22 (9.52%) Relational Database
16 21 (9.09%) Delta Lake
17 20 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
18 19 (8.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (18.61%) Git
2 37 (16.02%) MLflow
3 25 (10.82%) IBM UrbanCode
4 9 (3.90%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.03%) GitLab
6 2 (0.87%) JIRA
7 1 (0.43%) Deequ
7 1 (0.43%) JUnit
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (37.66%) Finance
2 72 (31.17%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 36 (15.58%) Banking
5 24 (10.39%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.93%) Legal
7 15 (6.49%) Law
8 8 (3.46%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.60%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.73%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.73%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.87%) Advertising
12 2 (0.87%) Billing
12 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Front Office
13 1 (0.43%) Games
13 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 75 (32.47%) Senior
2 74 (32.03%) Data Engineer
3 26 (11.26%) Analyst
4 24 (10.39%) Developer
4 24 (10.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (9.96%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (9.96%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (9.52%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (9.52%) Lead
6 22 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
7 21 (9.09%) Python Engineer
8 18 (7.79%) Architect
9 17 (7.36%) Python Developer
10 16 (6.93%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (5.63%) Business Analyst
11 13 (5.63%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.19%) AWS Data Engineer
12 12 (5.19%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.19%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (44.59%) Kafka
2 54 (23.38%) PySpark
3 41 (17.75%) PyTorch
3 41 (17.75%) TensorFlow
4 28 (12.12%) scikit-learn
5 25 (10.82%) REST
6 24 (10.39%) LangChain
7 23 (9.96%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (9.96%) Pandas
7 23 (9.96%) pgvector
8 15 (6.49%) Spring
9 14 (6.06%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.76%) Node.js
11 9 (3.90%) Faiss
11 9 (3.90%) vLLM
12 8 (3.46%) NumPy
12 8 (3.46%) React
13 6 (2.60%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.60%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.61%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.96%) Clustering
2 23 (9.96%) Public Cloud
3 20 (8.66%) Product Ownership
4 17 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.76%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.90%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.46%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.60%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.60%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.60%) e-Learning
8 6 (2.60%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.60%) Social Media
9 5 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.30%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.30%) NHS
11 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.46%) Linux
2 5 (2.16%) CentOS
2 5 (2.16%) Debian
2 5 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.16%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (64.50%) Data Pipeline
2 141 (61.04%) Analytics
3 137 (59.31%) Data Engineering
4 114 (49.35%) ETL
5 106 (45.89%) CI/CD
6 105 (45.45%) AI
7 89 (38.53%) Data Governance
7 89 (38.53%) Machine Learning
8 88 (38.10%) Data Science
9 86 (37.23%) Data Modelling
10 73 (31.60%) Agile
11 65 (28.14%) Business Intelligence
12 52 (22.51%) Computer Science
12 52 (22.51%) Use Case
13 50 (21.65%) Generative AI
14 49 (21.21%) Software Engineering
15 44 (19.05%) DevOps
15 44 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
16 40 (17.32%) Feature Engineering
17 39 (16.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 215 (93.07%) Python
2 170 (73.59%) SQL
3 53 (22.94%) Java
4 43 (18.61%) Scala
5 11 (4.76%) Bash
6 9 (3.90%) Go
7 7 (3.03%) C++
7 7 (3.03%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.73%) Bicep
8 4 (1.73%) R
8 4 (1.73%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.30%) VBA
10 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.43%) C#
10 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.43%) Ruby
10 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (16.45%) Degree
2 27 (11.69%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.76%) PhD
6 10 (4.33%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.46%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.46%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.60%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.30%) 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 87 (37.66%) Data Quality
2 38 (16.45%) GDPR
3 35 (15.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.19%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.73%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.87%) IFRS
6 2 (0.87%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.87%) QA
6 2 (0.87%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (15.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (15.58%) Terraform
2 31 (13.42%) Kubernetes
3 14 (6.06%) Ansible
4 7 (3.03%) Grafana
5 6 (2.60%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.16%) Puppet
7 3 (1.30%) Packer
8 1 (0.43%) Argo
8 1 (0.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 81 (35.06%) Databricks
2 32 (13.85%) Oracle
2 32 (13.85%) Red Hat
3 24 (10.39%) Cloudera
3 24 (10.39%) Dell
4 12 (5.19%) Palantir
5 10 (4.33%) Google
6 9 (3.90%) Microsoft
7 7 (3.03%) Informatica
8 6 (2.60%) Talend
9 5 (2.16%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.43%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.43%) Confluent
11 1 (0.43%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.43%) Pega
11 1 (0.43%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.43%) UiPath