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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 415 363
Rank change year-on-year -83 -52 -10
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 293 288 620
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.58% 0.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.60% 6.53% 7.63%
Number of salaries quoted 138 144 204
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £99,063 £99,375
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +2.00% -16.67%

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 4,442 4,410 8,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.34% 8.94% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,175 2,940 5,634
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +2.26% -4.81%
75th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -60 275 £80,000 +6.67% 126
London -6 175 £95,000 +2.70% 91
UK excluding London -123 96 £60,000 -5.88% 52
Work from Home -67 61 £66,805 -10.93% 47
North of England -26 44 £55,000 -4.35% 16
South West -46 22 £67,500 +22.73% 8
North East -39 18 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West +4 16 £55,000 -18.52% 4
East of England -17 15 £75,000 +4.90% 2
Yorkshire -38 10 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -60 7 £62,500 -3.85% 16
Scotland -14 3 £115,000 +15.00% 2
Midlands -49 3 £58,403 -13.48% 4
West Midlands -29 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
Wales -60 2 £80,000 +27.87% 3
East Midlands -32 1 £50,000 -33.33% 3

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 (43.34%) Apache
2 101 (34.47%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (5.80%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.71%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.02%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.02%) SAS
6 2 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.34%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.44%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 189 (64.51%) AWS
2 138 (47.10%) Azure
3 93 (31.74%) GCP
4 60 (20.48%) Amazon S3
5 51 (17.41%) Power Platform
6 47 (16.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (13.65%) dbt
7 40 (13.65%) Snowflake
8 37 (12.63%) Serverless
9 34 (11.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (10.24%) OpenShift
11 23 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (7.51%) Amazon EMR
12 22 (7.51%) Amazon Kinesis
13 18 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (5.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 15 (5.12%) GitHub
15 13 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.05%) BGP
1 6 (2.05%) Broadband
1 6 (2.05%) DNS
1 6 (2.05%) IPsec
1 6 (2.05%) VPN
2 5 (1.71%) Internet
3 4 (1.37%) AMQP
4 2 (0.68%) 4G
4 2 (0.68%) 5G
5 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (30.72%) Big Data
2 73 (24.91%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (21.84%) Tableau
4 58 (19.80%) Data Lake
5 56 (19.11%) Elasticsearch
6 54 (18.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 50 (17.06%) Power BI
8 47 (16.04%) Hadoop
9 40 (13.65%) NoSQL
10 38 (12.97%) Apache Hive
11 36 (12.29%) Spark SQL
12 34 (11.60%) BigQuery
13 27 (9.22%) Parquet
13 27 (9.22%) Relational Database
14 26 (8.87%) Metadata
15 25 (8.53%) Delta Lake
15 25 (8.53%) Impala
15 25 (8.53%) Oracle Database
15 25 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (8.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 50 (17.06%) Git
2 30 (10.24%) MLflow
3 25 (8.53%) IBM UrbanCode
4 18 (6.14%) GitLab
5 14 (4.78%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.68%) JIRA
6 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 121 (41.30%) Finance
2 79 (26.96%) Social Skills
3 68 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (16.04%) Banking
5 24 (8.19%) Investment Banking
5 24 (8.19%) Law
6 18 (6.14%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.46%) Financial Institution
7 16 (5.46%) Legal
8 13 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.07%) Marketing
9 9 (3.07%) Military
10 7 (2.39%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.05%) Games
11 6 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Retail
13 3 (1.02%) Front Office
13 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.68%) Billing
Job Titles
1 124 (42.32%) Data Engineer
2 102 (34.81%) Senior
3 40 (13.65%) Lead
4 37 (12.63%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (8.87%) Analyst
5 26 (8.87%) Data Scientist
6 25 (8.53%) Lead Data Engineer
7 24 (8.19%) Python Engineer
7 24 (8.19%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 23 (7.85%) Systems Engineer
8 23 (7.85%) Transformation Analyst
9 22 (7.51%) Banking Analyst
10 21 (7.17%) Senior Data Scientist
11 17 (5.80%) Architect
12 16 (5.46%) Developer
13 13 (4.44%) Business Analyst
13 13 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.10%) Data Architect
14 12 (4.10%) Data Business Analyst
14 12 (4.10%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (44.37%) Kafka
2 76 (25.94%) PySpark
3 26 (8.87%) PyTorch
4 25 (8.53%) TensorFlow
5 24 (8.19%) Pandas
5 24 (8.19%) pgvector
5 24 (8.19%) scikit-learn
6 23 (7.85%) LangChain
6 23 (7.85%) LlamaIndex
7 20 (6.83%) REST
8 16 (5.46%) Node.js
8 16 (5.46%) SpaCy
9 14 (4.78%) Spring
9 14 (4.78%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.39%) Apache NiFi
10 7 (2.39%) NumPy
10 7 (2.39%) React
11 5 (1.71%) gRPC
11 5 (1.71%) OAuth
11 5 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.43%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.87%) Public Cloud
3 23 (7.85%) Clustering
4 20 (6.83%) Data Structures
5 17 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (5.46%) e-Learning
7 15 (5.12%) Product Ownership
8 14 (4.78%) Onboarding
9 11 (3.75%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (2.73%) Algorithms
11 6 (2.05%) Anti-Piracy
11 6 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (2.05%) Social Media
12 5 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.37%) NHS
14 3 (1.02%) Data Fabric
14 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (1.02%) Management Information System
15 2 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.44%) Linux
2 4 (1.37%) CentOS
2 4 (1.37%) Debian
2 4 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (63.48%) Analytics
2 179 (61.09%) Data Engineering
3 175 (59.73%) Data Pipeline
4 143 (48.81%) CI/CD
5 122 (41.64%) AI
6 121 (41.30%) ETL
7 120 (40.96%) Data Modelling
8 114 (38.91%) Data Science
9 111 (37.88%) Machine Learning
10 97 (33.11%) Agile
11 95 (32.42%) Data Governance
12 84 (28.67%) DevOps
13 65 (22.18%) Use Case
14 64 (21.84%) Business Intelligence
15 59 (20.14%) Mentoring
16 55 (18.77%) Validation
17 50 (17.06%) Generative AI
17 50 (17.06%) Performance Tuning
18 48 (16.38%) Computer Science
18 48 (16.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 256 (87.37%) Python
2 212 (72.35%) SQL
3 55 (18.77%) Scala
4 46 (15.70%) Java
5 9 (3.07%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.39%) C#
6 7 (2.39%) C++
7 6 (2.05%) C
7 6 (2.05%) PHP
7 6 (2.05%) Ruby
8 5 (1.71%) Bash
8 5 (1.71%) Bicep
8 5 (1.71%) VBA
9 4 (1.37%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.02%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.68%) R
11 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.34%) Go
Qualifications
1 59 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 51 (17.41%) Degree
3 44 (15.02%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.51%) PhD
5 20 (6.83%) Master's Degree
6 16 (5.46%) Azure Certification
7 14 (4.78%) AWS Certification
8 13 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (4.44%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.02%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.34%) CEH
12 1 (0.34%) CISM
12 1 (0.34%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (36.18%) Data Quality
2 39 (13.31%) GDPR
3 35 (11.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.10%) HIPAA
5 7 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.39%) QA
6 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.68%) IFRS
6 2 (0.68%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.68%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (17.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (18.09%) Terraform
2 43 (14.68%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.12%) Ansible
4 7 (2.39%) Grafana
5 6 (2.05%) Hadoop YARN
5 6 (2.05%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.37%) Puppet
7 3 (1.02%) Kibana
7 3 (1.02%) Packer
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 104 (35.49%) Databricks
2 34 (11.60%) Oracle
3 29 (9.90%) Red Hat
4 25 (8.53%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.19%) Cloudera
5 24 (8.19%) Dell
6 8 (2.73%) Google
6 8 (2.73%) Informatica
7 6 (2.05%) HP
7 6 (2.05%) IBM
7 6 (2.05%) SAP
8 5 (1.71%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.37%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.02%) Palantir
10 3 (1.02%) Talend
11 2 (0.68%) Foundry
11 2 (0.68%) LexisNexis
11 2 (0.68%) PeopleSoft
11 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.68%) Splunk