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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 432 511
Rank change year-on-year -112 +79 -142
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 272 240 288
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.48% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.69% 5.99% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 136 104 191
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,550 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,063 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +0.46%
75th Percentile £97,500 £99,063 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,125 £139,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
% change year-on-year -2.04% - -18.33%

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 4,781 4,005 6,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.06% 8.07% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,234 2,644 3,693
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% -5.81% +3.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £105,950 £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 8 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 8 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 -83 253 £75,000 -9.09% 477
London -64 144 £90,000 -2.70% 359
UK excluding London -98 107 £60,000 -2.04% 186
Work from Home -25 59 £67,153 -10.46% 206
North of England -36 57 £58,750 -2.08% 49
South West -43 31 £60,500 +10.00% 23
North East -39 26 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North West -8 20 £58,750 -12.96% 28
Yorkshire -39 11 £80,000 +33.33% 12
South East -56 9 £65,000 -3.70% 35
Scotland -21 4 - - 34
West Midlands -41 4 £60,653 +13.37% 5
Midlands -51 4 £60,653 +13.37% 9
Wales -75 2 £80,000 +59.60% 4
East of England -35 1 £80,000 +11.89% 12

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
1 126 (46.32%) Apache
2 47 (17.28%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (8.46%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.84%) Apache Pig
5 4 (1.47%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (1.10%) SAS
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.74%) Luigi
7 2 (0.74%) Tornado
8 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 161 (59.19%) AWS
2 148 (54.41%) Azure
3 84 (30.88%) GCP
4 44 (16.18%) Serverless
5 43 (15.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 42 (15.44%) Amazon S3
7 33 (12.13%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (10.66%) Power Platform
9 28 (10.29%) Amazon EMR
10 25 (9.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 23 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (8.09%) Amazon Kinesis
13 21 (7.72%) Azure Databricks
14 19 (6.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (6.25%) GitHub
15 17 (6.25%) Snowflake
16 14 (5.15%) Amazon ECR
16 14 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.57%) AMQP
2 6 (2.21%) BGP
2 6 (2.21%) DNS
2 6 (2.21%) IPsec
2 6 (2.21%) VPN
3 5 (1.84%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) 4G
4 1 (0.37%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (33.09%) Big Data
2 59 (21.69%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (20.22%) Hadoop
4 49 (18.01%) Data Lake
5 46 (16.91%) NoSQL
6 45 (16.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 31 (11.40%) Metadata
8 29 (10.66%) Power BI
9 26 (9.56%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (8.82%) Relational Database
11 23 (8.46%) Delta Lake
12 21 (7.72%) Amazon Athena
13 20 (7.35%) Tableau
14 19 (6.99%) Flink
15 17 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (5.51%) Spark SQL
17 12 (4.41%) DynamoDB
17 12 (4.41%) SQL Server
18 11 (4.04%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 46 (16.91%) Git
2 25 (9.19%) GitLab
3 22 (8.09%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.57%) MLflow
5 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.37%) ERwin
6 1 (0.37%) JIRA
6 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 116 (42.65%) Finance
2 74 (27.21%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (12.50%) Banking
5 29 (10.66%) Public Sector
6 27 (9.93%) Financial Institution
7 21 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (6.62%) Law
9 15 (5.51%) Aerospace
10 13 (4.78%) Marketing
11 10 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.68%) Military
12 6 (2.21%) Games
12 6 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.21%) Retail
13 5 (1.84%) Legal
14 4 (1.47%) Front Office
15 2 (0.74%) Aviation
15 2 (0.74%) Local Government
15 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 139 (51.10%) Data Engineer
2 83 (30.51%) Senior
3 47 (17.28%) Lead
4 41 (15.07%) Data Scientist
5 37 (13.60%) Senior Data Engineer
6 34 (12.50%) Senior Data Scientist
7 26 (9.56%) Lead Data Engineer
8 22 (8.09%) Databricks Engineer
9 20 (7.35%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 16 (5.88%) Python Engineer
11 15 (5.51%) Architect
11 15 (5.51%) Software Engineer
12 14 (5.15%) Data Architect
13 12 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (3.68%) AWS Data Engineer
14 10 (3.68%) Developer
15 9 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
16 8 (2.94%) AWS Consultant
16 8 (2.94%) Azure Data Engineer
16 8 (2.94%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (34.19%) Kafka
2 62 (22.79%) PySpark
3 61 (22.43%) Terraform
4 26 (9.56%) SpaCy
5 15 (5.51%) Node.js
6 13 (4.78%) Spring
6 13 (4.78%) Spring Boot
7 12 (4.41%) REST
8 11 (4.04%) React
9 10 (3.68%) gRPC
9 10 (3.68%) Pandas
10 9 (3.31%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.31%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (2.57%) Material-UI
11 7 (2.57%) OpenAPI
11 7 (2.57%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.57%) RESTful
11 7 (2.57%) Swagger
11 7 (2.57%) YAML
12 6 (2.21%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.56%) e-Learning
3 22 (8.09%) Product Ownership
4 19 (6.99%) Data Structures
5 18 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (5.51%) Onboarding
7 13 (4.78%) Algorithms
8 11 (4.04%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.21%) NHS
10 5 (1.84%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.47%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.47%) CUDA
11 4 (1.47%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.74%) Blog
13 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.74%) Derivative
13 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.51%) Linux
2 7 (2.57%) CentOS
2 7 (2.57%) Debian
2 7 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (61.76%) Data Engineering
2 155 (56.99%) Analytics
3 152 (55.88%) CI/CD
4 145 (53.31%) Data Pipeline
5 116 (42.65%) Data Science
6 114 (41.91%) DevOps
7 111 (40.81%) Data Modelling
8 104 (38.24%) Machine Learning
9 89 (32.72%) Agile
10 85 (31.25%) ETL
11 82 (30.15%) Mentoring
12 81 (29.78%) AI
13 65 (23.90%) Infrastructure as Code
14 54 (19.85%) Validation
15 52 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
16 51 (18.75%) Lakehouse
17 47 (17.28%) Software Engineering
18 46 (16.91%) Natural Language Processing
19 45 (16.54%) Data Governance
20 44 (16.18%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 228 (83.82%) Python
2 169 (62.13%) SQL
3 55 (20.22%) Scala
4 42 (15.44%) Java
5 16 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.94%) C#
7 7 (2.57%) R
8 6 (2.21%) Bash
8 6 (2.21%) C
8 6 (2.21%) PHP
8 6 (2.21%) Ruby
9 5 (1.84%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.84%) VBA
10 4 (1.47%) Bicep
10 4 (1.47%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.10%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.10%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (33.46%) Security Cleared
2 68 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 63 (23.16%) Degree
4 35 (12.87%) PhD
5 34 (12.50%) Master's Degree
6 22 (8.09%) AWS Certification
7 20 (7.35%) Azure Certification
8 19 (6.99%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.10%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.37%) CEH
12 1 (0.37%) CISM
12 1 (0.37%) CISSP
12 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.37%) OCP
12 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (35.29%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.78%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.94%) QA
4 7 (2.57%) GDPR
5 5 (1.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.74%) IFRS
6 2 (0.74%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.74%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (23.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (19.12%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.88%) Ansible
3 7 (2.57%) Puppet
4 6 (2.21%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.84%) Argo
6 4 (1.47%) Grafana
7 3 (1.10%) Kibana
7 3 (1.10%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.74%) Packer
9 1 (0.37%) Control-M
9 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 98 (36.03%) Databricks
2 34 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.78%) Google
4 9 (3.31%) Oracle
5 8 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.57%) Informatica
6 7 (2.57%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.21%) HP
7 6 (2.21%) IBM
7 6 (2.21%) SAP
8 5 (1.84%) Foundry
9 4 (1.47%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.47%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.47%) Palantir
9 4 (1.47%) Splunk
10 3 (1.10%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.10%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.74%) Talend
11 2 (0.74%) Thales