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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 390 278
Rank change year-on-year -111 -112 -36
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 231 301 1,022
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.69% 1.06%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.26% 7.08% 10.07%
Number of salaries quoted 105 208 292
10th Percentile £55,400 £52,275 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £84,115 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +5.14% -8.57%
75th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £105,000
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% -

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 3,693 4,251 10,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.04% 9.73% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,590 2,897 7,103
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,544 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £93,750
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 7 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 7 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 -105 209 £85,000 - 98
London -49 141 £97,500 -11.36% 52
UK excluding London -93 67 £80,000 +23.08% 52
Work from Home -92 61 £81,000 -26.36% 53
North of England -52 23 £80,000 +39.13% 28
East of England 0 18 £75,000 -7.69%
South West -39 15 £75,000 +50.00% 7
Yorkshire -51 11 £80,000 +39.13% 2
North West -22 9 £85,000 +41.67% 13
Scotland -17 5 £102,500 +2.50% 3
South East -51 4 £57,500 -11.54% 8
North East -26 3 £57,500 -28.13% 13
Wales -27 1 £95,000 +48.44%
Midlands -38 1 £50,000 -21.88% 5
East Midlands -40 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2

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
1 107 (46.32%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (35.06%) Apache
3 3 (1.30%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.87%) Jupyter
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
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
1 153 (66.23%) AWS
2 116 (50.22%) Azure
3 97 (41.99%) GCP
4 50 (21.65%) Power Platform
5 49 (21.21%) Amazon S3
6 47 (20.35%) Snowflake
7 44 (19.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 44 (19.05%) dbt
8 32 (13.85%) OpenShift
9 29 (12.55%) Serverless
10 25 (10.82%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (9.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (7.36%) Dagster
13 15 (6.49%) Azure Machine Learning
14 11 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (4.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (4.33%) GitHub
15 10 (4.33%) Microsoft Purview
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 73 (31.60%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (31.17%) Big Data
4 51 (22.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 51 (22.08%) Data Lake
5 49 (21.21%) Power BI
6 47 (20.35%) Elasticsearch
7 46 (19.91%) BigQuery
8 34 (14.72%) Hadoop
9 33 (14.29%) Looker
10 31 (13.42%) Spark SQL
11 28 (12.12%) Apache Hive
11 28 (12.12%) Snowflake Schema
12 26 (11.26%) Parquet
13 25 (10.82%) Impala
13 25 (10.82%) Oracle Database
14 23 (9.96%) Delta Lake
15 22 (9.52%) Relational Database
16 20 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
17 19 (8.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 44 (19.05%) Git
2 38 (16.45%) MLflow
3 25 (10.82%) IBM UrbanCode
4 10 (4.33%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.60%) 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 84 (36.36%) Finance
2 73 (31.60%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 35 (15.15%) Banking
5 24 (10.39%) Investment Banking
6 15 (6.49%) Legal
7 14 (6.06%) Law
8 7 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.16%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.73%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.73%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.87%) Advertising
11 2 (0.87%) Billing
11 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Retail
12 1 (0.43%) Games
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (32.47%) Data Engineer
2 73 (31.60%) Senior
3 26 (11.26%) Analyst
4 24 (10.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (9.96%) Developer
5 23 (9.96%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (9.96%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (9.52%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
7 20 (8.66%) Lead
7 20 (8.66%) Python Engineer
8 18 (7.79%) Architect
9 17 (7.36%) Python Developer
10 15 (6.49%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (5.63%) Business Analyst
12 12 (5.19%) AWS Data Engineer
12 12 (5.19%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.19%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.19%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (46.32%) Kafka
2 55 (23.81%) 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%) pgvector
8 22 (9.52%) Pandas
9 15 (6.49%) Spring
10 14 (6.06%) Spring Boot
11 10 (4.33%) Node.js
12 9 (3.90%) Faiss
12 9 (3.90%) vLLM
13 7 (3.03%) NumPy
13 7 (3.03%) React
14 6 (2.60%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (2.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.96%) Clustering
2 23 (9.96%) Public Cloud
3 19 (8.23%) Product Ownership
4 17 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.76%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.33%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (3.03%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.60%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.60%) Social Media
9 5 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.16%) e-Learning
9 5 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.16%) Management Information System
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
1 150 (64.94%) Data Pipeline
2 139 (60.17%) Analytics
3 133 (57.58%) Data Engineering
4 115 (49.78%) ETL
5 107 (46.32%) AI
6 105 (45.45%) CI/CD
7 92 (39.83%) Data Governance
7 92 (39.83%) Data Science
8 91 (39.39%) Machine Learning
9 89 (38.53%) Data Modelling
10 70 (30.30%) Agile
11 67 (29.00%) Business Intelligence
12 53 (22.94%) Computer Science
13 52 (22.51%) Use Case
14 50 (21.65%) Generative AI
15 47 (20.35%) DevOps
15 47 (20.35%) Software Engineering
16 43 (18.61%) Performance Tuning
17 41 (17.75%) Feature Engineering
18 38 (16.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 212 (91.77%) Python
2 170 (73.59%) SQL
3 51 (22.08%) Java
4 43 (18.61%) Scala
5 10 (4.33%) Bash
6 9 (3.90%) Go
7 8 (3.46%) C++
8 6 (2.60%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.60%) R
9 4 (1.73%) Bicep
10 3 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.30%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.30%) VBA
11 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.43%) Ruby
11 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (16.45%) Degree
2 28 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.23%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.76%) PhD
6 10 (4.33%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.90%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.46%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.60%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.43%) CEH
12 1 (0.43%) CISM
12 1 (0.43%) CISSP
12 1 (0.43%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (39.39%) 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%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.43%) QA
7 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (15.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (15.15%) Terraform
2 32 (13.85%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.49%) Ansible
4 8 (3.46%) Grafana
5 7 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.16%) Puppet
7 3 (1.30%) Packer
8 1 (0.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 85 (36.80%) 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%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.19%) Palantir
5 10 (4.33%) Google
6 7 (3.03%) Informatica
7 6 (2.60%) Talend
8 5 (2.16%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.30%) 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