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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 400 320
Rank change year-on-year -96 -80 -36
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 241 304 912
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.69% 0.86%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.14% 7.24% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 115 171 278
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +5.77% -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 3,925 4,196 10,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.25% 9.49% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,802 2,753 7,114
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £75,360 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -12.37%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -82 217 £83,250 -2.06% 103
London -38 140 £95,000 -12.64% 52
UK excluding London -87 78 £68,750 +5.77% 69
Work from Home -73 56 £67,500 -35.71% 60
North of England -25 31 £67,500 +20.00% 27
South West -32 19 £70,000 +40.00% 14
East of England -3 17 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North West +8 12 £65,000 +18.18% 16
North East -36 10 £56,250 +18.42% 9
Yorkshire -44 9 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -54 4 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Scotland -14 3 £115,000 +15.00% 1
Midlands -31 2 £50,000 -25.93% 5
Wales -40 2 £87,500 +16.67% 5
West Midlands -23 1 - - 3
East Midlands -32 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
1 111 (46.06%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (42.74%) Apache
3 13 (5.39%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.24%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.24%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.41%) Camunda
5 1 (0.41%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.39%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 167 (69.29%) AWS
2 117 (48.55%) Azure
3 97 (40.25%) GCP
4 56 (23.24%) Amazon S3
5 48 (19.92%) Power Platform
6 44 (18.26%) Snowflake
7 41 (17.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 41 (17.01%) dbt
8 31 (12.86%) OpenShift
9 29 (12.03%) Serverless
10 26 (10.79%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (9.13%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (6.22%) Dagster
13 14 (5.81%) Amazon EMR
14 13 (5.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (5.39%) Azure Machine Learning
15 11 (4.56%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (4.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.90%) Broadband
2 5 (2.07%) AMQP
3 2 (0.83%) 4G
3 2 (0.83%) 5G
4 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (31.12%) Tableau
2 73 (30.29%) Big Data
2 73 (30.29%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (23.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 51 (21.16%) Data Lake
4 51 (21.16%) Elasticsearch
5 47 (19.50%) Power BI
6 44 (18.26%) BigQuery
7 33 (13.69%) Spark SQL
8 32 (13.28%) Looker
9 28 (11.62%) Hadoop
10 27 (11.20%) Apache Hive
10 27 (11.20%) Snowflake Schema
11 26 (10.79%) Parquet
12 25 (10.37%) Delta Lake
12 25 (10.37%) Impala
12 25 (10.37%) Oracle Database
13 22 (9.13%) NoSQL
13 22 (9.13%) Relational Database
14 17 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (18.26%) Git
2 37 (15.35%) MLflow
3 25 (10.37%) IBM UrbanCode
4 13 (5.39%) GitLab
5 11 (4.56%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.83%) JIRA
6 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.41%) Deequ
7 1 (0.41%) JUnit
General
1 86 (35.68%) Finance
2 70 (29.05%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (26.97%) Social Skills
4 40 (16.60%) Banking
5 24 (9.96%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.64%) Legal
7 14 (5.81%) Law
8 11 (4.56%) Public Sector
9 10 (4.15%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.66%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.66%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Billing
13 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Advertising
14 1 (0.41%) Front Office
14 1 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 90 (37.34%) Data Engineer
2 79 (32.78%) Senior
3 28 (11.62%) Lead
4 26 (10.79%) Analyst
5 24 (9.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.54%) Senior Data Engineer
6 23 (9.54%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.54%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (9.13%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (9.13%) Developer
7 22 (9.13%) Python Engineer
8 18 (7.47%) Lead Data Engineer
9 17 (7.05%) Architect
10 15 (6.22%) Data Scientist
11 14 (5.81%) Python Developer
12 13 (5.39%) Business Analyst
12 13 (5.39%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (4.98%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (4.98%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (42.74%) Kafka
2 63 (26.14%) PySpark
3 38 (15.77%) PyTorch
3 38 (15.77%) TensorFlow
4 27 (11.20%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.96%) LangChain
6 23 (9.54%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.54%) pgvector
7 22 (9.13%) Pandas
8 21 (8.71%) REST
9 14 (5.81%) Spring
9 14 (5.81%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.56%) Node.js
11 10 (4.15%) SpaCy
12 9 (3.73%) Faiss
12 9 (3.73%) NumPy
12 9 (3.73%) vLLM
13 8 (3.32%) React
14 6 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (2.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.92%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.96%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.54%) Clustering
4 18 (7.47%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.98%) Data Structures
7 10 (4.15%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.15%) e-Learning
8 9 (3.73%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.49%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.49%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.49%) Social Media
10 5 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.24%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.24%) NHS
12 2 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.32%) Linux
2 5 (2.07%) CentOS
2 5 (2.07%) Debian
2 5 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.07%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (64.73%) Data Pipeline
2 149 (61.83%) Data Engineering
3 144 (59.75%) Analytics
4 115 (47.72%) CI/CD
5 113 (46.89%) ETL
6 104 (43.15%) AI
7 94 (39.00%) Data Modelling
8 92 (38.17%) Data Science
9 88 (36.51%) Data Governance
9 88 (36.51%) Machine Learning
10 83 (34.44%) Agile
11 66 (27.39%) Business Intelligence
12 57 (23.65%) Use Case
13 55 (22.82%) DevOps
14 48 (19.92%) Generative AI
15 46 (19.09%) Performance Tuning
16 45 (18.67%) Computer Science
16 45 (18.67%) Software Engineering
17 41 (17.01%) Validation
18 39 (16.18%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 224 (92.95%) Python
2 178 (73.86%) SQL
3 49 (20.33%) Scala
4 47 (19.50%) Java
5 13 (5.39%) Bash
6 9 (3.73%) Go
7 8 (3.32%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.90%) C++
9 5 (2.07%) VBA
10 4 (1.66%) Bicep
10 4 (1.66%) R
10 4 (1.66%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.24%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.41%) C#
13 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (15.35%) Degree
2 36 (14.94%) Security Cleared
3 26 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.39%) Master's Degree
6 12 (4.98%) PhD
7 9 (3.73%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.73%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.90%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.41%) CEH
11 1 (0.41%) CISM
11 1 (0.41%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (39.83%) Data Quality
2 37 (15.35%) GDPR
3 35 (14.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.98%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.66%) QA
6 2 (0.83%) IFRS
6 2 (0.83%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.83%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (18.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (17.84%) Terraform
2 34 (14.11%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.39%) Ansible
4 6 (2.49%) Grafana
5 5 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.07%) Puppet
6 3 (1.24%) Kibana
6 3 (1.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 86 (35.68%) Databricks
2 31 (12.86%) Red Hat
3 26 (10.79%) Oracle
4 24 (9.96%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.96%) Dell
5 10 (4.15%) Google
5 10 (4.15%) Palantir
6 9 (3.73%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.07%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.24%) Informatica
8 3 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.83%) Talend
10 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.41%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.41%) Foundry
10 1 (0.41%) IBM
10 1 (0.41%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.41%) Pega
10 1 (0.41%) Splunk
10 1 (0.41%) Trend Micro