Apache Spark Job Trends

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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 421 293
Rank change year-on-year -63 -128 -52
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 185 296 715
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.58% 0.98%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.23% 6.24% 9.26%
Number of salaries quoted 98 207 280
10th Percentile £56,750 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £71,538
% change year-on-year +8.33% -16.13% +7.98%

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 3,540 4,742 7,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.47% 9.28% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,331 2,772 5,884
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,868 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +11.74% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,749 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £45,628 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.14% +7.36% -9.13%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -24 169 £85,000 -8.11% 111
London -3 124 £95,000 -13.64% 63
Work from Home -65 50 £87,000 -20.91% 55
UK excluding London -15 44 £65,000 +8.33% 73
North of England +10 26 £65,000 +18.18% 19
Yorkshire - 16 £65,000 - 4
North West -3 9 £75,000 +42.86% 10
South West -4 6 £60,000 -22.58% 13
East of England +19 4 - - 3
Scotland -8 3 £90,000 - 6
Midlands +11 2 - - 6
South East -13 2 £65,000 +13.04% 25
West Midlands +21 1 - - 4
Wales +3 1 £95,000 +79.25% 1
North East -10 1 - - 5
East Midlands -18 1 - - 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 50 (27.03%) Apache
2 45 (24.32%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.62%) Luigi
4 2 (1.08%) SAS
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.54%) Camunda
5 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 5 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 129 (69.73%) AWS
2 101 (54.59%) Azure
3 81 (43.78%) GCP
4 37 (20.00%) Serverless
5 33 (17.84%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (12.43%) Amazon S3
7 21 (11.35%) Snowflake
8 18 (9.73%) Amazon EMR
8 18 (9.73%) Power Platform
9 16 (8.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (8.65%) dbt
10 15 (8.11%) Amazon Kinesis
10 15 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (6.49%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (5.95%) Azure Machine Learning
12 11 (5.95%) Dagster
12 11 (5.95%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.32%) Amazon SageMaker
14 8 (4.32%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.70%) AMQP
2 4 (2.16%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.54%) Broadband
3 1 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.54%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (46.49%) Big Data
2 69 (37.30%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (35.68%) Hadoop
4 48 (25.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (18.38%) Data Lake
6 24 (12.97%) NoSQL
7 22 (11.89%) Tableau
8 21 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (10.27%) MySQL
10 18 (9.73%) Power BI
11 17 (9.19%) Apache Iceberg
11 17 (9.19%) BigQuery
11 17 (9.19%) MongoDB
11 17 (9.19%) SQL Server
12 16 (8.65%) Delta Lake
13 15 (8.11%) Relational Database
14 14 (7.57%) Apache Hive
15 12 (6.49%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (6.49%) DynamoDB
15 12 (6.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (7.57%) Git
2 13 (7.03%) MLflow
3 7 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.16%) GitLab
5 2 (1.08%) Deequ
6 1 (0.54%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.54%) JUnit
General
1 78 (42.16%) Social Skills
2 62 (33.51%) Finance
3 41 (22.16%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.19%) Financial Institution
5 15 (8.11%) Banking
5 15 (8.11%) Law
6 10 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.16%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.62%) Front Office
8 3 (1.62%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.62%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.08%) Advertising
9 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.08%) Legal
9 2 (1.08%) Marketing
9 2 (1.08%) Retail
10 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (42.70%) Data Engineer
2 52 (28.11%) Senior
3 27 (14.59%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (14.05%) Developer
5 19 (10.27%) AWS Data Engineer
5 19 (10.27%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (8.65%) Python Developer
7 14 (7.57%) Architect
8 13 (7.03%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (5.95%) Data Scientist
9 11 (5.95%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.41%) Data Architect
10 10 (5.41%) Lead
11 8 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 8 (4.32%) Consultant
11 8 (4.32%) Data Consultant
11 8 (4.32%) Senior Consultant
11 8 (4.32%) Senior Data Scientist
12 7 (3.78%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 5 (2.70%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (40.54%) Kafka
2 25 (13.51%) PySpark
3 23 (12.43%) PyTorch
3 23 (12.43%) TensorFlow
4 21 (11.35%) REST
5 13 (7.03%) Pandas
6 10 (5.41%) scikit-learn
7 9 (4.86%) Spark Streaming
8 8 (4.32%) boto
8 8 (4.32%) Faiss
8 8 (4.32%) NumPy
8 8 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (4.32%) Spring
8 8 (4.32%) vLLM
9 7 (3.78%) React
9 7 (3.78%) SpaCy
9 7 (3.78%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.24%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.24%) Node.js
11 5 (2.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 44 (23.78%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 25 (13.51%) Product Ownership
3 16 (8.65%) Algorithms
3 16 (8.65%) e-Learning
4 11 (5.95%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.32%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.24%) FMCG
8 4 (2.16%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.62%) Equities
9 3 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.62%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.08%) NHS
11 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.11%) Linux
2 9 (4.86%) Unix
3 5 (2.70%) CentOS
3 5 (2.70%) Debian
3 5 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (57.30%) Data Pipeline
2 99 (53.51%) Data Engineering
3 88 (47.57%) Analytics
3 88 (47.57%) CI/CD
4 75 (40.54%) Machine Learning
5 74 (40.00%) Data Science
6 71 (38.38%) ETL
7 67 (36.22%) Data Modelling
8 54 (29.19%) AI
9 52 (28.11%) DevOps
10 51 (27.57%) Business Intelligence
11 50 (27.03%) Data Governance
12 48 (25.95%) Computer Science
12 48 (25.95%) Software Engineering
13 45 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (20.54%) Agile
14 38 (20.54%) Mentoring
15 33 (17.84%) Roadmaps
16 29 (15.68%) Fintech
17 28 (15.14%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 165 (89.19%) Python
2 117 (63.24%) SQL
3 69 (37.30%) Java
4 42 (22.70%) Scala
5 9 (4.86%) Bash
5 9 (4.86%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.32%) Go
6 8 (4.32%) R
7 5 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.62%) C#
9 2 (1.08%) C++
9 2 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.54%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (24.32%) Degree
2 17 (9.19%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (8.11%) Master's Degree
4 14 (7.57%) PhD
4 14 (7.57%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.24%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.54%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (28.11%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.41%) QA
3 9 (4.86%) GDPR
4 4 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (17.84%) Docker
2 9 (4.86%) HDFS
3 5 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.73%) Terraform
3 14 (7.57%) Ansible
4 7 (3.78%) Puppet
5 6 (3.24%) Grafana
5 6 (3.24%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.62%) Kibana
6 3 (1.62%) logstash
7 2 (1.08%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.54%) Argo
Vendors
1 60 (32.43%) Databricks
2 18 (9.73%) Oracle
3 12 (6.49%) Palantir
4 11 (5.95%) Google
4 11 (5.95%) Informatica
4 11 (5.95%) Microsoft
5 10 (5.41%) Talend
6 7 (3.78%) Dell
6 7 (3.78%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.78%) SAP
7 5 (2.70%) SaltStack
8 4 (2.16%) IBM
9 1 (0.54%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.54%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.54%) Pega
9 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.54%) UiPath