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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 436 357
Rank change year-on-year -62 -79 -12
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 307 278 616
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.56% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.77% 6.25% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 140 133 204
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,800 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,844 £56,250 £58,750
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 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £62,500 £64,849
% change year-on-year -6.00% -3.62% -13.53%

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 4,538 4,448 7,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.31% 8.96% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,237 2,960 5,236
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £36,158 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +2.26% -5.11%
75th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.60%

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 August 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 8 August 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 -56 288 £80,000 +6.67% 202
London +1 179 £95,000 +8.57% 157
UK excluding London -123 107 £58,750 -6.00% 66
Work from Home -51 63 £66,805 -10.93% 82
North of England -33 47 £55,000 -4.35% 21
South West -47 27 £67,500 +35.00% 9
North East -37 20 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West +2 16 £55,000 -10.20% 8
East of England -14 15 £75,000 +4.90% 1
Yorkshire -44 11 £80,000 +39.13% 3
South East -64 8 £62,500 -3.85% 16
Scotland -13 5 £115,000 +21.05% 8
Midlands -44 3 £58,403 -13.48% 6
West Midlands -28 2 £66,805 +10.42% 2
Wales -59 2 £80,000 +27.87% 2
East Midlands -33 1 £50,000 -33.33% 4

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
1 137 (44.63%) Apache
2 103 (33.55%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (5.86%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.63%) Apache Pig
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.98%) SAS
6 2 (0.65%) Luigi
6 2 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.65%) Tornado
7 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.23%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 200 (65.15%) AWS
2 147 (47.88%) Azure
3 99 (32.25%) GCP
4 63 (20.52%) Amazon S3
5 54 (17.59%) Power Platform
6 47 (15.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (13.03%) dbt
8 39 (12.70%) Serverless
9 38 (12.38%) Snowflake
10 35 (11.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (10.10%) OpenShift
12 25 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (7.49%) Amazon EMR
13 23 (7.49%) Amazon Kinesis
14 20 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (5.86%) GitHub
16 16 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (5.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 14 (4.56%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.95%) BGP
1 6 (1.95%) DNS
1 6 (1.95%) IPsec
1 6 (1.95%) VPN
2 5 (1.63%) Broadband
2 5 (1.63%) Internet
3 4 (1.30%) AMQP
4 2 (0.65%) 4G
4 2 (0.65%) 5G
5 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (30.62%) Big Data
2 77 (25.08%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (21.17%) Data Lake
3 65 (21.17%) Tableau
4 56 (18.24%) Elasticsearch
5 55 (17.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 54 (17.59%) Hadoop
7 53 (17.26%) Power BI
8 44 (14.33%) NoSQL
9 38 (12.38%) Apache Hive
10 36 (11.73%) Spark SQL
11 32 (10.42%) BigQuery
12 29 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
13 28 (9.12%) Relational Database
14 27 (8.79%) Metadata
14 27 (8.79%) Parquet
15 26 (8.47%) Delta Lake
16 25 (8.14%) Impala
16 25 (8.14%) Oracle Database
17 24 (7.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 54 (17.59%) Git
2 29 (9.45%) MLflow
3 25 (8.14%) IBM UrbanCode
4 21 (6.84%) GitLab
5 17 (5.54%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.65%) JIRA
6 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.33%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.33%) ERwin
General
1 130 (42.35%) Finance
2 78 (25.41%) Social Skills
3 70 (22.80%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (15.96%) Banking
5 26 (8.47%) Law
6 24 (7.82%) Investment Banking
7 21 (6.84%) Public Sector
8 18 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (5.54%) Financial Institution
9 17 (5.54%) Legal
10 12 (3.91%) Marketing
11 10 (3.26%) Aerospace
11 10 (3.26%) Military
12 6 (1.95%) Games
12 6 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.95%) Retail
13 3 (0.98%) Front Office
13 3 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.65%) Billing
Job Titles
1 134 (43.65%) Data Engineer
2 100 (32.57%) Senior
3 46 (14.98%) Lead
4 36 (11.73%) Senior Data Engineer
5 29 (9.45%) Data Scientist
6 27 (8.79%) Lead Data Engineer
7 26 (8.47%) Analyst
8 24 (7.82%) Senior Data Scientist
8 24 (7.82%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 23 (7.49%) Python Engineer
9 23 (7.49%) Systems Engineer
9 23 (7.49%) Transformation Analyst
10 22 (7.17%) Banking Analyst
11 18 (5.86%) Architect
12 15 (4.89%) Developer
13 13 (4.23%) Business Analyst
13 13 (4.23%) Data Architect
14 12 (3.91%) Data Business Analyst
14 12 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.91%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (43.65%) Kafka
2 76 (24.76%) PySpark
3 25 (8.14%) PyTorch
4 24 (7.82%) pgvector
4 24 (7.82%) scikit-learn
4 24 (7.82%) TensorFlow
5 23 (7.49%) LangChain
5 23 (7.49%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (7.49%) Pandas
6 19 (6.19%) REST
7 17 (5.54%) SpaCy
8 16 (5.21%) Node.js
9 14 (4.56%) Spring
9 14 (4.56%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.26%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (2.28%) React
12 6 (1.95%) NumPy
12 6 (1.95%) RESTful
13 5 (1.63%) JSON
13 5 (1.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 59 (19.22%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.79%) Public Cloud
3 23 (7.49%) Clustering
4 22 (7.17%) Data Structures
5 17 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (5.54%) e-Learning
6 14 (4.56%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.56%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.91%) Algorithms
8 11 (3.58%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.63%) Anti-Piracy
10 5 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.63%) NHS
10 5 (1.63%) Social Media
11 3 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.91%) Linux
2 4 (1.30%) CentOS
2 4 (1.30%) Debian
2 4 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.30%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (64.82%) Analytics
2 188 (61.24%) Data Engineering
3 186 (60.59%) Data Pipeline
4 154 (50.16%) CI/CD
5 130 (42.35%) ETL
6 128 (41.69%) AI
7 124 (40.39%) Data Modelling
8 122 (39.74%) Data Science
9 120 (39.09%) Machine Learning
10 106 (34.53%) Agile
11 94 (30.62%) Data Governance
12 92 (29.97%) DevOps
13 66 (21.50%) Business Intelligence
14 64 (20.85%) Use Case
15 63 (20.52%) Mentoring
16 57 (18.57%) Validation
17 56 (18.24%) Infrastructure as Code
18 52 (16.94%) Generative AI
19 50 (16.29%) Performance Tuning
20 47 (15.31%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 266 (86.64%) Python
2 218 (71.01%) SQL
3 55 (17.92%) Scala
4 47 (15.31%) Java
5 9 (2.93%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.28%) C#
7 6 (1.95%) C
7 6 (1.95%) C++
7 6 (1.95%) PHP
7 6 (1.95%) Ruby
8 5 (1.63%) Bicep
8 5 (1.63%) VBA
9 4 (1.30%) Bash
9 4 (1.30%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.98%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.65%) R
11 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 67 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 54 (17.59%) Degree
3 49 (15.96%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.49%) PhD
5 21 (6.84%) Master's Degree
6 17 (5.54%) AWS Certification
6 17 (5.54%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.89%) DV Cleared
8 12 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.98%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.33%) CEH
12 1 (0.33%) CISM
12 1 (0.33%) CISSP
12 1 (0.33%) OCP
12 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (36.16%) Data Quality
2 42 (13.68%) GDPR
3 36 (11.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.23%) HIPAA
5 11 (3.58%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.28%) QA
7 3 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.65%) IFRS
8 2 (0.65%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.65%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (19.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (18.24%) Terraform
2 48 (15.64%) Kubernetes
3 18 (5.86%) Ansible
4 7 (2.28%) Grafana
5 6 (1.95%) Hadoop YARN
5 6 (1.95%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.63%) Argo
7 4 (1.30%) Puppet
8 3 (0.98%) Kibana
8 3 (0.98%) Packer
9 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 107 (34.85%) Databricks
2 35 (11.40%) Oracle
3 30 (9.77%) Red Hat
4 27 (8.79%) Microsoft
5 24 (7.82%) Cloudera
5 24 (7.82%) Dell
6 8 (2.61%) Google
6 8 (2.61%) Informatica
7 6 (1.95%) HP
7 6 (1.95%) IBM
7 6 (1.95%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.95%) SAP
8 4 (1.30%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.30%) Splunk
9 3 (0.98%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.98%) LexisNexis
9 3 (0.98%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (0.98%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.98%) Talend
10 2 (0.65%) Palantir