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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 402 271
Rank change year-on-year -104 -131 -25
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 188 304 784
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.64% 1.04%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.16% 6.73% 9.76%
Number of salaries quoted 98 210 273
10th Percentile £56,375 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £71,938 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year +30.43% -18.53% +8.58%

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 3,640 4,520 8,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.26% 9.55% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,421 2,701 6,065
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £108,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,500 £45,628 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.24% +7.36% -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 24 February 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 24 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 -81 170 £85,000 -8.11% 89
London -32 122 £95,000 -13.64% 43
Work from Home -77 54 £85,000 -22.73% 43
UK excluding London -48 45 £75,000 +30.43% 61
North of England -11 26 £65,000 +18.18% 26
Yorkshire - 17 £65,000 - 11
North West -6 8 £95,000 +72.73% 10
South West -20 7 £80,000 +3.23% 10
East of England +10 5 - - 2
Scotland -20 3 £90,000 - 3
South East -39 2 £65,000 +13.04% 16
West Midlands +6 1 - - 2
Wales -3 1 £95,000 +79.25% 1
North East -8 1 - - 5
Midlands -16 1 - - 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 60 (31.91%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (29.79%) Apache
3 2 (1.06%) SAS
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.53%) Camunda
4 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 123 (65.43%) AWS
2 93 (49.47%) Azure
3 78 (41.49%) GCP
4 35 (18.62%) Serverless
5 32 (17.02%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (13.83%) Amazon S3
6 26 (13.83%) dbt
7 25 (13.30%) Snowflake
8 18 (9.57%) Dagster
8 18 (9.57%) Power Platform
9 17 (9.04%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (7.98%) Amazon EMR
10 15 (7.98%) OpenShift
11 14 (7.45%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (6.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (6.38%) Azure Machine Learning
14 11 (5.85%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (4.79%) Amazon SageMaker
16 9 (4.79%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.72%) Broadband
2 5 (2.66%) AMQP
3 4 (2.13%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.53%) 4G
4 1 (0.53%) 5G
4 1 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.53%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (40.96%) Big Data
2 64 (34.04%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (29.26%) Hadoop
4 42 (22.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (18.62%) Data Lake
6 28 (14.89%) Tableau
7 24 (12.77%) BigQuery
8 19 (10.11%) Apache Iceberg
9 18 (9.57%) NoSQL
9 18 (9.57%) Power BI
10 17 (9.04%) Delta Lake
10 17 (9.04%) MySQL
10 17 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (8.51%) Apache Hive
11 16 (8.51%) Relational Database
12 15 (7.98%) MongoDB
13 13 (6.91%) Metadata
13 13 (6.91%) SQL Server
14 12 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 20 (10.64%) Git
2 12 (6.38%) MLflow
3 7 (3.72%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.13%) GitLab
4 4 (2.13%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (1.06%) Deequ
6 1 (0.53%) JUnit
General
1 82 (43.62%) Social Skills
2 65 (34.57%) Finance
3 43 (22.87%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.04%) Banking
5 16 (8.51%) Law
6 12 (6.38%) Financial Institution
7 9 (4.79%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.66%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.13%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.13%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.60%) Front Office
10 3 (1.60%) Legal
10 3 (1.60%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.06%) Advertising
11 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.06%) Marketing
11 2 (1.06%) Retail
12 1 (0.53%) Electronics
12 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (44.15%) Data Engineer
2 59 (31.38%) Senior
3 32 (17.02%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (13.83%) Developer
5 19 (10.11%) AWS Data Engineer
5 19 (10.11%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (9.57%) Python Developer
7 14 (7.45%) Architect
8 11 (5.85%) Principal Engineer
8 11 (5.85%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.32%) Data Architect
10 9 (4.79%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 9 (4.79%) Consultant
10 9 (4.79%) Data Consultant
10 9 (4.79%) Data Scientist
10 9 (4.79%) Lead
10 9 (4.79%) Senior Consultant
11 6 (3.19%) Senior Data Scientist
12 5 (2.66%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 5 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (42.55%) Kafka
2 29 (15.43%) PySpark
3 23 (12.23%) REST
4 22 (11.70%) PyTorch
4 22 (11.70%) TensorFlow
5 17 (9.04%) Pandas
6 12 (6.38%) Spring
7 11 (5.85%) Spring Boot
8 9 (4.79%) Faiss
8 9 (4.79%) NumPy
8 9 (4.79%) vLLM
9 8 (4.26%) scikit-learn
10 7 (3.72%) React
11 6 (3.19%) AngularJS
11 6 (3.19%) boto
11 6 (3.19%) Node.js
11 6 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (3.19%) Spark Streaming
12 5 (2.66%) LDAP
12 5 (2.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.55%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (12.23%) Cloud Native
3 20 (10.64%) Product Ownership
4 12 (6.38%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.85%) e-Learning
6 9 (4.79%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (4.26%) Data Structures
7 8 (4.26%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (3.19%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (3.19%) Social Media
10 3 (1.60%) Equities
10 3 (1.60%) FMCG
10 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.06%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.98%) Linux
2 7 (3.72%) Unix
3 5 (2.66%) CentOS
3 5 (2.66%) Debian
3 5 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (59.57%) Data Pipeline
2 103 (54.79%) Data Engineering
3 91 (48.40%) Analytics
4 88 (46.81%) CI/CD
5 73 (38.83%) ETL
6 69 (36.70%) Data Science
7 66 (35.11%) Data Modelling
8 64 (34.04%) Machine Learning
9 57 (30.32%) AI
9 57 (30.32%) Data Governance
10 51 (27.13%) Computer Science
11 48 (25.53%) Software Engineering
12 47 (25.00%) DevOps
13 46 (24.47%) Business Intelligence
14 43 (22.87%) Agile
14 43 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (18.62%) Roadmaps
16 34 (18.09%) Mentoring
17 29 (15.43%) Visualisation
18 28 (14.89%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 172 (91.49%) Python
2 125 (66.49%) SQL
3 70 (37.23%) Java
4 40 (21.28%) Scala
5 10 (5.32%) Bash
6 9 (4.79%) Go
6 9 (4.79%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.26%) C++
7 8 (4.26%) R
8 5 (2.66%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.60%) C#
10 2 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.53%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.53%) Ruby
11 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (22.34%) Degree
2 18 (9.57%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (6.91%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.38%) PhD
6 11 (5.85%) Master's Degree
7 6 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.19%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.19%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.53%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (31.38%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.26%) GDPR
3 5 (2.66%) QA
4 4 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
System Software
1 38 (20.21%) Docker
2 7 (3.72%) HDFS
3 5 (2.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (18.62%) Kubernetes
2 25 (13.30%) Terraform
3 13 (6.91%) Ansible
4 10 (5.32%) Grafana
4 10 (5.32%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.66%) Puppet
6 3 (1.60%) Kibana
6 3 (1.60%) logstash
7 1 (0.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 57 (30.32%) Databricks
2 18 (9.57%) Oracle
3 14 (7.45%) Palantir
4 12 (6.38%) Google
5 11 (5.85%) Red Hat
6 10 (5.32%) Microsoft
7 9 (4.79%) Informatica
8 8 (4.26%) Talend
9 7 (3.72%) Dell
10 5 (2.66%) SaltStack
11 4 (2.13%) IBM
11 4 (2.13%) SAP
12 1 (0.53%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.53%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.53%) Foundry
12 1 (0.53%) Pega
12 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.53%) UiPath