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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 392 359
Rank change year-on-year -106 -33 -49
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 264 311 784
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.67% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.29% 7.24% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 126 167 253
10th Percentile £51,875 £47,600 £47,800
25th Percentile £63,438 £57,000 £62,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £136,500 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -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 4,199 4,298 9,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.36% 9.26% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,023 2,837 7,082
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 £71,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £107,500
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 30 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 30 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 -80 242 £82,500 -1.49% 77
London -40 153 £100,000 +1.52% 46
UK excluding London -114 86 £62,500 - 47
Work from Home -77 56 £67,500 -28.95% 34
North of England -48 39 £57,500 - 16
South West -45 20 £70,000 +27.27% 9
North West +5 17 £55,000 - 6
East of England -6 16 £75,000 +4.90%
North East -40 13 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -37 9 £80,000 +39.13% 3
South East -57 4 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Scotland -13 3 £115,000 +15.00%
Wales -50 2 £80,000 +27.87% 1
Midlands -55 2 £50,000 -21.88% 4
West Midlands -28 1 - - 3
East Midlands -41 1 £50,000 -33.33% 1

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
1 120 (45.45%) Apache
2 109 (41.29%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (5.68%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.14%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.14%) SAS
5 2 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.38%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.92%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 180 (68.18%) AWS
2 126 (47.73%) Azure
3 98 (37.12%) GCP
4 60 (22.73%) Amazon S3
5 49 (18.56%) Power Platform
6 43 (16.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (15.15%) dbt
7 40 (15.15%) Snowflake
8 35 (13.26%) Serverless
9 32 (12.12%) OpenShift
10 29 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (10.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (6.44%) Amazon EMR
13 16 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
14 14 (5.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 14 (5.30%) GitHub
15 13 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.65%) Broadband
2 6 (2.27%) AMQP
3 2 (0.76%) 4G
3 2 (0.76%) 5G
3 2 (0.76%) BGP
3 2 (0.76%) DNS
3 2 (0.76%) IPsec
3 2 (0.76%) VPN
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (29.17%) Big Data
2 73 (27.65%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (27.27%) Tableau
4 57 (21.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 55 (20.83%) Data Lake
5 55 (20.83%) Elasticsearch
6 48 (18.18%) Power BI
7 39 (14.77%) BigQuery
8 35 (13.26%) Hadoop
8 35 (13.26%) Spark SQL
9 30 (11.36%) Apache Hive
9 30 (11.36%) NoSQL
10 29 (10.98%) Looker
11 27 (10.23%) Parquet
12 26 (9.85%) Snowflake Schema
13 25 (9.47%) Delta Lake
13 25 (9.47%) Impala
13 25 (9.47%) Oracle Database
14 22 (8.33%) Relational Database
15 21 (7.95%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 46 (17.42%) Git
2 35 (13.26%) MLflow
3 25 (9.47%) IBM UrbanCode
4 16 (6.06%) GitLab
5 12 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.76%) JIRA
6 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.38%) Deequ
7 1 (0.38%) JUnit
General
1 100 (37.88%) Finance
2 77 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 68 (25.76%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (15.91%) Banking
5 24 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.58%) Law
7 16 (6.06%) Legal
8 12 (4.55%) Financial Institution
9 11 (4.17%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.89%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.89%) Military
11 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.52%) Games
12 4 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.14%) Retail
14 2 (0.76%) Billing
14 2 (0.76%) Front Office
14 2 (0.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 103 (39.02%) Data Engineer
2 92 (34.85%) Senior
3 35 (13.26%) Lead
4 28 (10.61%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (9.85%) Analyst
6 24 (9.09%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.71%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.71%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.71%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (8.33%) Banking Analyst
8 22 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
9 20 (7.58%) Architect
10 19 (7.20%) Developer
11 17 (6.44%) Data Scientist
12 14 (5.30%) Senior Data Scientist
13 13 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (4.92%) Business Analyst
13 13 (4.92%) Data Architect
13 13 (4.92%) Python Developer
14 12 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (41.67%) Kafka
2 70 (26.52%) PySpark
3 32 (12.12%) PyTorch
3 32 (12.12%) TensorFlow
4 25 (9.47%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.09%) LangChain
6 23 (8.71%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (8.71%) pgvector
7 21 (7.95%) Pandas
7 21 (7.95%) REST
8 16 (6.06%) Spring
8 16 (6.06%) Spring Boot
9 14 (5.30%) Node.js
10 12 (4.55%) SpaCy
11 9 (3.41%) React
12 7 (2.65%) NumPy
12 7 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.27%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.27%) gRPC
13 6 (2.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (20.08%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.47%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.71%) Clustering
4 18 (6.82%) Product Ownership
5 17 (6.44%) Data Structures
6 12 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.55%) e-Learning
7 9 (3.41%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.65%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.27%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.27%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.27%) Social Media
10 5 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.89%) NHS
11 3 (1.14%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.17%) Linux
2 6 (2.27%) CentOS
2 6 (2.27%) Debian
2 6 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.27%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (62.12%) Data Engineering
1 164 (62.12%) Data Pipeline
2 159 (60.23%) Analytics
3 124 (46.97%) CI/CD
4 116 (43.94%) ETL
5 109 (41.29%) Data Modelling
6 103 (39.02%) AI
7 99 (37.50%) Data Science
8 96 (36.36%) Data Governance
9 92 (34.85%) Machine Learning
10 86 (32.58%) Agile
11 66 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
12 64 (24.24%) DevOps
13 61 (23.11%) Use Case
14 51 (19.32%) Performance Tuning
15 48 (18.18%) Validation
16 47 (17.80%) Generative AI
17 46 (17.42%) Computer Science
17 46 (17.42%) Software Engineering
18 42 (15.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 233 (88.26%) Python
2 193 (73.11%) SQL
3 54 (20.45%) Scala
4 45 (17.05%) Java
5 11 (4.17%) Bash
6 10 (3.79%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.65%) C++
8 6 (2.27%) Go
9 5 (1.89%) Bicep
9 5 (1.89%) VBA
10 4 (1.52%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.14%) C#
11 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.14%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.76%) C
12 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.76%) PHP
12 2 (0.76%) R
12 2 (0.76%) Ruby
13 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.53%) Degree
3 32 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 14 (5.30%) PhD
6 13 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.55%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.17%) AWS Certification
8 11 (4.17%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.14%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.38%) CEH
11 1 (0.38%) CISM
11 1 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 37 (14.02%) GDPR
3 35 (13.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.55%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.03%) QA
6 6 (2.27%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.76%) IFRS
7 2 (0.76%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.76%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (17.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (18.94%) Terraform
2 38 (14.39%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.68%) Ansible
4 6 (2.27%) Grafana
4 6 (2.27%) Puppet
5 5 (1.89%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.14%) Kibana
6 3 (1.14%) Packer
7 2 (0.76%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 97 (36.74%) Databricks
2 32 (12.12%) Red Hat
3 28 (10.61%) Oracle
4 24 (9.09%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.09%) Dell
5 12 (4.55%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.17%) Google
7 8 (3.03%) Palantir
8 6 (2.27%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.52%) Informatica
10 3 (1.14%) IBM
10 3 (1.14%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.14%) Talend
11 2 (0.76%) Foundry
11 2 (0.76%) HP
11 2 (0.76%) SAP
12 1 (0.38%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.38%) Pega
12 1 (0.38%) Splunk
12 1 (0.38%) Trend Micro