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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 432 395
Rank change year-on-year -102 -37 -42
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 281 261 465
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.53% 0.59%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.01% 6.32% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 139 112 209
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,775 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,125 £59,438 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £136,200 £111,125 £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -16.67%

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 4,677 4,128 6,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.14% 8.31% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,295 2,766 4,247
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,375 £36,053 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% -2.39% -0.09%
75th Percentile £71,117 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -83 261 £80,000 +6.67% 350
London -44 158 £95,000 +11.76% 279
UK excluding London -130 102 £57,500 -8.00% 135
Work from Home -42 57 £66,805 -10.93% 139
North of England -34 51 £55,000 -6.38% 32
South West -59 26 £55,000 +10.00% 20
North East -42 23 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North West -3 18 £55,000 -18.52% 21
Yorkshire -52 10 £80,000 +33.33% 2
South East -36 8 £62,500 -5.66% 25
East of England -27 6 £77,500 +8.39% 8
Scotland -16 5 £115,000 - 36
Midlands -57 5 £54,500 -14.84% 3
West Midlands -32 4 £60,653 +0.25%
Wales -75 2 £80,000 +59.60% 1
East Midlands -33 1 £50,000 -33.33% 3

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 (42.70%) Apache
2 59 (21.00%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.76%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.78%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.07%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.07%) SAS
6 2 (0.71%) Luigi
6 2 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.71%) Tornado
7 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.36%) Confluence
7 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 169 (60.14%) AWS
2 153 (54.45%) Azure
3 93 (33.10%) GCP
4 46 (16.37%) Power Platform
5 41 (14.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 40 (14.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 40 (14.23%) Serverless
7 39 (13.88%) Amazon S3
8 28 (9.96%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (9.96%) Snowflake
9 24 (8.54%) Amazon EMR
10 22 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (7.83%) dbt
11 21 (7.47%) Amazon Kinesis
12 19 (6.76%) Azure Databricks
13 18 (6.41%) GitHub
14 17 (6.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (5.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 15 (5.34%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.14%) AMQP
1 6 (2.14%) BGP
1 6 (2.14%) DNS
1 6 (2.14%) IPsec
1 6 (2.14%) VPN
2 5 (1.78%) Internet
3 1 (0.36%) 4G
3 1 (0.36%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (34.16%) Big Data
2 66 (23.49%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (21.71%) Data Lake
4 56 (19.93%) Hadoop
5 50 (17.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (16.73%) Elasticsearch
7 46 (16.37%) NoSQL
8 45 (16.01%) Power BI
9 35 (12.46%) Tableau
10 27 (9.61%) PostgreSQL
11 26 (9.25%) Metadata
12 25 (8.90%) Delta Lake
13 23 (8.19%) Relational Database
14 19 (6.76%) Flink
15 18 (6.41%) BigQuery
16 16 (5.69%) Amazon Athena
16 16 (5.69%) Looker
16 16 (5.69%) Milvus
17 15 (5.34%) Snowflake Schema
18 14 (4.98%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 34 (12.10%) Git
2 22 (7.83%) MLflow
3 21 (7.47%) GitLab
3 21 (7.47%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.71%) JIRA
4 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.36%) ERwin
General
1 114 (40.57%) Finance
2 72 (25.62%) Social Skills
3 47 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.68%) Banking
5 23 (8.19%) Financial Institution
6 22 (7.83%) Public Sector
7 20 (7.12%) Law
8 19 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (4.98%) Aerospace
10 13 (4.63%) Marketing
11 10 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.56%) Military
12 7 (2.49%) Games
13 6 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.14%) Retail
14 5 (1.78%) Legal
15 3 (1.07%) Front Office
16 2 (0.71%) Aviation
16 2 (0.71%) Local Government
16 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (47.33%) Data Engineer
2 91 (32.38%) Senior
3 50 (17.79%) Lead
4 38 (13.52%) Data Scientist
5 33 (11.74%) Senior Data Engineer
6 31 (11.03%) Senior Data Scientist
7 30 (10.68%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (8.54%) Databricks Engineer
9 21 (7.47%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 17 (6.05%) Architect
10 17 (6.05%) Python Engineer
11 15 (5.34%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 15 (5.34%) Systems Engineer
12 14 (4.98%) Software Engineer
13 13 (4.63%) Data Architect
13 13 (4.63%) Developer
14 10 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
15 9 (3.20%) Consultant
15 9 (3.20%) Python Developer
16 8 (2.85%) AWS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (40.57%) Kafka
2 56 (19.93%) PySpark
3 53 (18.86%) Terraform
4 22 (7.83%) SpaCy
5 19 (6.76%) PyTorch
5 19 (6.76%) scikit-learn
6 18 (6.41%) TensorFlow
7 16 (5.69%) LangChain
7 16 (5.69%) Node.js
7 16 (5.69%) pgvector
7 16 (5.69%) REST
8 15 (5.34%) LlamaIndex
9 13 (4.63%) Spring
9 13 (4.63%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.91%) Pandas
11 9 (3.20%) Apache NiFi
11 9 (3.20%) gRPC
11 9 (3.20%) React
12 8 (2.85%) RESTful
13 7 (2.49%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.22%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.19%) Product Ownership
3 22 (7.83%) e-Learning
4 19 (6.76%) Public Cloud
5 18 (6.41%) Data Structures
5 18 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (5.34%) Clustering
6 15 (5.34%) Onboarding
7 14 (4.98%) Algorithms
8 10 (3.56%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.49%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.14%) NHS
11 5 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.42%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (0.71%) Life Science
14 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.63%) Linux
2 6 (2.14%) CentOS
2 6 (2.14%) Debian
2 6 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (61.21%) Data Engineering
2 163 (58.01%) Analytics
3 151 (53.74%) Data Pipeline
4 140 (49.82%) CI/CD
5 122 (43.42%) Data Science
6 117 (41.64%) Machine Learning
7 116 (41.28%) Data Modelling
8 104 (37.01%) DevOps
9 98 (34.88%) AI
10 91 (32.38%) ETL
11 82 (29.18%) Agile
12 72 (25.62%) Lakehouse
13 70 (24.91%) Mentoring
14 58 (20.64%) Business Intelligence
15 57 (20.28%) Data Governance
16 56 (19.93%) Use Case
17 55 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
18 50 (17.79%) Generative AI
19 49 (17.44%) Software Engineering
20 45 (16.01%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 238 (84.70%) Python
2 185 (65.84%) SQL
3 54 (19.22%) Scala
4 44 (15.66%) Java
5 13 (4.63%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.49%) C#
7 6 (2.14%) Bash
7 6 (2.14%) C
7 6 (2.14%) PHP
7 6 (2.14%) Ruby
8 5 (1.78%) VBA
9 4 (1.42%) Bicep
9 4 (1.42%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.07%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.07%) R
11 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 80 (28.47%) Security Cleared
2 59 (21.00%) Degree
3 57 (20.28%) SC Cleared
4 31 (11.03%) PhD
5 29 (10.32%) Master's Degree
6 18 (6.41%) Azure Certification
7 17 (6.05%) AWS Certification
7 17 (6.05%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.07%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.36%) CEH
13 1 (0.36%) CISM
13 1 (0.36%) CISSP
13 1 (0.36%) OCP
13 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (30.96%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.83%) GDPR
3 16 (5.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.63%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.85%) QA
6 3 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.71%) IFRS
7 2 (0.71%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.71%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (20.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (16.73%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.05%) Ansible
3 6 (2.14%) Hadoop YARN
3 6 (2.14%) Puppet
4 5 (1.78%) Argo
4 5 (1.78%) Grafana
5 3 (1.07%) Kibana
5 3 (1.07%) Packer
5 3 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 105 (37.37%) Databricks
2 32 (11.39%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.69%) Cloudera
4 15 (5.34%) Dell
5 9 (3.20%) Google
5 9 (3.20%) Oracle
6 7 (2.49%) Informatica
6 7 (2.49%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.14%) HP
7 6 (2.14%) IBM
7 6 (2.14%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.14%) SAP
8 5 (1.78%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.78%) Splunk
9 4 (1.42%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.07%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.07%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.71%) Palantir
11 2 (0.71%) Talend