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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 400 361
Rank change year-on-year -85 -39 -24
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 275 302 754
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.61% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.37% 6.83% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 129 156 242
10th Percentile £52,250 £47,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,313 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £117,500 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,903 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.38% +2.00% -10.71%

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 4,318 4,420 9,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.37% 8.99% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,107 2,940 6,871
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £108,875 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -11.46%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -59 257 £82,500 +3.13% 151
London -37 164 £100,000 +8.11% 69
UK excluding London -114 88 £65,903 +3.38% 113
Work from Home -66 57 £66,805 -19.02% 113
North of England -25 40 £57,500 - 38
South West -48 20 £70,000 +27.27% 10
North West -2 17 £55,000 - 22
East of England -9 15 £75,000 +4.90% 12
North East -49 14 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -38 9 £80,000 +39.13% 9
South East -55 6 £61,250 -5.77% 23
Midlands -45 3 £58,403 -13.48% 11
Scotland -12 2 £115,000 +15.00% 11
West Midlands -32 2 £66,805 +10.42% 5
Wales -54 2 £80,000 +27.87% 5
East Midlands -35 1 £50,000 -33.33% 6

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
1 119 (43.27%) Apache
2 104 (37.82%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (5.82%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.82%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.09%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.09%) SAS
6 2 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.73%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 186 (67.64%) AWS
2 131 (47.64%) Azure
3 94 (34.18%) GCP
4 58 (21.09%) Amazon S3
5 48 (17.45%) Power Platform
6 45 (16.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (13.82%) dbt
7 38 (13.82%) Serverless
7 38 (13.82%) Snowflake
8 32 (11.64%) OpenShift
9 30 (10.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 24 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (8.36%) Amazon Kinesis
12 22 (8.00%) Amazon EMR
13 14 (5.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 14 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (4.73%) GitHub
15 12 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (4.36%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.55%) Broadband
2 6 (2.18%) AMQP
2 6 (2.18%) BGP
2 6 (2.18%) DNS
2 6 (2.18%) IPsec
2 6 (2.18%) VPN
3 5 (1.82%) Internet
4 2 (0.73%) 4G
4 2 (0.73%) 5G
5 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (30.91%) Big Data
2 70 (25.45%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (24.36%) Tableau
4 57 (20.73%) Elasticsearch
5 54 (19.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 53 (19.27%) Data Lake
7 47 (17.09%) Power BI
8 42 (15.27%) Hadoop
9 38 (13.82%) Apache Hive
9 38 (13.82%) NoSQL
10 36 (13.09%) BigQuery
11 35 (12.73%) Spark SQL
12 27 (9.82%) Looker
12 27 (9.82%) Parquet
13 25 (9.09%) Impala
13 25 (9.09%) Oracle Database
13 25 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
14 23 (8.36%) Delta Lake
14 23 (8.36%) Metadata
15 22 (8.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (16.36%) Git
2 33 (12.00%) MLflow
3 25 (9.09%) IBM UrbanCode
4 17 (6.18%) GitLab
5 12 (4.36%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.73%) JIRA
6 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.36%) Deequ
7 1 (0.36%) JUnit
General
1 105 (38.18%) Finance
2 82 (29.82%) Social Skills
3 68 (24.73%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (15.64%) Banking
5 24 (8.73%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.27%) Law
7 17 (6.18%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.82%) Legal
9 14 (5.09%) Financial Institution
10 9 (3.27%) Military
11 8 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.18%) Aerospace
12 6 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.18%) Marketing
12 6 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.82%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.45%) Games
15 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (1.09%) Retail
16 2 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 107 (38.91%) Data Engineer
2 95 (34.55%) Senior
3 36 (13.09%) Lead
4 31 (11.27%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (9.45%) Analyst
6 24 (8.73%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.36%) Lead Data Engineer
7 23 (8.36%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.36%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.36%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (8.00%) Banking Analyst
9 19 (6.91%) Architect
9 19 (6.91%) Data Scientist
10 18 (6.55%) Developer
11 16 (5.82%) Senior Data Scientist
12 13 (4.73%) Business Analyst
12 13 (4.73%) Consultant
12 13 (4.73%) Python Developer
13 12 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.36%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (44.73%) Kafka
2 72 (26.18%) PySpark
3 29 (10.55%) PyTorch
3 29 (10.55%) TensorFlow
4 24 (8.73%) LangChain
4 24 (8.73%) scikit-learn
5 23 (8.36%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.36%) pgvector
6 21 (7.64%) REST
7 20 (7.27%) Pandas
8 18 (6.55%) Node.js
9 16 (5.82%) Spring
9 16 (5.82%) Spring Boot
10 14 (5.09%) SpaCy
11 9 (3.27%) React
12 7 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.18%) gRPC
13 6 (2.18%) Material-UI
13 6 (2.18%) NumPy
13 6 (2.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.91%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.36%) Clustering
4 18 (6.55%) Data Structures
4 18 (6.55%) Product Ownership
5 16 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (5.09%) e-Learning
6 14 (5.09%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.64%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (2.18%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.18%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.18%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.18%) Social Media
9 5 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.09%) NHS
11 2 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.82%) Linux
2 6 (2.18%) CentOS
2 6 (2.18%) Debian
2 6 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.18%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (61.82%) Analytics
2 167 (60.73%) Data Engineering
3 166 (60.36%) Data Pipeline
4 131 (47.64%) CI/CD
5 117 (42.55%) ETL
6 114 (41.45%) Data Modelling
7 110 (40.00%) AI
8 104 (37.82%) Data Science
9 101 (36.73%) Machine Learning
10 95 (34.55%) Data Governance
11 88 (32.00%) Agile
12 71 (25.82%) DevOps
13 63 (22.91%) Business Intelligence
13 63 (22.91%) Use Case
14 53 (19.27%) Mentoring
15 52 (18.91%) Computer Science
15 52 (18.91%) Generative AI
16 50 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
16 50 (18.18%) Validation
17 46 (16.73%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 241 (87.64%) Python
2 204 (74.18%) SQL
3 52 (18.91%) Scala
4 45 (16.36%) Java
5 10 (3.64%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.27%) Bash
7 7 (2.55%) C#
7 7 (2.55%) C++
8 6 (2.18%) C
8 6 (2.18%) PHP
8 6 (2.18%) Ruby
9 5 (1.82%) Bicep
9 5 (1.82%) VBA
10 4 (1.45%) Go
10 4 (1.45%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.09%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.36%) R
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (18.18%) Degree
1 50 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 38 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.27%) PhD
4 18 (6.55%) Master's Degree
5 14 (5.09%) AWS Certification
6 13 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.36%) Azure Certification
7 12 (4.36%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.36%) CEH
9 1 (0.36%) CISM
9 1 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (36.00%) Data Quality
2 38 (13.82%) GDPR
3 35 (12.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.36%) HIPAA
5 8 (2.91%) QA
6 4 (1.45%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.73%) IFRS
7 2 (0.73%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.73%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (16.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (18.18%) Terraform
2 38 (13.82%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.45%) Ansible
4 6 (2.18%) Grafana
4 6 (2.18%) Hadoop YARN
4 6 (2.18%) Puppet
5 5 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.09%) Kibana
6 3 (1.09%) Packer
Vendors
1 95 (34.55%) Databricks
2 32 (11.64%) Oracle
2 32 (11.64%) Red Hat
3 24 (8.73%) Cloudera
3 24 (8.73%) Dell
4 18 (6.55%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.64%) Google
6 8 (2.91%) Informatica
7 7 (2.55%) IBM
8 6 (2.18%) HP
8 6 (2.18%) Palantir
8 6 (2.18%) SaltStack
8 6 (2.18%) SAP
9 3 (1.09%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.09%) Talend
10 2 (0.73%) Foundry
11 1 (0.36%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.36%) Pega
11 1 (0.36%) Splunk
11 1 (0.36%) Trend Micro