Apache Spark Jobs

Apache Spark
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Apache Spark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Apache Spark over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 363 332
Rank change year-on-year -88 -31 -71
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 308 784 886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.73% 1.00%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.55% 7.56% 9.00%
Number of salaries quoted 163 251 561
10th Percentile £47,200 £47,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £57,000 £58,924 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £132,000 £117,500 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £71,250
% change year-on-year +4.00% -12.28% +14.00%

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 4,701 10,367 9,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.90% 9.70% 11.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,975 7,103 7,228
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £74,500 £73,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £108,250 £110,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £48,050
% change year-on-year +5.88% -11.55% +1.16%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark.

Salary trend for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Top 17 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 5 July 2025. 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 +85 263 £82,500 +3.13% 893
London +71 163 £96,250 +6.94% 629
UK excluding London -129 139 £65,000 +4.00% 316
Work from Home +95 119 £85,000 +13.33% 411
South East +88 37 £65,000 +18.18% 63
North of England +32 32 £57,500 +4.55% 79
Scotland -94 31 £100,000 +110.53% 32
Midlands +95 22 £67,500 -7.22% 43
Yorkshire +54 15 £57,500 +9.52% 33
East Midlands +46 15 £75,000 +25.00% 20
North West -27 11 £55,000 - 39
West Midlands +67 7 £60,500 -17.12% 23
Northern Ireland +48 7 £55,000 -21.43% 26
North East +49 6 £47,500 -23.56% 7
South West +48 4 £55,000 -31.25% 38
East of England +34 4 £71,500 -35.00% 31
Wales +38 3 £62,562 -5.49% 6

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 119 (38.64%) Apache
2 78 (25.32%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.30%) Apache Pulsar
3 4 (1.30%) Apache Synapse
3 4 (1.30%) Appian
3 4 (1.30%) SAS
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.65%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 194 (62.99%) AWS
2 133 (43.18%) Azure
3 67 (21.75%) GCP
4 64 (20.78%) Serverless
5 57 (18.51%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (17.21%) Amazon S3
7 45 (14.61%) OpenShift
7 45 (14.61%) Power Platform
8 39 (12.66%) Amazon ECS
8 39 (12.66%) dbt
9 31 (10.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 29 (9.42%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (8.44%) Snowflake
12 25 (8.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (6.17%) Amazon ELB
14 17 (5.52%) GitHub
15 16 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (4.87%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
18 10 (3.25%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.57%) HTTP
2 3 (0.97%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.32%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (39.29%) Big Data
2 88 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 77 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (21.75%) NoSQL
5 61 (19.81%) Apache Iceberg
6 60 (19.48%) Amazon Athena
7 53 (17.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (14.61%) Data Lake
9 41 (13.31%) Apache Ignite
9 41 (13.31%) Metadata
9 41 (13.31%) Power BI
10 39 (12.66%) Apache Arrow
10 39 (12.66%) Dremio
11 36 (11.69%) Apache Hive
11 36 (11.69%) Delta Lake
12 32 (10.39%) Spark SQL
13 30 (9.74%) BigQuery
14 26 (8.44%) DynamoDB
15 19 (6.17%) Tableau
16 17 (5.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (12.66%) Artifactory
2 26 (8.44%) Git
3 23 (7.47%) MLflow
4 20 (6.49%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.60%) Robot Framework
5 8 (2.60%) Selenium
6 7 (2.27%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.95%) GitLab
8 5 (1.62%) Gradle
8 5 (1.62%) JUnit
8 5 (1.62%) Maven
9 4 (1.30%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.30%) JMeter
9 4 (1.30%) Locust
9 4 (1.30%) Postman
9 4 (1.30%) Snyk
9 4 (1.30%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.32%) JIRA
10 1 (0.32%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.32%) Spinnaker
General
1 121 (39.29%) Finance
2 104 (33.77%) Social Skills
3 81 (26.30%) Law
4 67 (21.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (18.51%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (13.31%) Front Office
7 35 (11.36%) Banking
8 25 (8.12%) Marketing
9 17 (5.52%) Retail
10 16 (5.19%) Advertising
11 13 (4.22%) Games
12 10 (3.25%) Investment Banking
12 10 (3.25%) Public Sector
13 8 (2.60%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.62%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.30%) Legal
15 4 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.30%) Publishing
15 4 (1.30%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.97%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 116 (37.66%) Data Engineer
2 83 (26.95%) Senior
3 67 (21.75%) Python Engineer
4 53 (17.21%) AWS Engineer
5 50 (16.23%) Software Engineer
6 43 (13.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (13.96%) Senior Data Engineer
7 39 (12.66%) AWS DevOps
7 39 (12.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 37 (12.01%) Lead
9 30 (9.74%) Architect
10 21 (6.82%) Data Scientist
10 21 (6.82%) Python Software Engineer
11 20 (6.49%) Data Architect
11 20 (6.49%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 19 (6.17%) Operations Engineer
13 17 (5.52%) Java Engineer
14 15 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
15 13 (4.22%) Java Software Engineer
15 13 (4.22%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (47.08%) Kafka
2 97 (31.49%) PySpark
3 43 (13.96%) J2EE
4 41 (13.31%) TensorFlow
5 37 (12.01%) PyTorch
6 33 (10.71%) scikit-learn
7 29 (9.42%) Pandas
8 26 (8.44%) YAML
9 25 (8.12%) NumPy
10 23 (7.47%) Keras
11 20 (6.49%) Lambda Expressions
12 19 (6.17%) Metaflow
13 13 (4.22%) Spark Streaming
13 13 (4.22%) Spring
14 10 (3.25%) Apache NiFi
15 9 (2.92%) React
15 9 (2.92%) REST
16 8 (2.60%) pytest
16 8 (2.60%) Spring Boot
17 5 (1.62%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 33 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.12%) Algorithms
4 21 (6.82%) Data Structures
5 20 (6.49%) Product Ownership
6 19 (6.17%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.25%) FMCG
9 9 (2.92%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.62%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (1.30%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.30%) Mobile Banking
13 3 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
14 2 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (0.65%) Reinsurance
14 2 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
14 2 (0.65%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.39%) Unix
2 9 (2.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (51.95%) CI/CD
2 145 (47.08%) Agile
3 137 (44.48%) Machine Learning
4 120 (38.96%) Data Engineering
5 117 (37.99%) DevOps
6 115 (37.34%) Software Engineering
7 103 (33.44%) Data Science
8 102 (33.12%) Analytics
8 102 (33.12%) ETL
9 96 (31.17%) Data Pipeline
10 95 (30.84%) Artificial Intelligence
11 92 (29.87%) Data Modelling
12 88 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
13 78 (25.32%) Visualisation
14 68 (22.08%) Data Governance
15 59 (19.16%) Decision-Making
16 56 (18.18%) Open Source
17 53 (17.21%) Business Intelligence
18 51 (16.56%) Containerisation
19 50 (16.23%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 244 (79.22%) Python
2 208 (67.53%) SQL
3 102 (33.12%) Java
4 43 (13.96%) Scala
5 40 (12.99%) Go
6 14 (4.55%) Bash
6 14 (4.55%) PL/SQL
7 10 (3.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (3.25%) R
8 8 (2.60%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.95%) C#
10 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.97%) C
11 3 (0.97%) C++
11 3 (0.97%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.97%) PROC SQL
11 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.65%) Ruby
12 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (17.86%) Degree
2 32 (10.39%) Master's Degree
3 20 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (5.84%) Azure Certification
5 16 (5.19%) PhD
5 16 (5.19%) Security Cleared
6 13 (4.22%) AWS Certification
7 11 (3.57%) SC Cleared
8 6 (1.95%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.62%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.30%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (20.45%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.17%) GDPR
3 12 (3.90%) QA
4 10 (3.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.30%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 95 (30.84%) Docker
2 22 (7.14%) HDFS
3 8 (2.60%) Apache Flume
4 4 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 108 (35.06%) Kubernetes
2 107 (34.74%) Terraform
3 23 (7.47%) Kubeflow
4 8 (2.60%) Oozie
5 5 (1.62%) Ansible
6 4 (1.30%) Grafana
6 4 (1.30%) Kibana
6 4 (1.30%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.97%) logstash
8 2 (0.65%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.32%) Bugsnag
9 1 (0.32%) Control-M
Vendors
1 124 (40.26%) Databricks
2 43 (13.96%) Google
3 42 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 19 (6.17%) Oracle
5 16 (5.19%) Cloudera
6 11 (3.57%) Apple
6 11 (3.57%) SAP
7 8 (2.60%) Informatica
8 5 (1.62%) Palantir
8 5 (1.62%) Talend
9 4 (1.30%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.30%) Black Duck
9 4 (1.30%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.30%) Sybase
9 4 (1.30%) Teradata
9 4 (1.30%) UiPath
9 4 (1.30%) VMware
10 3 (0.97%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.65%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.65%) MapR