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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 392 273
Rank change year-on-year -107 -119 -25
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 240 295 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.69% 1.03%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.29% 7.30% 10.01%
Number of salaries quoted 110 194 289
10th Percentile £52,375 £51,400 £49,800
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,813 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +19.23% -6.40% -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 3,813 4,039 10,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.11% 9.42% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,716 2,679 7,080
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,691 £110,000 £96,250
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 24 May 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 May 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 -101 215 £85,000 - 80
London -57 143 £100,000 -9.09% 40
UK excluding London -98 74 £77,500 +19.23% 52
Work from Home -78 56 £80,000 -27.27% 36
North of England -35 28 £75,000 +30.43% 24
East of England -3 18 £75,000 +4.90%
South West -47 17 £80,000 +60.00% 13
Yorkshire -44 12 £80,000 +39.13% 1
North West -5 9 £75,000 +36.36% 8
North East -36 7 £57,500 -14.81% 15
Scotland -15 4 £102,500 +2.50% 1
South East -59 4 £57,500 -11.54% 6
Wales -34 2 £87,500 +16.67% 4
East Midlands -37 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -39 1 £50,000 -25.93% 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
1 108 (45.00%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (38.75%) Apache
3 9 (3.75%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.25%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.83%) SAS
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.42%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.42%) Camunda
6 1 (0.42%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.42%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 161 (67.08%) AWS
2 119 (49.58%) Azure
3 98 (40.83%) GCP
4 52 (21.67%) Amazon S3
5 50 (20.83%) Power Platform
6 46 (19.17%) Snowflake
7 44 (18.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 43 (17.92%) dbt
9 31 (12.92%) OpenShift
10 29 (12.08%) Serverless
11 25 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (6.25%) Dagster
14 14 (5.83%) Amazon EMR
15 13 (5.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 13 (5.42%) Azure Machine Learning
16 12 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
17 11 (4.58%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (4.58%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.92%) Broadband
2 5 (2.08%) AMQP
3 2 (0.83%) 4G
3 2 (0.83%) 5G
4 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.42%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (32.08%) Data Warehouse
1 77 (32.08%) Tableau
2 76 (31.67%) Big Data
3 55 (22.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 50 (20.83%) Elasticsearch
5 49 (20.42%) Data Lake
5 49 (20.42%) Power BI
6 46 (19.17%) BigQuery
7 33 (13.75%) Hadoop
7 33 (13.75%) Looker
7 33 (13.75%) Spark SQL
8 28 (11.67%) Snowflake Schema
9 27 (11.25%) Apache Hive
10 26 (10.83%) Parquet
10 26 (10.83%) Relational Database
11 25 (10.42%) Impala
11 25 (10.42%) Oracle Database
12 24 (10.00%) NoSQL
13 23 (9.58%) Delta Lake
14 21 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (18.33%) Git
2 37 (15.42%) MLflow
3 25 (10.42%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 10 (4.17%) GitLab
6 2 (0.83%) JIRA
7 1 (0.42%) Deequ
7 1 (0.42%) JUnit
7 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 90 (37.50%) Finance
2 74 (30.83%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (27.50%) Social Skills
4 37 (15.42%) Banking
5 24 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.67%) Legal
7 15 (6.25%) Law
8 10 (4.17%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.92%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.67%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Advertising
12 2 (0.83%) Billing
12 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.42%) Front Office
13 1 (0.42%) Games
Job Titles
1 82 (34.17%) Data Engineer
2 77 (32.08%) Senior
3 27 (11.25%) Lead
4 26 (10.83%) Analyst
5 24 (10.00%) Developer
5 24 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.58%) Senior Data Engineer
6 23 (9.58%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.58%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (9.17%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (9.17%) Python Engineer
8 19 (7.92%) Architect
8 19 (7.92%) Lead Data Engineer
9 16 (6.67%) Python Developer
10 13 (5.42%) Business Analyst
10 13 (5.42%) Software Engineer
11 12 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (5.00%) Data Architect
11 12 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (43.75%) Kafka
2 60 (25.00%) PySpark
3 40 (16.67%) PyTorch
3 40 (16.67%) TensorFlow
4 27 (11.25%) scikit-learn
5 24 (10.00%) LangChain
5 24 (10.00%) REST
6 23 (9.58%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.58%) pgvector
7 22 (9.17%) Pandas
8 14 (5.83%) Spring
8 14 (5.83%) Spring Boot
9 11 (4.58%) Node.js
10 9 (3.75%) Faiss
10 9 (3.75%) vLLM
11 8 (3.33%) NumPy
11 8 (3.33%) React
12 7 (2.92%) SpaCy
13 6 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.58%) Clustering
4 21 (8.75%) Product Ownership
5 18 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.58%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.17%) Data Structures
8 9 (3.75%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.92%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.92%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.50%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.50%) Social Media
11 5 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.25%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.25%) NHS
13 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.33%) Linux
2 5 (2.08%) CentOS
2 5 (2.08%) Debian
2 5 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.08%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (65.42%) Data Pipeline
2 146 (60.83%) Data Engineering
3 144 (60.00%) Analytics
4 117 (48.75%) ETL
5 111 (46.25%) CI/CD
6 106 (44.17%) AI
7 94 (39.17%) Data Modelling
8 93 (38.75%) Data Governance
8 93 (38.75%) Data Science
9 90 (37.50%) Machine Learning
10 81 (33.75%) Agile
11 69 (28.75%) Business Intelligence
12 54 (22.50%) Use Case
13 51 (21.25%) Computer Science
13 51 (21.25%) DevOps
14 50 (20.83%) Generative AI
15 48 (20.00%) Software Engineering
16 45 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
17 40 (16.67%) Feature Engineering
18 38 (15.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 223 (92.92%) Python
2 179 (74.58%) SQL
3 53 (22.08%) Java
4 50 (20.83%) Scala
5 12 (5.00%) Bash
6 9 (3.75%) Go
7 8 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.92%) C++
9 5 (2.08%) R
10 4 (1.67%) Bicep
10 4 (1.67%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.25%) VBA
12 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.42%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.42%) C#
13 1 (0.42%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (15.83%) Degree
2 32 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.17%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.00%) PhD
6 11 (4.58%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.58%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.75%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.50%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.42%) CEH
11 1 (0.42%) CISM
11 1 (0.42%) CISSP
11 1 (0.42%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (37.92%) Data Quality
2 38 (15.83%) GDPR
3 35 (14.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.00%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.25%) QA
7 2 (0.83%) IFRS
7 2 (0.83%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.83%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (17.08%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (16.25%) Terraform
2 33 (13.75%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.42%) Ansible
4 6 (2.50%) Grafana
5 5 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.08%) Puppet
6 3 (1.25%) Packer
7 2 (0.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 85 (35.42%) Databricks
2 32 (13.33%) Oracle
3 31 (12.92%) Red Hat
4 24 (10.00%) Cloudera
4 24 (10.00%) Dell
5 12 (5.00%) Palantir
6 10 (4.17%) Google
7 9 (3.75%) Microsoft
8 7 (2.92%) Informatica
9 6 (2.50%) Talend
10 5 (2.08%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.25%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.42%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.42%) Confluent
12 1 (0.42%) Mapbox
12 1 (0.42%) Pega
12 1 (0.42%) Refinitiv
12 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.42%) UiPath