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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 381 274
Rank change year-on-year -120 -107 -32
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 226 302 1,027
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.71% 1.07%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.18% 7.36% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 100 208 289
10th Percentile £54,875 £52,275 £49,800
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,865 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.58% +3.58% -8.57%
75th Percentile £125,313 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +23.08% -6.40% -

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 3,659 4,103 10,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.07% 9.70% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,558 2,893 7,112
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% +5.88% -10.53%

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 1 May 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 1 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 -108 204 £85,000 +1.05% 84
London -66 137 £95,000 -13.64% 47
UK excluding London -99 66 £80,000 +23.08% 42
Work from Home -107 58 £84,000 -23.64% 45
North of England -64 23 £65,000 +13.04% 19
East of England -8 18 £75,000 -7.69% 1
South West -42 13 £82,000 +64.00% 7
Yorkshire -54 13 £62,500 +8.70% 1
North West -34 8 £95,000 +58.33% 11
Scotland -31 5 £102,500 +2.50% 2
South East -58 4 £57,500 -11.54% 8
North East -36 2 £68,750 -14.06% 7
Midlands -51 2 £50,000 -21.88% 6
Wales -29 1 £95,000 +48.44%
West Midlands -34 1 - - 5
East Midlands -53 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
1 107 (47.35%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (35.40%) Apache
3 3 (1.33%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.44%) Camunda
5 1 (0.44%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 152 (67.26%) AWS
2 114 (50.44%) Azure
3 97 (42.92%) GCP
4 51 (22.57%) Power Platform
5 49 (21.68%) Amazon S3
6 47 (20.80%) Snowflake
7 45 (19.91%) dbt
8 42 (18.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 32 (14.16%) OpenShift
10 29 (12.83%) Serverless
11 25 (11.06%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (9.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (7.52%) Dagster
14 15 (6.64%) Azure Machine Learning
15 11 (4.87%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (4.87%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (4.87%) GitHub
16 10 (4.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 10 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.10%) Broadband
2 5 (2.21%) AMQP
3 2 (0.88%) 4G
3 2 (0.88%) 5G
4 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.44%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (33.19%) Tableau
2 73 (32.30%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (29.20%) Big Data
4 52 (23.01%) Data Lake
5 50 (22.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 50 (22.12%) Power BI
6 46 (20.35%) BigQuery
6 46 (20.35%) Elasticsearch
7 33 (14.60%) Hadoop
7 33 (14.60%) Looker
8 30 (13.27%) Spark SQL
9 28 (12.39%) Apache Hive
9 28 (12.39%) Snowflake Schema
10 26 (11.50%) Parquet
11 25 (11.06%) Impala
11 25 (11.06%) Oracle Database
12 23 (10.18%) Delta Lake
13 22 (9.73%) Relational Database
14 21 (9.29%) MySQL
15 20 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (18.58%) Git
2 38 (16.81%) MLflow
3 25 (11.06%) IBM UrbanCode
4 10 (4.42%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.65%) GitLab
6 2 (0.88%) JIRA
7 1 (0.44%) Deequ
7 1 (0.44%) JUnit
7 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 82 (36.28%) Finance
2 73 (32.30%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (28.76%) Social Skills
4 34 (15.04%) Banking
5 24 (10.62%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.19%) Law
6 14 (6.19%) Legal
7 8 (3.54%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.77%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.77%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.77%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.88%) Advertising
9 2 (0.88%) Billing
9 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Retail
10 1 (0.44%) Games
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Marketing
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (32.74%) Data Engineer
2 71 (31.42%) Senior
3 26 (11.50%) Analyst
4 24 (10.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.18%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.18%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (9.73%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (9.73%) Developer
6 22 (9.73%) Senior Data Engineer
7 19 (8.41%) Python Engineer
8 18 (7.96%) Architect
8 18 (7.96%) Lead
9 17 (7.52%) Python Developer
10 14 (6.19%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (5.75%) Business Analyst
12 12 (5.31%) AWS Data Engineer
12 12 (5.31%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.31%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (4.87%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (46.46%) Kafka
2 55 (24.34%) PySpark
3 41 (18.14%) PyTorch
3 41 (18.14%) TensorFlow
4 28 (12.39%) scikit-learn
5 25 (11.06%) REST
6 24 (10.62%) LangChain
7 23 (10.18%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (10.18%) Pandas
7 23 (10.18%) pgvector
8 15 (6.64%) Spring
9 14 (6.19%) Spring Boot
10 10 (4.42%) Node.js
11 9 (3.98%) Faiss
11 9 (3.98%) vLLM
12 7 (3.10%) NumPy
12 7 (3.10%) React
13 6 (2.65%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.18%) Clustering
2 23 (10.18%) Public Cloud
3 18 (7.96%) Product Ownership
4 17 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.87%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.42%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (3.10%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.65%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.65%) Social Media
9 5 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.21%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.77%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.33%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.33%) NHS
11 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.54%) Linux
2 5 (2.21%) CentOS
2 5 (2.21%) Debian
2 5 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.21%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (65.93%) Data Pipeline
2 134 (59.29%) Analytics
3 133 (58.85%) Data Engineering
4 113 (50.00%) ETL
5 107 (47.35%) AI
6 103 (45.58%) CI/CD
7 91 (40.27%) Data Governance
7 91 (40.27%) Machine Learning
8 90 (39.82%) Data Science
9 87 (38.50%) Data Modelling
10 69 (30.53%) Agile
10 69 (30.53%) Business Intelligence
11 53 (23.45%) Computer Science
12 50 (22.12%) Generative AI
13 48 (21.24%) Use Case
14 47 (20.80%) DevOps
15 46 (20.35%) Software Engineering
16 43 (19.03%) Performance Tuning
17 41 (18.14%) Feature Engineering
18 37 (16.37%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 208 (92.04%) Python
2 167 (73.89%) SQL
3 51 (22.57%) Java
4 42 (18.58%) Scala
5 10 (4.42%) Bash
6 9 (3.98%) Go
7 8 (3.54%) C++
8 6 (2.65%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.65%) R
9 4 (1.77%) Bicep
9 4 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.33%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.44%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.44%) Ruby
11 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (16.81%) Degree
2 27 (11.95%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.42%) PhD
6 9 (3.98%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.98%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.54%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.65%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.44%) CEH
11 1 (0.44%) CISM
11 1 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.44%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (39.38%) Data Quality
2 38 (16.81%) GDPR
3 35 (15.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.31%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.88%) IFRS
6 2 (0.88%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.88%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.44%) QA
7 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (16.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (15.04%) Terraform
2 32 (14.16%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.64%) Ansible
4 8 (3.54%) Grafana
5 7 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.21%) Puppet
7 3 (1.33%) Packer
8 1 (0.44%) Argo
Vendors
1 84 (37.17%) Databricks
2 34 (15.04%) Oracle
3 32 (14.16%) Red Hat
4 24 (10.62%) Cloudera
4 24 (10.62%) Dell
5 14 (6.19%) Microsoft
5 14 (6.19%) Palantir
6 10 (4.42%) Google
7 7 (3.10%) Informatica
8 6 (2.65%) Talend
9 5 (2.21%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.33%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.44%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.44%) Confluent
11 1 (0.44%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.44%) Pega
11 1 (0.44%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.44%) UiPath