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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 430 395
Rank change year-on-year -82 -35 -48
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 283 266 487
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.53% 0.60%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.24% 6.23% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 137 118 204
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,415 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% -10.63% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £110,375 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,250 £65,599
% change year-on-year -4.56% -8.15% -12.53%

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 4,537 4,271 7,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.13% 8.53% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,211 2,890 4,763
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -0.08%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year - -2.17% -3.16%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -48 264 £80,000 +11.89% 173
London -20 165 £95,000 +11.76% 131
UK excluding London -128 100 £57,500 -4.56% 82
Work from Home -44 57 £66,805 -1.03% 69
North of England -36 50 £55,000 -4.35% 22
South West -52 26 £55,000 +10.00% 16
North East -44 23 £55,000 +15.79% 8
North West -3 17 £55,000 - 9
Yorkshire -45 10 £80,000 +39.13% 5
East of England -13 8 £77,500 +8.39% 1
Scotland -20 6 £115,000 - 20
South East -67 6 £62,500 -5.66% 17
Midlands -50 3 £58,403 -8.75% 2
West Midlands -33 2 £66,805 +10.42% 2
Wales -68 2 £80,000 +27.87% 1
East Midlands -37 1 £50,000 -33.33%

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 (42.05%) Apache
2 71 (25.09%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.71%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.77%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.06%) SAS
6 2 (0.71%) Luigi
6 2 (0.71%) Tornado
7 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 175 (61.84%) AWS
2 155 (54.77%) Azure
3 97 (34.28%) GCP
4 54 (19.08%) Power Platform
5 50 (17.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 39 (13.78%) Amazon S3
6 39 (13.78%) Serverless
7 37 (13.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 36 (12.72%) Snowflake
9 31 (10.95%) dbt
10 25 (8.83%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (8.48%) Amazon EMR
12 21 (7.42%) Amazon Kinesis
12 21 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (7.07%) Azure Databricks
14 17 (6.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (6.01%) GitHub
15 16 (5.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 15 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.12%) BGP
1 6 (2.12%) DNS
1 6 (2.12%) IPsec
1 6 (2.12%) VPN
2 5 (1.77%) AMQP
2 5 (1.77%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) 4G
3 1 (0.35%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (33.57%) Big Data
2 76 (26.86%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (24.73%) Data Lake
4 56 (19.79%) Elasticsearch
4 56 (19.79%) Hadoop
5 55 (19.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 53 (18.73%) Power BI
7 44 (15.55%) NoSQL
8 42 (14.84%) Tableau
9 27 (9.54%) Delta Lake
9 27 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (9.19%) BigQuery
11 24 (8.48%) Looker
11 24 (8.48%) Metadata
11 24 (8.48%) Milvus
11 24 (8.48%) Relational Database
12 23 (8.13%) Snowflake Schema
13 19 (6.71%) Flink
14 16 (5.65%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (4.95%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 33 (11.66%) Git
2 30 (10.60%) MLflow
3 21 (7.42%) GitLab
4 18 (6.36%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.71%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.71%) JIRA
5 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.35%) ERwin
General
1 109 (38.52%) Finance
2 71 (25.09%) Social Skills
3 55 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.25%) Banking
5 22 (7.77%) Public Sector
6 21 (7.42%) Financial Institution
6 21 (7.42%) Law
7 19 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.59%) Marketing
9 11 (3.89%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.53%) Military
11 9 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.47%) Games
13 6 (2.12%) Legal
13 6 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.12%) Retail
14 3 (1.06%) Front Office
15 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.71%) Local Government
15 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (45.58%) Data Engineer
2 97 (34.28%) Senior
3 49 (17.31%) Lead
4 34 (12.01%) Data Scientist
5 31 (10.95%) Senior Data Engineer
6 29 (10.25%) Lead Data Engineer
6 29 (10.25%) Senior Data Scientist
7 23 (8.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.13%) Systems Engineer
8 22 (7.77%) Databricks Engineer
9 20 (7.07%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 19 (6.71%) Architect
10 19 (6.71%) Python Engineer
11 14 (4.95%) Developer
12 13 (4.59%) Data Architect
12 13 (4.59%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.53%) Python Developer
14 9 (3.18%) Consultant
14 9 (3.18%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (44.17%) Kafka
2 56 (19.79%) PySpark
3 54 (19.08%) Terraform
4 25 (8.83%) PyTorch
4 25 (8.83%) scikit-learn
5 24 (8.48%) LangChain
5 24 (8.48%) pgvector
5 24 (8.48%) TensorFlow
6 23 (8.13%) LlamaIndex
7 20 (7.07%) SpaCy
8 17 (6.01%) REST
9 16 (5.65%) Node.js
10 12 (4.24%) Spring
10 12 (4.24%) Spring Boot
11 11 (3.89%) Pandas
12 9 (3.18%) Apache NiFi
13 8 (2.83%) React
13 8 (2.83%) RESTful
14 6 (2.12%) gRPC
14 6 (2.12%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 63 (22.26%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.54%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.13%) Clustering
4 20 (7.07%) e-Learning
5 19 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (6.36%) Product Ownership
7 17 (6.01%) Data Structures
8 14 (4.95%) Onboarding
9 12 (4.24%) Algorithms
10 11 (3.89%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.77%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.77%) NHS
13 4 (1.41%) AI Agents
14 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.06%) Data Fabric
14 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.24%) Linux
2 5 (1.77%) CentOS
2 5 (1.77%) Debian
2 5 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (62.19%) Data Engineering
2 171 (60.42%) Analytics
3 157 (55.48%) Data Pipeline
4 136 (48.06%) CI/CD
5 124 (43.82%) Data Science
6 123 (43.46%) Machine Learning
7 121 (42.76%) Data Modelling
8 105 (37.10%) AI
9 102 (36.04%) ETL
10 101 (35.69%) DevOps
11 82 (28.98%) Agile
12 79 (27.92%) Lakehouse
13 67 (23.67%) Business Intelligence
13 67 (23.67%) Mentoring
14 66 (23.32%) Data Governance
14 66 (23.32%) Use Case
15 57 (20.14%) Infrastructure as Code
16 55 (19.43%) Generative AI
17 47 (16.61%) Data Ingestion
17 47 (16.61%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 241 (85.16%) Python
2 190 (67.14%) SQL
3 52 (18.37%) Scala
4 44 (15.55%) Java
5 10 (3.53%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.47%) C#
7 6 (2.12%) C
7 6 (2.12%) PHP
7 6 (2.12%) Ruby
8 5 (1.77%) Bash
8 5 (1.77%) Bicep
8 5 (1.77%) VBA
9 4 (1.41%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.71%) R
11 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (24.73%) Security Cleared
2 58 (20.49%) Degree
3 51 (18.02%) SC Cleared
4 27 (9.54%) PhD
5 25 (8.83%) Master's Degree
6 19 (6.71%) Azure Certification
7 17 (6.01%) AWS Certification
8 15 (5.30%) DV Cleared
9 12 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.35%) CEH
13 1 (0.35%) CISM
13 1 (0.35%) CISSP
13 1 (0.35%) OCP
13 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (31.10%) Data Quality
2 31 (10.95%) GDPR
3 25 (8.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.24%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.83%) QA
6 3 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.71%) IFRS
7 2 (0.71%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.71%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (20.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (15.90%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.01%) Ansible
3 6 (2.12%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.77%) Argo
4 5 (1.77%) Grafana
4 5 (1.77%) Puppet
5 3 (1.06%) Kibana
5 3 (1.06%) Packer
5 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 110 (38.87%) Databricks
2 32 (11.31%) Microsoft
3 24 (8.48%) Cloudera
4 23 (8.13%) Dell
5 12 (4.24%) Oracle
6 8 (2.83%) Google
6 8 (2.83%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.47%) Informatica
7 7 (2.47%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.12%) HP
8 6 (2.12%) IBM
8 6 (2.12%) SAP
9 5 (1.77%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.77%) Splunk
10 4 (1.41%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.06%) LexisNexis
11 3 (1.06%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.71%) Talend
13 1 (0.35%) Trend Micro