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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 402 338
Rank change year-on-year -88 -64 -39
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 258 298 847
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.66% 0.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.30% 7.02% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 126 171 267
10th Percentile £51,875 £47,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,438 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £120,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -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 4,092 4,247 10,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.32% 9.40% 9.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,936 2,816 7,120
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,625 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,751 £75,000 £71,438
90th Percentile £91,875 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -12.37%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -62 234 £83,250 -2.06% 62
London -42 149 £100,000 -4.76% 35
UK excluding London -108 83 £62,500 - 42
Work from Home -63 56 £67,500 -30.77% 27
North of England -23 35 £57,500 +2.22% 12
South West -40 20 £70,000 +27.27% 11
East of England -3 17 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North West +10 13 £55,000 - 5
North East -42 13 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -35 9 £80,000 +39.13%
South East -56 4 £57,500 -11.54% 13
Scotland -14 3 £115,000 +15.00%
Wales -43 2 £80,000 +27.87% 2
Midlands -52 2 £50,000 -21.88% 3
West Midlands -25 1 - - 2
East Midlands -35 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
1 117 (45.35%) Apache
2 110 (42.64%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (5.81%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.16%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.16%) SAS
5 2 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.39%) Camunda
6 1 (0.39%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (5.04%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 178 (68.99%) AWS
2 125 (48.45%) Azure
3 100 (38.76%) GCP
4 59 (22.87%) Amazon S3
5 50 (19.38%) Power Platform
6 43 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 41 (15.89%) Snowflake
8 40 (15.50%) dbt
9 32 (12.40%) Serverless
10 31 (12.02%) OpenShift
11 27 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (6.20%) Amazon EMR
14 14 (5.43%) Amazon Kinesis
14 14 (5.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 14 (5.43%) GitHub
15 13 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (5.04%) Dagster
16 12 (4.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.71%) Broadband
2 5 (1.94%) AMQP
3 2 (0.78%) 4G
3 2 (0.78%) 5G
3 2 (0.78%) BGP
3 2 (0.78%) DNS
3 2 (0.78%) IPsec
3 2 (0.78%) VPN
4 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (30.23%) Big Data
2 75 (29.07%) Tableau
3 74 (28.68%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (22.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 54 (20.93%) Data Lake
5 54 (20.93%) Elasticsearch
6 49 (18.99%) Power BI
7 40 (15.50%) BigQuery
8 35 (13.57%) Spark SQL
9 34 (13.18%) Hadoop
10 30 (11.63%) Looker
11 29 (11.24%) Apache Hive
12 28 (10.85%) NoSQL
13 27 (10.47%) Parquet
14 26 (10.08%) Delta Lake
14 26 (10.08%) Snowflake Schema
15 25 (9.69%) Impala
15 25 (9.69%) Oracle Database
16 22 (8.53%) Relational Database
17 20 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (17.83%) Git
2 36 (13.95%) MLflow
3 25 (9.69%) IBM UrbanCode
4 16 (6.20%) GitLab
5 12 (4.65%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.78%) JIRA
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.39%) Deequ
7 1 (0.39%) JUnit
General
1 97 (37.60%) Finance
2 76 (29.46%) Social Skills
3 71 (27.52%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (16.28%) Banking
5 24 (9.30%) Investment Banking
6 17 (6.59%) Law
7 16 (6.20%) Legal
8 11 (4.26%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.26%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.94%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.55%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.55%) Military
12 3 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Billing
13 2 (0.78%) Front Office
13 2 (0.78%) Marketing
13 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 100 (38.76%) Data Engineer
2 88 (34.11%) Senior
3 34 (13.18%) Lead
4 28 (10.85%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (10.08%) Analyst
6 24 (9.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.91%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.91%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.91%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (8.53%) Banking Analyst
9 21 (8.14%) Developer
9 21 (8.14%) Lead Data Engineer
10 20 (7.75%) Architect
11 16 (6.20%) Data Scientist
12 13 (5.04%) Business Analyst
12 13 (5.04%) Data Architect
12 13 (5.04%) Python Developer
12 13 (5.04%) Senior Data Scientist
13 12 (4.65%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.65%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (41.47%) Kafka
2 69 (26.74%) PySpark
3 35 (13.57%) PyTorch
3 35 (13.57%) TensorFlow
4 27 (10.47%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.30%) LangChain
6 23 (8.91%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (8.91%) Pandas
6 23 (8.91%) pgvector
7 20 (7.75%) REST
8 15 (5.81%) Spring
8 15 (5.81%) Spring Boot
9 13 (5.04%) Node.js
10 11 (4.26%) SpaCy
11 9 (3.49%) NumPy
12 8 (3.10%) React
13 7 (2.71%) Faiss
13 7 (2.71%) vLLM
14 6 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (1.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 52 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.69%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.91%) Clustering
4 19 (7.36%) Product Ownership
5 17 (6.59%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.26%) e-Learning
7 9 (3.49%) Algorithms
7 9 (3.49%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (2.33%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.33%) Social Media
9 5 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.55%) NHS
10 4 (1.55%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.16%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.16%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.88%) Linux
2 5 (1.94%) CentOS
2 5 (1.94%) Debian
2 5 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (62.79%) Data Pipeline
2 160 (62.02%) Data Engineering
3 156 (60.47%) Analytics
4 122 (47.29%) CI/CD
5 115 (44.57%) ETL
6 107 (41.47%) Data Modelling
7 105 (40.70%) AI
8 97 (37.60%) Data Science
9 94 (36.43%) Data Governance
10 90 (34.88%) Machine Learning
11 86 (33.33%) Agile
12 68 (26.36%) Business Intelligence
13 64 (24.81%) DevOps
14 62 (24.03%) Use Case
15 50 (19.38%) Performance Tuning
16 49 (18.99%) Generative AI
17 48 (18.60%) Validation
18 46 (17.83%) Computer Science
19 43 (16.67%) Software Engineering
20 41 (15.89%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 231 (89.53%) Python
2 189 (73.26%) SQL
3 55 (21.32%) Scala
4 46 (17.83%) Java
5 12 (4.65%) Bash
6 9 (3.49%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.71%) C++
7 7 (2.71%) Go
8 5 (1.94%) Bicep
8 5 (1.94%) VBA
9 4 (1.55%) R
9 4 (1.55%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.16%) C#
10 3 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.16%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.78%) C
11 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.78%) PHP
11 2 (0.78%) Ruby
12 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.50%) Degree
3 31 (12.02%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.81%) Master's Degree
5 14 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.65%) PhD
7 11 (4.26%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.26%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.49%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.39%) CEH
11 1 (0.39%) CISM
11 1 (0.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (39.15%) Data Quality
2 37 (14.34%) GDPR
3 35 (13.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.65%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.94%) QA
6 2 (0.78%) IFRS
6 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.78%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (18.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (18.99%) Terraform
2 37 (14.34%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.43%) Ansible
4 6 (2.33%) Grafana
5 5 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.94%) Puppet
6 3 (1.16%) Kibana
6 3 (1.16%) Packer
7 2 (0.78%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 93 (36.05%) Databricks
2 31 (12.02%) Red Hat
3 28 (10.85%) Oracle
4 24 (9.30%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.30%) Dell
5 12 (4.65%) Microsoft
6 10 (3.88%) Google
7 9 (3.49%) Palantir
8 5 (1.94%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.55%) Informatica
10 3 (1.16%) IBM
10 3 (1.16%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.16%) Talend
11 2 (0.78%) Foundry
11 2 (0.78%) HP
11 2 (0.78%) SAP
12 1 (0.39%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.39%) Pega
12 1 (0.39%) Splunk
12 1 (0.39%) Trend Micro