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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 397 268
Rank change year-on-year -122 -129 -20
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 228 283 1,022
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.64% 1.05%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.11% 6.78% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 104 194 295
10th Percentile £52,875 £49,300 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £61,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £125,313 £115,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £117,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +23.08% -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 3,733 4,175 10,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.06% 9.48% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,647 2,819 7,083
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,494 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.18%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,840 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.92%

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 19 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 19 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 -105 205 £85,000 - 90
London -49 138 £100,000 -9.09% 45
UK excluding London -92 68 £80,000 +23.08% 56
Work from Home -73 54 £80,000 -27.27% 51
North of England -28 23 £80,000 +39.13% 28
East of England -2 18 £75,000 -7.69%
South West -39 17 £80,000 +60.00% 10
Yorkshire -48 11 £80,000 +39.13% 2
North West 0 8 £85,000 +54.55% 10
Scotland -6 4 £102,500 +2.50% 2
North East -36 4 £57,500 -14.81% 16
South East -51 4 £57,500 -11.54% 6
Wales -34 1 £95,000 +48.44% 6
East Midlands -36 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -41 1 £50,000 -25.93% 4

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
1 104 (45.61%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (37.28%) Apache
3 5 (2.19%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.32%) Apache Solr
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
5 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (5.70%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.44%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 155 (67.98%) AWS
2 113 (49.56%) Azure
3 96 (42.11%) GCP
4 49 (21.49%) Amazon S3
5 48 (21.05%) Power Platform
6 47 (20.61%) Snowflake
7 44 (19.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 43 (18.86%) dbt
9 31 (13.60%) OpenShift
10 29 (12.72%) Serverless
11 25 (10.96%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (9.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (6.58%) Dagster
14 13 (5.70%) Azure Machine Learning
15 12 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
15 12 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 11 (4.82%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (4.82%) GitHub
17 10 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.07%) Broadband
2 5 (2.19%) 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 (32.89%) Tableau
2 72 (31.58%) Big Data
2 72 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (23.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 48 (21.05%) Elasticsearch
5 47 (20.61%) Data Lake
5 47 (20.61%) Power BI
6 46 (20.18%) BigQuery
7 33 (14.47%) Hadoop
7 33 (14.47%) Looker
8 32 (14.04%) Spark SQL
9 28 (12.28%) Snowflake Schema
10 27 (11.84%) Apache Hive
11 26 (11.40%) Parquet
12 25 (10.96%) Impala
12 25 (10.96%) Oracle Database
13 22 (9.65%) Relational Database
14 21 (9.21%) Delta Lake
15 20 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (18.42%) Git
2 37 (16.23%) MLflow
3 25 (10.96%) IBM UrbanCode
4 9 (3.95%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.07%) 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 87 (38.16%) Finance
2 72 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (27.63%) Social Skills
4 36 (15.79%) Banking
5 24 (10.53%) Investment Banking
6 16 (7.02%) Legal
7 15 (6.58%) Law
8 8 (3.51%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.63%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.75%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.88%) Advertising
12 2 (0.88%) Billing
12 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Front Office
13 1 (0.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 73 (32.02%) Senior
2 72 (31.58%) Data Engineer
3 26 (11.40%) Analyst
4 25 (10.96%) Developer
5 24 (10.53%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.09%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.09%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (9.65%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (9.65%) Lead
8 21 (9.21%) Python Engineer
8 21 (9.21%) Senior Data Engineer
9 19 (8.33%) Architect
10 17 (7.46%) Python Developer
11 16 (7.02%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (5.70%) Business Analyst
12 13 (5.70%) Software Engineer
13 12 (5.26%) Data Architect
13 12 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (44.30%) Kafka
2 55 (24.12%) PySpark
3 40 (17.54%) PyTorch
3 40 (17.54%) TensorFlow
4 27 (11.84%) scikit-learn
5 25 (10.96%) REST
6 24 (10.53%) LangChain
7 23 (10.09%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (10.09%) pgvector
8 22 (9.65%) Pandas
9 14 (6.14%) Spring
9 14 (6.14%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.82%) Node.js
11 9 (3.95%) Faiss
11 9 (3.95%) vLLM
12 8 (3.51%) NumPy
12 8 (3.51%) React
13 6 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.63%) SpaCy
14 5 (2.19%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.86%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 23 (10.09%) Clustering
4 20 (8.77%) Product Ownership
5 17 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.82%) Algorithms
7 9 (3.95%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (3.51%) Data Structures
9 7 (3.07%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.63%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.63%) e-Learning
10 6 (2.63%) Social Media
11 5 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.32%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.32%) NHS
13 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.51%) Linux
2 5 (2.19%) CentOS
2 5 (2.19%) Debian
2 5 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.19%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (64.04%) Data Pipeline
2 138 (60.53%) Analytics
3 135 (59.21%) Data Engineering
4 115 (50.44%) ETL
5 105 (46.05%) AI
6 103 (45.18%) CI/CD
7 89 (39.04%) Data Governance
8 88 (38.60%) Machine Learning
9 87 (38.16%) Data Science
10 86 (37.72%) Data Modelling
11 74 (32.46%) Agile
12 65 (28.51%) Business Intelligence
13 52 (22.81%) Computer Science
13 52 (22.81%) Use Case
14 50 (21.93%) Generative AI
14 50 (21.93%) Software Engineering
15 44 (19.30%) DevOps
15 44 (19.30%) Performance Tuning
16 40 (17.54%) Feature Engineering
17 38 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 212 (92.98%) Python
2 168 (73.68%) SQL
3 51 (22.37%) Java
4 44 (19.30%) Scala
5 11 (4.82%) Bash
6 9 (3.95%) Go
7 7 (3.07%) C++
7 7 (3.07%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.75%) Bicep
8 4 (1.75%) R
8 4 (1.75%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.32%) VBA
10 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.44%) C#
10 1 (0.44%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (16.23%) Degree
2 27 (11.84%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.82%) PhD
6 10 (4.39%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.95%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.51%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.63%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.44%) CEH
12 1 (0.44%) CISM
12 1 (0.44%) CISSP
12 1 (0.44%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (36.84%) Data Quality
2 38 (16.67%) GDPR
3 35 (15.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.26%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.88%) IFRS
6 2 (0.88%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.88%) QA
6 2 (0.88%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (15.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (15.79%) Terraform
2 30 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.70%) Ansible
4 6 (2.63%) Grafana
5 5 (2.19%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.19%) Puppet
6 3 (1.32%) Packer
7 1 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 80 (35.09%) Databricks
2 32 (14.04%) Oracle
3 31 (13.60%) Red Hat
4 24 (10.53%) Cloudera
4 24 (10.53%) Dell
5 12 (5.26%) Palantir
6 10 (4.39%) Google
7 9 (3.95%) Microsoft
8 7 (3.07%) Informatica
9 6 (2.63%) Talend
10 5 (2.19%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.32%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.44%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.44%) Confluent
12 1 (0.44%) Mapbox
12 1 (0.44%) Pega
12 1 (0.44%) Refinitiv
12 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.44%) UiPath