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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 344 261
Rank change year-on-year -152 -83 -10
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 219 312 1,026
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.76% 1.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.82% 7.65% 10.52%
Number of salaries quoted 92 210 282
10th Percentile £53,975 £52,500 £49,100
25th Percentile £71,313 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £134,375 £115,000 £104,375
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,250 £69,447
% change year-on-year +24.48% -13.24% +2.88%

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 3,760 4,077 9,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.54% 9.97% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,583 2,887 6,964
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -125 198 £82,500 -2.94% 99
London -51 133 £95,000 -13.64% 63
UK excluding London -105 65 £75,000 +24.48% 60
Work from Home -126 53 £81,000 -26.36% 47
North of England -56 23 £65,000 +13.04% 16
East of England -22 18 £75,000 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire -48 13 £65,000 +13.04% 1
South West -31 11 £80,000 +60.00% 10
North West -41 8 £95,000 +72.73% 11
Scotland -28 5 £102,500 +2.50% 3
South East -74 5 £61,250 -5.77% 24
North East -26 2 £80,000 - 4
Midlands -54 2 £50,000 -25.93% 4
West Midlands -8 1 - - 2
Wales -27 1 £95,000 +48.44% 2
East Midlands -64 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2

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
1 106 (48.40%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (34.70%) Apache
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.46%) Camunda
3 1 (0.46%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (5.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 147 (67.12%) AWS
2 103 (47.03%) Azure
3 90 (41.10%) GCP
4 50 (22.83%) Power Platform
5 47 (21.46%) Amazon S3
6 46 (21.00%) dbt
7 45 (20.55%) Snowflake
8 36 (16.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 33 (15.07%) OpenShift
10 29 (13.24%) Serverless
11 25 (11.42%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (8.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (8.22%) Dagster
13 15 (6.85%) Azure Machine Learning
14 11 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (4.57%) Amazon EMR
15 10 (4.57%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (4.57%) GitHub
16 9 (4.11%) Amazon SageMaker
16 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.20%) Broadband
2 5 (2.28%) AMQP
3 2 (0.91%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.46%) 4G
4 1 (0.46%) 5G
4 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.46%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (34.25%) Data Warehouse
1 75 (34.25%) Tableau
2 67 (30.59%) Big Data
3 50 (22.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 50 (22.83%) Data Lake
4 49 (22.37%) Power BI
5 47 (21.46%) BigQuery
6 40 (18.26%) Elasticsearch
7 39 (17.81%) Hadoop
8 33 (15.07%) Looker
9 32 (14.61%) Apache Hive
10 29 (13.24%) Spark SQL
11 28 (12.79%) Snowflake Schema
12 26 (11.87%) Parquet
13 25 (11.42%) Impala
13 25 (11.42%) Oracle Database
14 22 (10.05%) Delta Lake
15 18 (8.22%) MySQL
15 18 (8.22%) Relational Database
16 16 (7.31%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 43 (19.63%) Git
2 37 (16.89%) MLflow
3 25 (11.42%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (3.65%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.74%) GitLab
6 2 (0.91%) JIRA
7 1 (0.46%) Deequ
7 1 (0.46%) JUnit
General
1 80 (36.53%) Finance
2 72 (32.88%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (32.42%) Social Skills
4 31 (14.16%) Banking
5 24 (10.96%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.39%) Law
7 13 (5.94%) Legal
8 7 (3.20%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.37%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.91%) Advertising
11 2 (0.91%) Marketing
11 2 (0.91%) Retail
11 2 (0.91%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.46%) Billing
12 1 (0.46%) Games
12 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (35.62%) Data Engineer
2 74 (33.79%) Senior
3 27 (12.33%) Developer
3 27 (12.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (11.87%) Analyst
5 24 (10.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.50%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.50%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (10.05%) Banking Analyst
8 20 (9.13%) Python Developer
9 13 (5.94%) Architect
9 13 (5.94%) AWS Data Engineer
9 13 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (5.94%) Business Analyst
9 13 (5.94%) Python Engineer
10 12 (5.48%) Data Business Analyst
10 12 (5.48%) Lead
10 12 (5.48%) Technical Analyst
11 11 (5.02%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 10 (4.57%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (47.03%) Kafka
2 53 (24.20%) PySpark
3 42 (19.18%) PyTorch
3 42 (19.18%) TensorFlow
4 29 (13.24%) scikit-learn
5 28 (12.79%) REST
6 26 (11.87%) Pandas
7 25 (11.42%) LangChain
8 23 (10.50%) LlamaIndex
8 23 (10.50%) pgvector
9 13 (5.94%) Spring
10 12 (5.48%) Spring Boot
11 10 (4.57%) Node.js
11 10 (4.57%) NumPy
12 9 (4.11%) Faiss
12 9 (4.11%) vLLM
13 7 (3.20%) React
14 6 (2.74%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.74%) OAuth
14 6 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.00%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.50%) Clustering
2 23 (10.50%) Public Cloud
3 20 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (7.76%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.02%) Algorithms
6 9 (4.11%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.65%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.74%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.74%) Social Media
9 5 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.37%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.37%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.11%) Linux
2 5 (2.28%) CentOS
2 5 (2.28%) Debian
2 5 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.28%) Ubuntu
3 4 (1.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 127 (57.99%) Data Engineering
3 126 (57.53%) Analytics
4 112 (51.14%) ETL
5 106 (48.40%) AI
6 100 (45.66%) CI/CD
7 93 (42.47%) Data Governance
8 86 (39.27%) Machine Learning
9 84 (38.36%) Data Modelling
9 84 (38.36%) Data Science
10 71 (32.42%) Business Intelligence
11 68 (31.05%) Agile
12 56 (25.57%) Computer Science
13 50 (22.83%) Generative AI
14 47 (21.46%) Software Engineering
15 43 (19.63%) Use Case
16 42 (19.18%) Performance Tuning
17 41 (18.72%) DevOps
18 39 (17.81%) Feature Engineering
19 38 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 206 (94.06%) Python
2 167 (76.26%) SQL
3 56 (25.57%) Java
4 44 (20.09%) Scala
5 10 (4.57%) Bash
6 9 (4.11%) Go
7 8 (3.65%) C++
8 6 (2.74%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.74%) R
9 3 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.37%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.46%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.46%) Bicep
10 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.46%) Ruby
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (16.89%) Degree
2 19 (8.68%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (6.85%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.11%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.74%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.74%) PhD
7 5 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (36.99%) Data Quality
2 39 (17.81%) GDPR
3 35 (15.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.48%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 40 (18.26%) Docker
2 3 (1.37%) HDFS
3 2 (0.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (16.89%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.79%) Terraform
3 14 (6.39%) Ansible
4 8 (3.65%) Grafana
5 7 (3.20%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.28%) Puppet
7 1 (0.46%) Argo
7 1 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 80 (36.53%) Databricks
2 34 (15.53%) Oracle
3 32 (14.61%) Red Hat
4 25 (11.42%) Dell
5 24 (10.96%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.39%) Palantir
7 12 (5.48%) Microsoft
8 11 (5.02%) Google
9 7 (3.20%) Informatica
10 6 (2.74%) Talend
11 5 (2.28%) SaltStack
12 4 (1.83%) IBM
13 3 (1.37%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.46%) Automation Anywhere
14 1 (0.46%) Cognizant
14 1 (0.46%) Mapbox
14 1 (0.46%) Pega
14 1 (0.46%) SAP
14 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.46%) UiPath