Apache Spark Job Trends

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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 441 295
Rank change year-on-year -39 -146 -47
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 172 285 574
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.53% 1.03%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.10% 5.87% 9.40%
Number of salaries quoted 93 197 249
10th Percentile £53,000 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -3.03%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £63,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.96% -12.07% +11.54%

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 3,373 4,859 6,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.65% 9.11% 10.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,255 2,842 4,555
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,785 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.58% +5.56% -5.26%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -20 160 £85,000 +6.25% 119
London +3 117 £100,000 - 45
Work from Home -42 44 £87,000 -9.61% 118
UK excluding London +15 42 £65,000 +1.96% 92
North of England +39 28 £60,000 +14.29% 24
Yorkshire - 19 £62,500 - 7
North West +20 8 £54,250 +8.50% 12
East of England +23 4 - - 13
Scotland -2 3 £90,000 - 5
Midlands +15 2 - - 6
South East -4 2 £72,500 +26.09% 34
South West -9 2 £50,000 -35.48% 9
West Midlands +19 1 - - 2
Wales +4 1 £95,000 +79.25% 4
North East +4 1 - - 5
East Midlands -14 1 - - 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 45 (26.16%) Apache
2 37 (21.51%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.74%) Luigi
4 2 (1.16%) SAS
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 8 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 119 (69.19%) AWS
2 98 (56.98%) Azure
3 73 (42.44%) GCP
4 32 (18.60%) Serverless
5 28 (16.28%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (12.21%) Amazon S3
7 20 (11.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (10.47%) Amazon EMR
8 18 (10.47%) dbt
8 18 (10.47%) Snowflake
9 17 (9.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (9.88%) Power Platform
10 15 (8.72%) Amazon Kinesis
11 14 (8.14%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (5.23%) OpenShift
13 8 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.65%) Dagster
14 7 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (4.07%) Azure Machine Learning
15 6 (3.49%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.74%) AMQP
3 1 (0.58%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (47.09%) Big Data
2 68 (39.53%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (37.79%) Hadoop
4 50 (29.07%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (19.77%) Data Lake
6 26 (15.12%) NoSQL
7 22 (12.79%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (11.05%) MySQL
9 18 (10.47%) MongoDB
10 17 (9.88%) Power BI
10 17 (9.88%) SQL Server
10 17 (9.88%) Tableau
11 15 (8.72%) BigQuery
12 14 (8.14%) Apache Hive
12 14 (8.14%) Apache Iceberg
12 14 (8.14%) Metadata
12 14 (8.14%) Relational Database
13 13 (7.56%) Delta Lake
13 13 (7.56%) DynamoDB
14 12 (6.98%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 12 (6.98%) Git
2 10 (5.81%) MLflow
3 8 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.74%) GitLab
5 2 (1.16%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.58%) Deequ
6 1 (0.58%) Gradle
General
1 77 (44.77%) Social Skills
2 55 (31.98%) Finance
3 43 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.47%) Financial Institution
4 18 (10.47%) Law
5 12 (6.98%) Banking
6 11 (6.40%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.33%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.74%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.74%) Front Office
9 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.16%) Marketing
9 2 (1.16%) Retail
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (43.60%) Data Engineer
2 51 (29.65%) Senior
3 30 (17.44%) Senior Data Engineer
4 23 (13.37%) Developer
5 16 (9.30%) AWS Data Engineer
5 16 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (8.14%) Python Developer
7 13 (7.56%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (6.98%) Lead
9 11 (6.40%) Architect
10 10 (5.81%) Data Scientist
11 9 (5.23%) Data Architect
11 9 (5.23%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.65%) Product Lead
13 7 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 7 (4.07%) Senior Data Scientist
14 6 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
15 5 (2.91%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 5 (2.91%) Azure Data Engineer
15 5 (2.91%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (41.28%) Kafka
2 20 (11.63%) PyTorch
2 20 (11.63%) TensorFlow
3 19 (11.05%) PySpark
4 17 (9.88%) REST
5 14 (8.14%) Pandas
6 11 (6.40%) scikit-learn
7 10 (5.81%) Spark Streaming
8 8 (4.65%) boto
9 7 (4.07%) NumPy
9 7 (4.07%) SpaCy
10 6 (3.49%) Spring
11 5 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (2.91%) Faiss
11 5 (2.91%) LDAP
11 5 (2.91%) OAuth
11 5 (2.91%) OAuth2
11 5 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.91%) React
11 5 (2.91%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 43 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (14.53%) Product Ownership
3 22 (12.79%) Cloud Native
4 17 (9.88%) e-Learning
5 13 (7.56%) Algorithms
6 11 (6.40%) Management Information System
7 10 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (5.23%) FMCG
9 8 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (4.07%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (2.33%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.74%) Equities
12 3 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.74%) Virtual Team
13 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
14 1 (0.58%) Culture of Ownership
14 1 (0.58%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.98%) Linux
2 9 (5.23%) Unix
3 3 (1.74%) CentOS
3 3 (1.74%) Debian
3 3 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (58.72%) Data Pipeline
2 92 (53.49%) Data Engineering
3 86 (50.00%) Analytics
4 81 (47.09%) CI/CD
5 71 (41.28%) Machine Learning
6 69 (40.12%) Data Science
7 68 (39.53%) ETL
8 67 (38.95%) Data Modelling
9 53 (30.81%) DevOps
10 49 (28.49%) Business Intelligence
11 48 (27.91%) AI
12 46 (26.74%) Data Governance
13 43 (25.00%) Software Engineering
14 42 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
15 39 (22.67%) Computer Science
16 38 (22.09%) Mentoring
17 37 (21.51%) Agile
18 30 (17.44%) Observability
19 27 (15.70%) Fintech
19 27 (15.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 151 (87.79%) Python
2 111 (64.53%) SQL
3 66 (38.37%) Java
4 41 (23.84%) Scala
5 8 (4.65%) R
6 7 (4.07%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.91%) Bash
7 5 (2.91%) Go
8 4 (2.33%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.74%) C#
10 2 (1.16%) C++
10 2 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.58%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (22.67%) Degree
2 14 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (8.14%) Master's Degree
3 13 (7.56%) PhD
4 12 (6.98%) Security Cleared
5 11 (6.40%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.91%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.91%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.58%) MBA
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (27.91%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.98%) QA
3 9 (5.23%) GDPR
4 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (16.86%) Docker
2 9 (5.23%) HDFS
3 5 (2.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.72%) Terraform
3 13 (7.56%) Ansible
4 7 (4.07%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.49%) Grafana
6 5 (2.91%) Puppet
7 3 (1.74%) Kibana
7 3 (1.74%) logstash
8 2 (1.16%) Kubeflow
8 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.58%) Argo
Vendors
1 57 (33.14%) Databricks
2 20 (11.63%) Oracle
3 13 (7.56%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.81%) Informatica
4 10 (5.81%) Palantir
4 10 (5.81%) SAP
4 10 (5.81%) Talend
5 9 (5.23%) Google
6 7 (4.07%) Dell
7 4 (2.33%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.74%) IBM
8 3 (1.74%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.58%) Cloudera