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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 361 264
Rank change year-on-year -127 -97 -13
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 221 308 1,024
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.75% 1.10%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.95% 7.51% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 92 205 283
10th Percentile £53,975 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £73,938 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £62,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +24.00% -10.00% +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 3,717 4,102 9,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.35% 9.97% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,570 2,891 7,030
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £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 £72,500 £77,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 15 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 15 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 -104 200 £83,750 -1.47% 89
London -54 135 £95,000 -13.64% 53
UK excluding London -120 65 £77,500 +24.00% 52
Work from Home -118 52 £81,000 -26.36% 45
North of England -72 23 £72,500 +26.09% 14
East of England -8 18 £75,000 -7.69% 2
Yorkshire -57 12 £62,500 +8.70% 1
South West -42 11 £80,000 +60.00% 13
North West -29 9 £95,000 +72.73% 8
Scotland -29 5 £102,500 +2.50% 3
South East -76 5 £61,250 -5.77% 16
North East -29 2 £80,000 - 5
Midlands -52 2 £50,000 -25.93% 4
West Midlands -22 1 - - 3
Wales -26 1 £95,000 +48.44%
East Midlands -55 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
1 108 (48.87%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (35.29%) Apache
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.45%) Camunda
3 1 (0.45%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 148 (66.97%) AWS
2 105 (47.51%) Azure
3 93 (42.08%) GCP
4 49 (22.17%) Power Platform
5 47 (21.27%) dbt
6 46 (20.81%) Amazon S3
6 46 (20.81%) Snowflake
7 38 (17.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 34 (15.38%) OpenShift
9 29 (13.12%) Serverless
10 25 (11.31%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (8.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (8.14%) Dagster
13 15 (6.79%) Azure Machine Learning
14 11 (4.98%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (4.52%) Amazon EMR
15 10 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (4.52%) GitHub
16 9 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (4.07%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.17%) Broadband
2 6 (2.71%) AMQP
3 2 (0.90%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.45%) 4G
4 1 (0.45%) 5G
4 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.45%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (33.94%) Data Warehouse
1 75 (33.94%) Tableau
2 69 (31.22%) Big Data
3 50 (22.62%) Amazon Redshift
4 49 (22.17%) Data Lake
5 48 (21.72%) Power BI
6 47 (21.27%) BigQuery
7 41 (18.55%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (17.65%) Hadoop
9 33 (14.93%) Looker
10 32 (14.48%) Apache Hive
11 29 (13.12%) Spark SQL
12 28 (12.67%) Snowflake Schema
13 26 (11.76%) Parquet
14 25 (11.31%) Impala
14 25 (11.31%) Oracle Database
15 21 (9.50%) Delta Lake
16 20 (9.05%) Relational Database
17 19 (8.60%) MySQL
18 17 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (19.00%) Git
2 36 (16.29%) MLflow
3 25 (11.31%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (3.62%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.71%) GitLab
6 2 (0.90%) JIRA
7 1 (0.45%) Deequ
7 1 (0.45%) JUnit
General
1 83 (37.56%) Finance
2 73 (33.03%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 32 (14.48%) Banking
5 24 (10.86%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.33%) Law
7 13 (5.88%) Legal
8 8 (3.62%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.26%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.81%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.81%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.90%) Advertising
11 2 (0.90%) Marketing
11 2 (0.90%) Retail
12 1 (0.45%) Billing
12 1 (0.45%) Electronics
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 76 (34.39%) Data Engineer
2 73 (33.03%) Senior
3 26 (11.76%) Analyst
3 26 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 25 (11.31%) Developer
5 24 (10.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.41%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.41%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (9.95%) Banking Analyst
8 19 (8.60%) Python Developer
9 17 (7.69%) Python Engineer
10 14 (6.33%) Architect
11 13 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
11 13 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (5.88%) Business Analyst
11 13 (5.88%) Lead
12 12 (5.43%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.43%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.43%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (4.98%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (47.06%) Kafka
2 52 (23.53%) PySpark
3 41 (18.55%) PyTorch
3 41 (18.55%) TensorFlow
4 28 (12.67%) REST
4 28 (12.67%) scikit-learn
5 26 (11.76%) Pandas
6 24 (10.86%) LangChain
7 23 (10.41%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (10.41%) pgvector
8 14 (6.33%) Spring
9 13 (5.88%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.98%) Node.js
11 10 (4.52%) NumPy
12 9 (4.07%) Faiss
12 9 (4.07%) vLLM
13 8 (3.62%) React
14 7 (3.17%) AngularJS
14 7 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (2.71%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.46%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.41%) Clustering
2 23 (10.41%) Public Cloud
3 20 (9.05%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.98%) Algorithms
6 9 (4.07%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.62%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.71%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.71%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.71%) Social Media
9 5 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.81%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.36%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.90%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.52%) Linux
2 6 (2.71%) CentOS
2 6 (2.71%) Debian
2 6 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.71%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (65.16%) Data Pipeline
2 129 (58.37%) Data Engineering
3 128 (57.92%) Analytics
4 111 (50.23%) ETL
5 106 (47.96%) AI
6 99 (44.80%) CI/CD
7 91 (41.18%) Data Governance
8 86 (38.91%) Machine Learning
9 84 (38.01%) Data Modelling
10 83 (37.56%) Data Science
11 70 (31.67%) Business Intelligence
12 69 (31.22%) Agile
13 57 (25.79%) Computer Science
14 50 (22.62%) Generative AI
15 49 (22.17%) Software Engineering
16 44 (19.91%) Use Case
17 42 (19.00%) Performance Tuning
18 41 (18.55%) DevOps
19 39 (17.65%) Feature Engineering
20 37 (16.74%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 207 (93.67%) Python
2 166 (75.11%) SQL
3 56 (25.34%) Java
4 44 (19.91%) Scala
5 10 (4.52%) Bash
6 9 (4.07%) Go
7 8 (3.62%) C++
8 7 (3.17%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.71%) R
10 3 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.90%) Bicep
12 1 (0.45%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.45%) Ruby
12 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (17.19%) Degree
2 22 (9.95%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.07%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 7 (3.17%) PhD
6 6 (2.71%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (37.10%) Data Quality
2 39 (17.65%) GDPR
3 35 (15.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.43%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) QA
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (18.10%) Docker
2 3 (1.36%) HDFS
3 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (16.74%) Kubernetes
2 31 (14.03%) Terraform
3 15 (6.79%) Ansible
4 8 (3.62%) Grafana
5 7 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.71%) Puppet
7 1 (0.45%) Argo
7 1 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 79 (35.75%) Databricks
2 34 (15.38%) Oracle
3 33 (14.93%) Red Hat
4 25 (11.31%) Dell
5 24 (10.86%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.33%) Palantir
7 12 (5.43%) Google
7 12 (5.43%) Microsoft
8 7 (3.17%) Informatica
9 6 (2.71%) SaltStack
9 6 (2.71%) Talend
10 3 (1.36%) IBM
10 3 (1.36%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.45%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.45%) Foundry
11 1 (0.45%) Pega
11 1 (0.45%) SAP
11 1 (0.45%) Splunk
11 1 (0.45%) Trend Micro