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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 393 276
Rank change year-on-year -87 -117 -24
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 214 300 849
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.65% 1.07%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.82% 6.78% 10.04%
Number of salaries quoted 97 205 270
10th Percentile £56,000 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £62,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £104,375
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £57,501 £69,447
% change year-on-year +30.43% -17.20% +6.84%

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 3,675 4,425 8,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.09% 9.65% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,439 2,743 6,297
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,035 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £38,750 £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 £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,550 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.89% +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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -86 195 £85,000 -10.53% 113
London -21 137 £95,000 -13.64% 61
UK excluding London -61 57 £75,000 +30.43% 67
Work from Home -89 56 £83,000 -24.55% 63
North of England -25 26 £65,000 +18.18% 23
Yorkshire -23 17 £65,000 +32.65% 14
East of England +12 13 - - 7
South West -15 8 £80,000 +1.59% 12
North West -17 8 £95,000 +72.73% 6
Scotland -14 4 £90,000 -2.70% 3
South East -52 4 £65,000 +13.04% 18
West Midlands -1 1 - - 2
Wales -10 1 £95,000 +79.25% 3
North East -11 1 - - 3
Midlands -22 1 - - 3

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 88 (41.12%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (35.51%) Apache
3 2 (0.93%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.47%) Camunda
4 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (5.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 147 (68.69%) AWS
2 99 (46.26%) Azure
3 85 (39.72%) GCP
4 46 (21.50%) Amazon S3
5 35 (16.36%) dbt
5 35 (16.36%) OpenShift
5 35 (16.36%) Serverless
6 33 (15.42%) Snowflake
7 31 (14.49%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (13.08%) Power Platform
9 20 (9.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (8.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (8.41%) Dagster
11 15 (7.01%) Amazon EMR
12 13 (6.07%) Azure Machine Learning
13 12 (5.61%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (4.67%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (4.21%) Amazon SageMaker
15 9 (4.21%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.27%) Broadband
2 5 (2.34%) AMQP
2 5 (2.34%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.47%) 4G
3 1 (0.47%) 5G
3 1 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.47%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (34.11%) Big Data
2 71 (33.18%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (25.23%) Tableau
4 51 (23.83%) Hadoop
5 46 (21.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 44 (20.56%) Data Lake
7 35 (16.36%) Apache Hive
8 32 (14.95%) BigQuery
9 28 (13.08%) Power BI
10 26 (12.15%) Spark SQL
11 24 (11.21%) Parquet
12 23 (10.75%) Impala
12 23 (10.75%) Oracle Database
13 21 (9.81%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (8.88%) Apache Iceberg
15 18 (8.41%) Delta Lake
15 18 (8.41%) Looker
15 18 (8.41%) Relational Database
16 17 (7.94%) MySQL
16 17 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (18.69%) Git
2 23 (10.75%) IBM UrbanCode
3 21 (9.81%) MLflow
4 7 (3.27%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.34%) GitLab
6 2 (0.93%) Deequ
7 1 (0.47%) JUnit
General
1 83 (38.79%) Finance
2 81 (37.85%) Social Skills
3 59 (27.57%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (16.36%) Banking
5 24 (11.21%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.54%) Law
7 13 (6.07%) Legal
8 10 (4.67%) Financial Institution
9 9 (4.21%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.87%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.40%) Front Office
11 3 (1.40%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.93%) Advertising
12 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.93%) Marketing
12 2 (0.93%) Retail
13 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (39.25%) Data Engineer
2 66 (30.84%) Senior
3 31 (14.49%) Senior Data Engineer
4 25 (11.68%) Developer
5 24 (11.21%) Analyst
6 21 (9.81%) Transformation Analyst
7 20 (9.35%) Banking Analyst
8 18 (8.41%) AWS Data Engineer
8 18 (8.41%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (8.41%) Python Developer
9 15 (7.01%) Architect
10 12 (5.61%) Business Analyst
11 11 (5.14%) Data Business Analyst
11 11 (5.14%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (5.14%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.14%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (4.67%) Data Architect
12 10 (4.67%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 9 (4.21%) Consultant
13 9 (4.21%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (41.12%) Kafka
2 49 (22.90%) PySpark
3 29 (13.55%) PyTorch
3 29 (13.55%) TensorFlow
4 25 (11.68%) Pandas
5 24 (11.21%) REST
6 15 (7.01%) scikit-learn
7 13 (6.07%) Spring
8 12 (5.61%) Spring Boot
9 11 (5.14%) LangChain
10 9 (4.21%) Faiss
10 9 (4.21%) vLLM
11 8 (3.74%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (3.74%) NumPy
11 8 (3.74%) pgvector
12 7 (3.27%) Node.js
12 7 (3.27%) OAuth
12 7 (3.27%) React
13 6 (2.80%) LDAP
13 6 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.42%) Cloud Native
1 33 (15.42%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (8.41%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.14%) Algorithms
4 9 (4.21%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (4.21%) e-Learning
5 8 (3.74%) Clustering
5 8 (3.74%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.74%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.80%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (2.80%) Social Media
8 5 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.40%) Equities
10 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.48%) Linux
2 8 (3.74%) Unix
3 5 (2.34%) CentOS
3 5 (2.34%) Debian
3 5 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (64.95%) Data Pipeline
2 120 (56.07%) Data Engineering
3 117 (54.67%) Analytics
4 105 (49.07%) CI/CD
5 99 (46.26%) ETL
6 88 (41.12%) AI
7 83 (38.79%) Data Governance
8 79 (36.92%) Data Science
9 73 (34.11%) Data Modelling
9 73 (34.11%) Machine Learning
10 64 (29.91%) Agile
11 54 (25.23%) Business Intelligence
11 54 (25.23%) Computer Science
12 49 (22.90%) Software Engineering
13 45 (21.03%) DevOps
14 42 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (16.82%) Roadmaps
16 34 (15.89%) Data Transformation
16 34 (15.89%) Scrum
17 31 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 200 (93.46%) Python
2 152 (71.03%) SQL
3 70 (32.71%) Java
4 40 (18.69%) Scala
5 10 (4.67%) Bash
6 9 (4.21%) Go
6 9 (4.21%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.74%) C++
8 7 (3.27%) R
9 5 (2.34%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.40%) C#
11 2 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.47%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.47%) Bicep
12 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.47%) Ruby
12 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (20.56%) Degree
2 18 (8.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (8.41%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.07%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.14%) PhD
5 10 (4.67%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.27%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.80%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.47%) MBA
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (37.38%) Data Quality
2 25 (11.68%) GDPR
3 19 (8.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (5.14%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.87%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.40%) QA
7 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (19.16%) Docker
2 6 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (18.22%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.62%) Terraform
3 15 (7.01%) Ansible
4 11 (5.14%) Grafana
4 11 (5.14%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.34%) Puppet
6 3 (1.40%) Kibana
6 3 (1.40%) logstash
7 1 (0.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 64 (29.91%) Databricks
2 37 (17.29%) Oracle
3 30 (14.02%) Red Hat
4 16 (7.48%) Dell
5 14 (6.54%) Palantir
6 12 (5.61%) Google
6 12 (5.61%) Microsoft
7 9 (4.21%) Informatica
8 8 (3.74%) Cloudera
8 8 (3.74%) Talend
9 5 (2.34%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.87%) IBM
11 2 (0.93%) SAP
12 1 (0.47%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.47%) Foundry
12 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.47%) Pega
12 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.47%) UiPath