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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 394 356
Rank change year-on-year -100 -38 -40
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 264 312 782
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.66% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.26% 7.19% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 126 167 252
10th Percentile £51,875 £47,600 £47,650
25th Percentile £63,438 £57,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £135,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £66,199
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.81% -5.43%

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 4,218 4,341 9,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.36% 9.19% 9.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,042 2,870 7,131
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,738 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £73,525
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -11.55%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -66 244 £82,500 - 140
London -37 156 £100,000 +2.56% 73
UK excluding London -116 84 £62,500 -3.85% 83
Work from Home -68 54 £67,500 -20.59% 72
North of England -27 39 £57,500 - 24
South West -49 20 £70,000 +27.27% 16
North West -2 17 £55,000 - 9
East of England 0 15 £75,000 +4.90%
North East -41 13 £55,000 +15.79% 9
Yorkshire -39 9 £80,000 +39.13% 6
South East -58 4 £57,500 -11.54% 31
Scotland -14 2 £115,000 +15.00% 2
Midlands -42 2 £50,000 -25.93% 8
Wales -42 2 £80,000 +27.87% 1
East Midlands -28 1 £50,000 -33.33% 4
West Midlands -28 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
1 121 (45.83%) Apache
2 107 (40.53%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (5.68%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.14%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.14%) SAS
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Pig
5 2 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.38%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.92%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 179 (67.80%) AWS
2 124 (46.97%) Azure
3 95 (35.98%) GCP
4 60 (22.73%) Amazon S3
5 49 (18.56%) Power Platform
6 44 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (14.77%) dbt
7 39 (14.77%) Snowflake
8 37 (14.02%) Serverless
9 32 (12.12%) OpenShift
10 29 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (10.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (6.82%) Amazon EMR
12 18 (6.82%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (5.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 14 (5.30%) GitHub
14 13 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.65%) Broadband
2 6 (2.27%) AMQP
3 3 (1.14%) BGP
3 3 (1.14%) DNS
3 3 (1.14%) IPsec
3 3 (1.14%) VPN
4 2 (0.76%) 4G
4 2 (0.76%) 5G
4 2 (0.76%) Internet
5 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (29.17%) Big Data
2 73 (27.65%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (26.52%) Tableau
4 56 (21.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 56 (21.21%) Data Lake
5 55 (20.83%) Elasticsearch
6 48 (18.18%) Power BI
7 38 (14.39%) BigQuery
8 36 (13.64%) Hadoop
9 35 (13.26%) Spark SQL
10 32 (12.12%) Apache Hive
10 32 (12.12%) NoSQL
11 28 (10.61%) Looker
12 27 (10.23%) Parquet
13 26 (9.85%) Snowflake Schema
14 25 (9.47%) Impala
14 25 (9.47%) Oracle Database
15 24 (9.09%) Delta Lake
16 22 (8.33%) Metadata
16 22 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (17.42%) Git
2 34 (12.88%) MLflow
3 25 (9.47%) IBM UrbanCode
4 16 (6.06%) GitLab
5 12 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.76%) JIRA
6 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.38%) Deequ
7 1 (0.38%) JUnit
General
1 101 (38.26%) Finance
2 79 (29.92%) Social Skills
3 67 (25.38%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (15.91%) Banking
5 24 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.58%) Law
7 16 (6.06%) Legal
8 12 (4.55%) Financial Institution
9 11 (4.17%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.27%) Military
12 5 (1.89%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.52%) Games
14 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.14%) Marketing
14 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.14%) Retail
15 2 (0.76%) Billing
Job Titles
1 103 (39.02%) Data Engineer
2 91 (34.47%) Senior
3 35 (13.26%) Lead
4 28 (10.61%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (9.85%) Analyst
6 24 (9.09%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.71%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.71%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.71%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (8.33%) Banking Analyst
8 22 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
9 20 (7.58%) Architect
10 18 (6.82%) Developer
11 17 (6.44%) Data Scientist
12 14 (5.30%) Senior Data Scientist
13 13 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (4.92%) Business Analyst
13 13 (4.92%) Data Architect
13 13 (4.92%) Python Developer
14 12 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (42.05%) Kafka
2 70 (26.52%) PySpark
3 30 (11.36%) PyTorch
3 30 (11.36%) TensorFlow
4 24 (9.09%) LangChain
4 24 (9.09%) scikit-learn
5 23 (8.71%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.71%) pgvector
6 21 (7.95%) REST
7 20 (7.58%) Pandas
8 16 (6.06%) Spring
8 16 (6.06%) Spring Boot
9 15 (5.68%) Node.js
10 12 (4.55%) SpaCy
11 9 (3.41%) React
12 7 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.27%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.27%) NumPy
13 6 (2.27%) OpenAPI
13 6 (2.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (20.08%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.47%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.71%) Clustering
4 18 (6.82%) Product Ownership
5 17 (6.44%) Data Structures
6 13 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (4.55%) e-Learning
8 9 (3.41%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (3.03%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.27%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.27%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.27%) Social Media
11 5 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.89%) NHS
12 3 (1.14%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.55%) Linux
2 6 (2.27%) CentOS
2 6 (2.27%) Debian
2 6 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.27%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (62.12%) Data Pipeline
2 163 (61.74%) Data Engineering
3 158 (59.85%) Analytics
4 125 (47.35%) CI/CD
5 117 (44.32%) ETL
6 111 (42.05%) Data Modelling
7 103 (39.02%) AI
8 98 (37.12%) Data Science
9 97 (36.74%) Data Governance
10 91 (34.47%) Machine Learning
11 86 (32.58%) Agile
12 65 (24.62%) Business Intelligence
12 65 (24.62%) DevOps
13 61 (23.11%) Use Case
14 51 (19.32%) Performance Tuning
15 48 (18.18%) Validation
16 47 (17.80%) Computer Science
16 47 (17.80%) Generative AI
17 46 (17.42%) Software Engineering
18 42 (15.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 232 (87.88%) Python
2 195 (73.86%) SQL
3 52 (19.70%) Scala
4 44 (16.67%) Java
5 10 (3.79%) Bash
5 10 (3.79%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.65%) C++
7 5 (1.89%) Bicep
7 5 (1.89%) Go
7 5 (1.89%) VBA
8 4 (1.52%) C#
8 4 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.14%) C
9 3 (1.14%) PHP
9 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.14%) Ruby
10 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.38%) R
11 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.91%) Degree
3 32 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 15 (5.68%) PhD
6 13 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 12 (4.55%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.17%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.14%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.38%) CEH
11 1 (0.38%) CISM
11 1 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 37 (14.02%) GDPR
3 35 (13.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.55%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.03%) QA
6 6 (2.27%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.76%) IFRS
7 2 (0.76%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.76%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (17.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (18.94%) Terraform
2 38 (14.39%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.68%) Ansible
4 6 (2.27%) Grafana
4 6 (2.27%) Puppet
5 5 (1.89%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.14%) Hadoop YARN
6 3 (1.14%) Kibana
6 3 (1.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 95 (35.98%) Databricks
2 32 (12.12%) Red Hat
3 29 (10.98%) Oracle
4 24 (9.09%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.09%) Dell
5 14 (5.30%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.17%) Google
7 7 (2.65%) Palantir
8 6 (2.27%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.52%) IBM
9 4 (1.52%) Informatica
10 3 (1.14%) HP
10 3 (1.14%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.14%) SAP
10 3 (1.14%) Talend
11 2 (0.76%) Foundry
12 1 (0.38%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.38%) Pega
12 1 (0.38%) Splunk
12 1 (0.38%) Trend Micro