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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 401 287
Rank change year-on-year -84 -114 -44
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 185 307 769
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.63% 1.02%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.09% 6.66% 9.61%
Number of salaries quoted 97 211 276
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £62,500
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 £103,125
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £70,288
% change year-on-year +30.43% -18.19% +8.14%

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 3,638 4,610 8,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.28% 9.52% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,421 2,735 6,063
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £108,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,500 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.96% +8.24% -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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -74 167 £85,000 -9.33% 94
London -20 119 £97,500 -11.36% 45
Work from Home -76 54 £85,000 -22.73% 54
UK excluding London -54 45 £75,000 +30.43% 67
North of England -8 26 £65,000 +18.18% 25
Yorkshire - 17 £65,000 - 12
North West -11 8 £95,000 +72.73% 9
South West -20 7 £80,000 +3.23% 13
East of England +19 5 - - 2
Scotland -4 3 £90,000 - 3
South East -32 2 £65,000 +13.04% 20
West Midlands +14 1 - - 2
Wales -3 1 £95,000 +79.25% 1
Midlands -9 1 - - 4
North East -13 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 56 (30.27%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (28.11%) Apache
3 2 (1.08%) SAS
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.54%) Camunda
4 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 120 (64.86%) AWS
2 94 (50.81%) Azure
3 79 (42.70%) GCP
4 34 (18.38%) Serverless
5 31 (16.76%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (14.05%) dbt
7 25 (13.51%) Snowflake
8 22 (11.89%) Amazon S3
9 18 (9.73%) Dagster
9 18 (9.73%) Power Platform
10 17 (9.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (8.65%) Amazon EMR
12 13 (7.03%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (7.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (6.49%) Azure Machine Learning
13 12 (6.49%) OpenShift
14 11 (5.95%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (4.86%) Amazon SageMaker
16 9 (4.86%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.78%) Broadband
2 5 (2.70%) AMQP
3 4 (2.16%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.54%) 4G
4 1 (0.54%) 5G
4 1 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.54%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (42.16%) Big Data
2 64 (34.59%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (30.27%) Hadoop
4 41 (22.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (18.92%) Data Lake
6 25 (13.51%) Tableau
7 24 (12.97%) BigQuery
8 19 (10.27%) Apache Iceberg
8 19 (10.27%) NoSQL
9 18 (9.73%) MySQL
9 18 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (9.73%) Power BI
10 17 (9.19%) Delta Lake
10 17 (9.19%) Relational Database
11 16 (8.65%) MongoDB
12 14 (7.57%) SQL Server
13 13 (7.03%) Apache Hive
13 13 (7.03%) Metadata
14 12 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (5.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 16 (8.65%) Git
2 12 (6.49%) MLflow
3 7 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.16%) GitLab
5 2 (1.08%) Deequ
6 1 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.54%) JUnit
General
1 83 (44.86%) Social Skills
2 63 (34.05%) Finance
3 42 (22.70%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.19%) Law
5 14 (7.57%) Banking
6 12 (6.49%) Financial Institution
7 9 (4.86%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.16%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.16%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.62%) Front Office
9 3 (1.62%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.62%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.08%) Advertising
10 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.08%) Legal
10 2 (1.08%) Marketing
10 2 (1.08%) Retail
11 1 (0.54%) Billing
11 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 82 (44.32%) Data Engineer
2 59 (31.89%) Senior
3 32 (17.30%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (14.05%) Developer
5 18 (9.73%) AWS Data Engineer
5 18 (9.73%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (9.73%) Python Developer
6 14 (7.57%) Architect
7 12 (6.49%) Principal Engineer
8 11 (5.95%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) Data Architect
10 9 (4.86%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 9 (4.86%) Consultant
10 9 (4.86%) Data Consultant
10 9 (4.86%) Data Scientist
10 9 (4.86%) Lead
10 9 (4.86%) Senior Consultant
11 6 (3.24%) Senior Data Scientist
12 5 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 5 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (43.24%) Kafka
2 25 (13.51%) PySpark
3 23 (12.43%) REST
4 22 (11.89%) PyTorch
4 22 (11.89%) TensorFlow
5 15 (8.11%) Pandas
6 12 (6.49%) Spring
7 11 (5.95%) Spring Boot
8 9 (4.86%) Faiss
8 9 (4.86%) NumPy
8 9 (4.86%) vLLM
9 8 (4.32%) scikit-learn
10 7 (3.78%) React
11 6 (3.24%) AngularJS
11 6 (3.24%) boto
11 6 (3.24%) Node.js
11 6 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (3.24%) Spark Streaming
12 5 (2.70%) OAuth
12 5 (2.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.38%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (12.43%) Cloud Native
3 21 (11.35%) Product Ownership
4 12 (6.49%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.95%) e-Learning
6 9 (4.86%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (4.86%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.32%) Data Structures
7 8 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.24%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (3.24%) Social Media
9 3 (1.62%) Equities
9 3 (1.62%) FMCG
9 3 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.62%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.11%) Linux
2 7 (3.78%) Unix
3 5 (2.70%) CentOS
3 5 (2.70%) Debian
3 5 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (58.92%) Data Pipeline
2 102 (55.14%) Data Engineering
3 88 (47.57%) Analytics
4 86 (46.49%) CI/CD
5 70 (37.84%) Data Science
5 70 (37.84%) ETL
6 66 (35.68%) Data Modelling
7 64 (34.59%) Machine Learning
8 55 (29.73%) Data Governance
9 54 (29.19%) AI
10 51 (27.57%) Computer Science
11 49 (26.49%) Software Engineering
12 47 (25.41%) Business Intelligence
12 47 (25.41%) DevOps
13 43 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (22.16%) Agile
15 36 (19.46%) Roadmaps
16 34 (18.38%) Mentoring
17 29 (15.68%) Fintech
17 29 (15.68%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 169 (91.35%) Python
2 122 (65.95%) SQL
3 71 (38.38%) Java
4 40 (21.62%) Scala
5 10 (5.41%) Bash
6 9 (4.86%) Go
6 9 (4.86%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.32%) C++
7 8 (4.32%) R
8 5 (2.70%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.62%) C#
10 2 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.54%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.54%) Ruby
11 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (22.70%) Degree
2 18 (9.73%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.03%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.49%) PhD
6 11 (5.95%) Master's Degree
7 6 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.24%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.24%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.54%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (29.73%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.78%) GDPR
3 5 (2.70%) QA
4 4 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (20.54%) Docker
2 7 (3.78%) HDFS
3 5 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 25 (13.51%) Terraform
3 13 (7.03%) Ansible
4 10 (5.41%) Grafana
4 10 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.70%) Puppet
6 3 (1.62%) Kibana
6 3 (1.62%) logstash
7 1 (0.54%) Argo
Vendors
1 57 (30.81%) Databricks
2 16 (8.65%) Oracle
3 14 (7.57%) Palantir
4 12 (6.49%) Google
5 10 (5.41%) Informatica
5 10 (5.41%) Microsoft
6 9 (4.86%) Talend
7 8 (4.32%) Red Hat
8 7 (3.78%) Dell
9 5 (2.70%) SaltStack
10 4 (2.16%) IBM
10 4 (2.16%) SAP
11 1 (0.54%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.54%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.54%) Foundry
11 1 (0.54%) Pega
11 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.54%) UiPath