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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 436 280
Rank change year-on-year -25 -156 -30
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 177 288 648
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.54% 1.03%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.18% 5.95% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 94 202 262
10th Percentile £53,250 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £84,115 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +5.14% -3.03%
75th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £101,875
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £119,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -13.79% +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 3,419 4,842 6,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.56% 9.14% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,261 2,827 5,079
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £50,600
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.44% -4.51%

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 21 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 21 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 -29 163 £85,000 +2.13% 103
London -3 117 £97,500 -2.50% 44
Work from Home -44 48 £87,000 -13.00% 64
UK excluding London +7 45 £65,000 +4.00% 81
North of England +29 30 £60,000 +14.29% 15
Yorkshire - 19 £62,500 - 4
North West +16 10 £55,000 +10.00% 7
East of England +15 4 - - 9
South West -2 4 £50,000 -35.48% 8
Scotland -5 3 £90,000 - 11
Midlands +13 2 - - 7
West Midlands +20 1 - - 4
North East +7 1 - - 4
Wales +7 1 £95,000 +79.25% 3
South East -3 1 £65,000 +13.04% 28
East Midlands -13 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 50 (28.25%) Apache
2 40 (22.60%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.69%) Luigi
4 2 (1.13%) SAS
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 6 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 124 (70.06%) AWS
2 100 (56.50%) Azure
3 78 (44.07%) GCP
4 37 (20.90%) Serverless
5 33 (18.64%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (12.99%) Amazon S3
7 19 (10.73%) Snowflake
8 17 (9.60%) Amazon EMR
8 17 (9.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (9.60%) dbt
8 17 (9.60%) Power Platform
9 16 (9.04%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (8.47%) Amazon Kinesis
11 13 (7.34%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (6.21%) OpenShift
13 10 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (5.08%) Dagster
15 8 (4.52%) Azure Machine Learning
16 7 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.82%) AMQP
2 4 (2.26%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.56%) Broadband
3 1 (0.56%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (47.46%) Big Data
2 68 (38.42%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (36.72%) Hadoop
4 49 (27.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 36 (20.34%) Data Lake
6 25 (14.12%) NoSQL
7 21 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (10.73%) MySQL
9 18 (10.17%) MongoDB
9 18 (10.17%) Tableau
10 17 (9.60%) Power BI
10 17 (9.60%) SQL Server
11 16 (9.04%) BigQuery
12 15 (8.47%) Apache Iceberg
13 14 (7.91%) Apache Hive
13 14 (7.91%) Delta Lake
13 14 (7.91%) Relational Database
14 13 (7.34%) Metadata
15 12 (6.78%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (6.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (7.34%) Git
2 11 (6.21%) MLflow
3 7 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.69%) GitLab
5 2 (1.13%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.56%) Deequ
General
1 75 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 57 (32.20%) Finance
3 41 (23.16%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.17%) Financial Institution
5 16 (9.04%) Law
6 13 (7.34%) Banking
7 11 (6.21%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.26%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.26%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.69%) Front Office
10 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.13%) Marketing
10 2 (1.13%) Retail
10 2 (1.13%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (44.07%) Data Engineer
2 52 (29.38%) Senior
3 30 (16.95%) Senior Data Engineer
4 23 (12.99%) Developer
5 17 (9.60%) AWS Data Engineer
5 17 (9.60%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (7.91%) Python Developer
7 13 (7.34%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (6.78%) Architect
9 11 (6.21%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.65%) Data Architect
10 10 (5.65%) Data Scientist
10 10 (5.65%) Lead
11 7 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 7 (3.95%) Senior Data Scientist
12 6 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 6 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.39%) Consultant
12 6 (3.39%) Product Lead
12 6 (3.39%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (40.11%) Kafka
2 22 (12.43%) PySpark
3 21 (11.86%) PyTorch
3 21 (11.86%) TensorFlow
4 19 (10.73%) REST
5 14 (7.91%) Pandas
6 11 (6.21%) scikit-learn
7 10 (5.65%) Spark Streaming
8 8 (4.52%) boto
9 7 (3.95%) NumPy
9 7 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (3.95%) React
9 7 (3.95%) SpaCy
9 7 (3.95%) Spring
10 6 (3.39%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.39%) Faiss
10 6 (3.39%) Node.js
10 6 (3.39%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.39%) vLLM
11 5 (2.82%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.29%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (13.56%) Cloud Native
2 24 (13.56%) Product Ownership
3 17 (9.60%) e-Learning
4 14 (7.91%) Algorithms
5 11 (6.21%) Management Information System
6 10 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (3.95%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (3.95%) FMCG
9 4 (2.26%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.26%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.69%) Equities
10 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.13%) NHS
12 1 (0.56%) Data Fabric
12 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.91%) Linux
2 9 (5.08%) Unix
3 5 (2.82%) CentOS
3 5 (2.82%) Debian
3 5 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (58.19%) Data Pipeline
2 95 (53.67%) Data Engineering
3 86 (48.59%) Analytics
4 83 (46.89%) CI/CD
5 71 (40.11%) Data Science
5 71 (40.11%) ETL
5 71 (40.11%) Machine Learning
6 68 (38.42%) Data Modelling
7 50 (28.25%) DevOps
8 49 (27.68%) AI
8 49 (27.68%) Business Intelligence
8 49 (27.68%) Data Governance
9 45 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (25.42%) Software Engineering
10 41 (23.16%) Computer Science
11 38 (21.47%) Mentoring
12 37 (20.90%) Agile
13 30 (16.95%) Roadmaps
14 28 (15.82%) Observability
15 27 (15.25%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 157 (88.70%) Python
2 114 (64.41%) SQL
3 67 (37.85%) Java
4 42 (23.73%) Scala
5 9 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.52%) R
7 7 (3.95%) Bash
8 6 (3.39%) Go
9 4 (2.26%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.69%) C#
11 2 (1.13%) C++
11 2 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.13%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.56%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (23.16%) Degree
2 16 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.91%) Master's Degree
4 13 (7.34%) PhD
4 13 (7.34%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.82%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.82%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.56%) MBA
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (27.12%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.65%) QA
3 9 (5.08%) GDPR
4 4 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (16.95%) Docker
2 9 (5.08%) HDFS
3 5 (2.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (16.38%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.17%) Terraform
3 14 (7.91%) Ansible
4 7 (3.95%) Puppet
5 6 (3.39%) Grafana
5 6 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.69%) Kibana
6 3 (1.69%) logstash
7 2 (1.13%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 58 (32.77%) Databricks
2 19 (10.73%) Oracle
3 13 (7.34%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.21%) Informatica
4 11 (6.21%) Palantir
5 10 (5.65%) Google
5 10 (5.65%) Talend
6 8 (4.52%) SAP
7 7 (3.95%) Dell
8 6 (3.39%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.82%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.69%) IBM
11 1 (0.56%) Cloudera