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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 397 325
Rank change year-on-year -99 -72 -39
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 245 299 888
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.67% 0.83%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.20% 7.11% 8.75%
Number of salaries quoted 120 173 275
10th Percentile £52,375 £48,400 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,563 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £115,625 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +3.85% -6.40% -0.79%

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 3,953 4,203 10,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.26% 9.46% 9.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,830 2,761 7,118
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £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% -9.16%
75th Percentile £72,375 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -12.84%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -84 222 £82,500 -2.94% 107
London -30 143 £97,500 -9.30% 58
UK excluding London -108 79 £67,500 +3.85% 61
Work from Home -79 55 £67,500 -37.21% 57
North of England -32 33 £57,500 +2.22% 24
South West -38 19 £70,000 +40.00% 13
East of England -2 17 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North West +8 13 £55,000 - 15
North East -31 11 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -41 9 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -46 4 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Scotland -12 3 £115,000 +15.00% 1
Midlands -30 2 £50,000 -25.93% 4
West Midlands -24 1 - - 2
East Midlands -31 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Wales -45 1 £80,000 +6.67% 2

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
1 111 (45.31%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (43.67%) Apache
3 14 (5.71%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.41%) Camunda
5 1 (0.41%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.31%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 169 (68.98%) AWS
2 120 (48.98%) Azure
3 97 (39.59%) GCP
4 58 (23.67%) Amazon S3
5 49 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 43 (17.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 43 (17.55%) Snowflake
7 41 (16.73%) dbt
8 31 (12.65%) OpenShift
9 29 (11.84%) Serverless
10 26 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (9.39%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (5.71%) Amazon EMR
12 14 (5.71%) Dagster
13 13 (5.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (5.31%) GitHub
14 12 (4.90%) Azure Machine Learning
14 12 (4.90%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.86%) Broadband
2 5 (2.04%) AMQP
3 2 (0.82%) 4G
3 2 (0.82%) 5G
4 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (30.61%) Big Data
1 75 (30.61%) Tableau
2 74 (30.20%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (23.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 51 (20.82%) Data Lake
4 51 (20.82%) Elasticsearch
5 48 (19.59%) Power BI
6 42 (17.14%) BigQuery
7 34 (13.88%) Spark SQL
8 31 (12.65%) Looker
9 29 (11.84%) Hadoop
10 27 (11.02%) Apache Hive
10 27 (11.02%) Snowflake Schema
11 26 (10.61%) Parquet
12 25 (10.20%) Delta Lake
12 25 (10.20%) Impala
12 25 (10.20%) Oracle Database
13 23 (9.39%) NoSQL
14 22 (8.98%) Relational Database
15 18 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (18.78%) Git
2 36 (14.69%) MLflow
3 25 (10.20%) IBM UrbanCode
4 15 (6.12%) GitLab
5 11 (4.49%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.82%) JIRA
6 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.41%) Deequ
7 1 (0.41%) JUnit
General
1 87 (35.51%) Finance
2 71 (28.98%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (27.76%) Social Skills
4 41 (16.73%) Banking
5 24 (9.80%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.53%) Legal
7 15 (6.12%) Law
8 11 (4.49%) Public Sector
9 10 (4.08%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.63%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Billing
13 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Advertising
14 1 (0.41%) Front Office
14 1 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 93 (37.96%) Data Engineer
2 81 (33.06%) Senior
3 30 (12.24%) Lead
4 26 (10.61%) Analyst
4 26 (10.61%) Senior Data Engineer
5 24 (9.80%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.39%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.39%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (8.98%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (8.98%) Developer
7 22 (8.98%) Python Engineer
8 19 (7.76%) Lead Data Engineer
9 18 (7.35%) Architect
10 15 (6.12%) Data Scientist
11 14 (5.71%) Python Developer
12 13 (5.31%) Business Analyst
12 13 (5.31%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.90%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.90%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (42.45%) Kafka
2 66 (26.94%) PySpark
3 37 (15.10%) PyTorch
3 37 (15.10%) TensorFlow
4 27 (11.02%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.80%) LangChain
6 23 (9.39%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.39%) pgvector
7 22 (8.98%) Pandas
8 21 (8.57%) REST
9 15 (6.12%) Spring
9 15 (6.12%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.49%) Node.js
11 10 (4.08%) SpaCy
12 9 (3.67%) NumPy
13 8 (3.27%) Faiss
13 8 (3.27%) React
13 8 (3.27%) vLLM
14 6 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (2.04%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.82%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.20%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.39%) Clustering
4 17 (6.94%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.71%) Data Structures
5 14 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.08%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.08%) e-Learning
7 9 (3.67%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (2.45%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.45%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.45%) Social Media
9 5 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.22%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.22%) NHS
11 2 (0.82%) Replication
11 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.27%) Linux
2 5 (2.04%) CentOS
2 5 (2.04%) Debian
2 5 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.04%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (64.08%) Data Pipeline
2 152 (62.04%) Data Engineering
3 148 (60.41%) Analytics
4 116 (47.35%) CI/CD
5 115 (46.94%) ETL
6 103 (42.04%) AI
7 98 (40.00%) Data Modelling
8 92 (37.55%) Data Science
9 90 (36.73%) Data Governance
10 87 (35.51%) Machine Learning
11 84 (34.29%) Agile
12 67 (27.35%) Business Intelligence
13 60 (24.49%) DevOps
14 57 (23.27%) Use Case
15 47 (19.18%) Generative AI
15 47 (19.18%) Performance Tuning
16 45 (18.37%) Computer Science
17 44 (17.96%) Software Engineering
17 44 (17.96%) Validation
18 39 (15.92%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 225 (91.84%) Python
2 180 (73.47%) SQL
3 52 (21.22%) Scala
4 47 (19.18%) Java
5 13 (5.31%) Bash
6 8 (3.27%) Go
6 8 (3.27%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.86%) C++
8 5 (2.04%) Bicep
8 5 (2.04%) VBA
9 4 (1.63%) R
9 4 (1.63%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.41%) C#
12 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.10%) Degree
3 30 (12.24%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.71%) Master's Degree
6 12 (4.90%) PhD
7 11 (4.49%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.08%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.86%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.41%) CEH
12 1 (0.41%) CISM
12 1 (0.41%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (40.41%) Data Quality
2 37 (15.10%) GDPR
3 35 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.90%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.04%) QA
6 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.82%) IFRS
7 2 (0.82%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.82%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (18.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (18.78%) Terraform
2 35 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.31%) Ansible
4 6 (2.45%) Grafana
5 5 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.04%) Puppet
6 3 (1.22%) Kibana
6 3 (1.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 87 (35.51%) Databricks
2 31 (12.65%) Red Hat
3 26 (10.61%) Oracle
4 24 (9.80%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.80%) Dell
5 10 (4.08%) Google
6 9 (3.67%) Microsoft
6 9 (3.67%) Palantir
7 5 (2.04%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.22%) Informatica
8 3 (1.22%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.82%) Talend
10 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.41%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.41%) Foundry
10 1 (0.41%) IBM
10 1 (0.41%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.41%) Pega
10 1 (0.41%) Splunk
10 1 (0.41%) Trend Micro