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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 431 389
Rank change year-on-year -68 -42 -46
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 302 268 532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.54% 0.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.68% 6.22% 6.96%
Number of salaries quoted 137 123 198
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,539 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% -10.63% -2.29%
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £109,750 £123,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £61,500 £64,849
% change year-on-year -6.50% -5.16% -13.53%

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 4,518 4,312 7,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.17% 8.61% 9.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,178 2,919 5,011
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,625 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,408
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.51% -2.84%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.26%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -42 283 £80,000 +11.89% 68
London -2 175 £95,000 +11.76% 40
UK excluding London -116 109 £57,500 -6.50% 47
Work from Home -41 58 £66,805 -2.83% 27
North of England -24 49 £55,000 -4.35% 14
South West -46 27 £55,000 +10.00% 11
North East -38 23 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West -9 16 £55,000 - 2
East of England -17 14 £75,000 +4.90% 1
Yorkshire -35 10 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -54 8 £62,500 -3.85% 17
Scotland -15 6 £115,000 +21.05% 2
Midlands -54 3 £58,403 -13.48% 1
West Midlands -23 2 £66,805 +10.42%
Wales -58 2 £80,000 +27.87% 1
East Midlands -33 1 £50,000 -33.33% 1

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
1 137 (45.36%) Apache
2 90 (29.80%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.29%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.66%) Apache Pig
5 3 (0.99%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.99%) SAS
6 2 (0.66%) Luigi
6 2 (0.66%) Tornado
7 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (3.31%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 194 (64.24%) AWS
2 153 (50.66%) Azure
3 96 (31.79%) GCP
4 58 (19.21%) Amazon S3
5 54 (17.88%) Power Platform
6 49 (16.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (12.58%) Serverless
8 37 (12.25%) Snowflake
9 36 (11.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 32 (10.60%) dbt
11 28 (9.27%) OpenShift
12 24 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (7.62%) Amazon EMR
14 21 (6.95%) Amazon Kinesis
14 21 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (5.63%) GitHub
16 16 (5.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 15 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (4.64%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.99%) BGP
1 6 (1.99%) DNS
1 6 (1.99%) IPsec
1 6 (1.99%) VPN
2 5 (1.66%) AMQP
2 5 (1.66%) Internet
3 1 (0.33%) 4G
3 1 (0.33%) 5G
3 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (31.46%) Big Data
2 75 (24.83%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (22.85%) Data Lake
4 61 (20.20%) Tableau
5 57 (18.87%) Elasticsearch
5 57 (18.87%) Hadoop
6 54 (17.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 53 (17.55%) Power BI
8 44 (14.57%) NoSQL
9 34 (11.26%) Apache Hive
10 30 (9.93%) Spark SQL
11 27 (8.94%) Delta Lake
11 27 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (8.61%) BigQuery
13 25 (8.28%) Relational Database
14 24 (7.95%) Looker
15 23 (7.62%) Metadata
15 23 (7.62%) Parquet
15 23 (7.62%) Snowflake Schema
16 21 (6.95%) Impala
Development Applications
1 52 (17.22%) Git
2 30 (9.93%) MLflow
3 22 (7.28%) GitLab
4 21 (6.95%) IBM UrbanCode
5 17 (5.63%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.66%) JIRA
6 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.33%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.33%) ERwin
General
1 128 (42.38%) Finance
2 73 (24.17%) Social Skills
3 65 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (15.56%) Banking
5 22 (7.28%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.95%) Investment Banking
6 21 (6.95%) Law
7 20 (6.62%) Financial Institution
8 19 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (5.30%) Legal
10 13 (4.30%) Marketing
11 11 (3.64%) Aerospace
12 10 (3.31%) Military
13 8 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (2.32%) Games
15 6 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.99%) Retail
16 3 (0.99%) Front Office
17 2 (0.66%) Local Government
17 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (42.72%) Data Engineer
2 98 (32.45%) Senior
3 48 (15.89%) Lead
4 33 (10.93%) Data Scientist
5 32 (10.60%) Senior Data Engineer
6 28 (9.27%) Lead Data Engineer
6 28 (9.27%) Senior Data Scientist
7 23 (7.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (7.62%) Systems Engineer
8 22 (7.28%) Analyst
9 21 (6.95%) Banking Analyst
9 21 (6.95%) Python Engineer
9 21 (6.95%) Transformation Analyst
10 18 (5.96%) Architect
11 14 (4.64%) Developer
12 13 (4.30%) Data Architect
12 13 (4.30%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.64%) Technical Analyst
14 10 (3.31%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (41.72%) Kafka
2 74 (24.50%) PySpark
3 54 (17.88%) Terraform
4 25 (8.28%) PyTorch
4 25 (8.28%) scikit-learn
5 24 (7.95%) LangChain
5 24 (7.95%) pgvector
5 24 (7.95%) TensorFlow
6 23 (7.62%) LlamaIndex
7 20 (6.62%) Pandas
8 19 (6.29%) SpaCy
9 18 (5.96%) REST
10 17 (5.63%) Node.js
11 13 (4.30%) Spring
11 13 (4.30%) Spring Boot
12 9 (2.98%) Apache NiFi
13 8 (2.65%) React
14 7 (2.32%) RESTful
15 6 (1.99%) gRPC
15 6 (1.99%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 63 (20.86%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.94%) Public Cloud
3 23 (7.62%) Clustering
4 20 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (6.29%) e-Learning
6 17 (5.63%) Data Structures
6 17 (5.63%) Product Ownership
7 14 (4.64%) Onboarding
8 12 (3.97%) Algorithms
9 11 (3.64%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (2.32%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.66%) NHS
12 4 (1.32%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.99%) Data Fabric
13 3 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.30%) Linux
2 5 (1.66%) CentOS
2 5 (1.66%) Debian
2 5 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.66%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (62.58%) Analytics
2 186 (61.59%) Data Engineering
3 177 (58.61%) Data Pipeline
4 155 (51.32%) CI/CD
5 126 (41.72%) AI
6 124 (41.06%) Data Science
6 124 (41.06%) Machine Learning
7 121 (40.07%) Data Modelling
8 120 (39.74%) ETL
9 102 (33.77%) Agile
10 99 (32.78%) DevOps
11 85 (28.15%) Data Governance
12 67 (22.19%) Business Intelligence
13 66 (21.85%) Mentoring
14 65 (21.52%) Use Case
15 58 (19.21%) Infrastructure as Code
16 54 (17.88%) Generative AI
16 54 (17.88%) Validation
17 49 (16.23%) Software Engineering
18 47 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 260 (86.09%) Python
2 208 (68.87%) SQL
3 52 (17.22%) Scala
4 45 (14.90%) Java
5 10 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.32%) C#
7 6 (1.99%) C
7 6 (1.99%) PHP
7 6 (1.99%) Ruby
8 5 (1.66%) Bash
8 5 (1.66%) Bicep
8 5 (1.66%) VBA
9 4 (1.32%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.99%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.66%) R
11 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.33%) C++
12 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 70 (23.18%) Security Cleared
2 57 (18.87%) Degree
3 51 (16.89%) SC Cleared
4 26 (8.61%) PhD
5 24 (7.95%) Master's Degree
6 19 (6.29%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.63%) AWS Certification
8 15 (4.97%) DV Cleared
9 12 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.99%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.33%) CEH
13 1 (0.33%) CISM
13 1 (0.33%) CISSP
13 1 (0.33%) OCP
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (35.43%) Data Quality
2 41 (13.58%) GDPR
3 35 (11.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (3.97%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.97%) HIPAA
5 8 (2.65%) QA
6 3 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.66%) IFRS
7 2 (0.66%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.66%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (19.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.96%) Ansible
3 6 (1.99%) Grafana
3 6 (1.99%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.66%) Argo
4 5 (1.66%) Puppet
5 4 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.99%) Kibana
6 3 (0.99%) Packer
7 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 109 (36.09%) Databricks
2 31 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.26%) Oracle
3 27 (8.94%) Red Hat
4 24 (7.95%) Cloudera
4 24 (7.95%) Dell
5 8 (2.65%) Google
6 7 (2.32%) Informatica
6 7 (2.32%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.99%) HP
7 6 (1.99%) IBM
7 6 (1.99%) SAP
8 5 (1.66%) SaltStack
8 5 (1.66%) Splunk
9 4 (1.32%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.99%) LexisNexis
10 3 (0.99%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (0.99%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.66%) Talend
12 1 (0.33%) Palantir