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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 395 276
Rank change year-on-year -109 -119 -29
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 229 290 1,025
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.66% 1.06%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.16% 6.89% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 104 200 295
10th Percentile £52,875 £49,900 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £61,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £117,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +23.08% -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 3,719 4,207 10,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.05% 9.52% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,637 2,844 7,081
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.18%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.92%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -96 205 £85,000 - 93
London -41 138 £100,000 -9.09% 46
UK excluding London -75 68 £80,000 +23.08% 58
Work from Home -62 55 £80,000 -27.27% 59
North of England -43 23 £80,000 +39.13% 27
East of England -3 18 £75,000 -7.69%
South West -45 16 £75,000 +50.00% 11
Yorkshire -41 11 £80,000 +39.13% 2
North West +3 8 £85,000 +54.55% 9
Scotland -6 5 £102,500 +2.50% 2
North East -35 4 £57,500 -20.69% 16
South East -46 4 £57,500 -11.54% 7
Wales -29 1 £95,000 +48.44% 6
East Midlands -42 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -44 1 £50,000 -21.88% 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
1 106 (46.29%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (37.12%) Apache
3 5 (2.18%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.31%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.44%) Camunda
5 1 (0.44%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (5.68%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.44%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 155 (67.69%) AWS
2 113 (49.34%) Azure
3 96 (41.92%) GCP
4 48 (20.96%) Amazon S3
4 48 (20.96%) Power Platform
5 47 (20.52%) Snowflake
6 45 (19.65%) dbt
7 44 (19.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 32 (13.97%) OpenShift
9 28 (12.23%) Serverless
10 24 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (9.17%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (6.55%) Dagster
13 13 (5.68%) Azure Machine Learning
14 12 (5.24%) Amazon EMR
14 12 (5.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (5.24%) GitHub
15 11 (4.80%) Amazon Kinesis
16 10 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.06%) Broadband
2 5 (2.18%) AMQP
3 2 (0.87%) 4G
3 2 (0.87%) 5G
4 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.44%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (32.75%) Tableau
2 72 (31.44%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (31.00%) Big Data
4 52 (22.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 48 (20.96%) Data Lake
5 48 (20.96%) Elasticsearch
6 47 (20.52%) Power BI
7 46 (20.09%) BigQuery
8 33 (14.41%) Hadoop
8 33 (14.41%) Looker
9 32 (13.97%) Spark SQL
10 28 (12.23%) Snowflake Schema
11 27 (11.79%) Apache Hive
12 26 (11.35%) Parquet
13 25 (10.92%) Impala
13 25 (10.92%) Oracle Database
14 22 (9.61%) Relational Database
15 21 (9.17%) Delta Lake
16 20 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
17 19 (8.30%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (18.78%) Git
2 37 (16.16%) MLflow
3 25 (10.92%) IBM UrbanCode
4 9 (3.93%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.06%) GitLab
6 2 (0.87%) JIRA
7 1 (0.44%) Deequ
7 1 (0.44%) JUnit
7 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (37.99%) Finance
2 72 (31.44%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (27.95%) Social Skills
4 36 (15.72%) Banking
5 24 (10.48%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.99%) Legal
7 15 (6.55%) Law
8 8 (3.49%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.62%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.75%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.87%) Advertising
12 2 (0.87%) Billing
12 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Front Office
13 1 (0.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 73 (31.88%) Data Engineer
1 73 (31.88%) Senior
2 26 (11.35%) Analyst
3 25 (10.92%) Developer
4 24 (10.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.04%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.04%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (9.61%) Banking Analyst
7 21 (9.17%) Lead
7 21 (9.17%) Python Engineer
7 21 (9.17%) Senior Data Engineer
8 18 (7.86%) Architect
9 17 (7.42%) Python Developer
10 16 (6.99%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (5.68%) Business Analyst
11 13 (5.68%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.24%) AWS Data Engineer
12 12 (5.24%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.24%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (44.54%) Kafka
2 55 (24.02%) PySpark
3 40 (17.47%) PyTorch
3 40 (17.47%) TensorFlow
4 27 (11.79%) scikit-learn
5 25 (10.92%) REST
6 24 (10.48%) LangChain
7 23 (10.04%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (10.04%) pgvector
8 22 (9.61%) Pandas
9 15 (6.55%) Spring
10 14 (6.11%) Spring Boot
11 12 (5.24%) Node.js
12 9 (3.93%) Faiss
12 9 (3.93%) React
12 9 (3.93%) vLLM
13 8 (3.49%) NumPy
14 6 (2.62%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (2.62%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.78%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.04%) Clustering
2 23 (10.04%) Public Cloud
3 20 (8.73%) Product Ownership
4 17 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.80%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.93%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.49%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.06%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.62%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.62%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.62%) e-Learning
9 6 (2.62%) Social Media
10 5 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.31%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.31%) NHS
12 2 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.49%) Linux
2 5 (2.18%) CentOS
2 5 (2.18%) Debian
2 5 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.18%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (64.63%) Data Pipeline
2 140 (61.14%) Analytics
3 137 (59.83%) Data Engineering
4 114 (49.78%) ETL
5 105 (45.85%) AI
6 104 (45.41%) CI/CD
7 89 (38.86%) Data Governance
8 88 (38.43%) Machine Learning
9 87 (37.99%) Data Science
10 85 (37.12%) Data Modelling
11 74 (32.31%) Agile
12 65 (28.38%) Business Intelligence
13 52 (22.71%) Computer Science
13 52 (22.71%) Use Case
14 50 (21.83%) Generative AI
14 50 (21.83%) Software Engineering
15 44 (19.21%) Performance Tuning
16 43 (18.78%) DevOps
17 40 (17.47%) Feature Engineering
18 38 (16.59%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 214 (93.45%) Python
2 168 (73.36%) SQL
3 53 (23.14%) Java
4 43 (18.78%) Scala
5 11 (4.80%) Bash
6 9 (3.93%) Go
7 8 (3.49%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.06%) C++
9 5 (2.18%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.75%) Bicep
10 4 (1.75%) R
11 3 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.31%) VBA
12 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.44%) C#
12 1 (0.44%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.44%) Ruby
12 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (16.16%) Degree
2 26 (11.35%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.80%) PhD
6 10 (4.37%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.49%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.49%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.62%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.44%) CEH
11 1 (0.44%) CISM
11 1 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.44%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (37.55%) Data Quality
2 38 (16.59%) GDPR
3 35 (15.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.24%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.87%) IFRS
6 2 (0.87%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.87%) QA
6 2 (0.87%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (15.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (15.72%) Terraform
2 31 (13.54%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.68%) Ansible
4 6 (2.62%) Grafana
5 5 (2.18%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.18%) Puppet
6 3 (1.31%) Packer
7 1 (0.44%) Argo
7 1 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 81 (35.37%) Databricks
2 32 (13.97%) Oracle
2 32 (13.97%) Red Hat
3 24 (10.48%) Cloudera
3 24 (10.48%) Dell
4 12 (5.24%) Palantir
5 10 (4.37%) Google
6 9 (3.93%) Microsoft
7 7 (3.06%) Informatica
8 6 (2.62%) Talend
9 5 (2.18%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.31%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.44%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.44%) Confluent
11 1 (0.44%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.44%) Pega
11 1 (0.44%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.44%) UiPath