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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 443 488
Rank change year-on-year -109 +45 -110
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 270 237 283
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.48% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.57% 5.90% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 132 104 189
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,400 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,375 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +0.46%
75th Percentile £93,125 £100,313 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.83% - -20.00%

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 4,850 4,017 5,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.07% 8.21% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,232 2,646 3,583
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,025 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% -7.37% -

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -86 252 £73,000 -11.52% 353
London -75 141 £85,000 -8.11% 244
UK excluding London -112 110 £60,500 +0.83% 133
Work from Home -24 60 £66,805 -10.93% 165
North of England -35 59 £60,000 - 50
South West -41 31 £60,000 +9.09% 20
North East -50 26 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North West -15 21 £62,500 -7.41% 26
Yorkshire -40 12 £80,000 +33.33% 15
South East -59 10 £65,000 -3.70% 18
Scotland -17 4 - - 11
West Midlands -45 4 £60,653 +13.37% 10
Midlands -56 4 £60,653 +13.37% 12
Wales -76 2 £80,000 +59.60% 2
East of England -51 1 £80,000 +11.89% 10

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
1 124 (45.93%) Apache
2 47 (17.41%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (8.89%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.85%) Apache Pig
5 4 (1.48%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (1.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.74%) Luigi
7 2 (0.74%) Tornado
8 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 162 (60.00%) AWS
2 146 (54.07%) Azure
3 83 (30.74%) GCP
4 45 (16.67%) Serverless
5 44 (16.30%) Amazon S3
6 42 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (12.59%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (12.22%) Power Platform
9 29 (10.74%) Amazon EMR
10 22 (8.15%) Amazon Kinesis
10 22 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (8.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (7.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (7.41%) Azure Databricks
13 19 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
14 18 (6.67%) GitHub
14 18 (6.67%) Snowflake
15 15 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (5.19%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.59%) AMQP
2 6 (2.22%) BGP
2 6 (2.22%) DNS
2 6 (2.22%) IPsec
2 6 (2.22%) VPN
3 5 (1.85%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) 4G
4 1 (0.37%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (32.96%) Big Data
2 59 (21.85%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (20.74%) Hadoop
4 47 (17.41%) Data Lake
5 46 (17.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 45 (16.67%) NoSQL
7 33 (12.22%) Power BI
8 31 (11.48%) Metadata
9 26 (9.63%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
11 24 (8.89%) Relational Database
12 23 (8.52%) Amazon Athena
12 23 (8.52%) Delta Lake
13 21 (7.78%) Tableau
14 18 (6.67%) Flink
15 17 (6.30%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (5.93%) Spark SQL
17 13 (4.81%) SQL Server
18 12 (4.44%) Apache Hive
18 12 (4.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 49 (18.15%) Git
2 27 (10.00%) GitLab
3 23 (8.52%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.22%) MLflow
5 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.37%) ERwin
6 1 (0.37%) git-flow
6 1 (0.37%) JIRA
6 1 (0.37%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (41.85%) Finance
2 74 (27.41%) Social Skills
3 44 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.22%) Banking
5 30 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 25 (9.26%) Financial Institution
7 22 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (6.67%) Law
9 15 (5.56%) Aerospace
10 14 (5.19%) Marketing
11 10 (3.70%) Military
12 9 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.22%) Games
13 6 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.22%) Retail
14 5 (1.85%) Legal
15 4 (1.48%) Front Office
16 2 (0.74%) Aviation
16 2 (0.74%) Local Government
16 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 144 (53.33%) Data Engineer
2 83 (30.74%) Senior
3 46 (17.04%) Lead
4 39 (14.44%) Data Scientist
5 38 (14.07%) Senior Data Engineer
6 32 (11.85%) Senior Data Scientist
7 25 (9.26%) Lead Data Engineer
8 21 (7.78%) Databricks Engineer
9 20 (7.41%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 13 (4.81%) Architect
10 13 (4.81%) Python Engineer
10 13 (4.81%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (4.44%) Data Architect
12 11 (4.07%) Developer
13 10 (3.70%) AWS Data Engineer
14 8 (2.96%) AWS Consultant
14 8 (2.96%) Azure Data Engineer
14 8 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.96%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (33.70%) Kafka
2 66 (24.44%) PySpark
3 60 (22.22%) Terraform
4 24 (8.89%) SpaCy
5 15 (5.56%) Node.js
6 13 (4.81%) Spring
6 13 (4.81%) Spring Boot
7 12 (4.44%) REST
8 11 (4.07%) React
9 10 (3.70%) gRPC
9 10 (3.70%) Pandas
10 9 (3.33%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (2.59%) Material-UI
11 7 (2.59%) OpenAPI
11 7 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.59%) Swagger
11 7 (2.59%) YAML
12 6 (2.22%) FastAPI
12 6 (2.22%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.30%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.89%) e-Learning
3 22 (8.15%) Product Ownership
4 19 (7.04%) Data Structures
5 18 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (5.56%) Onboarding
7 14 (5.19%) Algorithms
8 10 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.85%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.85%) NHS
10 4 (1.48%) CUDA
10 4 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.74%) Blog
12 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.74%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.93%) Linux
2 7 (2.59%) CentOS
2 7 (2.59%) Debian
2 7 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (63.33%) Data Engineering
2 154 (57.04%) Analytics
3 151 (55.93%) CI/CD
4 149 (55.19%) Data Pipeline
5 115 (42.59%) Data Science
5 115 (42.59%) DevOps
6 111 (41.11%) Data Modelling
7 104 (38.52%) Machine Learning
8 91 (33.70%) Agile
9 86 (31.85%) ETL
10 84 (31.11%) AI
11 81 (30.00%) Mentoring
12 64 (23.70%) Infrastructure as Code
13 56 (20.74%) Validation
14 54 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
15 51 (18.89%) Lakehouse
16 47 (17.41%) Software Engineering
17 46 (17.04%) Business Intelligence
18 45 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
19 44 (16.30%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 228 (84.44%) Python
2 172 (63.70%) SQL
3 55 (20.37%) Scala
4 43 (15.93%) Java
5 17 (6.30%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.33%) C#
7 8 (2.96%) R
8 7 (2.59%) Bash
9 6 (2.22%) C
9 6 (2.22%) PHP
9 6 (2.22%) Ruby
10 5 (1.85%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.85%) VBA
11 4 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.48%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.74%) Bicep
13 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 89 (32.96%) Security Cleared
2 68 (25.19%) SC Cleared
3 62 (22.96%) Degree
4 33 (12.22%) PhD
5 32 (11.85%) Master's Degree
6 23 (8.52%) AWS Certification
7 20 (7.41%) Azure Certification
8 18 (6.67%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.48%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.37%) CEH
13 1 (0.37%) CISM
13 1 (0.37%) CISSP
13 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.37%) OCP
13 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (35.93%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.96%) QA
4 6 (2.22%) GDPR
5 5 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.37%) IFRS
6 1 (0.37%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 64 (23.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) HDFS
2 1 (0.37%) zsh
Systems Management
1 54 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.93%) Ansible
3 7 (2.59%) Puppet
4 6 (2.22%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.85%) Argo
6 4 (1.48%) Grafana
7 3 (1.11%) Kibana
7 3 (1.11%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.74%) Packer
9 1 (0.37%) Control-M
9 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 98 (36.30%) Databricks
2 34 (12.59%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.19%) Google
4 10 (3.70%) Oracle
5 8 (2.96%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.59%) Informatica
6 7 (2.59%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.22%) HP
7 6 (2.22%) IBM
7 6 (2.22%) SAP
8 5 (1.85%) Foundry
9 4 (1.48%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.48%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.48%) Palantir
9 4 (1.48%) Splunk
10 3 (1.11%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.11%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.11%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.74%) Talend
11 2 (0.74%) Thales