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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 350 262
Rank change year-on-year -145 -88 -12
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 223 311 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.76% 1.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.95% 7.62% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 93 209 284
10th Percentile £54,200 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +23.97% -12.88% +2.88%

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 3,751 4,079 9,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.50% 9.97% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,577 2,870 7,027
10th Percentile £27,750 £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% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -10.53%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -130 201 £82,500 -2.94% 99
London -52 135 £95,000 -13.64% 63
UK excluding London -128 66 £75,000 +23.97% 60
Work from Home -112 54 £81,000 -26.36% 47
North of England -69 24 £65,000 +13.04% 16
East of England -23 18 £75,000 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire -49 13 £65,000 +13.04% 1
South West -37 11 £80,000 +60.00% 10
North West -37 9 £95,000 +72.73% 11
Scotland -17 5 £102,500 +2.50% 3
South East -68 5 £61,250 -5.77% 24
North East -30 2 £80,000 - 4
Midlands -62 2 £50,000 -25.93% 4
West Midlands -20 1 - - 2
Wales -31 1 £95,000 +48.44% 2
East Midlands -61 1 £50,000 -33.33% 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
1 107 (47.98%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (34.98%) Apache
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.45%) Camunda
3 1 (0.45%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (5.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 151 (67.71%) AWS
2 105 (47.09%) Azure
3 93 (41.70%) GCP
4 50 (22.42%) Power Platform
5 47 (21.08%) Amazon S3
6 46 (20.63%) dbt
6 46 (20.63%) Snowflake
7 37 (16.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 34 (15.25%) OpenShift
9 30 (13.45%) Serverless
10 26 (11.66%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (8.07%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (8.07%) Dagster
12 15 (6.73%) Azure Machine Learning
13 11 (4.93%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (4.48%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (4.48%) GitHub
15 9 (4.04%) Amazon SageMaker
15 9 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.14%) Broadband
2 6 (2.69%) AMQP
3 2 (0.90%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.45%) 4G
4 1 (0.45%) 5G
4 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.45%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (33.63%) Data Warehouse
1 75 (33.63%) Tableau
2 69 (30.94%) Big Data
3 51 (22.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 50 (22.42%) Data Lake
5 49 (21.97%) Power BI
6 47 (21.08%) BigQuery
7 40 (17.94%) Elasticsearch
7 40 (17.94%) Hadoop
8 33 (14.80%) Looker
9 32 (14.35%) Apache Hive
10 29 (13.00%) Spark SQL
11 28 (12.56%) Snowflake Schema
12 26 (11.66%) Parquet
13 25 (11.21%) Impala
13 25 (11.21%) Oracle Database
14 22 (9.87%) Delta Lake
15 18 (8.07%) MySQL
15 18 (8.07%) Relational Database
16 16 (7.17%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 43 (19.28%) Git
2 36 (16.14%) MLflow
3 25 (11.21%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (3.59%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.14%) GitLab
6 2 (0.90%) JIRA
7 1 (0.45%) Deequ
7 1 (0.45%) JUnit
General
1 82 (36.77%) Finance
2 72 (32.29%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (31.39%) Social Skills
4 32 (14.35%) Banking
5 24 (10.76%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.28%) Law
7 13 (5.83%) Legal
8 8 (3.59%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.24%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.90%) Advertising
11 2 (0.90%) Marketing
11 2 (0.90%) Retail
11 2 (0.90%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.45%) Billing
12 1 (0.45%) Electronics
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (34.98%) Data Engineer
2 75 (33.63%) Senior
3 27 (12.11%) Developer
3 27 (12.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (11.66%) Analyst
5 24 (10.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.31%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.31%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (9.87%) Banking Analyst
8 20 (8.97%) Python Developer
9 15 (6.73%) Python Engineer
10 14 (6.28%) Architect
11 13 (5.83%) AWS Data Engineer
11 13 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (5.83%) Business Analyst
12 12 (5.38%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.38%) Lead
12 12 (5.38%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (4.93%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 11 (4.93%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (46.64%) Kafka
2 53 (23.77%) PySpark
3 41 (18.39%) PyTorch
3 41 (18.39%) TensorFlow
4 29 (13.00%) REST
5 28 (12.56%) scikit-learn
6 26 (11.66%) Pandas
7 24 (10.76%) LangChain
8 23 (10.31%) LlamaIndex
8 23 (10.31%) pgvector
9 14 (6.28%) Spring
10 13 (5.83%) Spring Boot
11 11 (4.93%) Node.js
12 10 (4.48%) NumPy
13 9 (4.04%) Faiss
13 9 (4.04%) vLLM
14 8 (3.59%) React
15 7 (3.14%) AngularJS
15 7 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
16 6 (2.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 46 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.31%) Clustering
2 23 (10.31%) Public Cloud
3 20 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (7.62%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.93%) Algorithms
6 9 (4.04%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.59%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.69%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.69%) Social Media
9 5 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.79%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.35%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.48%) Linux
2 6 (2.69%) CentOS
2 6 (2.69%) Debian
2 6 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.69%) Ubuntu
3 4 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (65.02%) Data Pipeline
2 128 (57.40%) Analytics
2 128 (57.40%) Data Engineering
3 112 (50.22%) ETL
4 105 (47.09%) AI
5 101 (45.29%) CI/CD
6 92 (41.26%) Data Governance
7 86 (38.57%) Machine Learning
8 84 (37.67%) Data Modelling
8 84 (37.67%) Data Science
9 71 (31.84%) Business Intelligence
10 69 (30.94%) Agile
11 57 (25.56%) Computer Science
12 50 (22.42%) Generative AI
13 49 (21.97%) Software Engineering
14 44 (19.73%) Use Case
15 42 (18.83%) DevOps
15 42 (18.83%) Performance Tuning
16 39 (17.49%) Feature Engineering
17 38 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 209 (93.72%) Python
2 168 (75.34%) SQL
3 57 (25.56%) Java
4 44 (19.73%) Scala
5 10 (4.48%) Bash
6 9 (4.04%) Go
7 8 (3.59%) C++
8 7 (3.14%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.69%) R
10 3 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.35%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.45%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.45%) Bicep
11 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.45%) Ruby
11 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (17.04%) Degree
2 22 (9.87%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.04%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.14%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.14%) Master's Degree
5 7 (3.14%) PhD
6 6 (2.69%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (36.32%) Data Quality
2 39 (17.49%) GDPR
3 35 (15.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.38%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 40 (17.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.35%) HDFS
3 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (16.59%) Kubernetes
2 30 (13.45%) Terraform
3 15 (6.73%) Ansible
4 8 (3.59%) Grafana
5 7 (3.14%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.69%) Puppet
7 1 (0.45%) Argo
7 1 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 80 (35.87%) Databricks
2 34 (15.25%) Oracle
3 33 (14.80%) Red Hat
4 25 (11.21%) Dell
5 24 (10.76%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.28%) Palantir
7 12 (5.38%) Google
7 12 (5.38%) Microsoft
8 7 (3.14%) Informatica
9 6 (2.69%) SaltStack
9 6 (2.69%) Talend
10 4 (1.79%) IBM
11 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.45%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.45%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.45%) Mapbox
12 1 (0.45%) Pega
12 1 (0.45%) SAP
12 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.45%) UiPath