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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 428 489
Rank change year-on-year -111 +61 -111
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 271 240 283
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.49% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.57% 5.98% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 133 106 190
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,500 £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 £92,500 £99,688 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.41% +2.08% -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 4,869 4,011 5,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.10% 8.15% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,253 2,637 3,593
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% +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 £45,000 £47,500
% 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 15 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 15 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 -92 253 £74,000 -10.30% 59
London -73 141 £85,000 -8.11% 33
UK excluding London -146 110 £61,000 -0.41% 40
Work from Home -33 60 £66,805 -10.93% 36
North of England -38 59 £60,000 - 13
South West -45 32 £60,500 +10.00% 16
North East -42 26 £55,000 +15.79% 3
North West -13 21 £62,500 -7.41% 3
Yorkshire -40 12 £80,000 +33.33% 7
South East -59 9 £65,000 -1.89% 8
Scotland -7 4 - -
West Midlands -47 4 £60,653 +13.37% 2
Midlands -54 4 £60,653 +13.37% 2
Wales -66 2 £80,000 +59.60%
East of England -48 1 £80,000 +11.89% 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
1 126 (46.49%) Apache
2 47 (17.34%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (8.49%) 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
1 163 (60.15%) AWS
2 147 (54.24%) Azure
3 83 (30.63%) GCP
4 46 (16.97%) Serverless
5 45 (16.61%) Amazon S3
6 42 (15.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 35 (12.92%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (11.81%) Power Platform
9 29 (10.70%) Amazon EMR
10 23 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (8.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 22 (8.12%) Amazon Kinesis
12 21 (7.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (7.38%) Azure Databricks
14 19 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (6.64%) GitHub
15 18 (6.64%) Snowflake
16 17 (6.27%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (5.17%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.58%) AMQP
2 6 (2.21%) BGP
2 6 (2.21%) DNS
2 6 (2.21%) IPsec
2 6 (2.21%) VPN
3 5 (1.85%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) 4G
4 1 (0.37%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (32.47%) Big Data
2 60 (22.14%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (20.30%) Hadoop
4 49 (18.08%) Data Lake
5 47 (17.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 45 (16.61%) NoSQL
7 32 (11.81%) Metadata
7 32 (11.81%) Power BI
8 25 (9.23%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (8.86%) Delta Lake
9 24 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (8.49%) Amazon Athena
10 23 (8.49%) Relational Database
11 20 (7.38%) Tableau
12 18 (6.64%) Flink
13 17 (6.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (5.90%) Spark SQL
15 12 (4.43%) DynamoDB
15 12 (4.43%) SQL Server
16 11 (4.06%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 49 (18.08%) Git
2 26 (9.59%) GitLab
3 23 (8.49%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.58%) MLflow
5 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.37%) ERwin
6 1 (0.37%) JIRA
6 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 114 (42.07%) Finance
2 74 (27.31%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (12.55%) Banking
5 30 (11.07%) Public Sector
6 26 (9.59%) Financial Institution
7 22 (8.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (6.64%) Law
9 15 (5.54%) Aerospace
10 13 (4.80%) Marketing
11 10 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.69%) Military
12 6 (2.21%) Games
12 6 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.21%) Retail
13 5 (1.85%) Legal
14 4 (1.48%) Front Office
15 2 (0.74%) Aviation
15 2 (0.74%) Local Government
15 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 144 (53.14%) Data Engineer
2 83 (30.63%) Senior
3 46 (16.97%) Lead
4 40 (14.76%) Data Scientist
5 38 (14.02%) Senior Data Engineer
6 33 (12.18%) Senior Data Scientist
7 25 (9.23%) Lead Data Engineer
8 22 (8.12%) Databricks Engineer
9 21 (7.75%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 14 (5.17%) Architect
11 13 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (4.80%) Data Architect
11 13 (4.80%) Python Engineer
11 13 (4.80%) Software Engineer
12 11 (4.06%) AWS Data Engineer
12 11 (4.06%) Developer
13 8 (2.95%) AWS Consultant
13 8 (2.95%) Azure Data Engineer
13 8 (2.95%) Consultant
13 8 (2.95%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (33.58%) Kafka
2 66 (24.35%) PySpark
3 61 (22.51%) Terraform
4 25 (9.23%) SpaCy
5 15 (5.54%) Node.js
6 13 (4.80%) Spring
6 13 (4.80%) Spring Boot
7 12 (4.43%) REST
8 11 (4.06%) React
9 10 (3.69%) gRPC
9 10 (3.69%) Pandas
10 9 (3.32%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.32%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (2.58%) Material-UI
11 7 (2.58%) OpenAPI
11 7 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.58%) Swagger
11 7 (2.58%) YAML
12 6 (2.21%) FastAPI
12 6 (2.21%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.24%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.23%) e-Learning
3 22 (8.12%) Product Ownership
4 19 (7.01%) Data Structures
5 18 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (5.54%) Onboarding
7 13 (4.80%) Algorithms
8 11 (4.06%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.21%) NHS
10 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.48%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.48%) CUDA
11 4 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.74%) Derivative
13 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.90%) Linux
2 7 (2.58%) CentOS
2 7 (2.58%) Debian
2 7 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (63.10%) Data Engineering
2 154 (56.83%) Analytics
3 153 (56.46%) CI/CD
4 150 (55.35%) Data Pipeline
5 116 (42.80%) DevOps
6 115 (42.44%) Data Science
7 113 (41.70%) Data Modelling
8 104 (38.38%) Machine Learning
9 90 (33.21%) Agile
10 87 (32.10%) ETL
11 83 (30.63%) AI
12 82 (30.26%) Mentoring
13 65 (23.99%) Infrastructure as Code
14 56 (20.66%) Validation
15 54 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
16 52 (19.19%) Lakehouse
17 47 (17.34%) Software Engineering
18 45 (16.61%) Business Intelligence
18 45 (16.61%) Data Governance
18 45 (16.61%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 228 (84.13%) Python
2 171 (63.10%) SQL
3 55 (20.30%) Scala
4 43 (15.87%) Java
5 16 (5.90%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.95%) C#
7 7 (2.58%) R
8 6 (2.21%) Bash
8 6 (2.21%) C
8 6 (2.21%) PHP
8 6 (2.21%) Ruby
9 5 (1.85%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.85%) VBA
10 4 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.48%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.11%) Bicep
11 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 90 (33.21%) Security Cleared
2 68 (25.09%) SC Cleared
3 62 (22.88%) Degree
4 34 (12.55%) PhD
5 33 (12.18%) Master's Degree
6 23 (8.49%) AWS Certification
7 20 (7.38%) Azure Certification
8 18 (6.64%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.37%) CEH
12 1 (0.37%) CISM
12 1 (0.37%) CISSP
12 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.37%) OCP
12 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (35.79%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.80%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.95%) QA
4 7 (2.58%) GDPR
5 5 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.74%) IFRS
6 2 (0.74%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.74%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 64 (23.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 54 (19.93%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.90%) Ansible
3 7 (2.58%) Puppet
4 6 (2.21%) 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 99 (36.53%) Databricks
2 35 (12.92%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.80%) Google
4 9 (3.32%) Oracle
5 8 (2.95%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.58%) Informatica
6 7 (2.58%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.21%) HP
7 6 (2.21%) IBM
7 6 (2.21%) 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