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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 416 363
Rank change year-on-year -81 -53 -18
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 303 281 616
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.57% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.71% 6.32% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 140 136 203
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,844 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £101,875
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £62,500 £66,199
% change year-on-year -6.00% -5.59% -11.74%

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 4,514 4,444 7,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.30% 8.96% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,227 2,964 5,271
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,075 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +2.26% -4.63%
75th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.38%

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 7 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 7 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 -46 284 £80,000 +6.67% 206
London +1 177 £95,000 +5.56% 156
UK excluding London -109 105 £58,750 -6.00% 69
Work from Home -45 62 £66,805 -10.93% 85
North of England -38 47 £55,000 -4.35% 23
South West -42 25 £67,500 +22.73% 10
North East -38 20 £55,000 +15.79% 11
North West -4 16 £55,000 -10.20% 7
East of England -16 15 £75,000 +4.90% 3
Yorkshire -31 11 £80,000 +39.13% 5
South East -51 8 £62,500 -3.85% 16
Scotland -9 5 £115,000 +21.05% 6
Midlands -50 3 £58,403 -13.48% 6
West Midlands -37 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
Wales -61 2 £80,000 +27.87% 2
East Midlands -38 1 £50,000 -33.33% 5

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
1 134 (44.22%) Apache
2 102 (33.66%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (5.94%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.65%) Apache Pig
5 3 (0.99%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.99%) SAS
6 2 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.33%) Luigi
7 1 (0.33%) Tornado
Applications
1 13 (4.29%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 196 (64.69%) AWS
2 145 (47.85%) Azure
3 97 (32.01%) GCP
4 61 (20.13%) Amazon S3
5 52 (17.16%) Power Platform
6 47 (15.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (13.20%) dbt
8 37 (12.21%) Serverless
8 37 (12.21%) Snowflake
9 35 (11.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (9.90%) OpenShift
11 23 (7.59%) Amazon EMR
11 23 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (7.26%) Amazon Kinesis
13 20 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (5.94%) GitHub
15 16 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (5.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 14 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.98%) BGP
1 6 (1.98%) DNS
1 6 (1.98%) IPsec
1 6 (1.98%) VPN
2 5 (1.65%) Broadband
2 5 (1.65%) Internet
3 4 (1.32%) AMQP
4 2 (0.66%) 4G
4 2 (0.66%) 5G
5 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (30.36%) Big Data
2 75 (24.75%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (21.12%) Data Lake
4 63 (20.79%) Tableau
5 56 (18.48%) Elasticsearch
6 54 (17.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 51 (16.83%) Hadoop
7 51 (16.83%) Power BI
8 43 (14.19%) NoSQL
9 38 (12.54%) Apache Hive
10 36 (11.88%) Spark SQL
11 32 (10.56%) BigQuery
12 28 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
13 27 (8.91%) Parquet
13 27 (8.91%) Relational Database
14 26 (8.58%) Metadata
15 25 (8.25%) Delta Lake
15 25 (8.25%) Impala
15 25 (8.25%) Oracle Database
16 24 (7.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 54 (17.82%) Git
2 29 (9.57%) MLflow
3 25 (8.25%) IBM UrbanCode
4 21 (6.93%) GitLab
5 17 (5.61%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.66%) JIRA
6 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 128 (42.24%) Finance
2 77 (25.41%) Social Skills
3 68 (22.44%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (15.84%) Banking
5 25 (8.25%) Law
6 24 (7.92%) Investment Banking
7 20 (6.60%) Public Sector
8 18 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (5.61%) Financial Institution
9 17 (5.61%) Legal
10 11 (3.63%) Marketing
11 9 (2.97%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.97%) Military
12 6 (1.98%) Games
12 6 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.98%) Retail
13 3 (0.99%) Front Office
13 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.66%) Billing
Job Titles
1 132 (43.56%) Data Engineer
2 99 (32.67%) Senior
3 46 (15.18%) Lead
4 36 (11.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 28 (9.24%) Data Scientist
6 27 (8.91%) Lead Data Engineer
7 26 (8.58%) Analyst
8 24 (7.92%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 23 (7.59%) Python Engineer
9 23 (7.59%) Senior Data Scientist
9 23 (7.59%) Systems Engineer
9 23 (7.59%) Transformation Analyst
10 22 (7.26%) Banking Analyst
11 17 (5.61%) Architect
12 15 (4.95%) Developer
13 13 (4.29%) Business Analyst
14 12 (3.96%) Data Architect
14 12 (3.96%) Data Business Analyst
14 12 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.96%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (43.56%) Kafka
2 76 (25.08%) PySpark
3 25 (8.25%) PyTorch
4 24 (7.92%) pgvector
4 24 (7.92%) scikit-learn
4 24 (7.92%) TensorFlow
5 23 (7.59%) LangChain
5 23 (7.59%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (7.59%) Pandas
6 19 (6.27%) REST
7 17 (5.61%) SpaCy
8 16 (5.28%) Node.js
9 14 (4.62%) Spring
9 14 (4.62%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.97%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (2.31%) React
12 6 (1.98%) NumPy
13 5 (1.65%) JSON
13 5 (1.65%) OAuth
13 5 (1.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 57 (18.81%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.91%) Public Cloud
3 23 (7.59%) Clustering
4 22 (7.26%) Data Structures
5 17 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (5.61%) e-Learning
6 14 (4.62%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.62%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.96%) Algorithms
8 11 (3.63%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.65%) Anti-Piracy
10 5 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.65%) NHS
10 5 (1.65%) Social Media
11 3 (0.99%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.96%) Linux
2 4 (1.32%) CentOS
2 4 (1.32%) Debian
2 4 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (64.69%) Analytics
2 185 (61.06%) Data Engineering
3 183 (60.40%) Data Pipeline
4 153 (50.50%) CI/CD
5 127 (41.91%) ETL
6 126 (41.58%) AI
7 122 (40.26%) Data Modelling
8 119 (39.27%) Data Science
9 117 (38.61%) Machine Learning
10 103 (33.99%) Agile
11 93 (30.69%) Data Governance
12 91 (30.03%) DevOps
13 65 (21.45%) Business Intelligence
14 64 (21.12%) Use Case
15 63 (20.79%) Mentoring
16 56 (18.48%) Validation
17 54 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
18 51 (16.83%) Generative AI
19 50 (16.50%) Performance Tuning
20 46 (15.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 264 (87.13%) Python
2 215 (70.96%) SQL
3 54 (17.82%) Scala
4 46 (15.18%) Java
5 9 (2.97%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.31%) C#
7 6 (1.98%) C
7 6 (1.98%) C++
7 6 (1.98%) PHP
7 6 (1.98%) Ruby
8 5 (1.65%) Bicep
8 5 (1.65%) VBA
9 4 (1.32%) Bash
9 4 (1.32%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.99%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.99%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.66%) R
11 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 65 (21.45%) Security Cleared
2 53 (17.49%) Degree
3 48 (15.84%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.59%) PhD
5 21 (6.93%) Master's Degree
6 16 (5.28%) AWS Certification
6 16 (5.28%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.95%) DV Cleared
8 12 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.99%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.33%) CEH
12 1 (0.33%) CISM
12 1 (0.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (35.64%) Data Quality
2 40 (13.20%) GDPR
3 35 (11.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (3.96%) HIPAA
5 10 (3.30%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.31%) QA
7 2 (0.66%) 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 56 (18.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (18.15%) Terraform
2 46 (15.18%) Kubernetes
3 18 (5.94%) Ansible
4 7 (2.31%) Grafana
5 6 (1.98%) Hadoop YARN
5 6 (1.98%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.32%) Argo
6 4 (1.32%) Puppet
7 3 (0.99%) Kibana
7 3 (0.99%) Packer
8 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 106 (34.98%) Databricks
2 34 (11.22%) Oracle
3 29 (9.57%) Red Hat
4 27 (8.91%) Microsoft
5 24 (7.92%) Cloudera
5 24 (7.92%) Dell
6 8 (2.64%) Google
6 8 (2.64%) Informatica
7 6 (1.98%) HP
7 6 (1.98%) IBM
7 6 (1.98%) SAP
8 5 (1.65%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.32%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.32%) Splunk
10 3 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.99%) Talend
11 2 (0.66%) LexisNexis
11 2 (0.66%) Palantir
11 2 (0.66%) PeopleSoft
11 2 (0.66%) Salesforce