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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 387 288
Rank change year-on-year -116 -99 -38
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 242 299 986
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.69% 0.98%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.24% 7.32% 9.75%
Number of salaries quoted 115 186 276
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,625 £48,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £57,813 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £103,125
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £69,724
% change year-on-year +15.38% -6.77% -0.40%

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 3,876 4,084 10,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.16% 9.42% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,769 2,695 7,066
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £37,125 £34,250
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 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -11.46%

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 30 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 30 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 -96 218 £85,000 - 95
London -51 145 £100,000 -9.09% 45
UK excluding London -94 74 £75,000 +15.38% 61
Work from Home -73 56 £71,250 -35.23% 35
North of England -53 29 £67,500 +17.39% 31
South West -37 18 £75,000 +50.00% 14
East of England -2 17 £75,000 +4.90% 2
North West -4 10 £75,000 +36.36% 14
North East -35 10 £56,250 -16.67% 16
Yorkshire -48 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South East -53 4 £57,500 -11.54% 6
Scotland -10 3 £115,000 +15.00% 2
Wales -32 2 £87,500 +16.67% 3
East Midlands -31 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -48 1 £50,000 -25.93% 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
1 110 (45.45%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (40.91%) Apache
3 14 (5.79%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.24%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.24%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.41%) Camunda
5 1 (0.41%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.37%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 164 (67.77%) AWS
2 115 (47.52%) Azure
3 95 (39.26%) GCP
4 56 (23.14%) Amazon S3
5 47 (19.42%) Power Platform
6 44 (18.18%) Snowflake
7 41 (16.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 41 (16.94%) dbt
8 31 (12.81%) OpenShift
9 30 (12.40%) Serverless
10 26 (10.74%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (9.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (7.02%) Amazon EMR
13 15 (6.20%) Dagster
14 13 (5.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (5.37%) Azure Machine Learning
15 12 (4.96%) Microsoft Purview
16 11 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (4.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.89%) Broadband
2 5 (2.07%) AMQP
3 2 (0.83%) 4G
3 2 (0.83%) 5G
4 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.41%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (32.23%) Big Data
2 76 (31.40%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (30.99%) Tableau
4 55 (22.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 51 (21.07%) Data Lake
5 51 (21.07%) Elasticsearch
6 46 (19.01%) Power BI
7 44 (18.18%) BigQuery
8 33 (13.64%) Hadoop
8 33 (13.64%) Spark SQL
9 32 (13.22%) Looker
10 27 (11.16%) Apache Hive
10 27 (11.16%) Snowflake Schema
11 26 (10.74%) Parquet
12 25 (10.33%) Impala
12 25 (10.33%) Oracle Database
12 25 (10.33%) Relational Database
13 24 (9.92%) NoSQL
14 23 (9.50%) Delta Lake
15 20 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (17.36%) Git
2 37 (15.29%) MLflow
3 25 (10.33%) IBM UrbanCode
4 13 (5.37%) GitLab
5 10 (4.13%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.83%) JIRA
6 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.41%) Deequ
7 1 (0.41%) JUnit
General
1 90 (37.19%) Finance
2 73 (30.17%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (28.10%) Social Skills
4 38 (15.70%) Banking
5 24 (9.92%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.61%) Legal
7 15 (6.20%) Law
8 10 (4.13%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.31%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.65%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Advertising
13 2 (0.83%) Billing
13 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Front Office
14 1 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 84 (34.71%) Data Engineer
2 78 (32.23%) Senior
3 28 (11.57%) Lead
4 26 (10.74%) Analyst
5 24 (9.92%) Developer
5 24 (9.92%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 23 (9.50%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.50%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (9.09%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (9.09%) Python Engineer
8 18 (7.44%) Architect
8 18 (7.44%) Lead Data Engineer
9 16 (6.61%) Python Developer
10 13 (5.37%) Business Analyst
10 13 (5.37%) Data Scientist
10 13 (5.37%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (4.96%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (4.96%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (42.98%) Kafka
2 63 (26.03%) PySpark
3 39 (16.12%) PyTorch
3 39 (16.12%) TensorFlow
4 27 (11.16%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.92%) LangChain
5 24 (9.92%) REST
6 23 (9.50%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.50%) Pandas
6 23 (9.50%) pgvector
7 14 (5.79%) Spring
7 14 (5.79%) Spring Boot
8 11 (4.55%) Node.js
9 9 (3.72%) Faiss
9 9 (3.72%) NumPy
9 9 (3.72%) vLLM
10 8 (3.31%) React
10 8 (3.31%) SpaCy
11 6 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.07%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.42%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.92%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.50%) Clustering
4 21 (8.68%) Product Ownership
5 17 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (5.37%) Data Structures
7 11 (4.55%) Algorithms
8 10 (4.13%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (3.31%) e-Learning
10 6 (2.48%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (2.48%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.48%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.48%) Social Media
11 5 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.24%) Data Fabric
13 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.24%) NHS
14 2 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.31%) Linux
2 5 (2.07%) CentOS
2 5 (2.07%) Debian
2 5 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.07%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (65.70%) Data Pipeline
2 148 (61.16%) Data Engineering
3 146 (60.33%) Analytics
4 116 (47.93%) ETL
5 115 (47.52%) CI/CD
6 106 (43.80%) AI
7 96 (39.67%) Data Modelling
8 93 (38.43%) Data Science
9 92 (38.02%) Data Governance
10 88 (36.36%) Machine Learning
11 85 (35.12%) Agile
12 68 (28.10%) Business Intelligence
13 57 (23.55%) Use Case
14 53 (21.90%) DevOps
15 50 (20.66%) Computer Science
16 49 (20.25%) Generative AI
16 49 (20.25%) Software Engineering
17 46 (19.01%) Performance Tuning
18 39 (16.12%) Feature Engineering
19 38 (15.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 226 (93.39%) Python
2 181 (74.79%) SQL
3 53 (21.90%) Java
4 49 (20.25%) Scala
5 13 (5.37%) Bash
6 9 (3.72%) Go
7 8 (3.31%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.89%) C++
9 5 (2.07%) R
10 4 (1.65%) Bicep
10 4 (1.65%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.65%) VBA
11 3 (1.24%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.41%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.41%) C#
13 1 (0.41%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (15.70%) Degree
2 35 (14.46%) Security Cleared
3 25 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.96%) Master's Degree
5 12 (4.96%) PhD
6 10 (4.13%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.72%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.89%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.41%) CEH
11 1 (0.41%) CISM
11 1 (0.41%) CISSP
11 1 (0.41%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (38.84%) Data Quality
2 37 (15.29%) GDPR
3 35 (14.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.96%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.65%) QA
6 2 (0.83%) IFRS
6 2 (0.83%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.83%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (17.36%) Terraform
2 33 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.37%) Ansible
4 6 (2.48%) Grafana
5 5 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.07%) Puppet
6 3 (1.24%) Kibana
6 3 (1.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 81 (33.47%) Databricks
2 31 (12.81%) Red Hat
3 29 (11.98%) Oracle
4 24 (9.92%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.92%) Dell
5 10 (4.13%) Google
5 10 (4.13%) Palantir
6 9 (3.72%) Microsoft
7 6 (2.48%) Informatica
8 5 (2.07%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.07%) Talend
9 3 (1.24%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.41%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.41%) Confluent
10 1 (0.41%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.41%) Pega
10 1 (0.41%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.41%) UiPath