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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 390 327
Rank change year-on-year -97 -63 -41
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 248 298 880
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.67% 0.81%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.22% 7.07% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 123 171 271
10th Percentile £51,500 £48,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £56,250 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -3.85% -6.40% -0.79%

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 3,989 4,213 10,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.27% 9.45% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,853 2,779 7,113
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -13.27%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -84 225 £83,250 -2.06% 181
London -49 144 £100,000 -5.88% 60
UK excluding London -109 81 £62,500 -3.85% 185
Work from Home -69 56 £67,500 -31.47% 169
North of England -25 34 £57,500 +4.55% 45
South West -36 20 £70,000 +27.27% 19
East of England 0 17 £75,000 +4.90% 20
North West +1 14 £55,000 - 21
North East -40 11 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Yorkshire -44 9 £80,000 +39.13% 11
South East -48 4 £57,500 -11.54% 33
Scotland -20 3 £115,000 +15.00% 24
Midlands -33 2 £50,000 -21.88% 20
West Midlands -20 1 - - 9
East Midlands -39 1 £50,000 -33.33% 11
Wales -42 1 £80,000 +6.67% 16

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
1 111 (44.76%) Apache
1 111 (44.76%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.65%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.21%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.21%) SAS
4 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.40%) Camunda
4 1 (0.40%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.24%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 172 (69.35%) AWS
2 123 (49.60%) Azure
3 100 (40.32%) GCP
4 58 (23.39%) Amazon S3
5 49 (19.76%) Power Platform
6 43 (17.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 43 (17.34%) Snowflake
7 41 (16.53%) dbt
8 32 (12.90%) OpenShift
9 30 (12.10%) Serverless
10 27 (10.89%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (9.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (5.65%) Amazon EMR
12 14 (5.65%) Dagster
13 13 (5.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (5.24%) GitHub
14 12 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (4.84%) Azure Machine Learning
14 12 (4.84%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.82%) Broadband
2 6 (2.42%) AMQP
3 2 (0.81%) 4G
3 2 (0.81%) 5G
4 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (31.05%) Big Data
2 75 (30.24%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (30.24%) Tableau
3 57 (22.98%) Amazon Redshift
4 52 (20.97%) Data Lake
4 52 (20.97%) Elasticsearch
5 48 (19.35%) Power BI
6 42 (16.94%) BigQuery
7 34 (13.71%) Spark SQL
8 31 (12.50%) Looker
9 30 (12.10%) Hadoop
10 27 (10.89%) Apache Hive
10 27 (10.89%) Snowflake Schema
11 26 (10.48%) Parquet
12 25 (10.08%) Delta Lake
12 25 (10.08%) Impala
12 25 (10.08%) Oracle Database
13 23 (9.27%) NoSQL
14 22 (8.87%) Relational Database
15 18 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (18.55%) Git
2 36 (14.52%) MLflow
3 25 (10.08%) IBM UrbanCode
4 15 (6.05%) GitLab
5 11 (4.44%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.81%) JIRA
6 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.40%) Deequ
7 1 (0.40%) JUnit
General
1 88 (35.48%) Finance
2 71 (28.63%) Analytical Skills
2 71 (28.63%) Social Skills
3 41 (16.53%) Banking
4 24 (9.68%) Investment Banking
5 16 (6.45%) Law
5 16 (6.45%) Legal
6 12 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.03%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.02%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.61%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Billing
12 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Advertising
13 1 (0.40%) Front Office
13 1 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 94 (37.90%) Data Engineer
2 82 (33.06%) Senior
3 31 (12.50%) Lead
4 26 (10.48%) Analyst
4 26 (10.48%) Senior Data Engineer
5 24 (9.68%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.27%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.27%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (8.87%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (8.87%) Developer
7 22 (8.87%) Python Engineer
8 19 (7.66%) Architect
8 19 (7.66%) Lead Data Engineer
9 15 (6.05%) Data Scientist
10 14 (5.65%) Python Developer
10 14 (5.65%) Software Engineer
11 13 (5.24%) Business Analyst
12 12 (4.84%) Data Architect
12 12 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.84%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (41.94%) Kafka
2 66 (26.61%) PySpark
3 36 (14.52%) PyTorch
3 36 (14.52%) TensorFlow
4 27 (10.89%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.68%) LangChain
6 23 (9.27%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.27%) pgvector
7 22 (8.87%) Pandas
7 22 (8.87%) REST
8 16 (6.45%) Spring
8 16 (6.45%) Spring Boot
9 12 (4.84%) Node.js
10 10 (4.03%) SpaCy
11 9 (3.63%) NumPy
11 9 (3.63%) React
12 8 (3.23%) Faiss
12 8 (3.23%) vLLM
13 7 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (2.42%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 52 (20.97%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.08%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.27%) Clustering
4 17 (6.85%) Product Ownership
5 15 (6.05%) Data Structures
6 13 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.03%) e-Learning
8 9 (3.63%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.63%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.42%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.42%) Social Media
10 5 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.21%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.21%) NHS
12 2 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.63%) Linux
2 6 (2.42%) CentOS
2 6 (2.42%) Debian
2 6 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.42%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (63.71%) Data Pipeline
2 154 (62.10%) Data Engineering
3 150 (60.48%) Analytics
4 116 (46.77%) CI/CD
5 115 (46.37%) ETL
6 103 (41.53%) AI
7 99 (39.92%) Data Modelling
8 93 (37.50%) Data Science
9 90 (36.29%) Data Governance
10 87 (35.08%) Machine Learning
11 85 (34.27%) Agile
12 68 (27.42%) Business Intelligence
13 60 (24.19%) DevOps
14 59 (23.79%) Use Case
15 48 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
16 47 (18.95%) Generative AI
17 45 (18.15%) Software Engineering
17 45 (18.15%) Validation
18 44 (17.74%) Computer Science
19 40 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 226 (91.13%) Python
2 181 (72.98%) SQL
3 54 (21.77%) Scala
4 48 (19.35%) Java
5 13 (5.24%) Bash
6 9 (3.63%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.23%) Go
8 7 (2.82%) C++
9 5 (2.02%) Bicep
9 5 (2.02%) VBA
10 4 (1.61%) R
10 4 (1.61%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.40%) C#
13 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.52%) Degree
3 32 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.65%) Master's Degree
6 12 (4.84%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.44%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.44%) PhD
8 8 (3.23%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.40%) CEH
11 1 (0.40%) CISM
11 1 (0.40%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (40.32%) Data Quality
2 37 (14.92%) GDPR
3 35 (14.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.84%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.02%) QA
6 4 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.81%) IFRS
7 2 (0.81%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.81%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (18.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (18.95%) Terraform
2 36 (14.52%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.65%) Ansible
4 6 (2.42%) Grafana
4 6 (2.42%) Puppet
5 5 (2.02%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.21%) Kibana
6 3 (1.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 89 (35.89%) Databricks
2 32 (12.90%) Red Hat
3 26 (10.48%) Oracle
4 24 (9.68%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.68%) Dell
5 11 (4.44%) Google
6 9 (3.63%) Microsoft
6 9 (3.63%) Palantir
7 6 (2.42%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.21%) Informatica
8 3 (1.21%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.81%) Talend
10 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.40%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.40%) Foundry
10 1 (0.40%) IBM
10 1 (0.40%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.40%) Pega
10 1 (0.40%) Splunk
10 1 (0.40%) Trend Micro