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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 385 274
Rank change year-on-year -113 -111 -27
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 231 298 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.68% 1.07%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.26% 7.02% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 106 205 295
10th Percentile £55,500 £52,050 £49,400
25th Percentile £75,000 £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 £123,750 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +23.08% -6.40% -

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 3,692 4,246 10,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.07% 9.76% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,598 2,884 7,104
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,588 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +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 9 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 9 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 -75 209 £85,000 - 85
London -50 141 £97,500 -11.36% 49
UK excluding London -87 67 £80,000 +23.08% 42
Work from Home -88 61 £81,000 -26.36% 69
North of England -64 23 £80,000 +39.13% 19
East of England +8 18 £75,000 -7.69%
South West -34 15 £75,000 +50.00% 9
Yorkshire -49 12 £80,000 +39.13% 2
North West -25 8 £85,000 +54.55% 7
Scotland -15 5 £102,500 +2.50% 1
South East -48 4 £57,500 -11.54% 7
North East -44 3 £57,500 -28.13% 10
Wales -31 1 £95,000 +48.44%
East Midlands -33 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -51 1 £50,000 -25.93% 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
1 108 (46.75%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (35.06%) Apache
3 3 (1.30%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.87%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.43%) Camunda
5 1 (0.43%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.63%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 153 (66.23%) AWS
2 116 (50.22%) Azure
3 97 (41.99%) GCP
4 51 (22.08%) Power Platform
5 49 (21.21%) Amazon S3
6 47 (20.35%) Snowflake
7 45 (19.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 45 (19.48%) dbt
8 31 (13.42%) OpenShift
9 28 (12.12%) Serverless
10 24 (10.39%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (10.39%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (7.36%) Dagster
12 15 (6.49%) Azure Machine Learning
13 11 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
13 11 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (4.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 10 (4.33%) GitHub
14 10 (4.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.03%) Broadband
2 4 (1.73%) AMQP
3 2 (0.87%) 4G
3 2 (0.87%) 5G
4 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.43%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (32.90%) Tableau
2 74 (32.03%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (30.74%) Big Data
4 52 (22.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 52 (22.51%) Data Lake
5 50 (21.65%) Power BI
6 47 (20.35%) BigQuery
6 47 (20.35%) Elasticsearch
7 33 (14.29%) Hadoop
7 33 (14.29%) Looker
8 31 (13.42%) Spark SQL
9 28 (12.12%) Apache Hive
9 28 (12.12%) Snowflake Schema
10 26 (11.26%) Parquet
11 25 (10.82%) Impala
11 25 (10.82%) Oracle Database
12 23 (9.96%) Delta Lake
13 22 (9.52%) Relational Database
14 20 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
15 19 (8.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 44 (19.05%) Git
2 38 (16.45%) MLflow
3 25 (10.82%) IBM UrbanCode
4 10 (4.33%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.60%) GitLab
6 2 (0.87%) JIRA
7 1 (0.43%) Deequ
7 1 (0.43%) JUnit
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 84 (36.36%) Finance
2 74 (32.03%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (29.00%) Social Skills
4 35 (15.15%) Banking
5 24 (10.39%) Investment Banking
6 15 (6.49%) Legal
7 14 (6.06%) Law
8 7 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.16%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.73%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.30%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.87%) Advertising
12 2 (0.87%) Billing
12 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Retail
13 1 (0.43%) Marketing
13 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 76 (32.90%) Data Engineer
2 74 (32.03%) Senior
3 26 (11.26%) Analyst
4 24 (10.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (9.96%) Developer
5 23 (9.96%) Senior Data Engineer
5 23 (9.96%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (9.96%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (9.52%) Banking Analyst
7 20 (8.66%) Lead
7 20 (8.66%) Python Engineer
8 18 (7.79%) Architect
9 17 (7.36%) Python Developer
10 15 (6.49%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (5.63%) Business Analyst
12 12 (5.19%) AWS Data Engineer
12 12 (5.19%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.19%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (4.76%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (46.32%) Kafka
2 55 (23.81%) PySpark
3 41 (17.75%) PyTorch
3 41 (17.75%) TensorFlow
4 28 (12.12%) scikit-learn
5 24 (10.39%) LangChain
5 24 (10.39%) REST
6 23 (9.96%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.96%) pgvector
7 22 (9.52%) Pandas
8 14 (6.06%) Spring
9 13 (5.63%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.90%) Faiss
10 9 (3.90%) Node.js
10 9 (3.90%) vLLM
11 7 (3.03%) NumPy
12 6 (2.60%) React
13 5 (2.16%) AngularJS
13 5 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.16%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.75%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.96%) Clustering
2 23 (9.96%) Public Cloud
3 19 (8.23%) Product Ownership
4 17 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.76%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.33%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (3.03%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.60%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.60%) Social Media
9 5 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.16%) e-Learning
9 5 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.30%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.30%) NHS
11 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.03%) Linux
2 4 (1.73%) CentOS
2 4 (1.73%) Debian
2 4 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.73%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (65.37%) Data Pipeline
2 140 (60.61%) Analytics
3 134 (58.01%) Data Engineering
4 116 (50.22%) ETL
5 107 (46.32%) AI
6 105 (45.45%) CI/CD
7 93 (40.26%) Data Governance
8 92 (39.83%) Data Science
9 91 (39.39%) Machine Learning
10 89 (38.53%) Data Modelling
11 70 (30.30%) Agile
12 68 (29.44%) Business Intelligence
13 53 (22.94%) Computer Science
14 52 (22.51%) Use Case
15 50 (21.65%) Generative AI
16 47 (20.35%) DevOps
17 46 (19.91%) Software Engineering
18 43 (18.61%) Performance Tuning
19 41 (17.75%) Feature Engineering
20 38 (16.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 212 (91.77%) Python
2 171 (74.03%) SQL
3 51 (22.08%) Java
4 43 (18.61%) Scala
5 10 (4.33%) Bash
6 9 (3.90%) Go
7 8 (3.46%) C++
8 6 (2.60%) R
9 5 (2.16%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.73%) Bicep
11 3 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.30%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.30%) VBA
12 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.43%) Ruby
12 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (16.45%) Degree
2 27 (11.69%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.76%) PhD
6 10 (4.33%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.90%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.03%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.60%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.43%) CEH
12 1 (0.43%) CISM
12 1 (0.43%) CISSP
12 1 (0.43%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (39.83%) Data Quality
2 38 (16.45%) GDPR
3 35 (15.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.19%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.73%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.87%) IFRS
6 2 (0.87%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.87%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.43%) QA
7 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (15.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (14.72%) Terraform
2 31 (13.42%) Kubernetes
3 14 (6.06%) Ansible
4 8 (3.46%) Grafana
5 7 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.73%) Puppet
7 3 (1.30%) Packer
8 1 (0.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 85 (36.80%) Databricks
2 32 (13.85%) Oracle
3 31 (13.42%) Red Hat
4 24 (10.39%) Cloudera
4 24 (10.39%) Dell
5 12 (5.19%) Microsoft
5 12 (5.19%) Palantir
6 10 (4.33%) Google
7 7 (3.03%) Informatica
8 6 (2.60%) Talend
9 4 (1.73%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.43%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.43%) Confluent
11 1 (0.43%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.43%) Pega
11 1 (0.43%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.43%) UiPath