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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 363 274
Rank change year-on-year -140 -89 -29
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 219 309 1,019
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.74% 1.08%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.90% 7.48% 10.15%
Number of salaries quoted 92 209 284
10th Percentile £53,975 £52,350 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -8.57%
75th Percentile £134,375 £115,000 £105,625
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% +0.91%

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 3,711 4,129 10,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.23% 9.85% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,599 2,923 7,035
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £33,965
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 £76,920 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £110,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -125 199 £85,000 +3.03% 111
London -40 134 £95,000 -13.64% 64
UK excluding London -123 64 £80,000 +23.08% 64
Work from Home -113 54 £82,500 -25.00% 57
North of England -55 23 £72,500 +26.09% 18
East of England -13 18 £75,000 -7.69% 2
Yorkshire -55 13 £62,500 +8.70% 2
South West -44 11 £82,000 +64.00% 15
North West -34 8 £95,000 +58.33% 9
Scotland -21 5 £102,500 +2.50% 3
South East -80 4 £57,500 -11.54% 15
North East -42 2 £80,000 - 7
Midlands -60 2 £50,000 -21.88% 7
Wales -21 1 £95,000 +48.44%
West Midlands -30 1 - - 5
East Midlands -55 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2

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
1 106 (48.40%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (35.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.46%) Camunda
3 1 (0.46%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 148 (67.58%) AWS
2 108 (49.32%) Azure
3 94 (42.92%) GCP
4 50 (22.83%) Power Platform
5 46 (21.00%) Amazon S3
5 46 (21.00%) dbt
5 46 (21.00%) Snowflake
6 40 (18.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 33 (15.07%) OpenShift
8 28 (12.79%) Serverless
9 24 (10.96%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (9.13%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (8.22%) Dagster
12 15 (6.85%) Azure Machine Learning
13 11 (5.02%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (4.57%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (4.57%) GitHub
15 9 (4.11%) Amazon SageMaker
15 9 (4.11%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.20%) Broadband
2 5 (2.28%) AMQP
3 2 (0.91%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.46%) 4G
4 1 (0.46%) 5G
4 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.46%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (34.25%) Data Warehouse
1 75 (34.25%) Tableau
2 67 (30.59%) Big Data
3 50 (22.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 50 (22.83%) Data Lake
4 49 (22.37%) Power BI
5 46 (21.00%) BigQuery
6 42 (19.18%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (15.98%) Hadoop
8 33 (15.07%) Looker
9 31 (14.16%) Apache Hive
10 30 (13.70%) Spark SQL
11 28 (12.79%) Snowflake Schema
12 26 (11.87%) Parquet
13 25 (11.42%) Impala
13 25 (11.42%) Oracle Database
14 22 (10.05%) Delta Lake
15 21 (9.59%) Relational Database
16 20 (9.13%) MySQL
17 17 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (18.72%) Git
2 37 (16.89%) MLflow
3 25 (11.42%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (3.65%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.74%) GitLab
6 2 (0.91%) JIRA
7 1 (0.46%) Deequ
7 1 (0.46%) JUnit
General
1 82 (37.44%) Finance
2 73 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (30.59%) Social Skills
4 32 (14.61%) Banking
5 24 (10.96%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.39%) Law
7 13 (5.94%) Legal
8 7 (3.20%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.91%) Advertising
11 2 (0.91%) Retail
12 1 (0.46%) Billing
12 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Marketing
12 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 74 (33.79%) Data Engineer
2 72 (32.88%) Senior
3 26 (11.87%) Analyst
4 25 (11.42%) Senior Data Engineer
5 24 (10.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.50%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.50%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (10.05%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (10.05%) Developer
8 18 (8.22%) Python Developer
8 18 (8.22%) Python Engineer
9 16 (7.31%) Architect
10 14 (6.39%) Lead
11 13 (5.94%) AWS Data Engineer
11 13 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (5.94%) Business Analyst
12 12 (5.48%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.48%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (5.02%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 11 (5.02%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (47.03%) Kafka
2 53 (24.20%) PySpark
3 41 (18.72%) PyTorch
3 41 (18.72%) TensorFlow
4 28 (12.79%) scikit-learn
5 26 (11.87%) REST
6 24 (10.96%) LangChain
6 24 (10.96%) Pandas
7 23 (10.50%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (10.50%) pgvector
8 13 (5.94%) Spring
9 12 (5.48%) Spring Boot
10 10 (4.57%) Node.js
11 9 (4.11%) Faiss
11 9 (4.11%) vLLM
12 8 (3.65%) NumPy
13 7 (3.20%) React
14 6 (2.74%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.74%) OAuth
14 6 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.72%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.50%) Clustering
2 23 (10.50%) Public Cloud
3 19 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (7.76%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.57%) Algorithms
6 9 (4.11%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (3.20%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.74%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.74%) Social Media
9 5 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.83%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.37%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.37%) NHS
11 3 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.11%) Linux
2 5 (2.28%) CentOS
2 5 (2.28%) Debian
2 5 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.28%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (66.21%) Data Pipeline
2 130 (59.36%) Analytics
2 130 (59.36%) Data Engineering
3 111 (50.68%) ETL
4 105 (47.95%) AI
5 99 (45.21%) CI/CD
6 91 (41.55%) Data Governance
7 87 (39.73%) Data Science
7 87 (39.73%) Machine Learning
8 84 (38.36%) Data Modelling
9 70 (31.96%) Business Intelligence
10 67 (30.59%) Agile
11 56 (25.57%) Computer Science
12 50 (22.83%) Generative AI
13 47 (21.46%) Software Engineering
14 46 (21.00%) Use Case
15 42 (19.18%) DevOps
15 42 (19.18%) Performance Tuning
16 40 (18.26%) Feature Engineering
17 36 (16.44%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 203 (92.69%) Python
2 165 (75.34%) SQL
3 53 (24.20%) Java
4 43 (19.63%) Scala
5 10 (4.57%) Bash
6 9 (4.11%) Go
7 8 (3.65%) C++
8 6 (2.74%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.74%) R
9 3 (1.37%) Bicep
9 3 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.37%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.46%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.46%) Ruby
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (17.35%) Degree
2 23 (10.50%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (6.85%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.11%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.65%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.65%) PhD
7 7 (3.20%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.74%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.46%) CEH
11 1 (0.46%) CISM
11 1 (0.46%) CISSP
11 1 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (37.90%) Data Quality
2 39 (17.81%) GDPR
3 35 (15.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.48%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.46%) IFRS
6 1 (0.46%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.46%) QA
6 1 (0.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (17.35%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (15.53%) Kubernetes
2 30 (13.70%) Terraform
3 14 (6.39%) Ansible
4 8 (3.65%) Grafana
5 7 (3.20%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.28%) Puppet
7 1 (0.46%) Argo
7 1 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 81 (36.99%) Databricks
2 34 (15.53%) Oracle
3 32 (14.61%) Red Hat
4 25 (11.42%) Dell
5 24 (10.96%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.39%) Palantir
7 13 (5.94%) Microsoft
8 10 (4.57%) Google
9 7 (3.20%) Informatica
10 6 (2.74%) Talend
11 5 (2.28%) SaltStack
12 3 (1.37%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.46%) Automation Anywhere
13 1 (0.46%) Cognizant
13 1 (0.46%) Confluent
13 1 (0.46%) IBM
13 1 (0.46%) Mapbox
13 1 (0.46%) Pega
13 1 (0.46%) Refinitiv
13 1 (0.46%) UiPath