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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 435 425
Rank change year-on-year -87 -10 -59
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 284 258 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.52% 0.53%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.98% 6.33% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 140 111 205
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £110,625 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £130,500 £115,000 £124,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -13.33%

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 4,750 4,077 6,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.09% 8.25% 8.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,274 2,722 4,116
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,625 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% -2.39% -2.70%
75th Percentile £70,750 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -1.04%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -85 264 £78,750 +5.00% 471
London -49 161 £95,000 +5.56% 350
UK excluding London -142 102 £57,500 -8.00% 178
Work from Home -39 60 £66,805 -10.93% 186
North of England -48 51 £55,000 -8.33% 42
South West -52 27 £58,000 +5.45% 28
North East -49 24 £55,000 +15.79% 11
North West -7 18 £55,000 -31.25% 24
Yorkshire -51 9 £80,000 +33.33% 7
South East -58 9 £61,005 -9.62% 24
Scotland -16 5 £115,000 - 36
Midlands -59 5 £54,500 -14.84% 15
East of England -27 4 £80,000 +11.89% 11
West Midlands -48 4 £60,653 +0.25% 10
Wales -73 2 £80,000 +59.60% 3
East Midlands -45 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
1 122 (42.96%) Apache
2 53 (18.66%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (7.04%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.76%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.06%) SAS
6 2 (0.70%) Luigi
6 2 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.70%) Tornado
7 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.35%) Confluence
7 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 167 (58.80%) AWS
2 158 (55.63%) Azure
3 91 (32.04%) GCP
4 44 (15.49%) Azure Data Factory
5 43 (15.14%) Power Platform
6 41 (14.44%) Serverless
7 38 (13.38%) Amazon S3
8 36 (12.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 29 (10.21%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (9.15%) Snowflake
11 24 (8.45%) Amazon EMR
12 22 (7.75%) Azure Databricks
13 21 (7.39%) Amazon Kinesis
14 18 (6.34%) dbt
14 18 (6.34%) GitHub
15 17 (5.99%) Cloud Computing
16 16 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (4.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.46%) AMQP
2 6 (2.11%) BGP
2 6 (2.11%) DNS
2 6 (2.11%) IPsec
2 6 (2.11%) VPN
3 5 (1.76%) Internet
4 1 (0.35%) 4G
4 1 (0.35%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (35.21%) Big Data
2 66 (23.24%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (20.77%) Data Lake
4 58 (20.42%) Hadoop
5 47 (16.55%) NoSQL
6 46 (16.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 42 (14.79%) Power BI
8 39 (13.73%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (12.32%) Tableau
10 28 (9.86%) Metadata
11 27 (9.51%) Delta Lake
12 25 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
13 23 (8.10%) Relational Database
14 19 (6.69%) Flink
15 17 (5.99%) Amazon Athena
15 17 (5.99%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (4.93%) Spark SQL
17 13 (4.58%) BigQuery
18 12 (4.23%) Apache Hive
18 12 (4.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (13.73%) Git
2 23 (8.10%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.39%) GitLab
4 17 (5.99%) MLflow
5 2 (0.70%) JIRA
5 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.35%) ERwin
6 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 117 (41.20%) Finance
2 74 (26.06%) Social Skills
3 47 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.92%) Banking
5 24 (8.45%) Financial Institution
5 24 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.04%) Law
7 19 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (5.28%) Aerospace
9 13 (4.58%) Marketing
10 10 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.52%) Military
11 6 (2.11%) Games
11 6 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.11%) Retail
12 5 (1.76%) Legal
13 4 (1.41%) Front Office
14 2 (0.70%) Aviation
14 2 (0.70%) Local Government
14 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 137 (48.24%) Data Engineer
2 91 (32.04%) Senior
3 49 (17.25%) Lead
4 39 (13.73%) Data Scientist
5 36 (12.68%) Senior Data Engineer
6 32 (11.27%) Senior Data Scientist
7 28 (9.86%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (8.45%) Databricks Engineer
9 21 (7.39%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 17 (5.99%) Architect
11 16 (5.63%) Python Engineer
12 15 (5.28%) Software Engineer
13 13 (4.58%) Data Architect
14 12 (4.23%) Developer
15 10 (3.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 10 (3.52%) Systems Engineer
16 9 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
16 9 (3.17%) Consultant
16 9 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (38.73%) Kafka
2 61 (21.48%) PySpark
3 55 (19.37%) Terraform
4 23 (8.10%) SpaCy
5 16 (5.63%) Node.js
6 15 (5.28%) REST
7 14 (4.93%) PyTorch
7 14 (4.93%) scikit-learn
7 14 (4.93%) Spring
7 14 (4.93%) Spring Boot
8 13 (4.58%) TensorFlow
9 11 (3.87%) LangChain
9 11 (3.87%) Pandas
9 11 (3.87%) pgvector
10 10 (3.52%) gRPC
10 10 (3.52%) LlamaIndex
10 10 (3.52%) React
11 9 (3.17%) Apache NiFi
12 8 (2.82%) RESTful
13 7 (2.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.31%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.10%) e-Learning
2 23 (8.10%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.34%) Data Structures
3 18 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.28%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.93%) Algorithms
5 14 (4.93%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.87%) Distributed Computing
7 10 (3.52%) Clustering
8 7 (2.46%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.11%) NHS
10 5 (1.76%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.70%) Blog
12 2 (0.70%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.93%) Linux
2 7 (2.46%) CentOS
2 7 (2.46%) Debian
2 7 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (60.21%) Data Engineering
2 162 (57.04%) Analytics
3 151 (53.17%) Data Pipeline
4 145 (51.06%) CI/CD
5 121 (42.61%) Data Science
6 116 (40.85%) Data Modelling
7 115 (40.49%) Machine Learning
8 109 (38.38%) DevOps
9 96 (33.80%) AI
10 91 (32.04%) ETL
11 88 (30.99%) Agile
12 76 (26.76%) Mentoring
13 67 (23.59%) Lakehouse
14 58 (20.42%) Infrastructure as Code
15 55 (19.37%) Business Intelligence
16 54 (19.01%) Data Governance
17 51 (17.96%) Use Case
18 50 (17.61%) Software Engineering
19 48 (16.90%) Validation
20 47 (16.55%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 241 (84.86%) Python
2 186 (65.49%) SQL
3 58 (20.42%) Scala
4 45 (15.85%) Java
5 16 (5.63%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.82%) C#
7 7 (2.46%) R
8 6 (2.11%) Bash
8 6 (2.11%) C
8 6 (2.11%) PHP
8 6 (2.11%) Ruby
9 5 (1.76%) VBA
10 4 (1.41%) Bicep
10 4 (1.41%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.41%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.06%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.35%) C++
12 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 86 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 63 (22.18%) SC Cleared
3 60 (21.13%) Degree
4 32 (11.27%) PhD
5 29 (10.21%) Master's Degree
6 21 (7.39%) Azure Certification
7 18 (6.34%) AWS Certification
7 18 (6.34%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.35%) CEH
12 1 (0.35%) CISM
12 1 (0.35%) CISSP
12 1 (0.35%) OCP
12 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (32.04%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.99%) GDPR
3 13 (4.58%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (2.82%) QA
6 5 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (21.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (17.96%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.34%) Ansible
3 7 (2.46%) Puppet
4 6 (2.11%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.76%) Argo
6 4 (1.41%) Grafana
7 3 (1.06%) Kibana
7 3 (1.06%) Packer
7 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.35%) Control-M
8 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 109 (38.38%) Databricks
2 33 (11.62%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.87%) Cloudera
4 10 (3.52%) Dell
4 10 (3.52%) Google
5 9 (3.17%) Oracle
6 8 (2.82%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.46%) Informatica
7 7 (2.46%) SaltStack
8 6 (2.11%) HP
8 6 (2.11%) IBM
8 6 (2.11%) SAP
9 5 (1.76%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.76%) Splunk
10 4 (1.41%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.06%) LexisNexis
11 3 (1.06%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.70%) Foundry
12 2 (0.70%) Talend