Apache Spark Job Trends

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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 396 275
Rank change year-on-year -69 -121 -25
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 205 309 800
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.65% 1.07%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.61% 6.81% 10.01%
Number of salaries quoted 99 214 272
10th Percentile £56,750 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £72,125 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%
75th Percentile £131,250 £115,000 £103,125
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year +30.43% -18.53% +8.58%

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 3,652 4,537 7,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.24% 9.53% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,429 2,735 6,011
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £108,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £45,628 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.14% +7.36% -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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -66 187 £85,000 -8.11% 75
London -13 130 £95,000 -13.64% 37
UK excluding London -40 54 £75,000 +30.43% 48
Work from Home -77 53 £83,000 -24.55% 40
North of England -13 26 £65,000 +18.18% 24
Yorkshire -28 17 £65,000 +32.65% 12
East of England +16 12 - - 1
North West -17 8 £95,000 +72.73% 8
South West -14 7 £80,000 +3.23% 9
South East -40 4 £65,000 +13.04% 7
Scotland -17 3 £90,000 - 4
West Midlands +15 1 - - 1
North East -3 1 - - 4
Wales -3 1 £95,000 +79.25% 1
Midlands -4 1 - - 3

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 76 (37.07%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (35.61%) Apache
3 2 (0.98%) SAS
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.49%) Camunda
4 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (5.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 139 (67.80%) AWS
2 93 (45.37%) Azure
3 79 (38.54%) GCP
4 43 (20.98%) Amazon S3
5 35 (17.07%) Serverless
6 33 (16.10%) OpenShift
7 32 (15.61%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (12.20%) dbt
9 24 (11.71%) Snowflake
10 18 (8.78%) Dagster
10 18 (8.78%) Power Platform
11 17 (8.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (7.32%) Amazon EMR
13 13 (6.34%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (5.85%) Azure Machine Learning
14 12 (5.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 11 (5.37%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (4.39%) Amazon SageMaker
17 9 (4.39%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.41%) Broadband
2 5 (2.44%) AMQP
2 5 (2.44%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.49%) 4G
3 1 (0.49%) 5G
3 1 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.49%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (38.05%) Big Data
2 63 (30.73%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (26.83%) Hadoop
4 45 (21.95%) Tableau
5 41 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 35 (17.07%) Data Lake
7 34 (16.59%) Apache Hive
8 24 (11.71%) BigQuery
8 24 (11.71%) Spark SQL
9 22 (10.73%) Parquet
10 21 (10.24%) Impala
10 21 (10.24%) Oracle Database
11 19 (9.27%) Apache Iceberg
12 18 (8.78%) Power BI
13 17 (8.29%) Delta Lake
13 17 (8.29%) MySQL
13 17 (8.29%) NoSQL
13 17 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (7.80%) Relational Database
15 15 (7.32%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (18.05%) Git
2 21 (10.24%) IBM UrbanCode
3 12 (5.85%) MLflow
4 7 (3.41%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.95%) GitLab
6 2 (0.98%) Deequ
7 1 (0.49%) JUnit
General
1 83 (40.49%) Finance
2 82 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 50 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (16.59%) Banking
5 22 (10.73%) Investment Banking
6 15 (7.32%) Law
7 12 (5.85%) Financial Institution
7 12 (5.85%) Legal
8 9 (4.39%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.95%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.95%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.46%) Front Office
10 3 (1.46%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.98%) Advertising
11 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.98%) Marketing
11 2 (0.98%) Retail
12 1 (0.49%) Billing
12 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 84 (40.98%) Data Engineer
2 60 (29.27%) Senior
3 33 (16.10%) Senior Data Engineer
4 27 (13.17%) Developer
5 22 (10.73%) Analyst
6 19 (9.27%) AWS Data Engineer
6 19 (9.27%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (9.27%) Python Developer
6 19 (9.27%) Transformation Analyst
7 18 (8.78%) Banking Analyst
8 14 (6.83%) Architect
9 11 (5.37%) Business Analyst
9 11 (5.37%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (5.37%) Software Engineer
10 10 (4.88%) Data Architect
10 10 (4.88%) Data Business Analyst
10 10 (4.88%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (4.39%) Consultant
11 9 (4.39%) Data Scientist
11 9 (4.39%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (38.54%) Kafka
2 46 (22.44%) PySpark
3 25 (12.20%) Pandas
4 24 (11.71%) REST
5 22 (10.73%) PyTorch
5 22 (10.73%) TensorFlow
6 12 (5.85%) Spring
7 11 (5.37%) Spring Boot
8 9 (4.39%) Faiss
8 9 (4.39%) NumPy
8 9 (4.39%) vLLM
9 8 (3.90%) scikit-learn
10 7 (3.41%) React
11 6 (2.93%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.93%) boto
11 6 (2.93%) LDAP
11 6 (2.93%) Node.js
11 6 (2.93%) OAuth2
11 6 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.93%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.59%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (11.22%) Cloud Native
3 19 (9.27%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.85%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.37%) e-Learning
6 9 (4.39%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.90%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.90%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.93%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.93%) Social Media
10 4 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.46%) Equities
11 3 (1.46%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.98%) FMCG
12 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.80%) Linux
2 8 (3.90%) Unix
3 5 (2.44%) CentOS
3 5 (2.44%) Debian
3 5 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (62.93%) Data Pipeline
2 111 (54.15%) Data Engineering
3 106 (51.71%) Analytics
4 103 (50.24%) CI/CD
5 89 (43.41%) ETL
6 75 (36.59%) AI
7 73 (35.61%) Data Governance
8 70 (34.15%) Data Science
9 65 (31.71%) Data Modelling
10 64 (31.22%) Machine Learning
11 60 (29.27%) Agile
12 53 (25.85%) Computer Science
13 49 (23.90%) Software Engineering
14 46 (22.44%) DevOps
15 45 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
16 43 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
17 35 (17.07%) Roadmaps
18 33 (16.10%) Data Transformation
18 33 (16.10%) Mentoring
19 32 (15.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 190 (92.68%) Python
2 141 (68.78%) SQL
3 71 (34.63%) Java
4 40 (19.51%) Scala
5 10 (4.88%) Bash
6 9 (4.39%) Go
6 9 (4.39%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.90%) C++
7 8 (3.90%) R
8 5 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.46%) C#
10 2 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.49%) Ruby
11 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (20.98%) Degree
2 18 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (6.34%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.85%) PhD
6 11 (5.37%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.93%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.93%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.93%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.49%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (36.59%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.29%) GDPR
3 10 (4.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (4.88%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.95%) QA
5 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (18.54%) Docker
2 7 (3.41%) HDFS
3 6 (2.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (17.56%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.71%) Terraform
3 14 (6.83%) Ansible
4 10 (4.88%) Grafana
4 10 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.44%) Puppet
6 3 (1.46%) Kibana
6 3 (1.46%) logstash
7 1 (0.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 56 (27.32%) Databricks
2 35 (17.07%) Oracle
3 28 (13.66%) Red Hat
4 14 (6.83%) Palantir
5 12 (5.85%) Google
6 10 (4.88%) Microsoft
7 9 (4.39%) Informatica
8 8 (3.90%) Dell
8 8 (3.90%) Talend
9 5 (2.44%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.95%) IBM
11 3 (1.46%) SAP
12 1 (0.49%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.49%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.49%) Foundry
12 1 (0.49%) Pega
12 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.49%) UiPath