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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 422 414
Rank change year-on-year -109 -8 -61
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 278 257 449
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.52% 0.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.06% 6.27% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 137 109 205
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,950 £46,750
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 £112,500 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,100 £113,000 £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £63,750 £63,750
% change year-on-year -9.80% - -15.00%

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 4,589 4,097 6,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.04% 8.29% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,213 2,739 4,175
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £31,097
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,875 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -2.70%
75th Percentile £71,235 £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% -0.53%

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 14 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 14 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 -47 258 £80,000 +6.67% 479
London -36 158 £95,000 +5.56% 366
UK excluding London -120 99 £57,500 -9.80% 198
Work from Home -40 56 £66,805 -10.93% 346
North of England -35 50 £55,000 -8.33% 52
South West -56 25 £55,000 - 24
North East -43 23 £55,000 +15.79% 12
North West -5 18 £55,000 -31.25% 34
Yorkshire -37 9 £80,000 +33.33% 6
South East -50 8 £62,500 -7.41% 33
Scotland -16 5 £115,000 - 48
East of England -26 5 £80,000 +11.89% 11
Midlands -59 5 £54,500 -14.84% 9
West Midlands -39 4 £60,653 +0.25% 2
Wales -72 2 £80,000 +59.60% 2
East Midlands -40 1 £50,000 -33.33% 7

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
1 118 (42.45%) Apache
2 56 (20.14%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.83%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.80%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.08%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.08%) SAS
6 2 (0.72%) Luigi
6 2 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.72%) Tornado
7 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.36%) Confluence
7 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 167 (60.07%) AWS
2 153 (55.04%) Azure
3 92 (33.09%) GCP
4 45 (16.19%) Power Platform
5 41 (14.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 40 (14.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 40 (14.39%) Serverless
7 38 (13.67%) Amazon S3
8 28 (10.07%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (9.71%) Snowflake
10 24 (8.63%) Amazon EMR
11 23 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (7.55%) Amazon Kinesis
12 21 (7.55%) dbt
13 20 (7.19%) Azure Databricks
14 17 (6.12%) GitHub
15 16 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (5.76%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (5.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.16%) AMQP
1 6 (2.16%) BGP
1 6 (2.16%) DNS
1 6 (2.16%) IPsec
1 6 (2.16%) VPN
2 5 (1.80%) Internet
3 1 (0.36%) 4G
3 1 (0.36%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (34.17%) Big Data
2 67 (24.10%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (21.94%) Data Lake
4 56 (20.14%) Hadoop
5 49 (17.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (16.55%) NoSQL
7 44 (15.83%) Elasticsearch
7 44 (15.83%) Power BI
8 35 (12.59%) Tableau
9 27 (9.71%) Metadata
10 26 (9.35%) Delta Lake
10 26 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (8.27%) Relational Database
12 19 (6.83%) Flink
13 17 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (6.12%) BigQuery
14 15 (5.40%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (5.40%) Looker
14 15 (5.40%) Milvus
15 14 (5.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (12.59%) Git
2 21 (7.55%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.55%) MLflow
3 20 (7.19%) GitLab
4 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.36%) ERwin
5 1 (0.36%) JIRA
General
1 113 (40.65%) Finance
2 72 (25.90%) Social Skills
3 47 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.79%) Banking
5 23 (8.27%) Financial Institution
5 23 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.19%) Law
7 19 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (5.04%) Aerospace
9 13 (4.68%) Marketing
10 10 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.60%) Military
11 6 (2.16%) Games
11 6 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.16%) Retail
12 5 (1.80%) Legal
13 3 (1.08%) Front Office
14 2 (0.72%) Aviation
14 2 (0.72%) Local Government
14 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (47.84%) Data Engineer
2 90 (32.37%) Senior
3 49 (17.63%) Lead
4 38 (13.67%) Data Scientist
5 33 (11.87%) Senior Data Engineer
6 31 (11.15%) Senior Data Scientist
7 29 (10.43%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (8.63%) Databricks Engineer
9 21 (7.55%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 17 (6.12%) Architect
11 16 (5.76%) Python Engineer
12 14 (5.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 14 (5.04%) Software Engineer
12 14 (5.04%) Systems Engineer
13 13 (4.68%) Data Architect
14 12 (4.32%) Developer
15 9 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (3.24%) Consultant
15 9 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
16 8 (2.88%) AWS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (40.65%) Kafka
2 57 (20.50%) PySpark
3 53 (19.06%) Terraform
4 22 (7.91%) SpaCy
5 18 (6.47%) PyTorch
5 18 (6.47%) scikit-learn
6 17 (6.12%) TensorFlow
7 15 (5.40%) LangChain
7 15 (5.40%) Node.js
7 15 (5.40%) pgvector
7 15 (5.40%) REST
8 14 (5.04%) LlamaIndex
9 13 (4.68%) Spring
9 13 (4.68%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.96%) Pandas
11 9 (3.24%) Apache NiFi
11 9 (3.24%) gRPC
11 9 (3.24%) React
12 8 (2.88%) RESTful
13 7 (2.52%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.27%) Product Ownership
3 22 (7.91%) e-Learning
4 18 (6.47%) Data Structures
4 18 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (6.47%) Public Cloud
5 15 (5.40%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.04%) Algorithms
6 14 (5.04%) Clustering
7 10 (3.60%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.16%) NHS
10 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.44%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.72%) Blog
13 2 (0.72%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.68%) Linux
2 6 (2.16%) CentOS
2 6 (2.16%) Debian
2 6 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (61.51%) Data Engineering
2 160 (57.55%) Analytics
3 150 (53.96%) Data Pipeline
4 140 (50.36%) CI/CD
5 121 (43.53%) Data Science
6 116 (41.73%) Data Modelling
6 116 (41.73%) Machine Learning
7 104 (37.41%) DevOps
8 96 (34.53%) AI
9 90 (32.37%) ETL
10 82 (29.50%) Agile
11 71 (25.54%) Lakehouse
11 71 (25.54%) Mentoring
12 57 (20.50%) Business Intelligence
13 56 (20.14%) Data Governance
13 56 (20.14%) Infrastructure as Code
14 55 (19.78%) Use Case
15 49 (17.63%) Generative AI
16 48 (17.27%) Software Engineering
17 47 (16.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 235 (84.53%) Python
2 184 (66.19%) SQL
3 54 (19.42%) Scala
4 44 (15.83%) Java
5 14 (5.04%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.52%) C#
7 6 (2.16%) Bash
7 6 (2.16%) C
7 6 (2.16%) PHP
7 6 (2.16%) Ruby
8 5 (1.80%) VBA
9 4 (1.44%) Bicep
9 4 (1.44%) R
9 4 (1.44%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.08%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.36%) C++
12 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 82 (29.50%) Security Cleared
2 59 (21.22%) SC Cleared
3 58 (20.86%) Degree
4 31 (11.15%) PhD
5 28 (10.07%) Master's Degree
6 19 (6.83%) Azure Certification
7 17 (6.12%) AWS Certification
7 17 (6.12%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.36%) CEH
12 1 (0.36%) CISM
12 1 (0.36%) CISSP
12 1 (0.36%) OCP
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (31.65%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.55%) GDPR
3 15 (5.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.68%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.88%) QA
6 3 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.72%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (20.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (16.55%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.12%) Ansible
3 6 (2.16%) Hadoop YARN
3 6 (2.16%) Puppet
4 5 (1.80%) Argo
5 4 (1.44%) Grafana
6 3 (1.08%) Kibana
6 3 (1.08%) Packer
6 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 106 (38.13%) Databricks
2 32 (11.51%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.40%) Cloudera
4 14 (5.04%) Dell
5 9 (3.24%) Google
5 9 (3.24%) Oracle
6 7 (2.52%) Informatica
6 7 (2.52%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.16%) HP
7 6 (2.16%) IBM
7 6 (2.16%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.16%) SAP
8 5 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.80%) Splunk
9 4 (1.44%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.08%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.08%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.72%) Palantir
11 2 (0.72%) Talend