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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 392 275
Rank change year-on-year -79 -117 -28
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 206 301 831
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.64% 1.06%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.70% 6.76% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 99 208 270
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 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £61,250 £69,447
% change year-on-year +22.45% -11.80% +6.84%

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 3,615 4,450 8,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.16% 9.52% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,409 2,723 6,239
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £38,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,832 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.26% +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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -44 188 £85,000 -9.33% 122
London -23 131 £95,000 -13.64% 61
UK excluding London -40 54 £75,000 +22.45% 80
Work from Home -97 54 £83,000 -24.55% 113
North of England -8 26 £65,000 +18.18% 24
Yorkshire -20 17 £65,000 +32.65% 11
East of England +15 11 - - 8
North West -4 8 £95,000 +72.73% 9
South West -15 8 £80,000 +3.23% 14
South East -42 4 £65,000 +13.04% 22
Scotland -19 3 £90,000 -2.70% 5
West Midlands +13 1 - - 1
Wales -8 1 £95,000 +79.25% 3
North East -9 1 - - 4
Midlands -20 1 - - 4

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 79 (38.35%) Apache Airflow
2 75 (36.41%) Apache
3 2 (0.97%) 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 12 (5.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 139 (67.48%) AWS
2 91 (44.17%) Azure
3 77 (37.38%) GCP
4 46 (22.33%) Amazon S3
5 35 (16.99%) OpenShift
6 34 (16.50%) Serverless
7 31 (15.05%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (12.62%) dbt
9 25 (12.14%) Snowflake
10 18 (8.74%) Dagster
10 18 (8.74%) Power Platform
11 17 (8.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (7.28%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (5.83%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (5.83%) Azure Machine Learning
13 12 (5.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (4.85%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (4.37%) Amazon SageMaker
15 9 (4.37%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.40%) Broadband
2 5 (2.43%) AMQP
2 5 (2.43%) 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 76 (36.89%) Big Data
2 62 (30.10%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (25.73%) Hadoop
4 46 (22.33%) Tableau
5 39 (18.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 35 (16.99%) Apache Hive
6 35 (16.99%) Data Lake
7 26 (12.62%) Spark SQL
8 24 (11.65%) BigQuery
8 24 (11.65%) Parquet
9 23 (11.17%) Impala
9 23 (11.17%) Oracle Database
10 19 (9.22%) Apache Iceberg
11 18 (8.74%) Power BI
12 17 (8.25%) Delta Lake
12 17 (8.25%) MySQL
12 17 (8.25%) NoSQL
12 17 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (8.25%) Relational Database
13 15 (7.28%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (18.93%) Git
2 23 (11.17%) IBM UrbanCode
3 12 (5.83%) MLflow
4 7 (3.40%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.43%) GitLab
6 2 (0.97%) Deequ
7 1 (0.49%) JUnit
General
1 84 (40.78%) Finance
2 83 (40.29%) Social Skills
3 52 (25.24%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (16.99%) Banking
5 24 (11.65%) Investment Banking
6 15 (7.28%) Law
7 13 (6.31%) Legal
8 10 (4.85%) Financial Institution
9 9 (4.37%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.94%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.94%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.46%) Front Office
11 3 (1.46%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.97%) Advertising
12 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.97%) Marketing
12 2 (0.97%) Retail
13 1 (0.49%) Billing
13 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (40.29%) Data Engineer
2 58 (28.16%) Senior
3 32 (15.53%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (12.62%) Developer
5 24 (11.65%) Analyst
6 21 (10.19%) Transformation Analyst
7 20 (9.71%) Banking Analyst
8 19 (9.22%) Python Developer
9 18 (8.74%) AWS Data Engineer
9 18 (8.74%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (6.80%) Architect
11 12 (5.83%) Business Analyst
12 11 (5.34%) Data Business Analyst
12 11 (5.34%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (5.34%) Software Engineer
12 11 (5.34%) Technical Analyst
13 10 (4.85%) Data Architect
13 10 (4.85%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
14 9 (4.37%) Consultant
14 9 (4.37%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (38.35%) Kafka
2 48 (23.30%) PySpark
3 25 (12.14%) Pandas
4 24 (11.65%) REST
5 21 (10.19%) PyTorch
5 21 (10.19%) TensorFlow
6 13 (6.31%) Spring
7 12 (5.83%) Spring Boot
8 9 (4.37%) Faiss
8 9 (4.37%) vLLM
9 8 (3.88%) NumPy
10 7 (3.40%) Node.js
10 7 (3.40%) OAuth
10 7 (3.40%) React
10 7 (3.40%) scikit-learn
11 6 (2.91%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.91%) LDAP
11 6 (2.91%) OAuth2
11 6 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.43%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.02%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (11.17%) Cloud Native
3 19 (9.22%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.34%) Algorithms
5 9 (4.37%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (4.37%) e-Learning
6 8 (3.88%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.88%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.91%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.91%) Social Media
9 5 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.46%) Equities
11 3 (1.46%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.97%) FMCG
12 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.97%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.77%) Linux
2 8 (3.88%) Unix
3 5 (2.43%) CentOS
3 5 (2.43%) Debian
3 5 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (63.59%) Data Pipeline
2 111 (53.88%) Data Engineering
3 107 (51.94%) Analytics
4 105 (50.97%) CI/CD
5 91 (44.17%) ETL
6 78 (37.86%) AI
7 75 (36.41%) Data Governance
8 69 (33.50%) Data Science
9 65 (31.55%) Data Modelling
10 63 (30.58%) Agile
10 63 (30.58%) Machine Learning
11 53 (25.73%) Computer Science
12 50 (24.27%) Software Engineering
13 45 (21.84%) Business Intelligence
14 44 (21.36%) DevOps
15 43 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (17.48%) Roadmaps
17 35 (16.99%) Data Transformation
18 34 (16.50%) Scrum
19 32 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 191 (92.72%) Python
2 144 (69.90%) SQL
3 71 (34.47%) Java
4 40 (19.42%) Scala
5 10 (4.85%) Bash
6 9 (4.37%) Go
6 9 (4.37%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.88%) C++
8 7 (3.40%) R
9 5 (2.43%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.46%) C#
11 2 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.49%) Ruby
12 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (20.39%) Degree
2 18 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (6.31%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.34%) PhD
6 10 (4.85%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.91%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.91%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.49%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (37.86%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.25%) GDPR
3 11 (5.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 11 (5.34%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.94%) QA
5 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 40 (19.42%) Docker
2 6 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (18.45%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.14%) Terraform
3 14 (6.80%) Ansible
4 11 (5.34%) Grafana
4 11 (5.34%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.43%) Puppet
6 3 (1.46%) Kibana
6 3 (1.46%) logstash
7 1 (0.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 55 (26.70%) Databricks
2 37 (17.96%) Oracle
3 30 (14.56%) Red Hat
4 14 (6.80%) Palantir
5 12 (5.83%) Google
6 10 (4.85%) Microsoft
7 9 (4.37%) Informatica
8 8 (3.88%) Dell
8 8 (3.88%) Talend
9 5 (2.43%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.94%) 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