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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 485 358
Rank change year-on-year +45 -127 -70
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 222 284 392
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.45% 0.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.92% 5.10% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 102 199 250
10th Percentile £50,725 £47,500 £51,700
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £77,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -2.68% -0.46%
75th Percentile £116,875 £106,250 £97,290
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -23.33% +15.38%

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 3,748 5,573 5,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.82% 8.79% 11.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,545 3,431 4,488
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,875 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +1.59% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £47,103
% change year-on-year -10.53% +0.84% -0.84%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 +62 204 £81,000 +4.52% 257
London +49 141 £95,000 - 53
UK excluding London +75 74 £60,000 +4.35% 254
Work from Home -6 43 £80,000 +9.59% 214
North of England +44 34 £60,000 +20.00% 55
Yorkshire +22 22 £60,000 +21.77% 26
Scotland +33 14 £90,000 - 21
Midlands +54 12 £55,000 -8.33% 42
North West +30 7 £54,250 +3.33% 23
East Midlands +22 7 - - 19
West Midlands +46 5 £55,000 -15.38% 20
South East +24 5 £65,000 +13.04% 68
North East +18 5 £47,500 -3.60% 6
East of England +23 4 - - 37
South West 0 4 £55,000 -29.03% 23
Wales +10 2 £50,124 -24.28% 9

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 54 (24.32%) Apache
2 45 (20.27%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.25%) Apache Synapse
3 5 (2.25%) SAS
4 3 (1.35%) Luigi
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.45%) Appian
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 13 (5.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 158 (71.17%) AWS
2 114 (51.35%) Azure
3 77 (34.68%) GCP
4 42 (18.92%) Amazon S3
5 32 (14.41%) Serverless
6 27 (12.16%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (11.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 25 (11.26%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (9.46%) Snowflake
10 20 (9.01%) Amazon EMR
10 20 (9.01%) Power Platform
11 19 (8.56%) Amazon ELB
12 17 (7.66%) Amazon Kinesis
13 16 (7.21%) dbt
14 14 (6.31%) AWS Step Functions
14 14 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (5.41%) GitHub
16 8 (3.60%) OpenShift
16 8 (3.60%) Prefect
17 7 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.80%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.90%) AMQP
2 2 (0.90%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.45%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (45.95%) Big Data
2 74 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 68 (30.63%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (26.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 50 (22.52%) NoSQL
6 40 (18.02%) Metadata
7 35 (15.77%) Data Lake
7 35 (15.77%) DynamoDB
8 30 (13.51%) Delta Lake
9 27 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (11.71%) Spark SQL
11 24 (10.81%) SQL Server
12 21 (9.46%) Apache Hive
12 21 (9.46%) MySQL
13 19 (8.56%) MongoDB
13 19 (8.56%) Power BI
13 19 (8.56%) Relational Database
14 16 (7.21%) Apache Iceberg
15 15 (6.76%) Apache Cassandra
15 15 (6.76%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 29 (13.06%) MLflow
2 16 (7.21%) Git
3 11 (4.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.80%) Gradle
5 3 (1.35%) GitLab
5 3 (1.35%) Maven
6 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.90%) JUnit
6 2 (0.90%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.45%) Deequ
7 1 (0.45%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.45%) Selenium
7 1 (0.45%) Snyk
General
1 113 (50.90%) Social Skills
2 76 (34.23%) Finance
3 56 (25.23%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (22.07%) Law
5 23 (10.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (9.01%) Banking
7 18 (8.11%) Financial Institution
8 13 (5.86%) Marketing
8 13 (5.86%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.70%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.25%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.80%) Front Office
11 4 (1.80%) Legal
12 3 (1.35%) Retail
13 2 (0.90%) Advertising
13 2 (0.90%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.90%) Electronics
13 2 (0.90%) Publishing
13 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (35.14%) Data Engineer
2 52 (23.42%) Senior
3 33 (14.86%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (11.71%) Lead
5 25 (11.26%) Software Engineer
6 21 (9.46%) Developer
7 20 (9.01%) Architect
7 20 (9.01%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 19 (8.56%) Operations Engineer
9 17 (7.66%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (6.76%) Principal Engineer
11 14 (6.31%) Python Engineer
12 13 (5.86%) AWS Data Engineer
12 13 (5.86%) Data Architect
12 13 (5.86%) Data Scientist
12 13 (5.86%) Product Lead
13 12 (5.41%) Python Developer
14 10 (4.50%) Python Software Engineer
15 8 (3.60%) Java Engineer
15 8 (3.60%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (41.44%) Kafka
2 43 (19.37%) PySpark
3 37 (16.67%) PyTorch
3 37 (16.67%) TensorFlow
4 33 (14.86%) scikit-learn
5 30 (13.51%) Pandas
6 23 (10.36%) NumPy
7 19 (8.56%) Keras
7 19 (8.56%) Lambda Expressions
7 19 (8.56%) Metaflow
7 19 (8.56%) YAML
8 17 (7.66%) REST
9 12 (5.41%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (3.60%) boto
10 8 (3.60%) React
10 8 (3.60%) Spring
11 7 (3.15%) SpaCy
12 6 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.25%) LDAP
13 5 (2.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 53 (23.87%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (12.61%) Cloud Native
3 24 (10.81%) Product Ownership
4 22 (9.91%) Linux Command Line
5 17 (7.66%) Algorithms
5 17 (7.66%) e-Learning
6 14 (6.31%) FMCG
7 12 (5.41%) Management Information System
8 11 (4.95%) Data Structures
8 11 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.35%) Equities
12 3 (1.35%) Robotics
12 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
13 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.86%) Unix
2 11 (4.95%) Linux
3 2 (0.90%) CentOS
3 2 (0.90%) Debian
3 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (50.45%) CI/CD
2 108 (48.65%) Data Pipeline
2 108 (48.65%) Machine Learning
3 102 (45.95%) Data Engineering
4 99 (44.59%) Analytics
5 92 (41.44%) Data Science
6 87 (39.19%) ETL
7 80 (36.04%) Data Modelling
8 77 (34.68%) AI
9 71 (31.98%) DevOps
10 68 (30.63%) Software Engineering
11 60 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (24.32%) Data Governance
13 51 (22.97%) Agile
13 51 (22.97%) Business Intelligence
14 49 (22.07%) Containerisation
15 46 (20.72%) Visualisation
16 45 (20.27%) Mentoring
16 45 (20.27%) MLOps
17 39 (17.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 186 (83.78%) Python
2 160 (72.07%) SQL
3 69 (31.08%) Java
4 35 (15.77%) Scala
5 9 (4.05%) R
6 6 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.80%) Bash
7 4 (1.80%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.35%) C#
8 3 (1.35%) C++
8 3 (1.35%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.35%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.35%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.90%) PROC SQL
10 1 (0.45%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.45%) C
10 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (16.67%) Degree
2 20 (9.01%) Master's Degree
3 17 (7.66%) PhD
4 12 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.50%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.60%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.25%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.80%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.45%) MBA
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (25.23%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.56%) QA
3 10 (4.50%) GDPR
4 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 58 (26.13%) Docker
2 14 (6.31%) HDFS
3 5 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (27.48%) Kubernetes
2 44 (19.82%) Terraform
3 26 (11.71%) Kubeflow
4 13 (5.86%) Ansible
5 7 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.70%) Grafana
7 5 (2.25%) Kibana
7 5 (2.25%) logstash
8 4 (1.80%) Puppet
9 2 (0.90%) Oozie
9 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 94 (42.34%) Databricks
2 23 (10.36%) Oracle
3 18 (8.11%) SAP
4 15 (6.76%) Microsoft
5 14 (6.31%) Informatica
6 11 (4.95%) Talend
7 8 (3.60%) Google
8 7 (3.15%) Dell
9 5 (2.25%) Palantir
10 4 (1.80%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.35%) IBM
11 3 (1.35%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.90%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.90%) SaltStack
13 1 (0.45%) BiZZdesign
13 1 (0.45%) Black Duck
13 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.45%) UiPath
13 1 (0.45%) VMware