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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 430 463
Rank change year-on-year -123 +33 -109
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 270 252 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.65% 6.24% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 135 107 195
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £124,000 £121,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,599
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.72% -12.53%

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 4,781 4,039 6,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.07% 8.16% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,277 2,686 3,943
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -0.06%

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 September 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 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 -85 251 £75,000 -6.25% 489
London -48 151 £90,000 -1.37% 352
UK excluding London -162 98 £60,000 -4.00% 197
Work from Home -37 59 £66,805 -10.93% 205
North of England -36 52 £55,000 -8.33% 46
South West -54 26 £58,000 +5.45% 33
North East -43 24 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West -15 19 £55,000 -31.25% 27
South East -45 10 £63,002 -6.66% 32
Yorkshire -51 9 £80,000 +33.33% 9
Scotland -13 4 - - 38
West Midlands -40 4 £60,653 +6.41% 12
Midlands -61 4 £60,653 +0.25% 16
Wales -64 2 £80,000 +59.60% 5
East of England -33 1 £80,000 +11.89% 13

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
1 124 (45.93%) Apache
2 45 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (7.78%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.85%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.11%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.11%) SAS
6 2 (0.74%) Luigi
6 2 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.74%) Tornado
7 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.37%) Confluence
7 1 (0.37%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 154 (57.04%) AWS
2 146 (54.07%) Azure
3 78 (28.89%) GCP
4 44 (16.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 42 (15.56%) Serverless
6 38 (14.07%) Amazon S3
7 30 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (10.74%) Power Platform
9 26 (9.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (9.26%) Amazon EMR
11 23 (8.52%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (8.15%) Amazon Kinesis
12 22 (8.15%) Azure Databricks
13 17 (6.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (6.30%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (5.93%) GitHub
14 16 (5.93%) Snowflake
15 14 (5.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 13 (4.81%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.59%) AMQP
2 6 (2.22%) BGP
2 6 (2.22%) DNS
2 6 (2.22%) IPsec
2 6 (2.22%) VPN
3 5 (1.85%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) 4G
4 1 (0.37%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (36.30%) Big Data
2 59 (21.85%) Hadoop
3 57 (21.11%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (18.15%) Data Lake
5 47 (17.41%) NoSQL
6 38 (14.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 29 (10.74%) Power BI
8 28 (10.37%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (10.00%) Metadata
10 25 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (8.52%) Delta Lake
11 23 (8.52%) Relational Database
12 21 (7.78%) Tableau
13 19 (7.04%) Flink
14 18 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
15 17 (6.30%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (4.81%) Spark SQL
17 12 (4.44%) Apache Hive
17 12 (4.44%) DynamoDB
17 12 (4.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (15.19%) Git
2 23 (8.52%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.15%) GitLab
4 8 (2.96%) MLflow
5 2 (0.74%) JIRA
5 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.37%) ERwin
6 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 117 (43.33%) Finance
2 72 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.85%) Banking
5 25 (9.26%) Financial Institution
5 25 (9.26%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (7.04%) Law
8 15 (5.56%) Aerospace
9 13 (4.81%) Marketing
10 10 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.70%) Military
11 6 (2.22%) Games
11 6 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.22%) Retail
12 5 (1.85%) Legal
13 4 (1.48%) Front Office
14 2 (0.74%) Aviation
14 2 (0.74%) Local Government
14 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (51.11%) Data Engineer
2 82 (30.37%) Senior
3 49 (18.15%) Lead
4 40 (14.81%) Data Scientist
5 36 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 33 (12.22%) Senior Data Scientist
7 28 (10.37%) Lead Data Engineer
8 23 (8.52%) Databricks Engineer
9 20 (7.41%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 15 (5.56%) Python Engineer
10 15 (5.56%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.81%) Architect
12 11 (4.07%) Data Architect
12 11 (4.07%) Developer
13 10 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (3.33%) Consultant
15 8 (2.96%) AWS Data Engineer
15 8 (2.96%) Azure Data Engineer
15 8 (2.96%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (36.67%) Kafka
2 60 (22.22%) PySpark
3 57 (21.11%) Terraform
4 24 (8.89%) SpaCy
5 15 (5.56%) Node.js
6 14 (5.19%) Spring
6 14 (5.19%) Spring Boot
7 13 (4.81%) REST
8 11 (4.07%) Pandas
9 10 (3.70%) gRPC
9 10 (3.70%) React
10 9 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (2.96%) RESTful
12 7 (2.59%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.59%) Material-UI
12 7 (2.59%) NumPy
12 7 (2.59%) OpenAPI
12 7 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.59%) Swagger
12 7 (2.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.19%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.89%) e-Learning
3 23 (8.52%) Product Ownership
4 18 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 18 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.56%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.19%) Algorithms
7 11 (4.07%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.59%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.22%) NHS
10 5 (1.85%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.74%) Blog
13 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.74%) Life Science
13 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.19%) Linux
2 7 (2.59%) CentOS
2 7 (2.59%) Debian
2 7 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (60.37%) Data Engineering
2 149 (55.19%) Analytics
3 144 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 142 (52.59%) Data Pipeline
5 112 (41.48%) Data Science
6 109 (40.37%) DevOps
7 105 (38.89%) Data Modelling
8 101 (37.41%) Machine Learning
9 90 (33.33%) Agile
10 82 (30.37%) AI
11 80 (29.63%) ETL
12 78 (28.89%) Mentoring
13 60 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
14 52 (19.26%) Lakehouse
15 49 (18.15%) Validation
16 47 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
16 47 (17.41%) Software Engineering
17 44 (16.30%) Data Ingestion
18 43 (15.93%) Data Governance
18 43 (15.93%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 228 (84.44%) Python
2 171 (63.33%) SQL
3 55 (20.37%) Scala
4 45 (16.67%) Java
5 16 (5.93%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.96%) C#
7 7 (2.59%) R
8 6 (2.22%) Bash
8 6 (2.22%) C
8 6 (2.22%) PHP
8 6 (2.22%) Ruby
9 5 (1.85%) VBA
10 4 (1.48%) Bicep
10 4 (1.48%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (31.85%) Security Cleared
2 63 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 61 (22.59%) Degree
4 33 (12.22%) PhD
5 30 (11.11%) Master's Degree
6 21 (7.78%) Azure Certification
7 19 (7.04%) AWS Certification
8 18 (6.67%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.37%) CEH
13 1 (0.37%) CISM
13 1 (0.37%) CISSP
13 1 (0.37%) OCP
13 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (34.07%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.96%) QA
4 7 (2.59%) GDPR
5 5 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.74%) IFRS
6 2 (0.74%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.74%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (22.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (18.89%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.67%) Ansible
3 7 (2.59%) Puppet
4 6 (2.22%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.85%) Argo
6 4 (1.48%) Grafana
7 3 (1.11%) Kibana
7 3 (1.11%) Packer
7 3 (1.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.37%) Control-M
8 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 96 (35.56%) Databricks
2 33 (12.22%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.70%) Google
4 9 (3.33%) Oracle
5 8 (2.96%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.59%) Informatica
6 7 (2.59%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.22%) HP
7 6 (2.22%) IBM
7 6 (2.22%) SAP
8 5 (1.85%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.48%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.48%) Splunk
10 3 (1.11%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.11%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.11%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.74%) Foundry
11 2 (0.74%) Palantir
11 2 (0.74%) Talend
11 2 (0.74%) Thales