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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 367 265
Rank change year-on-year -128 -102 -8
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 217 301 997
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.73% 1.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.85% 7.41% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 90 207 275
10th Percentile £53,625 £52,500 £48,100
25th Percentile £72,875 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £131,875 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +29.17% -13.60% +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 3,711 4,062 9,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.73% 9.86% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,525 2,876 6,911
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £89,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +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 30 March 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 30 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 -122 197 £82,500 -2.94% 99
London -34 133 £95,000 -13.64% 63
UK excluding London -84 64 £77,500 +29.17% 60
Work from Home -116 52 £81,000 -26.36% 47
North of England -50 23 £65,000 +13.04% 16
East of England -10 18 £75,000 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire -46 13 £65,000 +13.04% 1
South West -33 11 £80,000 +60.00% 10
North West -28 8 £95,000 +72.73% 11
Scotland -32 5 £102,500 +2.50% 3
South East -67 4 £65,000 +1.96% 24
North East -18 2 £80,000 - 4
Midlands -37 2 £50,000 -29.82% 4
West Midlands -12 1 - - 2
Wales -25 1 £95,000 +48.44% 2
East Midlands -47 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2

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
1 104 (47.93%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (32.72%) Apache
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.46%) Camunda
3 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (5.99%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 148 (68.20%) AWS
2 103 (47.47%) Azure
3 90 (41.47%) GCP
4 50 (23.04%) Power Platform
5 47 (21.66%) Amazon S3
6 46 (21.20%) dbt
6 46 (21.20%) Snowflake
7 35 (16.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 35 (16.13%) OpenShift
8 29 (13.36%) Serverless
9 26 (11.98%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (8.29%) Dagster
11 17 (7.83%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (6.45%) Azure Machine Learning
13 12 (5.53%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (5.07%) GitHub
15 10 (4.61%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (4.15%) Amazon SageMaker
16 9 (4.15%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.23%) Broadband
2 5 (2.30%) AMQP
3 4 (1.84%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.46%) 4G
4 1 (0.46%) 5G
4 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.46%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (35.02%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (34.56%) Tableau
3 66 (30.41%) Big Data
4 51 (23.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 51 (23.50%) Data Lake
5 49 (22.58%) Power BI
6 47 (21.66%) BigQuery
7 39 (17.97%) Hadoop
8 38 (17.51%) Elasticsearch
9 33 (15.21%) Apache Hive
9 33 (15.21%) Looker
10 29 (13.36%) Spark SQL
11 28 (12.90%) Snowflake Schema
12 26 (11.98%) Parquet
13 25 (11.52%) Impala
13 25 (11.52%) Oracle Database
14 22 (10.14%) Delta Lake
15 17 (7.83%) Apache Iceberg
15 17 (7.83%) MySQL
15 17 (7.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (19.35%) Git
2 36 (16.59%) MLflow
3 25 (11.52%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (3.69%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.23%) GitLab
6 2 (0.92%) Deequ
7 1 (0.46%) JIRA
7 1 (0.46%) JUnit
General
1 81 (37.33%) Finance
2 76 (35.02%) Social Skills
3 72 (33.18%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (14.29%) Banking
5 24 (11.06%) Investment Banking
6 13 (5.99%) Law
6 13 (5.99%) Legal
7 8 (3.69%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.84%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.84%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.84%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.92%) Advertising
9 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.92%) Marketing
9 2 (0.92%) Retail
9 2 (0.92%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.46%) Billing
10 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (35.02%) Data Engineer
2 74 (34.10%) Senior
3 27 (12.44%) Analyst
3 27 (12.44%) Developer
3 27 (12.44%) Senior Data Engineer
4 24 (11.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.60%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.60%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.14%) Banking Analyst
7 20 (9.22%) Python Developer
8 14 (6.45%) Architect
8 14 (6.45%) AWS Data Engineer
8 14 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (5.99%) Business Analyst
10 12 (5.53%) Data Business Analyst
10 12 (5.53%) Technical Analyst
11 11 (5.07%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 11 (5.07%) Python Engineer
12 10 (4.61%) Lead
13 9 (4.15%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (45.62%) Kafka
2 51 (23.50%) PySpark
3 42 (19.35%) PyTorch
3 42 (19.35%) TensorFlow
4 28 (12.90%) scikit-learn
5 27 (12.44%) REST
6 25 (11.52%) LangChain
6 25 (11.52%) Pandas
7 23 (10.60%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (10.60%) pgvector
8 13 (5.99%) Spring
9 12 (5.53%) Spring Boot
10 10 (4.61%) Node.js
11 9 (4.15%) Faiss
11 9 (4.15%) NumPy
11 9 (4.15%) vLLM
12 8 (3.69%) OAuth
13 6 (2.76%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 47 (21.66%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.60%) Clustering
2 23 (10.60%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (10.60%) Public Cloud
3 16 (7.37%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.07%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.61%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (3.69%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.76%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.76%) Social Media
8 5 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.38%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.92%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.07%) Linux
2 6 (2.76%) Unix
3 5 (2.30%) CentOS
3 5 (2.30%) Debian
3 5 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (67.74%) Data Pipeline
2 128 (58.99%) Analytics
3 123 (56.68%) Data Engineering
4 113 (52.07%) ETL
5 108 (49.77%) AI
6 99 (45.62%) CI/CD
7 94 (43.32%) Data Governance
8 88 (40.55%) Machine Learning
9 85 (39.17%) Data Modelling
10 83 (38.25%) Data Science
11 71 (32.72%) Business Intelligence
12 64 (29.49%) Agile
13 54 (24.88%) Computer Science
14 49 (22.58%) Generative AI
15 47 (21.66%) Software Engineering
16 44 (20.28%) Use Case
17 43 (19.82%) Performance Tuning
18 39 (17.97%) DevOps
19 38 (17.51%) Feature Engineering
19 38 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 203 (93.55%) Python
2 164 (75.58%) SQL
3 57 (26.27%) Java
4 43 (19.82%) Scala
5 10 (4.61%) Bash
6 9 (4.15%) Go
7 8 (3.69%) C++
8 7 (3.23%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.76%) R
10 3 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.92%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.46%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.46%) Bicep
12 1 (0.46%) C#
12 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.46%) Ruby
12 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (16.59%) Degree
2 19 (8.76%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.69%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.23%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.23%) PhD
7 6 (2.76%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.76%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.46%) MBA
10 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (37.33%) Data Quality
2 39 (17.97%) GDPR
3 35 (16.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.53%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.84%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.92%) QA
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (17.51%) Docker
2 4 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (17.51%) Kubernetes
2 26 (11.98%) Terraform
3 14 (6.45%) Ansible
4 9 (4.15%) Grafana
5 8 (3.69%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.30%) Puppet
7 1 (0.46%) Argo
Vendors
1 78 (35.94%) Databricks
2 35 (16.13%) Oracle
3 32 (14.75%) Red Hat
4 28 (12.90%) Dell
5 24 (11.06%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.45%) Palantir
7 12 (5.53%) Microsoft
8 10 (4.61%) Google
9 7 (3.23%) Informatica
10 6 (2.76%) Talend
11 5 (2.30%) SaltStack
12 4 (1.84%) IBM
13 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.46%) Automation Anywhere
14 1 (0.46%) Foundry
14 1 (0.46%) Pega
14 1 (0.46%) SAP
14 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.46%) Splunk
14 1 (0.46%) UiPath