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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 411 356
Rank change year-on-year -76 -55 -30
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 276 306 765
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.62% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.38% 6.92% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 131 159 242
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,376 £57,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £111,875 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £120,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,805 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.78% +4.00% -12.28%

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 4,327 4,421 9,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.40% 9.02% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,127 2,930 6,911
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £74,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -11.46%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -60 257 £82,500 +3.13% 81
London -22 161 £100,000 +5.26% 55
UK excluding London -102 91 £66,805 +2.78% 41
Work from Home -70 58 £66,805 -21.41% 31
North of England -22 43 £57,500 - 11
South West -45 20 £70,000 +27.27% 6
North West +1 18 £55,000 - 4
East of England -3 15 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North East -41 14 £55,000 +15.79% 4
Yorkshire -30 11 £80,000 +39.13% 3
South East -61 6 £61,250 -5.77% 18
Midlands -50 3 £58,403 -13.48% 3
Scotland -22 2 £115,000 +15.00% 1
West Midlands -23 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
Wales -47 2 £80,000 +27.87%
East Midlands -42 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
1 122 (44.20%) Apache
2 106 (38.41%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (5.80%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.45%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.09%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.09%) SAS
6 2 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.71%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 188 (68.12%) AWS
2 131 (47.46%) Azure
3 95 (34.42%) GCP
4 60 (21.74%) Amazon S3
5 50 (18.12%) Power Platform
6 46 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (14.49%) Serverless
8 39 (14.13%) dbt
9 38 (13.77%) Snowflake
10 32 (11.59%) OpenShift
11 30 (10.87%) Azure Data Factory
12 28 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (7.61%) Amazon EMR
13 21 (7.61%) Amazon Kinesis
14 14 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (5.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 14 (5.07%) GitHub
15 13 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.54%) Broadband
2 6 (2.17%) AMQP
3 5 (1.81%) BGP
3 5 (1.81%) DNS
3 5 (1.81%) IPsec
3 5 (1.81%) VPN
4 4 (1.45%) Internet
5 2 (0.72%) 4G
5 2 (0.72%) 5G
6 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (30.80%) Big Data
2 71 (25.72%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (25.00%) Tableau
4 56 (20.29%) Data Lake
4 56 (20.29%) Elasticsearch
5 55 (19.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 49 (17.75%) Power BI
7 40 (14.49%) Hadoop
8 37 (13.41%) BigQuery
9 36 (13.04%) Apache Hive
9 36 (13.04%) NoSQL
10 35 (12.68%) Spark SQL
11 27 (9.78%) Looker
11 27 (9.78%) Parquet
12 25 (9.06%) Impala
12 25 (9.06%) Oracle Database
12 25 (9.06%) Snowflake Schema
13 24 (8.70%) Metadata
14 23 (8.33%) Delta Lake
15 22 (7.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (16.30%) Git
2 33 (11.96%) MLflow
3 25 (9.06%) IBM UrbanCode
4 17 (6.16%) GitLab
5 12 (4.35%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.72%) JIRA
6 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.36%) Deequ
7 1 (0.36%) JUnit
General
1 105 (38.04%) Finance
2 82 (29.71%) Social Skills
3 69 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (15.22%) Banking
5 24 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.25%) Law
7 17 (6.16%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.80%) Legal
9 13 (4.71%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.90%) Military
11 6 (2.17%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.81%) Marketing
12 5 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.81%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.45%) Games
14 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.09%) Retail
15 2 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 109 (39.49%) Data Engineer
2 95 (34.42%) Senior
3 36 (13.04%) Lead
4 32 (11.59%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (9.42%) Analyst
6 24 (8.70%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
7 23 (8.33%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.33%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (7.97%) Banking Analyst
9 20 (7.25%) Architect
10 18 (6.52%) Data Scientist
10 18 (6.52%) Developer
11 15 (5.43%) Senior Data Scientist
12 13 (4.71%) Business Analyst
12 13 (4.71%) Data Architect
12 13 (4.71%) Python Developer
13 12 (4.35%) Consultant
13 12 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (44.20%) Kafka
2 75 (27.17%) PySpark
3 29 (10.51%) PyTorch
3 29 (10.51%) TensorFlow
4 24 (8.70%) LangChain
4 24 (8.70%) scikit-learn
5 23 (8.33%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.33%) pgvector
6 21 (7.61%) REST
7 20 (7.25%) Pandas
8 17 (6.16%) Node.js
9 16 (5.80%) Spring
9 16 (5.80%) Spring Boot
10 13 (4.71%) SpaCy
11 9 (3.26%) React
12 7 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.17%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.17%) Material-UI
13 6 (2.17%) NumPy
13 6 (2.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.20%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.06%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.33%) Clustering
4 18 (6.52%) Data Structures
4 18 (6.52%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.71%) e-Learning
7 12 (4.35%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.62%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.17%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.17%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.17%) Social Media
10 5 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.81%) NHS
11 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.09%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.43%) Linux
2 6 (2.17%) CentOS
2 6 (2.17%) Debian
2 6 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.17%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (61.23%) Data Engineering
1 169 (61.23%) Data Pipeline
2 168 (60.87%) Analytics
3 129 (46.74%) CI/CD
4 121 (43.84%) ETL
5 115 (41.67%) Data Modelling
6 107 (38.77%) AI
7 102 (36.96%) Data Science
8 99 (35.87%) Data Governance
9 98 (35.51%) Machine Learning
10 88 (31.88%) Agile
11 69 (25.00%) DevOps
12 64 (23.19%) Business Intelligence
13 62 (22.46%) Use Case
14 51 (18.48%) Mentoring
15 50 (18.12%) Computer Science
15 50 (18.12%) Generative AI
15 50 (18.12%) Performance Tuning
15 50 (18.12%) Validation
16 46 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 242 (87.68%) Python
2 205 (74.28%) SQL
3 52 (18.84%) Scala
4 45 (16.30%) Java
5 10 (3.62%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.26%) Bash
7 7 (2.54%) C++
8 6 (2.17%) C#
9 5 (1.81%) Bicep
9 5 (1.81%) C
9 5 (1.81%) PHP
9 5 (1.81%) Ruby
9 5 (1.81%) VBA
10 4 (1.45%) Go
10 4 (1.45%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.09%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.03%) Degree
3 39 (14.13%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.52%) PhD
5 17 (6.16%) Master's Degree
6 13 (4.71%) AWS Certification
6 13 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 12 (4.35%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.36%) CEH
9 1 (0.36%) CISM
9 1 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (36.23%) Data Quality
2 38 (13.77%) GDPR
3 35 (12.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.35%) HIPAA
5 8 (2.90%) QA
6 6 (2.17%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.72%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (18.48%) Terraform
2 38 (13.77%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.43%) Ansible
4 6 (2.17%) Grafana
4 6 (2.17%) Puppet
5 5 (1.81%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.81%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.09%) Kibana
6 3 (1.09%) Packer
Vendors
1 96 (34.78%) Databricks
2 32 (11.59%) Red Hat
3 31 (11.23%) Oracle
4 24 (8.70%) Cloudera
4 24 (8.70%) Dell
5 17 (6.16%) Microsoft
6 11 (3.99%) Google
7 9 (3.26%) Informatica
8 6 (2.17%) IBM
8 6 (2.17%) Palantir
8 6 (2.17%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.81%) HP
9 5 (1.81%) SAP
10 3 (1.09%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.09%) Talend
11 2 (0.72%) Foundry
12 1 (0.36%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.36%) Pega
12 1 (0.36%) Splunk
12 1 (0.36%) Trend Micro