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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 408 353
Rank change year-on-year -94 -55 -46
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 266 309 765
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.64% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.23% 7.04% 7.81%
Number of salaries quoted 124 163 245
10th Percentile £51,625 £47,200 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,313 £57,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £113,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £120,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 4,272 4,390 9,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.38% 9.12% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,094 2,910 7,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,625 £27,500
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £110,000
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 8 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 8 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 -78 246 £82,500 +3.13% 107
London -30 158 £100,000 +5.26% 64
UK excluding London -112 84 £62,500 -3.85% 65
Work from Home -65 54 £67,500 -20.59% 59
North of England -35 39 £57,500 - 20
South West -40 20 £70,000 +27.27% 13
North West -3 17 £55,000 - 7
East of England -12 15 £75,000 +4.90%
North East -38 13 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -34 9 £80,000 +39.13% 6
South East -60 4 £57,500 -11.54% 22
Scotland -18 2 £115,000 +15.00% 4
Midlands -43 2 £50,000 -25.93% 5
Wales -53 2 £80,000 +27.87% 1
West Midlands -21 1 - - 1
East Midlands -38 1 £50,000 -33.33% 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
1 119 (44.74%) Apache
2 106 (39.85%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (5.64%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.13%) Apache Pig
4 3 (1.13%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.13%) SAS
5 2 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.38%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.89%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 181 (68.05%) AWS
2 125 (46.99%) Azure
3 96 (36.09%) GCP
4 59 (22.18%) Amazon S3
5 49 (18.42%) Power Platform
6 44 (16.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (14.66%) dbt
7 39 (14.66%) Snowflake
8 38 (14.29%) Serverless
9 32 (12.03%) OpenShift
10 28 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
11 19 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
12 14 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 14 (5.26%) GitHub
13 13 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (4.51%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.63%) Broadband
2 6 (2.26%) AMQP
3 4 (1.50%) BGP
3 4 (1.50%) DNS
3 4 (1.50%) IPsec
3 4 (1.50%) VPN
4 3 (1.13%) Internet
5 2 (0.75%) 4G
5 2 (0.75%) 5G
6 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (29.70%) Big Data
2 71 (26.69%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (26.32%) Tableau
4 56 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 56 (21.05%) Elasticsearch
5 55 (20.68%) Data Lake
6 48 (18.05%) Power BI
7 38 (14.29%) BigQuery
7 38 (14.29%) Hadoop
8 35 (13.16%) Spark SQL
9 34 (12.78%) Apache Hive
9 34 (12.78%) NoSQL
10 28 (10.53%) Looker
11 27 (10.15%) Parquet
12 25 (9.40%) Impala
12 25 (9.40%) Oracle Database
12 25 (9.40%) Snowflake Schema
13 24 (9.02%) Delta Lake
14 23 (8.65%) Metadata
15 22 (8.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (16.92%) Git
2 34 (12.78%) MLflow
3 25 (9.40%) IBM UrbanCode
4 16 (6.02%) GitLab
5 12 (4.51%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.75%) JIRA
6 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.38%) Deequ
7 1 (0.38%) JUnit
General
1 103 (38.72%) Finance
2 80 (30.08%) Social Skills
3 68 (25.56%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (15.79%) Banking
5 24 (9.02%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.52%) Law
7 16 (6.02%) Legal
8 13 (4.89%) Financial Institution
9 11 (4.14%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.63%) Military
11 5 (1.88%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.88%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.50%) Games
12 4 (1.50%) Marketing
12 4 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.13%) Retail
14 2 (0.75%) Billing
Job Titles
1 102 (38.35%) Data Engineer
2 91 (34.21%) Senior
3 35 (13.16%) Lead
4 27 (10.15%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (9.77%) Analyst
6 24 (9.02%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.65%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.65%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.65%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (8.27%) Banking Analyst
8 22 (8.27%) Lead Data Engineer
9 20 (7.52%) Architect
10 18 (6.77%) Data Scientist
10 18 (6.77%) Developer
11 15 (5.64%) Senior Data Scientist
12 13 (4.89%) Business Analyst
12 13 (4.89%) Data Architect
12 13 (4.89%) Python Developer
13 12 (4.51%) Consultant
13 12 (4.51%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (42.48%) Kafka
2 69 (25.94%) PySpark
3 30 (11.28%) PyTorch
3 30 (11.28%) TensorFlow
4 24 (9.02%) LangChain
4 24 (9.02%) scikit-learn
5 23 (8.65%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.65%) pgvector
6 21 (7.89%) REST
7 20 (7.52%) Pandas
8 16 (6.02%) Node.js
8 16 (6.02%) Spring
8 16 (6.02%) Spring Boot
9 13 (4.89%) SpaCy
10 9 (3.38%) React
11 7 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.26%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.26%) gRPC
12 6 (2.26%) NumPy
12 6 (2.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.92%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.40%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.65%) Clustering
4 17 (6.39%) Data Structures
4 17 (6.39%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.89%) e-Learning
7 10 (3.76%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.38%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.26%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.26%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.26%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.26%) Social Media
10 5 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.88%) NHS
11 3 (1.13%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.89%) Linux
2 6 (2.26%) CentOS
2 6 (2.26%) Debian
2 6 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (61.28%) Data Engineering
1 163 (61.28%) Data Pipeline
2 160 (60.15%) Analytics
3 126 (47.37%) CI/CD
4 115 (43.23%) ETL
5 111 (41.73%) Data Modelling
6 106 (39.85%) AI
7 100 (37.59%) Data Science
8 98 (36.84%) Data Governance
9 95 (35.71%) Machine Learning
10 86 (32.33%) Agile
11 66 (24.81%) DevOps
12 64 (24.06%) Business Intelligence
13 62 (23.31%) Use Case
14 50 (18.80%) Performance Tuning
15 49 (18.42%) Computer Science
15 49 (18.42%) Generative AI
16 48 (18.05%) Validation
17 46 (17.29%) Software Engineering
18 44 (16.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 233 (87.59%) Python
2 196 (73.68%) SQL
3 53 (19.92%) Scala
4 45 (16.92%) Java
5 10 (3.76%) Bash
5 10 (3.76%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.63%) C++
7 5 (1.88%) Bicep
7 5 (1.88%) C#
7 5 (1.88%) Go
7 5 (1.88%) VBA
8 4 (1.50%) C
8 4 (1.50%) PHP
8 4 (1.50%) Ruby
8 4 (1.50%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.13%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.13%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (17.29%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.92%) Degree
3 32 (12.03%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.39%) Master's Degree
4 17 (6.39%) PhD
5 13 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.51%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.51%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.14%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.38%) CEH
9 1 (0.38%) CISM
9 1 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (36.47%) Data Quality
2 38 (14.29%) GDPR
3 35 (13.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.51%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.01%) QA
6 6 (2.26%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.75%) IFRS
7 2 (0.75%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.75%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (16.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (18.80%) Terraform
2 38 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.64%) Ansible
4 6 (2.26%) Grafana
4 6 (2.26%) Puppet
5 5 (1.88%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.50%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (1.13%) Kibana
7 3 (1.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 96 (36.09%) Databricks
2 32 (12.03%) Red Hat
3 30 (11.28%) Oracle
4 24 (9.02%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.02%) Dell
5 15 (5.64%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.14%) Google
7 7 (2.63%) Palantir
8 6 (2.26%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.88%) IBM
10 4 (1.50%) HP
10 4 (1.50%) Informatica
10 4 (1.50%) SAP
11 3 (1.13%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.13%) Talend
12 2 (0.75%) Foundry
13 1 (0.38%) Cognizant
13 1 (0.38%) Pega
13 1 (0.38%) Splunk
13 1 (0.38%) Trend Micro