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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 349 267
Rank change year-on-year -139 -82 -19
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 226 308 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.74% 1.09%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.06% 7.50% 10.22%
Number of salaries quoted 95 205 286
10th Percentile £54,650 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £74,500 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £83,230 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +4.04% -8.57%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £63,750 £69,447
% change year-on-year +25.49% -8.20% +2.88%

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 3,732 4,107 10,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.33% 9.88% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,584 2,900 7,078
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £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 £72,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £90,000
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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -127 205 £85,000 +1.05% 92
London -46 137 £95,000 -13.64% 56
UK excluding London -115 67 £80,000 +25.49% 53
Work from Home -124 54 £82,500 -25.00% 46
North of England -54 24 £72,500 +26.09% 12
East of England -9 18 £75,000 -7.69% 2
Yorkshire -53 13 £62,500 +8.70% 2
South West -34 12 £82,000 +64.00% 14
North West -23 9 £95,000 +72.73% 8
Scotland -28 5 £102,500 +2.50% 3
South East -74 5 £61,250 -5.77% 16
North East -37 2 £80,000 - 2
Midlands -62 2 £50,000 -25.93% 5
West Midlands -27 1 - - 4
Wales -29 1 £95,000 +48.44%
East Midlands -54 1 £50,000 -33.33% 1

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
1 109 (48.23%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (36.28%) Apache
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.44%) Camunda
3 1 (0.44%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (5.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 151 (66.81%) AWS
2 109 (48.23%) Azure
3 96 (42.48%) GCP
4 50 (22.12%) Power Platform
5 47 (20.80%) Amazon S3
5 47 (20.80%) dbt
5 47 (20.80%) Snowflake
6 40 (17.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 34 (15.04%) OpenShift
8 29 (12.83%) Serverless
9 25 (11.06%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (8.85%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (7.96%) Dagster
12 15 (6.64%) Azure Machine Learning
13 11 (4.87%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (4.87%) GitHub
14 10 (4.42%) Amazon EMR
15 9 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (3.98%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.10%) Broadband
2 6 (2.65%) AMQP
3 2 (0.88%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.44%) 4G
4 1 (0.44%) 5G
4 1 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.44%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (33.63%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (33.19%) Tableau
3 69 (30.53%) Big Data
4 51 (22.57%) Data Lake
5 50 (22.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 49 (21.68%) Power BI
7 47 (20.80%) BigQuery
8 42 (18.58%) Elasticsearch
9 38 (16.81%) Hadoop
10 33 (14.60%) Looker
11 31 (13.72%) Apache Hive
12 30 (13.27%) Spark SQL
13 28 (12.39%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (11.50%) Parquet
15 25 (11.06%) Impala
15 25 (11.06%) Oracle Database
16 22 (9.73%) Delta Lake
17 21 (9.29%) Relational Database
18 20 (8.85%) MySQL
19 18 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (18.58%) Git
2 37 (16.37%) MLflow
3 25 (11.06%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.65%) GitLab
6 2 (0.88%) JIRA
7 1 (0.44%) Deequ
7 1 (0.44%) JUnit
General
1 85 (37.61%) Finance
2 73 (32.30%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (30.53%) Social Skills
4 33 (14.60%) Banking
5 24 (10.62%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.19%) Law
7 13 (5.75%) Legal
8 8 (3.54%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.21%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.77%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.77%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.88%) Advertising
11 2 (0.88%) Marketing
11 2 (0.88%) Retail
12 1 (0.44%) Billing
12 1 (0.44%) Games
12 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 78 (34.51%) Data Engineer
2 73 (32.30%) Senior
3 26 (11.50%) Analyst
4 25 (11.06%) Developer
4 25 (11.06%) Senior Data Engineer
5 24 (10.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.18%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.18%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (9.73%) Banking Analyst
8 19 (8.41%) Python Developer
9 18 (7.96%) Python Engineer
10 16 (7.08%) Architect
11 14 (6.19%) Lead
12 13 (5.75%) AWS Data Engineer
12 13 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (5.75%) Business Analyst
13 12 (5.31%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (5.31%) Software Engineer
13 12 (5.31%) Technical Analyst
14 11 (4.87%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (46.46%) Kafka
2 54 (23.89%) PySpark
3 41 (18.14%) PyTorch
3 41 (18.14%) TensorFlow
4 28 (12.39%) REST
4 28 (12.39%) scikit-learn
5 26 (11.50%) Pandas
6 24 (10.62%) LangChain
7 23 (10.18%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (10.18%) pgvector
8 14 (6.19%) Spring
9 13 (5.75%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.87%) Node.js
11 10 (4.42%) NumPy
12 9 (3.98%) Faiss
12 9 (3.98%) vLLM
13 8 (3.54%) React
14 7 (3.10%) AngularJS
14 7 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (2.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.03%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.18%) Clustering
2 23 (10.18%) Public Cloud
3 19 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (7.52%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.87%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.42%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.54%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.65%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.65%) Social Media
9 5 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.77%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.33%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.33%) NHS
11 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.42%) Linux
2 6 (2.65%) CentOS
2 6 (2.65%) Debian
2 6 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.65%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (65.04%) Data Pipeline
2 132 (58.41%) Data Engineering
3 131 (57.96%) Analytics
4 114 (50.44%) ETL
5 108 (47.79%) AI
6 101 (44.69%) CI/CD
7 91 (40.27%) Data Governance
8 88 (38.94%) Machine Learning
9 86 (38.05%) Data Modelling
9 86 (38.05%) Data Science
10 71 (31.42%) Business Intelligence
11 69 (30.53%) Agile
12 58 (25.66%) Computer Science
13 50 (22.12%) Generative AI
14 49 (21.68%) Software Engineering
15 46 (20.35%) Use Case
16 43 (19.03%) DevOps
16 43 (19.03%) Performance Tuning
17 40 (17.70%) Feature Engineering
18 38 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 210 (92.92%) Python
2 168 (74.34%) SQL
3 55 (24.34%) Java
4 43 (19.03%) Scala
5 10 (4.42%) Bash
6 9 (3.98%) Go
7 8 (3.54%) C++
8 7 (3.10%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.65%) R
10 3 (1.33%) Bicep
10 3 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.33%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.44%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.44%) Ruby
11 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (17.70%) Degree
2 25 (11.06%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (7.52%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.98%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.98%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.54%) PhD
7 6 (2.65%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.44%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (37.61%) Data Quality
2 39 (17.26%) GDPR
3 35 (15.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.31%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) IFRS
6 1 (0.44%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.44%) QA
6 1 (0.44%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 40 (17.70%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 37 (16.37%) Kubernetes
2 32 (14.16%) Terraform
3 15 (6.64%) Ansible
4 8 (3.54%) Grafana
5 7 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.65%) Puppet
7 1 (0.44%) Argo
7 1 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 81 (35.84%) Databricks
2 34 (15.04%) Oracle
3 33 (14.60%) Red Hat
4 25 (11.06%) Dell
5 24 (10.62%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.19%) Palantir
7 13 (5.75%) Microsoft
8 12 (5.31%) Google
9 7 (3.10%) Informatica
10 6 (2.65%) SaltStack
10 6 (2.65%) Talend
11 3 (1.33%) IBM
11 3 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.44%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.44%) Foundry
12 1 (0.44%) Pega
12 1 (0.44%) SAP
12 1 (0.44%) Splunk
12 1 (0.44%) Trend Micro