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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 358 268
Rank change year-on-year -123 -90 -13
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 221 300 959
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.73% 1.09%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.99% 7.44% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 94 205 274
10th Percentile £54,875 £52,500 £47,950
25th Percentile £74,250 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £128,438 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £117,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £57,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +34.78% -17.20% +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 3,692 4,034 9,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.77% 9.85% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,502 2,830 6,839
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £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 £70,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £88,750
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 26 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 26 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 -104 201 £85,000 - 99
London -37 137 £95,000 -13.64% 63
UK excluding London -91 64 £77,500 +34.78% 60
Work from Home -123 53 £81,000 -26.36% 47
North of England -54 23 £65,000 +13.04% 16
East of England -3 18 £75,000 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire -39 13 £65,000 +13.04% 1
South West -20 11 £80,000 +60.00% 10
North West -32 8 £95,000 +72.73% 11
Scotland -30 5 £102,500 +2.50% 3
South East -64 4 £65,000 +8.33% 24
North East -25 2 £80,000 - 4
Midlands -49 2 £50,000 -28.83% 4
West Midlands -9 1 - - 2
Wales -23 1 £95,000 +48.44% 2
East Midlands -49 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 (47.06%) Apache Airflow
2 72 (32.58%) Apache
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.45%) Camunda
3 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 151 (68.33%) AWS
2 106 (47.96%) Azure
3 93 (42.08%) GCP
4 50 (22.62%) Power Platform
5 47 (21.27%) Amazon S3
5 47 (21.27%) Snowflake
6 46 (20.81%) dbt
7 37 (16.74%) OpenShift
8 35 (15.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 29 (13.12%) Serverless
10 26 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (8.14%) Dagster
12 17 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (6.33%) Azure Machine Learning
14 12 (5.43%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (4.98%) GitHub
16 10 (4.52%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (4.07%) Amazon SageMaker
17 9 (4.07%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.17%) Broadband
2 5 (2.26%) AMQP
2 5 (2.26%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.45%) 4G
3 1 (0.45%) 5G
3 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.45%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (34.84%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (33.94%) Tableau
3 69 (31.22%) Big Data
4 51 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 51 (23.08%) Data Lake
5 49 (22.17%) Power BI
6 47 (21.27%) BigQuery
7 42 (19.00%) Hadoop
8 39 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (15.84%) Apache Hive
10 33 (14.93%) Looker
11 29 (13.12%) Spark SQL
12 28 (12.67%) Snowflake Schema
13 26 (11.76%) Parquet
14 25 (11.31%) Impala
14 25 (11.31%) Oracle Database
15 22 (9.95%) Delta Lake
16 17 (7.69%) Apache Iceberg
16 17 (7.69%) MySQL
16 17 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (19.00%) Git
2 36 (16.29%) MLflow
3 25 (11.31%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (3.62%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.17%) GitLab
6 2 (0.90%) Deequ
7 1 (0.45%) JIRA
7 1 (0.45%) JUnit
General
1 81 (36.65%) Finance
2 76 (34.39%) Social Skills
3 72 (32.58%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (14.03%) Banking
5 24 (10.86%) Investment Banking
6 13 (5.88%) Law
6 13 (5.88%) Legal
7 10 (4.52%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.81%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.81%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.81%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.90%) Advertising
9 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.90%) Marketing
9 2 (0.90%) Retail
9 2 (0.90%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.45%) Games
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (34.84%) Data Engineer
2 75 (33.94%) Senior
3 28 (12.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 27 (12.22%) Analyst
4 27 (12.22%) Developer
5 24 (10.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.41%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (10.41%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (9.95%) Banking Analyst
8 20 (9.05%) Python Developer
9 16 (7.24%) Architect
10 14 (6.33%) AWS Data Engineer
10 14 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (5.88%) Business Analyst
12 12 (5.43%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.43%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (4.98%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 11 (4.98%) Python Engineer
14 10 (4.52%) Data Architect
14 10 (4.52%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (45.70%) Kafka
2 51 (23.08%) PySpark
3 42 (19.00%) PyTorch
3 42 (19.00%) TensorFlow
4 28 (12.67%) scikit-learn
5 27 (12.22%) REST
6 25 (11.31%) LangChain
6 25 (11.31%) Pandas
7 23 (10.41%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (10.41%) pgvector
8 13 (5.88%) Spring
9 12 (5.43%) Spring Boot
10 10 (4.52%) Node.js
10 10 (4.52%) OAuth
11 9 (4.07%) Faiss
11 9 (4.07%) NumPy
11 9 (4.07%) vLLM
12 6 (2.71%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.71%) LDAP
12 6 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (21.72%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (10.41%) Clustering
3 23 (10.41%) Public Cloud
4 16 (7.24%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.98%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.52%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.62%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.71%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.71%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.71%) Social Media
9 5 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.36%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.90%) Data Fabric
12 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.33%) Linux
2 8 (3.62%) Unix
3 5 (2.26%) CentOS
3 5 (2.26%) Debian
3 5 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (67.42%) Data Pipeline
2 130 (58.82%) Analytics
3 124 (56.11%) Data Engineering
4 114 (51.58%) ETL
5 111 (50.23%) AI
6 99 (44.80%) CI/CD
7 96 (43.44%) Data Governance
8 91 (41.18%) Machine Learning
9 86 (38.91%) Data Modelling
10 84 (38.01%) Data Science
11 71 (32.13%) Business Intelligence
12 64 (28.96%) Agile
13 56 (25.34%) Computer Science
14 49 (22.17%) Generative AI
15 48 (21.72%) Software Engineering
16 44 (19.91%) Use Case
17 43 (19.46%) Performance Tuning
18 39 (17.65%) DevOps
18 39 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
19 38 (17.19%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 206 (93.21%) Python
2 166 (75.11%) SQL
3 59 (26.70%) Java
4 43 (19.46%) Scala
5 10 (4.52%) Bash
6 9 (4.07%) Go
7 8 (3.62%) C++
8 7 (3.17%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.71%) R
10 3 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.45%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.45%) Bicep
12 1 (0.45%) C#
12 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.45%) Ruby
12 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (17.19%) Degree
2 19 (8.60%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.33%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.62%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.17%) PhD
7 6 (2.71%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.71%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (36.65%) Data Quality
2 39 (17.65%) GDPR
3 35 (15.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.43%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.36%) QA
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (17.19%) Docker
2 6 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (18.10%) Kubernetes
2 26 (11.76%) Terraform
3 16 (7.24%) Ansible
4 10 (4.52%) Grafana
5 9 (4.07%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.45%) Argo
7 1 (0.45%) Kibana
7 1 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 79 (35.75%) Databricks
2 36 (16.29%) Oracle
3 32 (14.48%) Red Hat
4 31 (14.03%) Dell
5 24 (10.86%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.33%) Palantir
7 12 (5.43%) Microsoft
8 10 (4.52%) Google
9 7 (3.17%) Informatica
10 6 (2.71%) Talend
11 5 (2.26%) SaltStack
12 4 (1.81%) IBM
13 2 (0.90%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.45%) Automation Anywhere
14 1 (0.45%) Foundry
14 1 (0.45%) Pega
14 1 (0.45%) SAP
14 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.45%) Splunk
14 1 (0.45%) UiPath