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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 430 403
Rank change year-on-year -91 -27 -55
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 286 264 487
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.53% 0.60%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.29% 6.21% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 138 116 204
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,618 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,594 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £110,625 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,250 £65,599
% change year-on-year -4.56% -8.15% -12.53%

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 4,545 4,252 7,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.14% 8.51% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,216 2,879 4,733
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,625 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -2.11%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -73 266 £80,000 +11.11% 386
London -21 166 £95,000 +11.76% 292
UK excluding London -121 100 £57,500 -4.56% 166
Work from Home -31 56 £66,805 -2.83% 162
North of England -28 50 £55,000 -4.35% 41
South West -53 26 £55,000 +10.00% 29
North East -43 23 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West -9 17 £55,000 -18.52% 27
Yorkshire -46 10 £80,000 +39.13% 4
East of England -17 8 £77,500 +8.39% 10
Scotland -24 6 £115,000 - 38
South East -61 6 £62,500 -7.41% 29
Midlands -57 3 £58,403 -8.75% 6
West Midlands -28 2 £66,805 +10.42% 3
Wales -67 2 £80,000 +27.87% 1
East Midlands -29 1 £50,000 -33.33% 3

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
1 120 (41.96%) Apache
2 71 (24.83%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.64%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.75%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.05%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.05%) SAS
6 2 (0.70%) Luigi
6 2 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.70%) Tornado
7 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 178 (62.24%) AWS
2 157 (54.90%) Azure
3 99 (34.62%) GCP
4 53 (18.53%) Power Platform
5 50 (17.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 40 (13.99%) Amazon S3
6 40 (13.99%) Serverless
7 36 (12.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 36 (12.59%) Snowflake
8 31 (10.84%) dbt
9 26 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (8.39%) Amazon EMR
11 21 (7.34%) Amazon Kinesis
12 20 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (6.64%) Azure Databricks
14 17 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (5.94%) GitHub
15 16 (5.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 15 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (4.90%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.10%) BGP
1 6 (2.10%) DNS
1 6 (2.10%) IPsec
1 6 (2.10%) VPN
2 5 (1.75%) AMQP
2 5 (1.75%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) 4G
3 1 (0.35%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (33.22%) Big Data
2 75 (26.22%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (24.48%) Data Lake
4 56 (19.58%) Amazon Redshift
4 56 (19.58%) Elasticsearch
4 56 (19.58%) Hadoop
5 52 (18.18%) Power BI
6 44 (15.38%) NoSQL
7 42 (14.69%) Tableau
8 27 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (9.09%) BigQuery
9 26 (9.09%) Delta Lake
10 24 (8.39%) Looker
10 24 (8.39%) Metadata
10 24 (8.39%) Milvus
11 23 (8.04%) Relational Database
11 23 (8.04%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (6.64%) Flink
13 16 (5.59%) Amazon Athena
14 14 (4.90%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 33 (11.54%) Git
2 30 (10.49%) MLflow
3 21 (7.34%) GitLab
4 18 (6.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.70%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.70%) JIRA
5 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.35%) ERwin
General
1 112 (39.16%) Finance
2 71 (24.83%) Social Skills
3 55 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.49%) Banking
5 22 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 22 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 21 (7.34%) Law
7 19 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.55%) Marketing
9 11 (3.85%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.50%) Military
11 9 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.45%) Games
13 6 (2.10%) Legal
13 6 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.10%) Retail
14 3 (1.05%) Front Office
15 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.70%) Local Government
15 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 99 (34.62%) Senior
3 49 (17.13%) Lead
4 36 (12.59%) Data Scientist
5 32 (11.19%) Senior Data Engineer
6 30 (10.49%) Senior Data Scientist
7 29 (10.14%) Lead Data Engineer
8 23 (8.04%) Databricks Engineer
8 23 (8.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 23 (8.04%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (7.34%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 19 (6.64%) Architect
10 19 (6.64%) Python Engineer
11 14 (4.90%) Developer
12 13 (4.55%) Data Architect
12 13 (4.55%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.50%) Python Developer
14 9 (3.15%) Consultant
14 9 (3.15%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (43.36%) Kafka
2 57 (19.93%) PySpark
3 53 (18.53%) Terraform
4 25 (8.74%) PyTorch
4 25 (8.74%) scikit-learn
5 24 (8.39%) LangChain
5 24 (8.39%) pgvector
5 24 (8.39%) TensorFlow
6 23 (8.04%) LlamaIndex
7 21 (7.34%) SpaCy
8 16 (5.59%) Node.js
8 16 (5.59%) REST
9 12 (4.20%) Spring
9 12 (4.20%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.85%) Pandas
11 9 (3.15%) Apache NiFi
12 8 (2.80%) React
12 8 (2.80%) RESTful
13 6 (2.10%) gRPC
13 6 (2.10%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 63 (22.03%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.44%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.04%) Clustering
4 21 (7.34%) e-Learning
5 20 (6.99%) Product Ownership
6 19 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (5.94%) Data Structures
8 14 (4.90%) Onboarding
9 12 (4.20%) Algorithms
10 11 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (2.45%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (2.10%) NHS
13 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (1.40%) AI Agents
15 3 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
15 3 (1.05%) Data Fabric
15 3 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
15 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.20%) Linux
2 5 (1.75%) CentOS
2 5 (1.75%) Debian
2 5 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (62.24%) Data Engineering
2 173 (60.49%) Analytics
3 158 (55.24%) Data Pipeline
4 138 (48.25%) CI/CD
5 125 (43.71%) Data Science
6 124 (43.36%) Machine Learning
7 122 (42.66%) Data Modelling
8 107 (37.41%) AI
9 102 (35.66%) ETL
10 101 (35.31%) DevOps
11 82 (28.67%) Agile
12 80 (27.97%) Lakehouse
13 69 (24.13%) Mentoring
14 67 (23.43%) Data Governance
15 66 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
15 66 (23.08%) Use Case
16 56 (19.58%) Generative AI
16 56 (19.58%) Infrastructure as Code
17 48 (16.78%) Software Engineering
18 47 (16.43%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 244 (85.31%) Python
2 192 (67.13%) SQL
3 51 (17.83%) Scala
4 44 (15.38%) Java
5 10 (3.50%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.45%) C#
7 6 (2.10%) C
7 6 (2.10%) PHP
7 6 (2.10%) Ruby
8 5 (1.75%) Bash
8 5 (1.75%) VBA
9 4 (1.40%) Bicep
9 4 (1.40%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.70%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.70%) R
11 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.35%) C++
12 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 58 (20.28%) Degree
3 51 (17.83%) SC Cleared
4 28 (9.79%) PhD
5 26 (9.09%) Master's Degree
6 18 (6.29%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.94%) AWS Certification
8 15 (5.24%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.05%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.35%) CEH
13 1 (0.35%) CISM
13 1 (0.35%) CISSP
13 1 (0.35%) OCP
13 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (30.42%) Data Quality
2 31 (10.84%) GDPR
3 25 (8.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.55%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.80%) QA
6 3 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (20.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (15.73%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.94%) Ansible
3 6 (2.10%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.75%) Argo
4 5 (1.75%) Grafana
4 5 (1.75%) Puppet
5 3 (1.05%) Kibana
5 3 (1.05%) Packer
5 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 111 (38.81%) Databricks
2 32 (11.19%) Microsoft
3 24 (8.39%) Cloudera
4 23 (8.04%) Dell
5 12 (4.20%) Oracle
6 8 (2.80%) Google
6 8 (2.80%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.45%) Informatica
7 7 (2.45%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.10%) HP
8 6 (2.10%) IBM
8 6 (2.10%) SAP
9 5 (1.75%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.75%) Splunk
10 4 (1.40%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.05%) LexisNexis
11 3 (1.05%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.70%) Foundry
12 2 (0.70%) Talend