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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 390 290
Rank change year-on-year -117 -100 -11
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 237 298 972
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.68% 0.95%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.14% 7.24% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 113 182 277
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,125 £48,400
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,625 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +15.38% -6.40% -0.79%

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 3,857 4,118 10,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.14% 9.41% 9.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,760 2,719 7,095
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,731 £36,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,438 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -11.09%

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 2 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Top 15 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 2 June 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 -89 213 £85,000 - 136
London -50 141 £100,000 -8.05% 72
UK excluding London -103 73 £75,000 +15.38% 73
Work from Home -63 56 £71,250 -32.14% 66
North of England -30 28 £67,500 +17.39% 35
South West -43 18 £75,000 +50.00% 16
East of England +5 17 £75,000 +4.90% 2
North East -32 10 £56,250 -16.67% 17
North West -13 9 £75,000 +36.36% 17
Yorkshire -45 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South East -49 4 £57,500 -11.54% 9
Scotland -10 3 £115,000 +15.00% 3
Wales -35 2 £87,500 +16.67% 3
Midlands -38 1 £50,000 -25.93% 5
East Midlands -39 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
1 110 (46.41%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (41.77%) Apache
3 13 (5.49%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.27%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.27%) SAS
5 1 (0.42%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.42%) Camunda
5 1 (0.42%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.49%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 162 (68.35%) AWS
2 112 (47.26%) Azure
3 93 (39.24%) GCP
4 56 (23.63%) Amazon S3
5 46 (19.41%) Power Platform
6 43 (18.14%) Snowflake
7 41 (17.30%) dbt
8 40 (16.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 31 (13.08%) OpenShift
10 29 (12.24%) Serverless
11 26 (10.97%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (9.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (6.33%) Amazon EMR
13 15 (6.33%) Dagster
14 13 (5.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (5.49%) Azure Machine Learning
15 11 (4.64%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.64%) GitHub
15 11 (4.64%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.95%) Broadband
2 5 (2.11%) AMQP
3 2 (0.84%) 4G
3 2 (0.84%) 5G
4 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (31.65%) Big Data
1 75 (31.65%) Tableau
2 74 (31.22%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (23.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 51 (21.52%) Elasticsearch
5 50 (21.10%) Data Lake
6 45 (18.99%) Power BI
7 44 (18.57%) BigQuery
8 33 (13.92%) Spark SQL
9 32 (13.50%) Looker
10 30 (12.66%) Hadoop
11 27 (11.39%) Apache Hive
11 27 (11.39%) Snowflake Schema
12 26 (10.97%) Parquet
13 25 (10.55%) Impala
13 25 (10.55%) Oracle Database
14 23 (9.70%) Delta Lake
14 23 (9.70%) Relational Database
15 22 (9.28%) NoSQL
16 18 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (17.72%) Git
2 37 (15.61%) MLflow
3 25 (10.55%) IBM UrbanCode
4 13 (5.49%) GitLab
5 10 (4.22%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.84%) JIRA
6 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.42%) Deequ
7 1 (0.42%) JUnit
General
1 86 (36.29%) Finance
2 70 (29.54%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (27.00%) Social Skills
4 38 (16.03%) Banking
5 24 (10.13%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.75%) Legal
7 13 (5.49%) Law
8 10 (4.22%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.38%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.69%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.84%) Billing
13 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Advertising
14 1 (0.42%) Front Office
14 1 (0.42%) Games
Job Titles
1 84 (35.44%) Data Engineer
2 77 (32.49%) Senior
3 28 (11.81%) Lead
4 26 (10.97%) Analyst
5 24 (10.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.70%) Developer
6 23 (9.70%) Senior Data Engineer
6 23 (9.70%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.70%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (9.28%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (9.28%) Python Engineer
8 18 (7.59%) Lead Data Engineer
9 17 (7.17%) Architect
10 15 (6.33%) Python Developer
11 13 (5.49%) Business Analyst
11 13 (5.49%) Data Scientist
11 13 (5.49%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (5.06%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.06%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (43.46%) Kafka
2 63 (26.58%) PySpark
3 39 (16.46%) PyTorch
3 39 (16.46%) TensorFlow
4 27 (11.39%) scikit-learn
5 24 (10.13%) LangChain
6 23 (9.70%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.70%) pgvector
7 22 (9.28%) Pandas
7 22 (9.28%) REST
8 14 (5.91%) Spring
8 14 (5.91%) Spring Boot
9 11 (4.64%) Node.js
10 9 (3.80%) Faiss
10 9 (3.80%) NumPy
10 9 (3.80%) vLLM
11 8 (3.38%) React
11 8 (3.38%) SpaCy
12 6 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.11%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.83%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.13%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.70%) Clustering
4 19 (8.02%) Product Ownership
5 15 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (5.06%) Data Structures
7 11 (4.64%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.80%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (3.38%) e-Learning
10 6 (2.53%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.53%) Social Media
11 5 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.27%) Data Fabric
13 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.27%) NHS
14 2 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
14 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.38%) Linux
2 5 (2.11%) CentOS
2 5 (2.11%) Debian
2 5 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (65.40%) Data Pipeline
2 146 (61.60%) Data Engineering
3 142 (59.92%) Analytics
4 114 (48.10%) ETL
5 112 (47.26%) CI/CD
6 105 (44.30%) AI
7 92 (38.82%) Data Modelling
8 90 (37.97%) Data Science
9 89 (37.55%) Data Governance
10 86 (36.29%) Machine Learning
11 83 (35.02%) Agile
12 65 (27.43%) Business Intelligence
13 56 (23.63%) Use Case
14 52 (21.94%) DevOps
15 49 (20.68%) Generative AI
16 48 (20.25%) Computer Science
17 46 (19.41%) Performance Tuning
17 46 (19.41%) Software Engineering
18 39 (16.46%) Feature Engineering
19 38 (16.03%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 221 (93.25%) Python
2 176 (74.26%) SQL
3 49 (20.68%) Java
4 48 (20.25%) Scala
5 13 (5.49%) Bash
6 9 (3.80%) Go
7 8 (3.38%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.95%) C++
9 4 (1.69%) Bicep
9 4 (1.69%) R
9 4 (1.69%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.69%) VBA
10 3 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.42%) C#
12 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (15.61%) Degree
2 35 (14.77%) Security Cleared
3 25 (10.55%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.64%) Master's Degree
5 11 (4.64%) PhD
6 9 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.95%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.42%) CEH
10 1 (0.42%) CISM
10 1 (0.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (39.24%) Data Quality
2 37 (15.61%) GDPR
3 35 (14.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.06%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.69%) QA
6 2 (0.84%) IFRS
6 2 (0.84%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.84%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (18.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (17.72%) Terraform
2 33 (13.92%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.49%) Ansible
4 6 (2.53%) Grafana
5 5 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.11%) Puppet
6 3 (1.27%) Kibana
6 3 (1.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 80 (33.76%) Databricks
2 31 (13.08%) Red Hat
3 27 (11.39%) Oracle
4 24 (10.13%) Cloudera
4 24 (10.13%) Dell
5 10 (4.22%) Google
5 10 (4.22%) Palantir
6 9 (3.80%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.11%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.69%) Informatica
9 3 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.27%) Talend
10 1 (0.42%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.42%) Confluent
10 1 (0.42%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.42%) Pega
10 1 (0.42%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.42%) UiPath