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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 400 275
Rank change year-on-year -102 -125 -29
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 235 287 1,025
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.65% 1.05%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.26% 6.92% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 106 198 297
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,700 £50,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £56,250 £62,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £122,813 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +23.08% -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 3,753 4,146 10,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.07% 9.44% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,662 2,800 7,083
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,813 £37,428 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.45%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -11.27%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -88 212 £85,000 - 82
London -44 143 £100,000 -9.09% 41
UK excluding London -85 70 £80,000 +23.08% 58
Work from Home -72 54 £80,000 -27.27% 41
North of England -36 25 £77,500 +34.78% 28
East of England +1 18 £75,000 +4.17%
South West -40 17 £80,000 +60.00% 10
Yorkshire -39 11 £80,000 +39.13% 2
North West +1 9 £75,000 +36.36% 14
North East -36 5 £57,500 -14.81% 13
Scotland -7 4 £102,500 +2.50% 2
South East -52 4 £57,500 -11.54% 8
Wales -32 1 £95,000 +48.44% 6
East Midlands -32 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -40 1 £50,000 -25.93% 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
1 106 (45.11%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (37.45%) Apache
3 7 (2.98%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.28%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.85%) SAS
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.43%) Camunda
6 1 (0.43%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.53%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 158 (67.23%) AWS
2 118 (50.21%) Azure
3 97 (41.28%) GCP
4 51 (21.70%) Power Platform
5 50 (21.28%) Amazon S3
6 47 (20.00%) Snowflake
7 44 (18.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 43 (18.30%) dbt
9 31 (13.19%) OpenShift
10 29 (12.34%) Serverless
11 25 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (10.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (6.38%) Dagster
14 13 (5.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (5.53%) Azure Machine Learning
15 12 (5.11%) Amazon EMR
15 12 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (5.11%) Microsoft Purview
16 11 (4.68%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (4.68%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.98%) Broadband
2 5 (2.13%) AMQP
3 2 (0.85%) 4G
3 2 (0.85%) 5G
4 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.43%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (33.19%) Tableau
2 76 (32.34%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (31.49%) Big Data
4 55 (23.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 50 (21.28%) Power BI
6 49 (20.85%) Elasticsearch
7 48 (20.43%) Data Lake
8 46 (19.57%) BigQuery
9 33 (14.04%) Hadoop
9 33 (14.04%) Looker
9 33 (14.04%) Spark SQL
10 28 (11.91%) Snowflake Schema
11 27 (11.49%) Apache Hive
12 26 (11.06%) Parquet
12 26 (11.06%) Relational Database
13 25 (10.64%) Impala
13 25 (10.64%) Oracle Database
14 24 (10.21%) NoSQL
15 23 (9.79%) Delta Lake
16 21 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (18.72%) Git
2 37 (15.74%) MLflow
3 25 (10.64%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (5.11%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.40%) GitLab
6 2 (0.85%) JIRA
7 1 (0.43%) Deequ
7 1 (0.43%) JUnit
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 89 (37.87%) Finance
2 72 (30.64%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (27.66%) Social Skills
4 37 (15.74%) Banking
5 24 (10.21%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.81%) Legal
7 15 (6.38%) Law
8 8 (3.40%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.98%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.70%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.70%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Advertising
12 2 (0.85%) Billing
12 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Front Office
13 1 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 78 (33.19%) Data Engineer
2 76 (32.34%) Senior
3 26 (11.06%) Analyst
4 24 (10.21%) Developer
4 24 (10.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (9.79%) Lead
5 23 (9.79%) Senior Data Engineer
5 23 (9.79%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (9.79%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (9.36%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (9.36%) Python Engineer
7 19 (8.09%) Architect
8 17 (7.23%) Lead Data Engineer
9 16 (6.81%) Python Developer
10 13 (5.53%) Business Analyst
10 13 (5.53%) Software Engineer
11 12 (5.11%) Data Architect
11 12 (5.11%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (5.11%) Data Scientist
11 12 (5.11%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (44.68%) Kafka
2 59 (25.11%) PySpark
3 40 (17.02%) PyTorch
3 40 (17.02%) TensorFlow
4 27 (11.49%) scikit-learn
5 24 (10.21%) LangChain
5 24 (10.21%) REST
6 23 (9.79%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.79%) pgvector
7 22 (9.36%) Pandas
8 14 (5.96%) Spring
8 14 (5.96%) Spring Boot
9 11 (4.68%) Node.js
10 9 (3.83%) Faiss
10 9 (3.83%) vLLM
11 8 (3.40%) NumPy
11 8 (3.40%) React
12 7 (2.98%) SpaCy
13 6 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.21%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.79%) Clustering
4 21 (8.94%) Product Ownership
5 17 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.68%) Algorithms
7 9 (3.83%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.83%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.98%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.98%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.55%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.55%) Social Media
10 5 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.28%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.28%) NHS
12 2 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.40%) Linux
2 5 (2.13%) CentOS
2 5 (2.13%) Debian
2 5 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.13%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (65.11%) Data Pipeline
2 141 (60.00%) Analytics
2 141 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 117 (49.79%) ETL
4 109 (46.38%) CI/CD
5 106 (45.11%) AI
6 93 (39.57%) Data Science
7 92 (39.15%) Data Governance
8 90 (38.30%) Data Modelling
8 90 (38.30%) Machine Learning
9 78 (33.19%) Agile
10 69 (29.36%) Business Intelligence
11 53 (22.55%) Use Case
12 51 (21.70%) Computer Science
13 50 (21.28%) Generative AI
14 49 (20.85%) DevOps
14 49 (20.85%) Software Engineering
15 44 (18.72%) Performance Tuning
16 40 (17.02%) Feature Engineering
17 38 (16.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 219 (93.19%) Python
2 174 (74.04%) SQL
3 52 (22.13%) Java
4 49 (20.85%) Scala
5 11 (4.68%) Bash
6 9 (3.83%) Go
7 8 (3.40%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.98%) C++
9 5 (2.13%) R
10 4 (1.70%) Bicep
10 4 (1.70%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.28%) VBA
12 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.43%) C#
13 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (16.17%) Degree
2 30 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 20 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.11%) PhD
6 11 (4.68%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.68%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.83%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.55%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.43%) CEH
11 1 (0.43%) CISM
11 1 (0.43%) CISSP
11 1 (0.43%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (38.72%) Data Quality
2 38 (16.17%) GDPR
3 35 (14.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.11%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.70%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.85%) IFRS
6 2 (0.85%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.85%) QA
6 2 (0.85%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (16.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (15.74%) Terraform
2 33 (14.04%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.53%) Ansible
4 6 (2.55%) Grafana
5 5 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.13%) Puppet
6 3 (1.28%) Packer
7 2 (0.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 84 (35.74%) Databricks
2 32 (13.62%) Oracle
3 31 (13.19%) Red Hat
4 24 (10.21%) Cloudera
4 24 (10.21%) Dell
5 12 (5.11%) Palantir
6 10 (4.26%) Google
7 9 (3.83%) Microsoft
8 7 (2.98%) Informatica
9 6 (2.55%) Talend
10 5 (2.13%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.28%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.43%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.43%) Confluent
12 1 (0.43%) Mapbox
12 1 (0.43%) Pega
12 1 (0.43%) Refinitiv
12 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.43%) UiPath