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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 397 364
Rank change year-on-year -104 -33 -48
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 268 310 767
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.64% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.23% 7.02% 7.81%
Number of salaries quoted 125 164 242
10th Percentile £51,750 £47,300 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £113,125 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £120,000 £117,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -12.28%

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 4,299 4,413 9,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.40% 9.06% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,102 2,931 7,037
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,900 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -11.00%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -64 249 £82,500 +3.13% 153
London -22 160 £100,000 +5.26% 89
UK excluding London -124 85 £65,000 - 94
Work from Home -70 53 £67,500 -20.59% 52
North of England -30 39 £57,500 - 26
South West -43 20 £70,000 +27.27% 37
North West +2 17 £55,000 - 15
East of England -5 15 £75,000 +4.90% 2
North East -37 13 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -40 9 £80,000 +39.13% 4
South East -69 5 £61,250 -5.77% 20
Scotland -21 2 £115,000 +15.00% 3
Midlands -48 2 £50,000 -25.93% 3
Wales -50 2 £80,000 +27.87% 2
West Midlands -29 1 - - 1
East Midlands -41 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
1 120 (44.78%) Apache
2 105 (39.18%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (5.60%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.49%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.12%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.12%) SAS
6 2 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.85%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.37%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 182 (67.91%) AWS
2 125 (46.64%) Azure
3 95 (35.45%) GCP
4 59 (22.01%) Amazon S3
5 50 (18.66%) Power Platform
6 45 (16.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (14.93%) Serverless
8 39 (14.55%) dbt
9 38 (14.18%) Snowflake
10 32 (11.94%) OpenShift
11 29 (10.82%) Azure Data Factory
12 28 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (7.84%) Amazon Kinesis
14 20 (7.46%) Amazon EMR
15 14 (5.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 14 (5.22%) GitHub
16 13 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
17 12 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (4.48%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.61%) Broadband
2 6 (2.24%) AMQP
3 5 (1.87%) BGP
3 5 (1.87%) DNS
3 5 (1.87%) IPsec
3 5 (1.87%) VPN
4 4 (1.49%) Internet
5 2 (0.75%) 4G
5 2 (0.75%) 5G
6 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (29.85%) Big Data
2 70 (26.12%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (25.75%) Tableau
4 56 (20.90%) Elasticsearch
5 55 (20.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 55 (20.52%) Data Lake
6 49 (18.28%) Power BI
7 40 (14.93%) Hadoop
8 37 (13.81%) BigQuery
9 36 (13.43%) Apache Hive
9 36 (13.43%) NoSQL
10 35 (13.06%) Spark SQL
11 27 (10.07%) Looker
11 27 (10.07%) Parquet
12 25 (9.33%) Impala
12 25 (9.33%) Oracle Database
12 25 (9.33%) Snowflake Schema
13 23 (8.58%) Delta Lake
13 23 (8.58%) Metadata
14 22 (8.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (16.79%) Git
2 33 (12.31%) MLflow
3 25 (9.33%) IBM UrbanCode
4 16 (5.97%) GitLab
5 12 (4.48%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.75%) JIRA
6 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.37%) Deequ
7 1 (0.37%) JUnit
General
1 105 (39.18%) Finance
2 81 (30.22%) Social Skills
3 68 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (15.67%) Banking
5 24 (8.96%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.46%) Law
7 16 (5.97%) Legal
8 13 (4.85%) Financial Institution
9 11 (4.10%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.99%) Military
11 7 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.87%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.87%) Marketing
12 5 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.87%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.49%) Games
14 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.12%) Retail
15 2 (0.75%) Billing
Job Titles
1 103 (38.43%) Data Engineer
2 90 (33.58%) Senior
3 35 (13.06%) Lead
4 27 (10.07%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (9.70%) Analyst
6 24 (8.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.58%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.58%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.58%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (8.21%) Banking Analyst
8 22 (8.21%) Lead Data Engineer
9 20 (7.46%) Architect
10 18 (6.72%) Data Scientist
10 18 (6.72%) Developer
11 15 (5.60%) Senior Data Scientist
12 13 (4.85%) Business Analyst
12 13 (4.85%) Data Architect
12 13 (4.85%) Python Developer
13 12 (4.48%) Consultant
13 12 (4.48%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (43.28%) Kafka
2 69 (25.75%) PySpark
3 29 (10.82%) PyTorch
3 29 (10.82%) TensorFlow
4 24 (8.96%) LangChain
4 24 (8.96%) scikit-learn
5 23 (8.58%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.58%) pgvector
6 21 (7.84%) REST
7 20 (7.46%) Pandas
8 17 (6.34%) Node.js
9 16 (5.97%) Spring
9 16 (5.97%) Spring Boot
10 13 (4.85%) SpaCy
11 9 (3.36%) React
12 7 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.24%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.24%) gRPC
13 6 (2.24%) NumPy
13 6 (2.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.78%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.33%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.58%) Clustering
4 17 (6.34%) Data Structures
5 16 (5.97%) Product Ownership
6 15 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (4.85%) e-Learning
8 12 (4.48%) Onboarding
9 9 (3.36%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.24%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.24%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (2.24%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.24%) Social Media
11 5 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.87%) NHS
12 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (1.12%) Data Fabric
13 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.22%) Linux
2 6 (2.24%) CentOS
2 6 (2.24%) Debian
2 6 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.24%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (60.45%) Analytics
1 162 (60.45%) Data Engineering
1 162 (60.45%) Data Pipeline
2 126 (47.01%) CI/CD
3 115 (42.91%) ETL
4 113 (42.16%) Data Modelling
5 107 (39.93%) AI
6 101 (37.69%) Data Science
7 98 (36.57%) Data Governance
8 97 (36.19%) Machine Learning
9 87 (32.46%) Agile
10 67 (25.00%) DevOps
11 64 (23.88%) Business Intelligence
12 62 (23.13%) Use Case
13 50 (18.66%) Computer Science
13 50 (18.66%) Generative AI
13 50 (18.66%) Performance Tuning
14 48 (17.91%) Validation
15 46 (17.16%) Software Engineering
16 45 (16.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 234 (87.31%) Python
2 198 (73.88%) SQL
3 52 (19.40%) Scala
4 45 (16.79%) Java
5 10 (3.73%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.36%) Bash
7 7 (2.61%) C++
8 6 (2.24%) C#
9 5 (1.87%) Bicep
9 5 (1.87%) C
9 5 (1.87%) PHP
9 5 (1.87%) Ruby
9 5 (1.87%) VBA
10 4 (1.49%) Go
10 4 (1.49%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.12%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.37%) R
13 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (17.16%) Degree
1 46 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 32 (11.94%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.72%) PhD
4 17 (6.34%) Master's Degree
5 13 (4.85%) AWS Certification
5 13 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.48%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.48%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.37%) CEH
8 1 (0.37%) CISM
8 1 (0.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (36.57%) Data Quality
2 38 (14.18%) GDPR
3 35 (13.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.48%) HIPAA
5 8 (2.99%) QA
6 6 (2.24%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.75%) IFRS
7 2 (0.75%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.75%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (16.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (18.66%) Terraform
2 38 (14.18%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.60%) Ansible
4 6 (2.24%) Grafana
4 6 (2.24%) Puppet
5 5 (1.87%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.87%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.12%) Kibana
6 3 (1.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 96 (35.82%) Databricks
2 32 (11.94%) Red Hat
3 31 (11.57%) Oracle
4 24 (8.96%) Cloudera
4 24 (8.96%) Dell
5 16 (5.97%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.10%) Google
7 6 (2.24%) IBM
7 6 (2.24%) Palantir
7 6 (2.24%) SaltStack
8 5 (1.87%) HP
8 5 (1.87%) SAP
9 4 (1.49%) Informatica
10 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.12%) Talend
11 2 (0.75%) Foundry
12 1 (0.37%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.37%) Pega
12 1 (0.37%) Splunk
12 1 (0.37%) Trend Micro