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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 485 384
Rank change year-on-year +64 -101 -65
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 230 281 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.42% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.97% 4.94% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 102 196 262
10th Percentile £50,725 £48,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £67,805
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £114,063 £102,500 £97,290
90th Percentile £140,000 £121,250 £114,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -23.33% +15.38%

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 3,855 5,691 5,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.14% 8.52% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,611 3,484 4,596
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,868 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.03% +1.58% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +67 207 £81,000 +4.52% 72
London +42 145 £95,000 - 46
UK excluding London +72 78 £60,000 +4.35% 62
Work from Home +2 44 £80,000 +15.11% 55
North of England +29 33 £60,000 +20.00% 15
Yorkshire +32 22 £60,000 +21.77% 6
Scotland +26 19 £90,000 - 6
Midlands +67 12 £55,000 -8.33% 2
East Midlands +26 7 - - 1
North West +32 6 £54,250 -1.36% 6
West Midlands +58 5 £55,000 -15.38% 1
South East +25 5 £65,000 +13.04% 30
North East +15 5 £47,500 -3.60% 3
East of England +31 4 - -
South West -3 4 £55,000 -29.03% 3
Wales +11 2 £50,124 -24.28% 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 57 (24.78%) Apache
2 47 (20.43%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.17%) Apache Synapse
3 5 (2.17%) SAS
4 3 (1.30%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (1.30%) Luigi
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.43%) Appian
Business Applications
1 13 (5.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 162 (70.43%) AWS
2 117 (50.87%) Azure
3 78 (33.91%) GCP
4 43 (18.70%) Amazon S3
5 33 (14.35%) Serverless
6 29 (12.61%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (10.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 22 (9.57%) Snowflake
9 19 (8.26%) Amazon ELB
9 19 (8.26%) Power Platform
10 18 (7.83%) Amazon EMR
11 17 (7.39%) Amazon Kinesis
12 16 (6.96%) dbt
13 14 (6.09%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (5.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (5.65%) GitHub
15 9 (3.91%) Prefect
16 8 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (3.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.74%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.87%) AMQP
2 2 (0.87%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (46.09%) Big Data
2 74 (32.17%) Hadoop
3 65 (28.26%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (26.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 53 (23.04%) NoSQL
6 41 (17.83%) Metadata
7 35 (15.22%) Data Lake
8 33 (14.35%) DynamoDB
9 32 (13.91%) Delta Lake
10 27 (11.74%) Spark SQL
11 24 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
11 24 (10.43%) SQL Server
12 22 (9.57%) Apache Hive
13 20 (8.70%) Apache Iceberg
14 18 (7.83%) MySQL
14 18 (7.83%) Power BI
14 18 (7.83%) Relational Database
15 16 (6.96%) BigQuery
15 16 (6.96%) MongoDB
16 13 (5.65%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 29 (12.61%) MLflow
2 16 (6.96%) Git
3 11 (4.78%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.74%) Gradle
5 3 (1.30%) GitLab
5 3 (1.30%) JUnit
5 3 (1.30%) Maven
5 3 (1.30%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.87%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) Deequ
7 1 (0.43%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.43%) Selenium
7 1 (0.43%) Snyk
General
1 109 (47.39%) Social Skills
2 80 (34.78%) Finance
3 57 (24.78%) Law
4 53 (23.04%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (13.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (10.87%) Banking
7 18 (7.83%) Financial Institution
8 17 (7.39%) Marketing
9 13 (5.65%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.48%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.17%) Legal
11 5 (2.17%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.17%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.74%) Front Office
13 3 (1.30%) Publishing
13 3 (1.30%) Retail
14 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.87%) Electronics
14 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 82 (35.65%) Data Engineer
2 52 (22.61%) Senior
3 33 (14.35%) Senior Data Engineer
3 33 (14.35%) Software Engineer
4 30 (13.04%) Lead
5 21 (9.13%) Architect
6 20 (8.70%) Developer
6 20 (8.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 19 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (8.26%) Operations Engineer
7 19 (8.26%) Python Engineer
8 15 (6.52%) Python Software Engineer
9 14 (6.09%) Data Architect
10 13 (5.65%) AWS Data Engineer
10 13 (5.65%) Data Scientist
10 13 (5.65%) Product Lead
11 12 (5.22%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (4.78%) Python Developer
13 10 (4.35%) Java Engineer
14 9 (3.91%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (42.17%) Kafka
2 46 (20.00%) PySpark
3 37 (16.09%) PyTorch
3 37 (16.09%) TensorFlow
4 33 (14.35%) scikit-learn
5 29 (12.61%) Pandas
6 23 (10.00%) NumPy
7 19 (8.26%) Keras
7 19 (8.26%) Lambda Expressions
7 19 (8.26%) Metaflow
7 19 (8.26%) YAML
8 15 (6.52%) REST
9 13 (5.65%) Spark Streaming
10 10 (4.35%) React
11 8 (3.48%) boto
11 8 (3.48%) Spring
12 7 (3.04%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (3.04%) SpaCy
13 5 (2.17%) Apache Beam
13 5 (2.17%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 54 (23.48%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (13.91%) Cloud Native
3 22 (9.57%) Linux Command Line
4 21 (9.13%) Product Ownership
5 20 (8.70%) Algorithms
6 17 (7.39%) e-Learning
7 14 (6.09%) FMCG
8 12 (5.22%) Data Structures
9 11 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (3.91%) Management Information System
11 8 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (2.61%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (1.30%) Equities
13 3 (1.30%) Mobile Banking
13 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.30%) Robotics
13 3 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
14 2 (0.87%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.35%) Unix
2 11 (4.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.87%) CentOS
3 2 (0.87%) Debian
3 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (49.57%) CI/CD
2 110 (47.83%) Machine Learning
3 108 (46.96%) Data Pipeline
4 104 (45.22%) Data Engineering
5 98 (42.61%) Analytics
6 91 (39.57%) Data Science
7 88 (38.26%) ETL
8 80 (34.78%) AI
8 80 (34.78%) Data Modelling
9 75 (32.61%) DevOps
10 73 (31.74%) Software Engineering
11 65 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
12 57 (24.78%) Agile
13 52 (22.61%) Containerisation
13 52 (22.61%) Data Governance
14 49 (21.30%) Visualisation
15 48 (20.87%) Business Intelligence
16 46 (20.00%) MLOps
17 44 (19.13%) Mentoring
18 41 (17.83%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 192 (83.48%) Python
2 165 (71.74%) SQL
3 69 (30.00%) Java
4 36 (15.65%) Scala
5 8 (3.48%) R
6 6 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.74%) Bash
7 4 (1.74%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.74%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.30%) C#
8 3 (1.30%) C++
8 3 (1.30%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.30%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.87%) PROC SQL
10 1 (0.43%) C
10 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (16.09%) Degree
2 20 (8.70%) Master's Degree
3 16 (6.96%) PhD
4 13 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.35%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.48%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.04%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.17%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.74%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (25.22%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.26%) QA
3 11 (4.78%) GDPR
4 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 62 (26.96%) Docker
2 14 (6.09%) HDFS
3 6 (2.61%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (28.70%) Kubernetes
2 46 (20.00%) Terraform
3 26 (11.30%) Kubeflow
4 13 (5.65%) Ansible
5 7 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.61%) Grafana
7 5 (2.17%) Kibana
7 5 (2.17%) logstash
8 4 (1.74%) Puppet
9 2 (0.87%) Oozie
9 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 100 (43.48%) Databricks
2 21 (9.13%) Oracle
3 18 (7.83%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.83%) SAP
4 11 (4.78%) Informatica
5 8 (3.48%) Google
5 8 (3.48%) Talend
6 7 (3.04%) Dell
7 5 (2.17%) Palantir
8 4 (1.74%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.30%) IBM
9 3 (1.30%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.87%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.87%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.43%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.43%) Black Duck
11 1 (0.43%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.43%) UiPath
11 1 (0.43%) VMware