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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 397 293
Rank change year-on-year -92 -104 -9
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 239 300 981
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.68% 0.97%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.18% 7.25% 9.67%
Number of salaries quoted 113 186 276
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,625 £48,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,813 £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 3,870 4,139 10,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.15% 9.43% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,764 2,739 7,085
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,731 £36,750 £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 £72,500 £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% -11.27%

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 1 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 1 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 -82 215 £85,000 - 147
London -43 142 £100,000 -9.09% 75
UK excluding London -80 74 £75,000 +15.38% 80
Work from Home -63 56 £71,250 -35.23% 67
North of England -31 29 £67,500 +17.39% 39
South West -38 18 £75,000 +50.00% 19
East of England -6 17 £75,000 +4.90% 2
North West -11 10 £75,000 +36.36% 20
North East -35 10 £56,250 -16.67% 18
Yorkshire -54 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South East -50 4 £57,500 -11.54% 10
Scotland -17 3 £115,000 +15.00% 3
Wales -36 2 £87,500 +16.67% 3
Midlands -45 1 £50,000 -25.93% 4
East Midlands -46 1 £50,000 -33.33% 1

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 (46.03%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (41.42%) Apache
3 14 (5.86%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.26%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.26%) 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 (5.44%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 163 (68.20%) AWS
2 113 (47.28%) Azure
3 94 (39.33%) GCP
4 56 (23.43%) Amazon S3
5 46 (19.25%) Power Platform
6 43 (17.99%) Snowflake
7 41 (17.15%) dbt
8 40 (16.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 31 (12.97%) OpenShift
10 29 (12.13%) Serverless
11 26 (10.88%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (9.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (6.69%) Amazon EMR
14 15 (6.28%) Dagster
15 13 (5.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 13 (5.44%) Azure Machine Learning
16 11 (4.60%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (4.60%) GitHub
16 11 (4.60%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.93%) Broadband
2 5 (2.09%) AMQP
3 2 (0.84%) 4G
3 2 (0.84%) 5G
4 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.42%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (31.80%) Big Data
2 75 (31.38%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (31.38%) Tableau
3 55 (23.01%) Amazon Redshift
4 51 (21.34%) Elasticsearch
5 50 (20.92%) Data Lake
6 45 (18.83%) Power BI
7 44 (18.41%) BigQuery
8 33 (13.81%) Spark SQL
9 32 (13.39%) Hadoop
9 32 (13.39%) Looker
10 27 (11.30%) Apache Hive
10 27 (11.30%) Snowflake Schema
11 26 (10.88%) Parquet
12 25 (10.46%) Impala
12 25 (10.46%) Oracle Database
13 24 (10.04%) Relational Database
14 23 (9.62%) Delta Lake
14 23 (9.62%) NoSQL
15 19 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (17.57%) Git
2 37 (15.48%) MLflow
3 25 (10.46%) IBM UrbanCode
4 13 (5.44%) GitLab
5 10 (4.18%) 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 88 (36.82%) Finance
2 72 (30.13%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (27.62%) Social Skills
4 38 (15.90%) Banking
5 24 (10.04%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.69%) Legal
7 14 (5.86%) Law
8 10 (4.18%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.35%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.67%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.67%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.26%) 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 (35.15%) Data Engineer
2 78 (32.64%) Senior
3 28 (11.72%) Lead
4 26 (10.88%) Analyst
5 24 (10.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.62%) Developer
6 23 (9.62%) Senior Data Engineer
6 23 (9.62%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.62%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (9.21%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (9.21%) Python Engineer
8 18 (7.53%) Lead Data Engineer
9 17 (7.11%) Architect
10 15 (6.28%) Python Developer
11 13 (5.44%) Business Analyst
11 13 (5.44%) Data Scientist
11 13 (5.44%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.02%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (5.02%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.02%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (43.10%) Kafka
2 63 (26.36%) PySpark
3 39 (16.32%) PyTorch
3 39 (16.32%) TensorFlow
4 27 (11.30%) scikit-learn
5 24 (10.04%) LangChain
6 23 (9.62%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.62%) Pandas
6 23 (9.62%) pgvector
6 23 (9.62%) REST
7 14 (5.86%) Spring
7 14 (5.86%) Spring Boot
8 11 (4.60%) Node.js
9 9 (3.77%) Faiss
9 9 (3.77%) NumPy
9 9 (3.77%) vLLM
10 8 (3.35%) React
10 8 (3.35%) SpaCy
11 6 (2.51%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.67%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.04%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.62%) Clustering
4 20 (8.37%) Product Ownership
5 16 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (5.02%) Data Structures
7 11 (4.60%) Algorithms
8 10 (4.18%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (3.35%) e-Learning
10 6 (2.51%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (2.51%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.51%) Social Media
11 5 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.09%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.26%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.26%) NHS
13 2 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.35%) Linux
2 5 (2.09%) CentOS
2 5 (2.09%) Debian
2 5 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.09%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (65.69%) Data Pipeline
2 147 (61.51%) Data Engineering
3 144 (60.25%) Analytics
4 115 (48.12%) ETL
5 113 (47.28%) CI/CD
6 106 (44.35%) AI
7 94 (39.33%) Data Modelling
8 92 (38.49%) Data Science
9 90 (37.66%) Data Governance
10 87 (36.40%) Machine Learning
11 84 (35.15%) Agile
12 66 (27.62%) Business Intelligence
13 57 (23.85%) Use Case
14 52 (21.76%) DevOps
15 49 (20.50%) Computer Science
15 49 (20.50%) Generative AI
16 47 (19.67%) Software Engineering
17 46 (19.25%) Performance Tuning
18 39 (16.32%) Feature Engineering
19 38 (15.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 223 (93.31%) Python
2 178 (74.48%) SQL
3 51 (21.34%) Java
4 48 (20.08%) Scala
5 13 (5.44%) Bash
6 9 (3.77%) Go
7 8 (3.35%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.93%) C++
9 5 (2.09%) R
10 4 (1.67%) Bicep
10 4 (1.67%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.67%) VBA
11 3 (1.26%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.42%) C#
13 1 (0.42%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (15.90%) Degree
2 35 (14.64%) Security Cleared
3 25 (10.46%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.02%) Master's Degree
5 12 (5.02%) PhD
6 9 (3.77%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.93%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.26%) 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
10 1 (0.42%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (38.91%) Data Quality
2 37 (15.48%) GDPR
3 35 (14.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.02%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.67%) 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 (18.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (17.57%) Terraform
2 33 (13.81%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.44%) Ansible
4 6 (2.51%) Grafana
5 5 (2.09%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.09%) Puppet
6 3 (1.26%) Kibana
6 3 (1.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 80 (33.47%) Databricks
2 31 (12.97%) Red Hat
3 28 (11.72%) Oracle
4 24 (10.04%) Cloudera
4 24 (10.04%) Dell
5 10 (4.18%) Google
5 10 (4.18%) Palantir
6 9 (3.77%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.09%) Informatica
7 5 (2.09%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.67%) Talend
9 3 (1.26%) OpenAI
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