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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 424 362
Rank change year-on-year -60 -62 -1
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 286 294 655
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.60% 0.72%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.54% 6.68% 7.60%
Number of salaries quoted 137 149 210
10th Percentile £52,000 £47,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £102,750 £100,625
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.96% +2.00% -14.68%

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 4,372 4,401 8,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.35% 8.97% 9.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,155 2,930 6,047
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,500 £28,468
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,643 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +6.10% -6.53%
75th Percentile £71,117 £75,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

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 24 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 24 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 -61 269 £82,500 +3.13% 142
London -6 172 £100,000 +8.11% 93
UK excluding London -123 92 £65,000 +1.96% 70
Work from Home -58 61 £66,805 -16.49% 55
North of England -31 41 £56,250 -2.17% 25
South West -42 21 £70,000 +27.27% 9
North West -1 16 £55,000 - 10
East of England -2 15 £75,000 +4.90% 3
North East -38 15 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Yorkshire -39 10 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -48 8 £62,500 -3.85% 22
Midlands -50 3 £58,403 -13.48% 4
Scotland -14 2 £115,000 +15.00% 2
West Midlands -38 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
Wales -56 2 £80,000 +27.87% 2
East Midlands -37 1 £50,000 -33.33% 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
1 122 (42.66%) Apache
2 103 (36.01%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (5.94%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.75%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.05%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.05%) SAS
6 2 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 187 (65.38%) AWS
2 135 (47.20%) Azure
3 91 (31.82%) GCP
4 60 (20.98%) Amazon S3
5 50 (17.48%) Power Platform
6 46 (16.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (13.64%) Snowflake
8 38 (13.29%) dbt
9 37 (12.94%) Serverless
10 33 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (10.49%) OpenShift
12 23 (8.04%) Amazon Kinesis
12 23 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
14 18 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (5.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 14 (4.90%) GitHub
17 13 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.10%) BGP
1 6 (2.10%) Broadband
1 6 (2.10%) DNS
1 6 (2.10%) IPsec
1 6 (2.10%) VPN
2 5 (1.75%) Internet
3 4 (1.40%) AMQP
4 2 (0.70%) 4G
4 2 (0.70%) 5G
5 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (30.77%) Big Data
2 74 (25.87%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (23.08%) Tableau
4 56 (19.58%) Data Lake
4 56 (19.58%) Elasticsearch
5 54 (18.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 49 (17.13%) Power BI
7 43 (15.03%) Hadoop
8 40 (13.99%) NoSQL
9 38 (13.29%) Apache Hive
10 36 (12.59%) Spark SQL
11 33 (11.54%) BigQuery
12 27 (9.44%) Parquet
13 26 (9.09%) Metadata
14 25 (8.74%) Delta Lake
14 25 (8.74%) Impala
14 25 (8.74%) Looker
14 25 (8.74%) Oracle Database
14 25 (8.74%) Relational Database
14 25 (8.74%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 49 (17.13%) Git
2 31 (10.84%) MLflow
3 25 (8.74%) IBM UrbanCode
4 17 (5.94%) GitLab
5 13 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.70%) JIRA
6 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.35%) JUnit
General
1 116 (40.56%) Finance
2 82 (28.67%) Social Skills
3 69 (24.13%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (16.08%) Banking
5 24 (8.39%) Investment Banking
6 21 (7.34%) Law
7 18 (6.29%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.59%) Legal
9 15 (5.24%) Financial Institution
10 11 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (3.15%) Military
12 7 (2.45%) Aerospace
12 7 (2.45%) Marketing
13 6 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.75%) Games
15 4 (1.40%) Retail
15 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
16 3 (1.05%) Front Office
17 2 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 117 (40.91%) Data Engineer
2 99 (34.62%) Senior
3 38 (13.29%) Lead
4 35 (12.24%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (9.09%) Analyst
6 25 (8.74%) Lead Data Engineer
7 24 (8.39%) Python Engineer
7 24 (8.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 23 (8.04%) Data Scientist
8 23 (8.04%) Systems Engineer
8 23 (8.04%) Transformation Analyst
9 22 (7.69%) Banking Analyst
10 19 (6.64%) Senior Data Scientist
11 18 (6.29%) Architect
11 18 (6.29%) Developer
12 13 (4.55%) Business Analyst
12 13 (4.55%) Python Developer
13 12 (4.20%) Data Architect
13 12 (4.20%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (4.20%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (44.06%) Kafka
2 77 (26.92%) PySpark
3 26 (9.09%) PyTorch
3 26 (9.09%) TensorFlow
4 24 (8.39%) scikit-learn
5 23 (8.04%) LangChain
5 23 (8.04%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.04%) Pandas
5 23 (8.04%) pgvector
6 20 (6.99%) REST
7 16 (5.59%) Node.js
8 15 (5.24%) SpaCy
9 14 (4.90%) Spring
9 14 (4.90%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.45%) React
11 6 (2.10%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (2.10%) NumPy
12 5 (1.75%) OAuth
12 5 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.04%) Clustering
4 19 (6.64%) Data Structures
5 16 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (5.59%) Product Ownership
6 15 (5.24%) e-Learning
7 14 (4.90%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.50%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (2.80%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.10%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (2.10%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.10%) Social Media
11 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.40%) NHS
13 3 (1.05%) Data Fabric
13 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.55%) Linux
2 4 (1.40%) CentOS
2 4 (1.40%) Debian
2 4 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.40%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (62.59%) Analytics
2 175 (61.19%) Data Engineering
3 173 (60.49%) Data Pipeline
4 139 (48.60%) CI/CD
5 119 (41.61%) AI
5 119 (41.61%) Data Modelling
5 119 (41.61%) ETL
6 112 (39.16%) Data Science
7 109 (38.11%) Machine Learning
8 96 (33.57%) Data Governance
9 92 (32.17%) Agile
10 82 (28.67%) DevOps
11 65 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
12 64 (22.38%) Use Case
13 57 (19.93%) Mentoring
14 54 (18.88%) Validation
15 51 (17.83%) Generative AI
16 50 (17.48%) Performance Tuning
17 49 (17.13%) Computer Science
18 45 (15.73%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 250 (87.41%) Python
2 212 (74.13%) SQL
3 54 (18.88%) Scala
4 42 (14.69%) Java
5 9 (3.15%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.45%) C#
6 7 (2.45%) C++
7 6 (2.10%) Bash
7 6 (2.10%) C
7 6 (2.10%) PHP
7 6 (2.10%) Ruby
8 5 (1.75%) Bicep
8 5 (1.75%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.75%) VBA
9 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.05%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.70%) Go
10 2 (0.70%) R
11 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 56 (19.58%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.48%) Degree
3 43 (15.03%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.99%) PhD
5 19 (6.64%) Master's Degree
6 14 (4.90%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.55%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.05%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.35%) CEH
11 1 (0.35%) CISM
11 1 (0.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (36.01%) Data Quality
2 39 (13.64%) GDPR
3 35 (12.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.20%) HIPAA
5 8 (2.80%) QA
6 6 (2.10%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (17.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (17.83%) Terraform
2 40 (13.99%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.90%) Ansible
4 6 (2.10%) Grafana
4 6 (2.10%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.40%) Puppet
7 3 (1.05%) Kibana
7 3 (1.05%) Packer
Vendors
1 103 (36.01%) Databricks
2 33 (11.54%) Oracle
3 30 (10.49%) Red Hat
4 24 (8.39%) Cloudera
4 24 (8.39%) Dell
4 24 (8.39%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.80%) Informatica
6 7 (2.45%) Google
7 6 (2.10%) HP
7 6 (2.10%) IBM
7 6 (2.10%) SAP
8 4 (1.40%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.40%) Palantir
8 4 (1.40%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.05%) Talend
10 2 (0.70%) Foundry
11 1 (0.35%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.35%) Splunk
11 1 (0.35%) UiPath