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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 435 285
Rank change year-on-year -39 -150 -22
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 177 290 574
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.53% 1.08%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.16% 5.85% 9.64%
Number of salaries quoted 96 199 249
10th Percentile £55,625 £51,800 £50,172
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £67,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £120,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -17.24% +11.54%

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 3,431 4,956 5,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.80% 9.14% 11.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,301 2,908 4,423
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,750 £36,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £47,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -12.63% +3.26% -3.16%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -16 166 £83,000 +3.75% 237
London +10 123 £97,500 -2.50% 62
Work from Home -28 45 £86,000 -9.47% 163
UK excluding London -4 42 £62,500 +4.17% 196
North of England +30 27 £60,000 +20.00% 47
Yorkshire +9 18 £60,000 +21.77% 20
North West +11 8 £54,250 +8.50% 23
East of England +26 4 - - 31
Scotland -3 3 £90,000 - 10
South East -8 3 £65,000 +13.04% 59
Midlands +13 2 - - 29
South West -10 2 £50,000 -35.48% 20
West Midlands +20 1 - - 15
North East +7 1 - - 4
Wales +6 1 £95,000 +79.25% 5
East Midlands -10 1 - - 12

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 43 (24.29%) Apache
2 40 (22.60%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.69%) Luigi
4 2 (1.13%) SAS
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.56%) Appian
5 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 9 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 124 (70.06%) AWS
2 103 (58.19%) Azure
3 76 (42.94%) GCP
4 31 (17.51%) Serverless
5 27 (15.25%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (12.43%) Amazon S3
7 19 (10.73%) Amazon EMR
7 19 (10.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (10.17%) dbt
8 18 (10.17%) Snowflake
9 17 (9.60%) Power Platform
10 15 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (7.91%) Amazon Kinesis
11 14 (7.91%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (5.08%) OpenShift
13 8 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (3.95%) Azure Machine Learning
14 7 (3.95%) Dagster
15 6 (3.39%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.26%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.69%) AMQP
3 1 (0.56%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (47.46%) Big Data
2 67 (37.85%) Data Warehouse
2 67 (37.85%) Hadoop
3 48 (27.12%) Amazon Redshift
4 33 (18.64%) Data Lake
5 29 (16.38%) NoSQL
6 25 (14.12%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (11.30%) MySQL
8 19 (10.73%) MongoDB
9 18 (10.17%) SQL Server
10 16 (9.04%) Power BI
11 15 (8.47%) Metadata
11 15 (8.47%) Relational Database
11 15 (8.47%) Tableau
12 14 (7.91%) Apache Hive
12 14 (7.91%) Apache Iceberg
12 14 (7.91%) DynamoDB
13 13 (7.34%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (7.34%) BigQuery
14 12 (6.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (6.78%) Git
1 12 (6.78%) MLflow
2 8 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.69%) GitLab
4 2 (1.13%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.56%) Deequ
5 1 (0.56%) Gradle
5 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.56%) Selenium
5 1 (0.56%) Snyk
General
1 82 (46.33%) Social Skills
2 57 (32.20%) Finance
3 44 (24.86%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.30%) Law
5 18 (10.17%) Financial Institution
6 12 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.21%) Banking
8 4 (2.26%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.69%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.69%) Front Office
9 3 (1.69%) Marketing
10 2 (1.13%) Electronics
10 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.13%) Legal
10 2 (1.13%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.13%) Retail
10 2 (1.13%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (40.68%) Data Engineer
2 48 (27.12%) Senior
3 28 (15.82%) Senior Data Engineer
4 23 (12.99%) Developer
5 15 (8.47%) AWS Data Engineer
5 15 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (7.91%) Principal Engineer
6 14 (7.91%) Python Developer
7 13 (7.34%) Architect
7 13 (7.34%) Lead
8 10 (5.65%) Data Architect
8 10 (5.65%) Data Scientist
8 10 (5.65%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.08%) Product Lead
10 7 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 7 (3.95%) Senior Data Scientist
11 5 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.82%) Data Manager
12 4 (2.26%) Engineering Manager
12 4 (2.26%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (42.94%) Kafka
2 23 (12.99%) PyTorch
2 23 (12.99%) TensorFlow
3 18 (10.17%) PySpark
4 17 (9.60%) REST
5 14 (7.91%) Pandas
5 14 (7.91%) scikit-learn
6 10 (5.65%) Spark Streaming
7 8 (4.52%) boto
8 7 (3.95%) NumPy
8 7 (3.95%) SpaCy
9 6 (3.39%) Spring
10 5 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.82%) LDAP
10 5 (2.82%) OAuth
10 5 (2.82%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.82%) React
11 4 (2.26%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.26%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 47 (26.55%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (14.12%) Product Ownership
3 23 (12.99%) Cloud Native
4 17 (9.60%) e-Learning
5 14 (7.91%) Algorithms
6 12 (6.78%) Management Information System
7 11 (6.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (5.65%) FMCG
9 8 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (3.95%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (2.82%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.69%) Equities
12 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
13 2 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.13%) Mainframe
14 1 (0.56%) Data Fabric
14 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.78%) Linux
2 9 (5.08%) Unix
3 3 (1.69%) CentOS
3 3 (1.69%) Debian
3 3 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (57.06%) Data Pipeline
2 94 (53.11%) Data Engineering
3 88 (49.72%) Analytics
4 84 (47.46%) CI/CD
5 75 (42.37%) Machine Learning
6 70 (39.55%) Data Science
7 69 (38.98%) ETL
8 68 (38.42%) Data Modelling
9 57 (32.20%) DevOps
10 51 (28.81%) AI
11 49 (27.68%) Business Intelligence
11 49 (27.68%) Software Engineering
12 48 (27.12%) Data Governance
13 41 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (22.60%) Computer Science
14 40 (22.60%) Mentoring
15 38 (21.47%) Agile
16 30 (16.95%) Observability
17 28 (15.82%) Fintech
17 28 (15.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 154 (87.01%) Python
2 113 (63.84%) SQL
3 65 (36.72%) Java
4 40 (22.60%) Scala
5 8 (4.52%) R
6 7 (3.95%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.39%) Bash
8 4 (2.26%) Go
8 4 (2.26%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.69%) C#
10 2 (1.13%) C++
10 2 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.13%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.56%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (22.60%) Degree
2 15 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (8.47%) Master's Degree
3 14 (7.91%) PhD
4 13 (7.34%) Security Cleared
5 11 (6.21%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.39%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.26%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.56%) MBA
10 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (26.55%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.34%) QA
3 10 (5.65%) GDPR
4 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (18.64%) Docker
2 9 (5.08%) HDFS
3 5 (2.82%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (18.08%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.60%) Terraform
3 14 (7.91%) Ansible
4 7 (3.95%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.39%) Grafana
6 5 (2.82%) Kubeflow
6 5 (2.82%) Puppet
7 3 (1.69%) Kibana
7 3 (1.69%) logstash
8 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 57 (32.20%) Databricks
2 21 (11.86%) Oracle
3 12 (6.78%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.78%) SAP
4 11 (6.21%) Informatica
4 11 (6.21%) Talend
5 9 (5.08%) Palantir
6 8 (4.52%) Google
7 7 (3.95%) Dell
8 4 (2.26%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.69%) IBM
9 3 (1.69%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.56%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.56%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.56%) UiPath
10 1 (0.56%) VMware