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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 425 293
Rank change year-on-year -53 -132 -45
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 181 297 714
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.57% 1.01%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.16% 6.19% 9.40%
Number of salaries quoted 94 208 276
10th Percentile £55,750 £53,375 £50,172
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -17.24% +7.01%

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 3,508 4,797 7,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.50% 9.25% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,319 2,771 5,755
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,860 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +11.72% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,740 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.26% +8.24% -8.60%

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 February 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 1 February 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 -41 165 £85,000 -5.56% 110
London -9 120 £95,000 -10.59% 66
Work from Home -63 49 £87,000 -20.91% 50
UK excluding London -33 44 £65,000 +8.33% 68
North of England +5 26 £65,000 +23.81% 17
Yorkshire - 16 £65,000 - 5
North West +17 9 £75,000 +50.00% 8
South West -7 6 £60,000 -22.58% 12
East of England +21 4 - - 2
Scotland -5 3 £90,000 - 7
Midlands +4 2 - - 4
South East +3 2 £65,000 +13.04% 25
West Midlands +27 1 - - 3
Wales +2 1 £95,000 +79.25% 1
North East -1 1 - - 4
East Midlands -13 1 - - 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 49 (27.07%) Apache
2 43 (23.76%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.66%) Luigi
4 2 (1.10%) SAS
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.55%) Camunda
5 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 5 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 128 (70.72%) AWS
2 101 (55.80%) Azure
3 81 (44.75%) GCP
4 37 (20.44%) Serverless
5 33 (18.23%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (12.71%) Amazon S3
7 20 (11.05%) Snowflake
8 18 (9.94%) Amazon EMR
9 17 (9.39%) Power Platform
10 16 (8.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (8.84%) dbt
11 15 (8.29%) Amazon Kinesis
11 15 (8.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (6.63%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (6.08%) Azure Machine Learning
13 11 (6.08%) Dagster
13 11 (6.08%) OpenShift
14 9 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (4.42%) Amazon SageMaker
15 8 (4.42%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.76%) AMQP
2 4 (2.21%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.55%) Broadband
3 1 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.55%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (46.41%) Big Data
2 68 (37.57%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (35.91%) Hadoop
4 48 (26.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (18.78%) Data Lake
6 24 (13.26%) NoSQL
7 21 (11.60%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (11.60%) Tableau
8 19 (10.50%) MySQL
9 17 (9.39%) Apache Iceberg
9 17 (9.39%) BigQuery
9 17 (9.39%) MongoDB
9 17 (9.39%) Power BI
9 17 (9.39%) SQL Server
10 16 (8.84%) Delta Lake
11 14 (7.73%) Apache Hive
11 14 (7.73%) Relational Database
12 12 (6.63%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (6.63%) DynamoDB
12 12 (6.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (7.73%) Git
2 13 (7.18%) MLflow
3 7 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.21%) GitLab
5 2 (1.10%) Deequ
6 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.55%) JUnit
General
1 76 (41.99%) Social Skills
2 61 (33.70%) Finance
3 41 (22.65%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.39%) Financial Institution
5 15 (8.29%) Banking
5 15 (8.29%) Law
6 10 (5.52%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.21%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.66%) Front Office
8 3 (1.66%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.10%) Advertising
9 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.10%) Legal
9 2 (1.10%) Marketing
9 2 (1.10%) Retail
10 1 (0.55%) Electronics
10 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 77 (42.54%) Data Engineer
2 51 (28.18%) Senior
3 27 (14.92%) Senior Data Engineer
4 25 (13.81%) Developer
5 19 (10.50%) AWS Data Engineer
5 19 (10.50%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (8.29%) Python Developer
7 14 (7.73%) Architect
8 13 (7.18%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (6.08%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.52%) Data Architect
10 10 (5.52%) Data Scientist
10 10 (5.52%) Lead
11 8 (4.42%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 8 (4.42%) Consultant
11 8 (4.42%) Data Consultant
11 8 (4.42%) Senior Consultant
12 7 (3.87%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 7 (3.87%) Senior Data Scientist
13 5 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (39.78%) Kafka
2 24 (13.26%) PySpark
3 23 (12.71%) PyTorch
3 23 (12.71%) TensorFlow
4 20 (11.05%) REST
5 12 (6.63%) Pandas
6 10 (5.52%) scikit-learn
7 9 (4.97%) Spark Streaming
8 8 (4.42%) boto
8 8 (4.42%) Faiss
8 8 (4.42%) Spring
8 8 (4.42%) vLLM
9 7 (3.87%) NumPy
9 7 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (3.87%) React
9 7 (3.87%) SpaCy
9 7 (3.87%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.31%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.31%) Node.js
11 5 (2.76%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.76%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (13.81%) Cloud Native
2 25 (13.81%) Product Ownership
3 16 (8.84%) Algorithms
3 16 (8.84%) e-Learning
4 11 (6.08%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (3.87%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (3.31%) FMCG
9 4 (2.21%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.66%) Equities
10 3 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.66%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.10%) NHS
12 1 (0.55%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.55%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.73%) Linux
2 9 (4.97%) Unix
3 5 (2.76%) CentOS
3 5 (2.76%) Debian
3 5 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (58.01%) Data Pipeline
2 99 (54.70%) Data Engineering
3 87 (48.07%) Analytics
4 86 (47.51%) CI/CD
5 74 (40.88%) Machine Learning
6 73 (40.33%) Data Science
7 70 (38.67%) ETL
8 66 (36.46%) Data Modelling
9 53 (29.28%) AI
10 50 (27.62%) Business Intelligence
10 50 (27.62%) Data Governance
10 50 (27.62%) DevOps
11 46 (25.41%) Computer Science
11 46 (25.41%) Software Engineering
12 42 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (20.99%) Agile
14 37 (20.44%) Mentoring
15 32 (17.68%) Roadmaps
16 28 (15.47%) Fintech
16 28 (15.47%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 161 (88.95%) Python
2 114 (62.98%) SQL
3 69 (38.12%) Java
4 42 (23.20%) Scala
5 9 (4.97%) Bash
5 9 (4.97%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.42%) Go
6 8 (4.42%) R
7 5 (2.76%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.66%) C#
9 2 (1.10%) C++
9 2 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.55%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.55%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (24.31%) Degree
2 17 (9.39%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.29%) Master's Degree
4 14 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (7.73%) PhD
4 14 (7.73%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.31%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.55%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (27.62%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.52%) QA
3 9 (4.97%) GDPR
4 4 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (17.13%) Docker
2 9 (4.97%) HDFS
3 5 (2.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (16.02%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.39%) Terraform
3 14 (7.73%) Ansible
4 7 (3.87%) Puppet
5 6 (3.31%) Grafana
5 6 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.66%) Kibana
6 3 (1.66%) logstash
7 2 (1.10%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.55%) Argo
Vendors
1 59 (32.60%) Databricks
2 18 (9.94%) Oracle
3 12 (6.63%) Palantir
4 11 (6.08%) Google
4 11 (6.08%) Informatica
4 11 (6.08%) Microsoft
5 10 (5.52%) Talend
6 7 (3.87%) Dell
6 7 (3.87%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.87%) SAP
7 5 (2.76%) SaltStack
8 4 (2.21%) IBM
9 1 (0.55%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.55%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.55%) Pega
9 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.55%) UiPath