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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 373 273
Rank change year-on-year -116 -100 -23
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 210 304 875
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.69% 1.04%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.66% 7.06% 9.63%
Number of salaries quoted 94 206 268
10th Percentile £54,875 £53,125 £50,172
25th Percentile £72,875 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £88,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +10.94% -5.88%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £103,125
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +30.43% -17.20% +6.84%

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 3,709 4,307 9,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.99% 9.82% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,505 2,846 6,734
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £69,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £102,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,740 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.25% +5.88% -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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -95 191 £85,000 -4.23% 111
London -30 132 £95,000 -13.64% 45
UK excluding London -66 58 £75,000 +30.43% 85
Work from Home -77 54 £81,000 -26.36% 38
North of England -45 24 £65,000 +18.18% 20
Yorkshire -33 15 £65,000 +13.04% 10
East of England +12 14 £75,000 -7.69% 9
South West -18 10 £80,000 - 17
North West -14 8 £95,000 +72.73% 8
Scotland -21 4 £90,000 -5.26% 2
South East -45 4 £65,000 +13.04% 26
West Midlands +2 1 - - 3
Wales -11 1 £95,000 +48.44% 5
North East -14 1 - - 2
Midlands -27 1 - - 9

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 92 (43.81%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (36.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.48%) Camunda
3 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 140 (66.67%) AWS
2 92 (43.81%) Azure
3 78 (37.14%) GCP
4 49 (23.33%) Amazon S3
5 37 (17.62%) OpenShift
6 35 (16.67%) dbt
7 33 (15.71%) Snowflake
8 31 (14.76%) Power Platform
8 31 (14.76%) Serverless
9 28 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 18 (8.57%) Dagster
12 17 (8.10%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
13 14 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
14 10 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (4.29%) Amazon SageMaker
15 9 (4.29%) GitHub
15 9 (4.29%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.33%) Broadband
2 5 (2.38%) AMQP
2 5 (2.38%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.48%) 4G
3 1 (0.48%) 5G
3 1 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.48%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (32.86%) Big Data
2 67 (31.90%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (27.14%) Tableau
4 44 (20.95%) Hadoop
5 42 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 42 (20.00%) Data Lake
6 35 (16.67%) Apache Hive
7 33 (15.71%) BigQuery
8 31 (14.76%) Power BI
9 28 (13.33%) Spark SQL
10 26 (12.38%) Parquet
11 25 (11.90%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (11.90%) Impala
11 25 (11.90%) Oracle Database
12 19 (9.05%) Apache Iceberg
12 19 (9.05%) Delta Lake
12 19 (9.05%) Looker
13 17 (8.10%) MySQL
13 17 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
13 17 (8.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (20.00%) Git
2 25 (11.90%) IBM UrbanCode
3 22 (10.48%) MLflow
4 8 (3.81%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.33%) GitLab
6 2 (0.95%) Deequ
7 1 (0.48%) JIRA
7 1 (0.48%) JUnit
General
1 83 (39.52%) Finance
2 78 (37.14%) Social Skills
3 60 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (16.19%) Banking
5 25 (11.90%) Investment Banking
6 13 (6.19%) Law
6 13 (6.19%) Legal
7 9 (4.29%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.86%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.90%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.95%) Advertising
10 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.95%) Marketing
10 2 (0.95%) Retail
10 2 (0.95%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.48%) Billing
11 1 (0.48%) Games
11 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (38.10%) Data Engineer
2 64 (30.48%) Senior
3 29 (13.81%) Senior Data Engineer
4 27 (12.86%) Developer
5 26 (12.38%) Analyst
6 23 (10.95%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (10.48%) Banking Analyst
8 20 (9.52%) Python Developer
9 15 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
9 15 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (6.19%) Architect
10 13 (6.19%) Business Analyst
11 12 (5.71%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (5.24%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 11 (5.24%) Software Engineer
13 10 (4.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 9 (4.29%) Data Consultant
14 9 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (4.29%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (41.43%) Kafka
2 50 (23.81%) PySpark
3 28 (13.33%) PyTorch
3 28 (13.33%) TensorFlow
4 26 (12.38%) Pandas
4 26 (12.38%) REST
5 14 (6.67%) scikit-learn
6 13 (6.19%) Spring
7 12 (5.71%) Spring Boot
8 11 (5.24%) LangChain
9 9 (4.29%) Faiss
9 9 (4.29%) LlamaIndex
9 9 (4.29%) Node.js
9 9 (4.29%) NumPy
9 9 (4.29%) OAuth
9 9 (4.29%) pgvector
9 9 (4.29%) vLLM
10 7 (3.33%) React
11 6 (2.86%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.71%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.81%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.10%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.24%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (4.29%) Clustering
6 9 (4.29%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.81%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.33%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.86%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.86%) Social Media
10 5 (2.38%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.95%) Data Fabric
13 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.62%) Linux
2 8 (3.81%) Unix
3 5 (2.38%) CentOS
3 5 (2.38%) Debian
3 5 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (64.76%) Data Pipeline
2 117 (55.71%) Analytics
3 116 (55.24%) Data Engineering
4 102 (48.57%) CI/CD
5 101 (48.10%) ETL
6 92 (43.81%) AI
7 83 (39.52%) Data Governance
8 75 (35.71%) Data Science
9 73 (34.76%) Machine Learning
10 71 (33.81%) Data Modelling
11 67 (31.90%) Agile
12 57 (27.14%) Computer Science
13 56 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
14 50 (23.81%) Software Engineering
15 40 (19.05%) DevOps
15 40 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (17.14%) Data Transformation
16 36 (17.14%) Scrum
17 35 (16.67%) Roadmaps
18 32 (15.24%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 196 (93.33%) Python
2 154 (73.33%) SQL
3 62 (29.52%) Java
4 39 (18.57%) Scala
5 10 (4.76%) Bash
6 9 (4.29%) Go
7 8 (3.81%) C++
8 7 (3.33%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.86%) R
10 3 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.43%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.48%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.48%) Bicep
11 1 (0.48%) C#
11 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.48%) Ruby
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (20.00%) Degree
2 19 (9.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (8.57%) Security Cleared
4 13 (6.19%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.29%) Master's Degree
5 9 (4.29%) PhD
6 8 (3.81%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.48%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (39.05%) Data Quality
2 25 (11.90%) GDPR
3 21 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.71%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.43%) QA
7 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (20.00%) Docker
2 6 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 28 (13.33%) Terraform
3 16 (7.62%) Ansible
4 12 (5.71%) Grafana
5 11 (5.24%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.38%) Puppet
7 3 (1.43%) Kibana
7 3 (1.43%) logstash
8 1 (0.48%) Argo
Vendors
1 60 (28.57%) Databricks
2 37 (17.62%) Oracle
3 32 (15.24%) Red Hat
4 17 (8.10%) Dell
5 14 (6.67%) Palantir
6 12 (5.71%) Microsoft
7 10 (4.76%) Google
8 9 (4.29%) Cloudera
9 8 (3.81%) Informatica
10 7 (3.33%) Talend
11 5 (2.38%) SaltStack
12 4 (1.90%) IBM
13 2 (0.95%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.48%) Automation Anywhere
14 1 (0.48%) Foundry
14 1 (0.48%) Pega
14 1 (0.48%) SAP
14 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.48%) UiPath