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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 435 286
Rank change year-on-year -44 -149 -41
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 177 284 613
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.53% 1.04%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.16% 5.84% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 94 199 254
10th Percentile £53,250 £53,500 £50,172
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £66,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -3.03%
75th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £101,875
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £127,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £63,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.96% -12.07% +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 3,428 4,863 6,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.62% 9.12% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,273 2,850 4,766
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,785 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,270 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.06% +4.44% -4.51%

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 17 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 17 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 -26 163 £85,000 +6.25% 96
London +3 117 £97,500 -2.50% 42
Work from Home -41 47 £87,000 -13.00% 63
UK excluding London -5 45 £65,000 +1.96% 71
North of England +27 30 £60,000 +14.29% 12
Yorkshire - 19 £62,500 - 3
North West +13 10 £55,000 +10.00% 5
East of England +21 4 - - 11
South West -10 4 £50,000 -35.48% 5
Scotland +2 3 £90,000 - 5
Midlands +9 2 - - 4
West Midlands +27 1 - - 1
Wales +5 1 £95,000 +79.25% 3
South East +5 1 £65,000 +13.04% 32
North East +5 1 - - 4
East Midlands -14 1 - - 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 49 (27.68%) Apache
2 39 (22.03%) 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%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 7 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 124 (70.06%) AWS
2 101 (57.06%) Azure
3 77 (43.50%) GCP
4 37 (20.90%) Serverless
5 33 (18.64%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (12.99%) Amazon S3
7 19 (10.73%) Snowflake
8 18 (10.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (9.60%) Amazon EMR
9 17 (9.60%) dbt
9 17 (9.60%) Power Platform
10 16 (9.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (8.47%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (7.34%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (6.21%) OpenShift
14 10 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (5.08%) Dagster
16 8 (4.52%) Azure Machine Learning
17 7 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (3.95%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.82%) AMQP
2 4 (2.26%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.56%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (47.46%) Big Data
2 68 (38.42%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (37.29%) Hadoop
4 50 (28.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 36 (20.34%) Data Lake
6 25 (14.12%) NoSQL
7 21 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (10.73%) MySQL
9 18 (10.17%) MongoDB
9 18 (10.17%) Tableau
10 17 (9.60%) Power BI
10 17 (9.60%) SQL Server
11 15 (8.47%) Apache Iceberg
11 15 (8.47%) BigQuery
12 14 (7.91%) Apache Hive
12 14 (7.91%) Delta Lake
12 14 (7.91%) Metadata
12 14 (7.91%) Relational Database
13 12 (6.78%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (6.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (6.78%) Git
2 11 (6.21%) MLflow
3 7 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.69%) GitLab
5 2 (1.13%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.56%) Deequ
General
1 76 (42.94%) Social Skills
2 57 (32.20%) Finance
3 42 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.17%) Financial Institution
5 17 (9.60%) Law
6 13 (7.34%) Banking
7 11 (6.21%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.26%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.26%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.69%) Front Office
10 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.13%) Marketing
10 2 (1.13%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (43.50%) Data Engineer
2 51 (28.81%) Senior
3 29 (16.38%) Senior Data Engineer
4 23 (12.99%) Developer
5 17 (9.60%) AWS Data Engineer
5 17 (9.60%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (7.91%) Python Developer
7 13 (7.34%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (6.78%) Architect
9 11 (6.21%) Lead
9 11 (6.21%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.65%) Data Architect
10 10 (5.65%) Data Scientist
11 7 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 7 (3.95%) Product Lead
11 7 (3.95%) Senior Data Scientist
12 6 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 6 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.39%) Consultant
12 6 (3.39%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (40.11%) Kafka
2 22 (12.43%) PySpark
3 21 (11.86%) PyTorch
3 21 (11.86%) TensorFlow
4 19 (10.73%) REST
5 14 (7.91%) Pandas
6 11 (6.21%) scikit-learn
7 10 (5.65%) Spark Streaming
8 8 (4.52%) boto
9 7 (3.95%) NumPy
9 7 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (3.95%) React
9 7 (3.95%) SpaCy
9 7 (3.95%) Spring
10 6 (3.39%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.39%) Faiss
10 6 (3.39%) Node.js
10 6 (3.39%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.39%) vLLM
11 5 (2.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.29%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (14.12%) Product Ownership
3 24 (13.56%) Cloud Native
4 17 (9.60%) e-Learning
5 14 (7.91%) Algorithms
6 11 (6.21%) Management Information System
7 10 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (4.52%) FMCG
8 8 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (3.95%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (2.26%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.69%) Equities
11 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.13%) NHS
13 1 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
13 1 (0.56%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.34%) Linux
2 9 (5.08%) Unix
3 5 (2.82%) CentOS
3 5 (2.82%) Debian
3 5 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (58.76%) Data Pipeline
2 95 (53.67%) Data Engineering
3 86 (48.59%) Analytics
4 83 (46.89%) CI/CD
5 72 (40.68%) Machine Learning
6 71 (40.11%) Data Science
6 71 (40.11%) ETL
7 69 (38.98%) Data Modelling
8 51 (28.81%) DevOps
9 50 (28.25%) Business Intelligence
10 49 (27.68%) AI
10 49 (27.68%) Data Governance
11 45 (25.42%) Software Engineering
12 44 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (22.60%) Computer Science
14 38 (21.47%) Mentoring
15 37 (20.90%) Agile
16 29 (16.38%) Observability
16 29 (16.38%) Roadmaps
17 27 (15.25%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 156 (88.14%) Python
2 114 (64.41%) SQL
3 67 (37.85%) Java
4 42 (23.73%) Scala
5 9 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.52%) R
7 6 (3.39%) Bash
7 6 (3.39%) 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 16 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.91%) Master's Degree
4 13 (7.34%) PhD
4 13 (7.34%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.82%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.82%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.56%) MBA
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (27.12%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.21%) QA
3 9 (5.08%) GDPR
4 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (16.95%) Docker
2 9 (5.08%) HDFS
3 5 (2.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (16.38%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.60%) Terraform
3 14 (7.91%) Ansible
4 7 (3.95%) Puppet
5 6 (3.39%) Grafana
5 6 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.69%) Kibana
6 3 (1.69%) logstash
7 2 (1.13%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 59 (33.33%) Databricks
2 19 (10.73%) Oracle
3 13 (7.34%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.21%) Informatica
4 11 (6.21%) Palantir
5 10 (5.65%) Google
5 10 (5.65%) Talend
6 9 (5.08%) SAP
7 7 (3.95%) Dell
8 6 (3.39%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.82%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.69%) IBM
11 1 (0.56%) Cloudera