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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 422 451
Rank change year-on-year -127 +29 -87
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 271 255 366
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.52% 0.48%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.68% 6.32% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 137 111 196
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,000 £48,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +0.46%
75th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £120,000 £121,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £62,500 £65,599
% change year-on-year -6.00% -4.72% -12.53%

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 4,769 4,035 6,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.08% 8.19% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,281 2,697 3,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -0.06%

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 September 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 September 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 -87 251 £77,500 - 495
London -42 151 £90,000 - 351
UK excluding London -136 99 £58,750 -6.00% 205
Work from Home -37 59 £66,805 -10.93% 203
North of England -39 51 £55,000 -8.33% 48
South West -56 26 £58,000 +5.45% 38
North East -46 24 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West -13 18 £55,000 -31.25% 29
South East -64 10 £63,002 -6.66% 30
Yorkshire -48 9 £80,000 +33.33% 9
Scotland -18 5 £115,000 - 35
Midlands -62 5 £54,500 -14.84% 18
West Midlands -49 4 £60,653 +0.25% 13
Wales -76 2 £80,000 +59.60% 3
East Midlands -36 1 £50,000 -33.33% 5
East of England -37 1 £80,000 +11.89% 15

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
1 121 (44.65%) Apache
2 43 (15.87%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (7.38%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.85%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.11%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.11%) SAS
6 2 (0.74%) Luigi
6 2 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.74%) Tornado
7 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.37%) Confluence
7 1 (0.37%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 155 (57.20%) AWS
2 148 (54.61%) Azure
3 80 (29.52%) GCP
4 44 (16.24%) Azure Data Factory
5 41 (15.13%) Serverless
6 37 (13.65%) Amazon S3
7 31 (11.44%) Power Platform
8 29 (10.70%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (9.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (8.86%) Amazon EMR
12 22 (8.12%) Azure Databricks
13 21 (7.75%) Amazon Kinesis
14 17 (6.27%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (6.27%) GitHub
15 16 (5.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (5.90%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (5.90%) Snowflake
16 14 (5.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 13 (4.80%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.58%) AMQP
2 6 (2.21%) BGP
2 6 (2.21%) DNS
2 6 (2.21%) IPsec
2 6 (2.21%) VPN
3 5 (1.85%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) 4G
4 1 (0.37%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (35.79%) Big Data
2 58 (21.40%) Hadoop
3 56 (20.66%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (18.08%) Data Lake
5 47 (17.34%) NoSQL
6 37 (13.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 31 (11.44%) Power BI
8 28 (10.33%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (10.33%) Metadata
9 25 (9.23%) Delta Lake
9 25 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (8.86%) Tableau
11 23 (8.49%) Relational Database
12 19 (7.01%) Flink
13 17 (6.27%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (6.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (5.17%) Spark SQL
15 12 (4.43%) Apache Hive
15 12 (4.43%) DynamoDB
15 12 (4.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (14.39%) Git
2 23 (8.49%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.38%) GitLab
4 8 (2.95%) MLflow
5 2 (0.74%) JIRA
5 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.37%) ERwin
6 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 117 (43.17%) Finance
2 71 (26.20%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.81%) Banking
5 25 (9.23%) Financial Institution
6 24 (8.86%) Public Sector
7 20 (7.38%) Law
8 19 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (5.54%) Aerospace
10 13 (4.80%) Marketing
11 10 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.69%) Military
12 6 (2.21%) Games
12 6 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.21%) Retail
13 5 (1.85%) Legal
14 4 (1.48%) Front Office
15 2 (0.74%) Aviation
15 2 (0.74%) Local Government
15 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 137 (50.55%) Data Engineer
2 82 (30.26%) Senior
3 50 (18.45%) Lead
4 40 (14.76%) Data Scientist
5 36 (13.28%) Senior Data Engineer
6 33 (12.18%) Senior Data Scientist
7 28 (10.33%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (8.86%) Databricks Engineer
9 21 (7.75%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 15 (5.54%) Architect
10 15 (5.54%) Python Engineer
10 15 (5.54%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.06%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.69%) Developer
13 9 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.32%) Consultant
14 8 (2.95%) AWS Consultant
14 8 (2.95%) Azure Data Engineer
14 8 (2.95%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (36.16%) Kafka
2 61 (22.51%) PySpark
3 55 (20.30%) Terraform
4 24 (8.86%) SpaCy
5 15 (5.54%) Node.js
6 14 (5.17%) Spring
6 14 (5.17%) Spring Boot
7 13 (4.80%) REST
8 11 (4.06%) Pandas
9 10 (3.69%) gRPC
9 10 (3.69%) React
10 9 (3.32%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (2.95%) RESTful
12 7 (2.58%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.58%) Material-UI
12 7 (2.58%) NumPy
12 7 (2.58%) OpenAPI
12 7 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.58%) Swagger
12 7 (2.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.50%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.86%) e-Learning
3 23 (8.49%) Product Ownership
4 18 (6.64%) Data Structures
4 18 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.54%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.17%) Algorithms
7 11 (4.06%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.58%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.21%) NHS
10 5 (1.85%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.74%) CUDA
13 2 (0.74%) Derivative
13 2 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.17%) Linux
2 7 (2.58%) CentOS
2 7 (2.58%) Debian
2 7 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (59.41%) Data Engineering
2 151 (55.72%) Analytics
3 144 (53.14%) CI/CD
4 140 (51.66%) Data Pipeline
5 112 (41.33%) Data Science
6 109 (40.22%) DevOps
7 105 (38.75%) Data Modelling
8 104 (38.38%) Machine Learning
9 88 (32.47%) Agile
10 84 (31.00%) AI
11 80 (29.52%) ETL
12 77 (28.41%) Mentoring
13 58 (21.40%) Infrastructure as Code
14 55 (20.30%) Lakehouse
15 48 (17.71%) Software Engineering
15 48 (17.71%) Validation
16 47 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (16.61%) Decision-Making
18 44 (16.24%) Business Intelligence
19 43 (15.87%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 228 (84.13%) Python
2 173 (63.84%) SQL
3 56 (20.66%) Scala
4 45 (16.61%) Java
5 16 (5.90%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.95%) C#
7 7 (2.58%) R
8 6 (2.21%) Bash
8 6 (2.21%) C
8 6 (2.21%) PHP
8 6 (2.21%) Ruby
9 5 (1.85%) VBA
10 4 (1.48%) Bicep
10 4 (1.48%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.37%) C++
12 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (31.73%) Security Cleared
2 63 (23.25%) SC Cleared
3 61 (22.51%) Degree
4 33 (12.18%) PhD
5 30 (11.07%) Master's Degree
6 21 (7.75%) Azure Certification
7 18 (6.64%) AWS Certification
7 18 (6.64%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CEH
12 1 (0.37%) CISM
12 1 (0.37%) CISSP
12 1 (0.37%) OCP
12 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (33.58%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.80%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.95%) QA
4 7 (2.58%) GDPR
5 5 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.74%) IFRS
6 2 (0.74%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.74%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (21.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 50 (18.45%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.64%) Ansible
3 7 (2.58%) Puppet
4 6 (2.21%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.85%) Argo
6 4 (1.48%) Grafana
7 3 (1.11%) Kibana
7 3 (1.11%) Packer
7 3 (1.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.37%) Control-M
8 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 98 (36.16%) Databricks
2 33 (12.18%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.69%) Google
4 9 (3.32%) Oracle
5 8 (2.95%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.58%) Informatica
6 7 (2.58%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.21%) HP
7 6 (2.21%) IBM
7 6 (2.21%) SAP
8 5 (1.85%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.85%) Splunk
9 4 (1.48%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.11%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.11%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.11%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.74%) Foundry
11 2 (0.74%) Palantir
11 2 (0.74%) Talend
11 2 (0.74%) Thales