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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 437 422
Rank change year-on-year -97 -15 -69
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 281 257 428
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.52% 0.55%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.05% 6.32% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 137 109 203
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,950 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +0.23%
75th Percentile £112,500 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,000 £116,000 £124,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £63,750 £66,199
% change year-on-year -9.80% -3.70% -11.74%

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 4,645 4,065 6,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.07% 8.23% 8.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,224 2,710 4,106
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,738 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £39,508
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £71,235 £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% -

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 16 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 16 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 -68 261 £80,000 +6.67% 593
London -36 160 £95,000 +5.56% 426
UK excluding London -130 100 £57,500 -9.80% 247
Work from Home -27 57 £66,805 -10.93% 251
North of England -44 50 £55,000 -8.33% 65
South West -49 26 £55,000 - 26
North East -45 23 £55,000 +15.79% 13
North West -7 18 £55,000 -31.25% 42
Yorkshire -40 9 £80,000 +33.33% 10
South East -65 8 £62,500 -7.41% 43
Scotland -16 5 £115,000 - 48
East of England -32 5 £80,000 +11.89% 18
Midlands -43 5 £54,500 -14.84% 19
West Midlands -43 4 £60,653 +0.25% 11
Wales -76 2 £80,000 +59.60% 5
East Midlands -40 1 £50,000 -33.33% 8

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
1 119 (42.35%) Apache
2 56 (19.93%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.76%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.78%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.07%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.07%) SAS
6 2 (0.71%) Luigi
6 2 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.71%) Tornado
7 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.36%) Confluence
7 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 169 (60.14%) AWS
2 157 (55.87%) Azure
3 94 (33.45%) GCP
4 46 (16.37%) Power Platform
5 42 (14.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 41 (14.59%) Serverless
7 40 (14.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 38 (13.52%) Amazon S3
9 29 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (9.61%) Snowflake
11 24 (8.54%) Amazon EMR
11 24 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (7.47%) Amazon Kinesis
12 21 (7.47%) Azure Databricks
12 21 (7.47%) dbt
13 18 (6.41%) GitHub
14 16 (5.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (5.69%) Cloud Computing
15 15 (5.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.49%) AMQP
2 6 (2.14%) BGP
2 6 (2.14%) DNS
2 6 (2.14%) IPsec
2 6 (2.14%) VPN
3 5 (1.78%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) 4G
4 1 (0.36%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (33.81%) Big Data
2 68 (24.20%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (22.06%) Data Lake
4 57 (20.28%) Hadoop
5 50 (17.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (16.73%) NoSQL
7 45 (16.01%) Power BI
8 44 (15.66%) Elasticsearch
9 36 (12.81%) Tableau
10 27 (9.61%) Metadata
11 26 (9.25%) Delta Lake
11 26 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
12 23 (8.19%) Relational Database
13 19 (6.76%) Flink
14 17 (6.05%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (6.05%) BigQuery
15 16 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (5.34%) Looker
16 15 (5.34%) Milvus
17 14 (4.98%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (12.81%) Git
2 22 (7.83%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.47%) MLflow
4 20 (7.12%) GitLab
5 2 (0.71%) JIRA
5 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.36%) ERwin
6 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 115 (40.93%) Finance
2 72 (25.62%) Social Skills
3 48 (17.08%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.03%) Banking
5 24 (8.54%) Financial Institution
6 23 (8.19%) Public Sector
7 20 (7.12%) Law
8 19 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (5.34%) Aerospace
10 13 (4.63%) Marketing
11 10 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.56%) Military
12 6 (2.14%) Games
12 6 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.14%) Retail
13 5 (1.78%) Legal
14 4 (1.42%) Front Office
15 2 (0.71%) Aviation
15 2 (0.71%) Local Government
15 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (47.69%) Data Engineer
2 91 (32.38%) Senior
3 50 (17.79%) Lead
4 39 (13.88%) Data Scientist
5 33 (11.74%) Senior Data Engineer
6 32 (11.39%) Senior Data Scientist
7 29 (10.32%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (8.54%) Databricks Engineer
9 21 (7.47%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 17 (6.05%) Architect
11 16 (5.69%) Python Engineer
12 15 (5.34%) Software Engineer
13 14 (4.98%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 14 (4.98%) Systems Engineer
14 13 (4.63%) Data Architect
15 11 (3.91%) Developer
16 9 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
16 9 (3.20%) Consultant
16 9 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (40.57%) Kafka
2 58 (20.64%) PySpark
3 54 (19.22%) Terraform
4 23 (8.19%) SpaCy
5 18 (6.41%) PyTorch
5 18 (6.41%) scikit-learn
6 17 (6.05%) TensorFlow
7 16 (5.69%) Node.js
8 15 (5.34%) LangChain
8 15 (5.34%) pgvector
8 15 (5.34%) REST
9 14 (4.98%) LlamaIndex
9 14 (4.98%) Spring
9 14 (4.98%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.91%) Pandas
11 10 (3.56%) gRPC
11 10 (3.56%) React
12 9 (3.20%) Apache NiFi
13 8 (2.85%) RESTful
14 7 (2.49%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.22%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.19%) e-Learning
2 23 (8.19%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.41%) Data Structures
3 18 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.41%) Public Cloud
4 15 (5.34%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.98%) Algorithms
5 14 (4.98%) Clustering
6 11 (3.91%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (2.49%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.14%) NHS
9 5 (1.78%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.71%) Blog
11 2 (0.71%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.98%) Linux
2 7 (2.49%) CentOS
2 7 (2.49%) Debian
2 7 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (61.57%) Data Engineering
2 162 (57.65%) Analytics
3 151 (53.74%) Data Pipeline
4 141 (50.18%) CI/CD
5 122 (43.42%) Data Science
6 117 (41.64%) Data Modelling
6 117 (41.64%) Machine Learning
7 106 (37.72%) DevOps
8 98 (34.88%) AI
9 90 (32.03%) ETL
10 84 (29.89%) Agile
11 73 (25.98%) Mentoring
12 71 (25.27%) Lakehouse
13 58 (20.64%) Business Intelligence
14 57 (20.28%) Data Governance
14 57 (20.28%) Infrastructure as Code
15 55 (19.57%) Use Case
16 49 (17.44%) Generative AI
16 49 (17.44%) Software Engineering
17 47 (16.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 238 (84.70%) Python
2 184 (65.48%) SQL
3 55 (19.57%) Scala
4 45 (16.01%) Java
5 15 (5.34%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.85%) C#
7 6 (2.14%) Bash
7 6 (2.14%) C
7 6 (2.14%) PHP
7 6 (2.14%) Ruby
8 5 (1.78%) VBA
9 4 (1.42%) Bicep
9 4 (1.42%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.42%) R
9 4 (1.42%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.36%) C++
12 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 61 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 59 (21.00%) Degree
4 32 (11.39%) PhD
5 29 (10.32%) Master's Degree
6 20 (7.12%) Azure Certification
7 18 (6.41%) DV Cleared
8 17 (6.05%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.07%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.36%) CEH
13 1 (0.36%) CISM
13 1 (0.36%) CISSP
13 1 (0.36%) OCP
13 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (31.67%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.47%) GDPR
3 15 (5.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.63%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.85%) QA
6 3 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.71%) IFRS
7 2 (0.71%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.71%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (20.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 49 (17.44%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.41%) Ansible
3 7 (2.49%) Puppet
4 6 (2.14%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.78%) Argo
6 4 (1.42%) Grafana
7 3 (1.07%) Kibana
7 3 (1.07%) Packer
7 3 (1.07%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.36%) Control-M
8 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 107 (38.08%) Databricks
2 32 (11.39%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.34%) Cloudera
4 14 (4.98%) Dell
5 10 (3.56%) Google
6 9 (3.20%) Oracle
7 8 (2.85%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.49%) Informatica
8 7 (2.49%) SaltStack
9 6 (2.14%) HP
9 6 (2.14%) IBM
9 6 (2.14%) SAP
10 5 (1.78%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.78%) Splunk
11 4 (1.42%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.07%) LexisNexis
12 3 (1.07%) PeopleSoft
12 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.71%) Foundry
13 2 (0.71%) Talend