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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 488 392
Rank change year-on-year +54 -96 -77
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 239 271 367
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.40% 0.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.10% 4.89% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 100 184 258
10th Percentile £54,525 £49,125 £59,250
25th Percentile £64,063 £56,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £115,625 £102,500 £97,290
90th Percentile £140,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -23.33% +15.38%

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 3,920 5,540 5,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.35% 8.22% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,645 3,375 4,673
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £116,250 £92,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +60 210 £81,000 +4.52% 192
London +49 146 £95,000 - 135
UK excluding London +51 86 £60,000 +4.35% 103
Work from Home +7 41 £76,000 +7.04% 113
North of England +36 31 £60,000 +20.00% 27
Scotland +32 25 - - 15
Yorkshire +26 20 £60,000 +21.77% 12
Midlands +62 12 £55,000 -8.33% 8
South East +37 9 £63,750 +10.87% 36
East Midlands +33 7 - - 3
North West +23 6 £54,250 -1.36% 12
West Midlands +48 5 £55,000 -15.38% 4
North East +11 5 £47,500 -3.60% 3
South West +7 5 £55,000 -29.03% 6
East of England +23 3 - - 6
Wales +13 2 £50,124 -24.28% 4

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 59 (24.69%) Apache
2 47 (19.67%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.09%) SAS
4 4 (1.67%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (1.67%) Apache Synapse
5 3 (1.26%) Luigi
6 2 (0.84%) Appian
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Superset
Business Applications
1 13 (5.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 169 (70.71%) AWS
2 117 (48.95%) Azure
3 79 (33.05%) GCP
4 46 (19.25%) Amazon S3
5 33 (13.81%) Serverless
6 31 (12.97%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (10.46%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (9.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 20 (8.37%) Snowflake
10 19 (7.95%) Amazon ELB
11 18 (7.53%) Amazon EMR
12 16 (6.69%) Amazon Kinesis
12 16 (6.69%) Power Platform
13 14 (5.86%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (5.86%) dbt
13 14 (5.86%) GitHub
14 11 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (4.18%) Prefect
16 8 (3.35%) Azure Machine Learning
16 8 (3.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.67%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.84%) AMQP
2 2 (0.84%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (47.28%) Big Data
2 76 (31.80%) Hadoop
3 66 (27.62%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (25.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 57 (23.85%) NoSQL
6 40 (16.74%) Metadata
7 37 (15.48%) Data Lake
8 33 (13.81%) DynamoDB
9 32 (13.39%) Delta Lake
10 28 (11.72%) Spark SQL
11 25 (10.46%) Apache Iceberg
12 24 (10.04%) Apache Hive
12 24 (10.04%) SQL Server
13 23 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
14 19 (7.95%) Relational Database
15 15 (6.28%) BigQuery
15 15 (6.28%) MySQL
16 14 (5.86%) MongoDB
16 14 (5.86%) Power BI
17 13 (5.44%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 29 (12.13%) MLflow
2 13 (5.44%) Git
3 9 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.09%) Gradle
4 5 (2.09%) JUnit
5 4 (1.67%) Maven
5 4 (1.67%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.26%) GitLab
7 2 (0.84%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.84%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.84%) Selenium
7 2 (0.84%) Snyk
8 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.42%) Deequ
8 1 (0.42%) Mercurial
General
1 109 (45.61%) Social Skills
2 89 (37.24%) Finance
3 70 (29.29%) Law
4 53 (22.18%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (17.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (12.97%) Banking
7 22 (9.21%) Marketing
8 18 (7.53%) Financial Institution
9 12 (5.02%) Public Sector
10 10 (4.18%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.51%) Legal
12 5 (2.09%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.09%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.67%) Front Office
13 4 (1.67%) Publishing
13 4 (1.67%) Retail
14 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.84%) Electronics
14 2 (0.84%) Games
14 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (34.73%) Data Engineer
2 52 (21.76%) Senior
3 43 (17.99%) Software Engineer
4 34 (14.23%) Lead
5 33 (13.81%) Senior Data Engineer
6 25 (10.46%) Python Engineer
7 22 (9.21%) AWS Engineer
8 21 (8.79%) Architect
8 21 (8.79%) Developer
8 21 (8.79%) Python Software Engineer
9 20 (8.37%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 19 (7.95%) Operations Engineer
11 13 (5.44%) AWS Data Engineer
11 13 (5.44%) Data Architect
11 13 (5.44%) Java Engineer
11 13 (5.44%) Product Lead
12 12 (5.02%) Data Scientist
12 12 (5.02%) Java Software Engineer
12 12 (5.02%) Lead Software Engineer
13 11 (4.60%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (43.93%) Kafka
2 44 (18.41%) PySpark
3 38 (15.90%) PyTorch
3 38 (15.90%) TensorFlow
4 33 (13.81%) scikit-learn
5 29 (12.13%) Pandas
6 23 (9.62%) NumPy
7 19 (7.95%) Keras
7 19 (7.95%) Lambda Expressions
7 19 (7.95%) Metaflow
7 19 (7.95%) YAML
8 16 (6.69%) REST
9 14 (5.86%) Spark Streaming
10 10 (4.18%) React
11 9 (3.77%) Spring
12 8 (3.35%) boto
12 8 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.93%) Hugging Face
13 7 (2.93%) SpaCy
14 5 (2.09%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.85%) Distributed Systems
2 40 (16.74%) Cloud Native
3 23 (9.62%) Algorithms
4 22 (9.21%) Linux Command Line
5 20 (8.37%) Product Ownership
6 17 (7.11%) e-Learning
7 14 (5.86%) Data Structures
7 14 (5.86%) FMCG
8 11 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (4.60%) Management Information System
9 8 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.67%) Mobile Banking
12 4 (1.67%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.26%) Equities
13 3 (1.26%) Robotics
13 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
14 2 (0.84%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.23%) Unix
2 11 (4.60%) Linux
3 2 (0.84%) CentOS
3 2 (0.84%) Debian
3 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (49.79%) CI/CD
2 114 (47.70%) Machine Learning
3 108 (45.19%) Data Pipeline
4 104 (43.51%) Data Engineering
5 98 (41.00%) Analytics
6 91 (38.08%) Data Science
7 90 (37.66%) ETL
8 86 (35.98%) AI
9 83 (34.73%) Software Engineering
10 79 (33.05%) Data Modelling
11 77 (32.22%) DevOps
12 66 (27.62%) Agile
12 66 (27.62%) Problem-Solving
13 55 (23.01%) Containerisation
14 52 (21.76%) Data Governance
15 50 (20.92%) Visualisation
16 47 (19.67%) Business Intelligence
17 46 (19.25%) MLOps
18 45 (18.83%) Decision-Making
19 43 (17.99%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 198 (82.85%) Python
2 170 (71.13%) SQL
3 73 (30.54%) Java
4 35 (14.64%) Scala
5 8 (3.35%) R
6 6 (2.51%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.09%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.67%) Bash
8 4 (1.67%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.67%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.26%) C#
9 3 (1.26%) C++
10 2 (0.84%) PROC SQL
10 2 (0.84%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (17.15%) Degree
2 23 (9.62%) Master's Degree
3 17 (7.11%) PhD
4 16 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.18%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.77%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.35%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.93%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.09%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (24.27%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.95%) QA
3 13 (5.44%) GDPR
4 3 (1.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 65 (27.20%) Docker
2 15 (6.28%) HDFS
3 6 (2.51%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.84%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (29.29%) Kubernetes
2 48 (20.08%) Terraform
3 26 (10.88%) Kubeflow
4 14 (5.86%) Ansible
5 7 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.51%) Grafana
7 5 (2.09%) Kibana
7 5 (2.09%) logstash
8 4 (1.67%) Puppet
9 2 (0.84%) Oozie
9 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.42%) Argo
Vendors
1 100 (41.84%) Databricks
2 20 (8.37%) Oracle
3 19 (7.95%) Microsoft
4 18 (7.53%) SAP
5 11 (4.60%) Google
5 11 (4.60%) Informatica
6 8 (3.35%) Talend
7 7 (2.93%) Dell
8 5 (2.09%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.67%) Palantir
10 3 (1.26%) IBM
10 3 (1.26%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.84%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.84%) Black Duck
11 2 (0.84%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.84%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.84%) UiPath
11 2 (0.84%) VMware
12 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.42%) Salesforce