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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 359 266
Rank change year-on-year -129 -93 -9
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 216 303 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.74% 1.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.85% 7.50% 10.47%
Number of salaries quoted 88 208 277
10th Percentile £53,375 £52,500 £48,400
25th Percentile £73,625 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £60,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +28.10% -12.88% +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 3,692 4,040 9,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.63% 9.88% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,532 2,855 6,930
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £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 £71,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,225 £110,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -129 196 £82,500 -2.94% 99
London -47 132 £100,000 -9.09% 63
UK excluding London -104 64 £77,500 +28.10% 60
Work from Home -116 51 £83,000 -24.55% 47
North of England -65 23 £65,000 +13.04% 16
East of England -10 18 £75,000 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire -45 13 £65,000 +13.04% 1
South West -24 11 £80,000 +60.00% 10
North West -30 8 £95,000 +72.73% 11
Scotland -29 5 £102,500 +2.50% 3
South East -74 4 £65,000 - 24
North East -25 2 £80,000 - 4
Midlands -46 2 £50,000 -25.93% 4
West Midlands -21 1 - - 2
Wales -23 1 £95,000 +48.44% 2
East Midlands -55 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2

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
1 104 (48.15%) Apache Airflow
2 72 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.46%) Camunda
3 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.02%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 144 (66.67%) AWS
2 99 (45.83%) Azure
3 87 (40.28%) GCP
4 50 (23.15%) Power Platform
5 46 (21.30%) Amazon S3
5 46 (21.30%) dbt
6 45 (20.83%) Snowflake
7 35 (16.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 33 (15.28%) OpenShift
9 28 (12.96%) Serverless
10 25 (11.57%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (8.33%) Dagster
12 17 (7.87%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (6.48%) Azure Machine Learning
14 11 (5.09%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (4.63%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (4.63%) GitHub
16 9 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
16 9 (4.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.24%) Broadband
2 5 (2.31%) AMQP
3 2 (0.93%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.46%) 4G
4 1 (0.46%) 5G
4 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.46%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (34.72%) Tableau
2 74 (34.26%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (29.63%) Big Data
4 51 (23.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 50 (23.15%) Data Lake
6 49 (22.69%) Power BI
7 47 (21.76%) BigQuery
8 38 (17.59%) Elasticsearch
9 36 (16.67%) Hadoop
10 33 (15.28%) Looker
11 31 (14.35%) Apache Hive
12 29 (13.43%) Spark SQL
13 28 (12.96%) Snowflake Schema
14 26 (12.04%) Parquet
15 25 (11.57%) Impala
15 25 (11.57%) Oracle Database
16 21 (9.72%) Delta Lake
17 17 (7.87%) MySQL
17 17 (7.87%) Relational Database
18 16 (7.41%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 42 (19.44%) Git
2 36 (16.67%) MLflow
3 25 (11.57%) IBM UrbanCode
4 7 (3.24%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.78%) GitLab
6 1 (0.46%) Deequ
6 1 (0.46%) JIRA
6 1 (0.46%) JUnit
General
1 82 (37.96%) Finance
2 72 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 72 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.35%) Banking
4 24 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 13 (6.02%) Law
5 13 (6.02%) Legal
6 7 (3.24%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.85%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.93%) Advertising
8 2 (0.93%) Marketing
8 2 (0.93%) Retail
8 2 (0.93%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.46%) Billing
9 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (34.26%) Data Engineer
2 73 (33.80%) Senior
3 28 (12.96%) Developer
4 27 (12.50%) Analyst
5 26 (12.04%) Senior Data Engineer
6 24 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (10.65%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (10.65%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (10.19%) Banking Analyst
9 21 (9.72%) Python Developer
10 13 (6.02%) AWS Data Engineer
10 13 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (6.02%) Business Analyst
11 12 (5.56%) Architect
11 12 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (5.56%) Python Engineer
11 12 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (5.09%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 10 (4.63%) Lead
13 10 (4.63%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (45.37%) Kafka
2 51 (23.61%) PySpark
3 42 (19.44%) PyTorch
3 42 (19.44%) TensorFlow
4 29 (13.43%) REST
5 28 (12.96%) scikit-learn
6 25 (11.57%) LangChain
6 25 (11.57%) Pandas
7 23 (10.65%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (10.65%) pgvector
8 12 (5.56%) Spring
9 11 (5.09%) Spring Boot
10 10 (4.63%) Node.js
11 9 (4.17%) Faiss
11 9 (4.17%) NumPy
11 9 (4.17%) vLLM
12 7 (3.24%) React
13 6 (2.78%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.78%) OAuth
13 6 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.65%) Clustering
2 23 (10.65%) Public Cloud
3 21 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.56%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.63%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.70%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.78%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.78%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.78%) Social Media
9 5 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.39%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.93%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.17%) Linux
2 5 (2.31%) CentOS
2 5 (2.31%) Debian
2 5 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.31%) Ubuntu
3 4 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (66.20%) Data Pipeline
2 125 (57.87%) Analytics
3 123 (56.94%) Data Engineering
4 111 (51.39%) ETL
5 105 (48.61%) AI
6 97 (44.91%) CI/CD
7 92 (42.59%) Data Governance
8 85 (39.35%) Machine Learning
9 83 (38.43%) Data Modelling
9 83 (38.43%) Data Science
10 71 (32.87%) Business Intelligence
11 63 (29.17%) Agile
12 56 (25.93%) Computer Science
13 49 (22.69%) Generative AI
14 48 (22.22%) Software Engineering
15 42 (19.44%) Performance Tuning
15 42 (19.44%) Use Case
16 38 (17.59%) DevOps
16 38 (17.59%) Feature Engineering
16 38 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 203 (93.98%) Python
2 166 (76.85%) SQL
3 55 (25.46%) Java
4 43 (19.91%) Scala
5 10 (4.63%) Bash
6 9 (4.17%) C++
6 9 (4.17%) Go
7 7 (3.24%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.78%) R
9 3 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.39%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.46%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.46%) Bicep
10 1 (0.46%) C#
10 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.46%) Ruby
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (16.67%) Degree
2 19 (8.80%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.48%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.24%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.24%) PhD
7 6 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (37.04%) Data Quality
2 39 (18.06%) GDPR
3 35 (16.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.56%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 37 (17.13%) Docker
2 3 (1.39%) HDFS
3 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (16.20%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.04%) Terraform
3 12 (5.56%) Ansible
4 8 (3.70%) Grafana
5 7 (3.24%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.31%) Puppet
7 1 (0.46%) Argo
Vendors
1 77 (35.65%) Databricks
2 34 (15.74%) Oracle
3 32 (14.81%) Red Hat
4 25 (11.57%) Dell
5 24 (11.11%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.48%) Palantir
7 12 (5.56%) Microsoft
8 10 (4.63%) Google
9 7 (3.24%) Informatica
10 6 (2.78%) Talend
11 5 (2.31%) SaltStack
12 4 (1.85%) IBM
13 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.46%) Automation Anywhere
14 1 (0.46%) Foundry
14 1 (0.46%) Pega
14 1 (0.46%) SAP
14 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.46%) Splunk
14 1 (0.46%) UiPath