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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 368 269
Rank change year-on-year -123 -99 -10
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 211 298 926
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.71% 1.08%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.69% 7.20% 10.07%
Number of salaries quoted 90 200 271
10th Percentile £57,125 £53,625 £50,000
25th Percentile £74,250 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £88,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +10.94% -5.88%
75th Percentile £131,875 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +30.43% -17.20% +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 3,707 4,137 9,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.88% 9.79% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,506 2,809 6,759
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £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 £69,940 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £103,200 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,740 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.25% +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 21 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Top 15 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 March 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 -90 192 £85,000 -5.56% 101
London -42 132 £95,000 -13.64% 60
UK excluding London -79 59 £75,000 +30.43% 66
Work from Home -106 53 £81,000 -26.36% 52
North of England -53 22 £65,000 +15.56% 19
East of England +4 16 £75,000 -7.69% 5
Yorkshire -34 13 £65,000 +13.04% 2
South West -23 11 £80,000 +23.08% 9
North West -24 8 £95,000 +72.73% 13
Scotland -20 4 £90,000 -10.00% 3
South East -57 4 £65,000 +8.33% 25
West Midlands -5 1 - - 3
North East -25 1 - - 4
Wales -25 1 £95,000 +48.44% 2
Midlands -30 1 - - 6

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 97 (45.97%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (34.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.47%) Camunda
3 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.16%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 140 (66.35%) AWS
2 95 (45.02%) Azure
3 82 (38.86%) GCP
4 48 (22.75%) Amazon S3
5 39 (18.48%) dbt
5 39 (18.48%) Snowflake
6 37 (17.54%) OpenShift
6 37 (17.54%) Power Platform
7 29 (13.74%) Serverless
8 27 (12.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (12.32%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (8.53%) Dagster
11 17 (8.06%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (6.64%) Azure Machine Learning
13 13 (6.16%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (4.74%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (4.27%) Amazon SageMaker
15 9 (4.27%) Vertex AI
16 8 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.32%) Broadband
2 5 (2.37%) AMQP
2 5 (2.37%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.47%) 4G
3 1 (0.47%) 5G
3 1 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.47%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (33.18%) Data Warehouse
2 69 (32.70%) Big Data
3 63 (29.86%) Tableau
4 44 (20.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 43 (20.38%) Data Lake
5 43 (20.38%) Hadoop
6 39 (18.48%) BigQuery
7 37 (17.54%) Power BI
8 35 (16.59%) Apache Hive
9 32 (15.17%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (13.27%) Spark SQL
11 26 (12.32%) Parquet
12 25 (11.85%) Impala
12 25 (11.85%) Looker
12 25 (11.85%) Oracle Database
13 20 (9.48%) Snowflake Schema
14 18 (8.53%) Apache Iceberg
14 18 (8.53%) Delta Lake
14 18 (8.53%) MySQL
14 18 (8.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (19.91%) Git
2 28 (13.27%) MLflow
3 25 (11.85%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (3.79%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.32%) GitLab
6 2 (0.95%) Deequ
7 1 (0.47%) JIRA
7 1 (0.47%) JUnit
General
1 83 (39.34%) Finance
2 77 (36.49%) Social Skills
3 64 (30.33%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (15.17%) Banking
5 24 (11.37%) Investment Banking
6 13 (6.16%) Law
6 13 (6.16%) Legal
7 9 (4.27%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.37%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.90%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.95%) Advertising
10 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.95%) Marketing
10 2 (0.95%) Retail
10 2 (0.95%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.47%) Billing
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (36.02%) Data Engineer
2 67 (31.75%) Senior
3 27 (12.80%) Developer
3 27 (12.80%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (12.32%) Analyst
5 23 (10.90%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.43%) Banking Analyst
7 20 (9.48%) Python Developer
8 16 (7.58%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 15 (7.11%) Systems Engineer
10 14 (6.64%) AWS Data Engineer
10 14 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (6.16%) Business Analyst
12 12 (5.69%) Architect
12 12 (5.69%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.69%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (5.21%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 11 (5.21%) Python Engineer
14 10 (4.74%) Software Engineer
15 9 (4.27%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (44.08%) Kafka
2 49 (23.22%) PySpark
3 34 (16.11%) PyTorch
3 34 (16.11%) TensorFlow
4 27 (12.80%) REST
5 25 (11.85%) Pandas
6 20 (9.48%) scikit-learn
7 17 (8.06%) LangChain
8 15 (7.11%) LlamaIndex
8 15 (7.11%) pgvector
9 13 (6.16%) Spring
10 12 (5.69%) Spring Boot
11 10 (4.74%) Node.js
11 10 (4.74%) OAuth
12 9 (4.27%) Faiss
12 9 (4.27%) NumPy
12 9 (4.27%) vLLM
13 6 (2.84%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.84%) OAuth2
13 6 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.01%) Cloud Native
2 28 (13.27%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.06%) Product Ownership
4 15 (7.11%) Clustering
4 15 (7.11%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.21%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.74%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.79%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.32%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.84%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.84%) Social Media
10 4 (1.90%) e-Learning
10 4 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.95%) Data Fabric
12 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.11%) Linux
2 8 (3.79%) Unix
3 5 (2.37%) CentOS
3 5 (2.37%) Debian
3 5 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (66.35%) Data Pipeline
2 119 (56.40%) Analytics
3 118 (55.92%) Data Engineering
4 104 (49.29%) ETL
5 99 (46.92%) AI
5 99 (46.92%) CI/CD
6 88 (41.71%) Data Governance
7 79 (37.44%) Machine Learning
8 78 (36.97%) Data Science
9 76 (36.02%) Data Modelling
10 65 (30.81%) Agile
11 60 (28.44%) Business Intelligence
12 57 (27.01%) Computer Science
13 49 (23.22%) Software Engineering
14 38 (18.01%) Generative AI
15 37 (17.54%) DevOps
15 37 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (16.59%) Data Transformation
16 35 (16.59%) Performance Tuning
16 35 (16.59%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 197 (93.36%) Python
2 155 (73.46%) SQL
3 60 (28.44%) Java
4 40 (18.96%) Scala
5 10 (4.74%) Bash
6 9 (4.27%) Go
7 8 (3.79%) C++
8 7 (3.32%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.84%) R
10 3 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.47%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.47%) Bicep
12 1 (0.47%) C#
12 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.47%) Ruby
12 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (18.96%) Degree
2 18 (8.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (8.53%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.79%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.79%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.79%) PhD
5 6 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.37%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.47%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (37.91%) Data Quality
2 31 (14.69%) GDPR
3 27 (12.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.69%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.42%) QA
7 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (18.48%) Docker
2 6 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.42%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (18.96%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.80%) Terraform
3 16 (7.58%) Ansible
4 11 (5.21%) Grafana
5 10 (4.74%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.37%) Puppet
7 2 (0.95%) Kibana
7 2 (0.95%) logstash
8 1 (0.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 65 (30.81%) Databricks
2 37 (17.54%) Oracle
3 32 (15.17%) Red Hat
4 23 (10.90%) Dell
5 15 (7.11%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.64%) Palantir
7 11 (5.21%) Microsoft
8 10 (4.74%) Google
9 8 (3.79%) Informatica
10 7 (3.32%) Talend
11 5 (2.37%) SaltStack
12 4 (1.90%) IBM
13 2 (0.95%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.47%) Automation Anywhere
14 1 (0.47%) Foundry
14 1 (0.47%) Pega
14 1 (0.47%) SAP
14 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.47%) UiPath