Apache Spark Jobs

Apache Spark
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Apache Spark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Apache Spark over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 295 258
Rank change year-on-year -148 -37 -8
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 289 1,015 1,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.99% 1.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.60% 9.53% 12.65%
Number of salaries quoted 185 281 585
10th Percentile £50,500 £49,000 £59,150
25th Percentile £57,750 £63,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -8.57% +12.90%
75th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £118,750 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £69,724 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.77% -0.40% +12.00%

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 4,377 10,650 11,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.00% 10.43% 11.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,777 7,078 7,558
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.16% +0.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £109,250 £96,677 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,628 £42,500 £47,710
% change year-on-year +7.36% -10.92% +6.02%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark.

Salary trend for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the UK

Apache Spark
Top 17 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 28 May 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 +52 257 £85,000 +6.25% 421
London +51 164 £110,000 +22.22% 253
Work from Home +98 150 £110,000 +29.41% 279
UK excluding London -197 109 £65,000 -6.77% 200
South East +114 38 £65,000 +25.00% 40
North of England +26 27 £57,500 -4.17% 59
Scotland -108 16 £100,000 +110.53% 30
Midlands +58 14 £67,500 -7.22% 28
North West -20 14 £55,000 -12.00% 29
Yorkshire +67 11 £57,500 +11.59% 19
East Midlands +40 11 £75,000 +25.00% 11
Northern Ireland +49 7 £55,000 -21.43% 4
East of England +42 4 £71,500 -29.38% 19
West Midlands +61 3 £60,500 -17.12% 15
South West +69 2 £50,000 -37.50% 22
North East +49 2 £67,500 -10.00% 11
Wales +45 1 £75,000 +3.45% 3

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 129 (44.64%) Apache
2 94 (32.53%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.38%) Appian
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.35%) SAS
4 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.04%) Maya
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 175 (60.55%) AWS
2 112 (38.75%) Azure
3 78 (26.99%) Serverless
4 76 (26.30%) AWS Lambda
5 67 (23.18%) dbt
5 67 (23.18%) OpenShift
6 59 (20.42%) Amazon ECS
7 56 (19.38%) GCP
8 47 (16.26%) Power Platform
9 29 (10.03%) Amazon S3
10 28 (9.69%) Azure Data Factory
11 25 (8.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 25 (8.65%) Snowflake
12 15 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (4.84%) Amazon EMR
14 12 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.81%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (3.81%) Amazon SageMaker
16 10 (3.46%) GitHub
17 9 (3.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.54%) HTTP
2 1 (0.35%) DNS
2 1 (0.35%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (33.22%) Big Data
2 80 (27.68%) Hadoop
3 78 (26.99%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (26.30%) Amazon Athena
5 71 (24.57%) Apache Iceberg
6 62 (21.45%) Apache Ignite
7 59 (20.42%) Apache Arrow
7 59 (20.42%) Dremio
8 51 (17.65%) NoSQL
9 48 (16.61%) Data Lake
10 43 (14.88%) Power BI
11 38 (13.15%) Amazon Redshift
12 37 (12.80%) Apache Hive
13 29 (10.03%) Tableau
14 23 (7.96%) BigQuery
15 16 (5.54%) Delta Lake
15 16 (5.54%) Metadata
15 16 (5.54%) Relational Database
16 13 (4.50%) SQL Server
16 13 (4.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (20.42%) Artifactory
2 27 (9.34%) Git
3 17 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.77%) Robot Framework
4 8 (2.77%) Selenium
5 7 (2.42%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.08%) GitLab
7 5 (1.73%) MLflow
8 4 (1.38%) JMeter
8 4 (1.38%) Locust
8 4 (1.38%) Postman
8 4 (1.38%) Snyk
9 2 (0.69%) Gradle
9 2 (0.69%) JUnit
9 2 (0.69%) Maven
9 2 (0.69%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.35%) ERwin
10 1 (0.35%) JIRA
10 1 (0.35%) Terragrunt
General
1 122 (42.21%) Finance
2 82 (28.37%) Social Skills
3 60 (20.76%) Front Office
4 46 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (15.22%) Law
6 42 (14.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (9.00%) Retail
8 20 (6.92%) Advertising
8 20 (6.92%) Banking
9 18 (6.23%) Games
10 11 (3.81%) Marketing
11 8 (2.77%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.77%) Public Sector
12 6 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.38%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.38%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.69%) Automotive
15 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 135 (46.71%) Data Engineer
2 83 (28.72%) Senior
3 74 (25.61%) Python Engineer
4 68 (23.53%) AWS Engineer
5 63 (21.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 59 (20.42%) AWS DevOps
6 59 (20.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 40 (13.84%) Senior Data Engineer
8 31 (10.73%) Architect
9 29 (10.03%) Lead
9 29 (10.03%) Software Engineer
10 19 (6.57%) Data Scientist
11 17 (5.88%) Data Architect
11 17 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (5.54%) Developer
13 12 (4.15%) Senior Data Scientist
14 11 (3.81%) Analyst
15 10 (3.46%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 10 (3.46%) Java Developer
16 9 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (54.33%) Kafka
2 89 (30.80%) PySpark
3 63 (21.80%) J2EE
4 19 (6.57%) TensorFlow
5 15 (5.19%) PyTorch
6 12 (4.15%) scikit-learn
7 11 (3.81%) REST
7 11 (3.81%) Spring
8 10 (3.46%) Pandas
8 10 (3.46%) Spark Streaming
9 9 (3.11%) Spring Boot
10 8 (2.77%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (2.77%) pytest
10 8 (2.77%) React
11 7 (2.42%) YAML
12 6 (2.08%) NumPy
12 6 (2.08%) PyArrow
13 5 (1.73%) Dask
13 5 (1.73%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.73%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.54%) Algorithms
3 16 (5.54%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.84%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.81%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.08%) FMCG
8 5 (1.73%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.38%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.04%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.69%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.69%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.50%) Linux
2 12 (4.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (52.60%) Agile
2 142 (49.13%) CI/CD
3 128 (44.29%) Data Engineering
4 117 (40.48%) DevOps
5 112 (38.75%) Software Engineering
6 110 (38.06%) Machine Learning
7 91 (31.49%) ETL
8 88 (30.45%) Data Pipeline
9 85 (29.41%) Data Science
10 82 (28.37%) Analytics
11 81 (28.03%) Data Modelling
12 71 (24.57%) Problem-Solving
13 68 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
13 68 (23.53%) Asset Management
14 67 (23.18%) Data Governance
14 67 (23.18%) Open Source
15 59 (20.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 51 (17.65%) Computer Science
16 51 (17.65%) Visualisation
17 50 (17.30%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 235 (81.31%) Python
2 159 (55.02%) SQL
3 113 (39.10%) Java
4 60 (20.76%) Go
5 47 (16.26%) Scala
6 12 (4.15%) Bash
7 11 (3.81%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (2.77%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.08%) C#
10 6 (2.08%) R
11 3 (1.04%) C++
11 3 (1.04%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.04%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.69%) C
12 2 (0.69%) Ruby
12 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.35%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (20.42%) Degree
2 27 (9.34%) Master's Degree
3 22 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (6.92%) Azure Certification
5 19 (6.57%) Security Cleared
6 14 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.84%) SC Cleared
7 11 (3.81%) PhD
8 7 (2.42%) DBS Check
9 6 (2.08%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.38%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.69%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (17.99%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.65%) GDPR
3 16 (5.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.08%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.08%) QA
6 3 (1.04%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 86 (29.76%) Docker
2 19 (6.57%) HDFS
3 6 (2.08%) Apache Flume
4 4 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 98 (33.91%) Terraform
2 96 (33.22%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.08%) Ansible
3 6 (2.08%) Oozie
4 4 (1.38%) Grafana
4 4 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.69%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.69%) Kibana
5 2 (0.69%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.35%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.35%) Control-M
6 1 (0.35%) logstash
Vendors
1 86 (29.76%) Databricks
2 52 (17.99%) Google
3 47 (16.26%) Microsoft
4 16 (5.54%) Apple
4 16 (5.54%) Oracle
5 14 (4.84%) Cloudera
6 8 (2.77%) SAP
7 7 (2.42%) Informatica
7 7 (2.42%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.73%) Palantir
8 5 (1.73%) Talend
9 4 (1.38%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.38%) Black Duck
9 4 (1.38%) Sybase
9 4 (1.38%) Teradata
9 4 (1.38%) UiPath
9 4 (1.38%) VMware
10 2 (0.69%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.69%) MapR
11 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics