Hybrid/Remote Apache Spark Job Trends

Apache Spark
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 360 393
Rank change year-on-year -45 +33 -112
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 57 60 104
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.24% 0.37% 0.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.00% 3.91% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 35 46 88
10th Percentile £51,650 £53,375 £44,738
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% - -11.76%
75th Percentile £83,625 £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £109,000 £109,375 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,426 1,533 2,896
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.00% 9.47% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,094 1,042 1,967
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,025 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,756 £40,338 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £71,176 £90,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £89,625 £135,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% -2.39% -0.09%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apache Spark and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Apache Spark job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Apache Spark
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Spark over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Apache Spark salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 22 (38.60%) Apache
2 9 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (14.04%) Jupyter
4 3 (5.26%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 35 (61.40%) AWS
2 29 (50.88%) Azure
3 15 (26.32%) Amazon S3
4 11 (19.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (17.54%) GCP
6 8 (14.04%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (12.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (12.28%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (12.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (12.28%) GitHub
7 7 (12.28%) Serverless
8 6 (10.53%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
9 4 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (5.26%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) 4G
1 1 (1.75%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (47.37%) Big Data
2 15 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (22.81%) Data Lake
4 10 (17.54%) Hadoop
5 8 (14.04%) Delta Lake
5 8 (14.04%) Metadata
6 7 (12.28%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (12.28%) Spark SQL
7 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
7 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (10.53%) Power BI
8 5 (8.77%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (8.77%) Tableau
9 4 (7.02%) DynamoDB
9 4 (7.02%) Flink
10 3 (5.26%) Redis
10 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
11 2 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (3.51%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 12 (21.05%) Git
2 9 (15.79%) GitLab
3 7 (12.28%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.51%) MLflow
4 2 (3.51%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.75%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.75%) ERwin
5 1 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 19 (33.33%) Finance
2 17 (29.82%) Public Sector
3 13 (22.81%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
5 7 (12.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (8.77%) Aerospace
6 5 (8.77%) Legal
7 3 (5.26%) Banking
8 2 (3.51%) Front Office
8 2 (3.51%) Games
8 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.51%) Local Government
9 1 (1.75%) Billing
9 1 (1.75%) Law
9 1 (1.75%) Military
9 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.75%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 35 (61.40%) Data Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) Senior
3 10 (17.54%) Lead
3 10 (17.54%) Senior Data Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Databricks Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Lead Data Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Data Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Data Scientist
6 4 (7.02%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Lead Test Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Principal Data Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Python Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Junior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (40.35%) Terraform
2 21 (36.84%) PySpark
3 17 (29.82%) Kafka
4 5 (8.77%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (5.26%) Pandas
5 3 (5.26%) Spring
5 3 (5.26%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.51%) Flash
6 2 (3.51%) JSON
6 2 (3.51%) Node.js
6 2 (3.51%) OAuth
6 2 (3.51%) OpenID
7 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.75%) NumPy
7 1 (1.75%) React
7 1 (1.75%) REST
7 1 (1.75%) RESTful
7 1 (1.75%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.75%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Cloud Native
2 8 (14.04%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.02%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.51%) Blog
6 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.51%) NHS
6 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.75%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.75%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.75%) Life Science
7 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (64.91%) Data Pipeline
2 36 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 31 (54.39%) Analytics
4 28 (49.12%) Data Engineering
5 27 (47.37%) Agile
6 25 (43.86%) Data Science
7 24 (42.11%) DevOps
8 23 (40.35%) Data Modelling
9 22 (38.60%) ETL
9 22 (38.60%) Machine Learning
10 20 (35.09%) AI
11 19 (33.33%) Mentoring
12 15 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (24.56%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (21.05%) Coaching
15 10 (17.54%) Use Case
15 10 (17.54%) Workflow
16 9 (15.79%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 46 (80.70%) Python
2 39 (68.42%) SQL
3 7 (12.28%) Java
3 7 (12.28%) Scala
4 5 (8.77%) Bash
4 5 (8.77%) VBA
5 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.51%) Bicep
6 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.75%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (54.39%) Security Cleared
2 28 (49.12%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.04%) Degree
4 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (7.02%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.75%) OCP
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.56%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.77%) QA
3 4 (7.02%) Accessibility
4 3 (5.26%) GDPR
5 2 (3.51%) IFRS
5 2 (3.51%) IFRS 17
5 2 (3.51%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.28%) Ansible
3 3 (5.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (43.86%) Databricks
2 7 (12.28%) Informatica
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.51%) Talend
4 1 (1.75%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.75%) Google
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.75%) Sparx
4 1 (1.75%) Trend Micro