Which roles ask for Spark at tech companies · 99 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
99 roles counted that list Spark, one per company, title and level; 272 postings in the window.
In short
Spark: listed in 99 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 67 and preferred in 32. The largest group is data engineer roles: 30 of 99 (30%).
- Required
- 67 of 99 (68%)
- Of the roles that list Spark
- Preferred
- 32 of 99 (32%)
- Of the roles that list Spark
- Largest group
- 30 of 99 (30%)
- Data engineer
Roles that ask for Spark
Roles listing Spark, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Data engineer | 30 | 30 of 99 (30%) |
| Software engineer | 17 | 17 of 719 (2%) |
| Data scientist | 16 | 16 of 112 (14%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 12 | 12 of 79 (15%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 8 | 8 of 63 (13%) |
| AI engineer | 4 | 4 of 70 (6%) |
| Analytics engineer | 3 | 3 of 28 |
| Data architect | 2 | 2 of 11 |
| Research scientist | 2 | 2 of 39 |
| Data analyst | 1 | 1 of 47 |
Companies that ask for it most
- Databricks10 roles
- Stripe7 roles
- George Bernard Consulting4 roles
- Spotify4 roles
- Abnormal3 roles
- Airbnb3 roles
- Socure3 roles
- Anthropic2 roles
- CoreWeave2 roles
- SpaceXAI2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 99 Spark roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 77 of 99 (78%) |
| SQL | 59 of 99 (60%) |
| AWS | 32 of 99 (32%) |
| Machine Learning | 27 of 99 (27%) |
| Azure | 25 of 99 (25%) |
| Data Pipelines | 25 of 99 (25%) |
| CI/CD | 23 of 99 (23%) |
| Data Processing | 22 of 99 (22%) |
| Data Warehousing | 22 of 99 (22%) |
| Scala | 22 of 99 (22%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Databricks | 16 of 99 (16%) |
| AWS | 15 of 99 (15%) |
| Azure | 14 of 99 (14%) |
| Data Pipelines | 14 of 99 (14%) |
| GCP | 14 of 99 (14%) |
| Machine Learning | 13 of 99 (13%) |
| Data Warehousing | 11 of 99 (11%) |
| Airflow | 10 of 99 (10%) |
| Data Governance | 10 of 99 (10%) |
| Data Infrastructure | 10 of 99 (10%) |
Experience
Of the 53 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 53 of 53 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 51 of 53 (96%)
- 3+ years
- 48 of 53 (91%)
- 5+ years
- 36 of 53 (68%)
- 8+ years
- 10 of 53 (19%)
- 10+ years
- 5 of 53 (9%)
Degree
Of the 69 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 10 of 69 (14%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 19 of 69 (28%)
- Preferred
- 4 of 69 (6%)
- Not mentioned
- 36 of 69 (52%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 99 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 36 of 99 (36%)
- Remote roles
- 58 of 99 (59%)
How we count: 99 roles from 64 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology