diff --git a/spring-cloud-data-flow/apache-spark-job/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-data-flow/apache-spark-job/pom.xml
index a4816a30badc..4eb71bbf327d 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-data-flow/apache-spark-job/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-data-flow/apache-spark-job/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     </dependencies>
 
     <properties>
-        <spark.version>1.6.2</spark.version>
+        <spark.version>2.0.1</spark.version>
         <scala.version>2.10</scala.version>
         <spring-cloud-task-core.version>2.0.0.RELEASE</spring-cloud-task-core.version>
     </properties>