diff --git a/plugins/flytekit-spark/Dockerfile b/plugins/flytekit-spark/Dockerfile
index 59ca1dfdac..06891d2679 100644
--- a/plugins/flytekit-spark/Dockerfile
+++ b/plugins/flytekit-spark/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/resource-managers/kubernetes/docker/src/main/dockerfiles/spark/bindings/python/Dockerfile
-FROM apache/spark-py:3.3.1
+FROM apache/spark-py:v3.4.0
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source=https://github.com/flyteorg/flytekit
 
 USER 0
@@ -12,11 +12,15 @@ ARG VERSION
 RUN pip install uv --no-cache-dir \
   && uv pip install --system --no-cache-dir -U flytekitplugins-spark==$VERSION flytekit==$VERSION
 
-RUN wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/hadoop/hadoop-aws/3.2.2/hadoop-aws-3.2.2.jar -P /opt/spark/jars && \
-    wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/amazonaws/aws-java-sdk-bundle/1.12.262/aws-java-sdk-bundle-1.12.262.jar -P /opt/spark/jars
+RUN wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/hadoop/hadoop-aws/3.4.0/hadoop-aws-3.4.0.jar -P /opt/spark/jars && \
+    wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/amazonaws/aws-java-sdk-bundle/1.12.262/aws-java-sdk-bundle-1.12.262.jar -P /opt/spark/jars && \
+    wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/iceberg/iceberg-spark-runtime-3.4_2.12/1.4.2/iceberg-spark-runtime-3.4_2.12-1.4.2.jar -P /opt/spark/jars && \
+    wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/iceberg/iceberg-aws-bundle/1.4.2/iceberg-aws-bundle-1.4.2.jar -P /opt/spark/jars
 
 RUN wget https://github.com/GoogleCloudDataproc/hadoop-connectors/releases/download/v2.2.17/util-hadoop-hadoop3-2.2.17.jar -P /opt/spark/jars
 
 RUN chown -R ${spark_uid}:${spark_uid} /root
+# Ability to write to jars directory
+RUN chown -R ${spark_uid}:${spark_uid} /opt/spark/jars
 WORKDIR /root
 USER ${spark_uid}
diff --git a/plugins/flytekit-spark/scripts/flytekit_install_spark3.sh b/plugins/flytekit-spark/scripts/flytekit_install_spark3.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index a2c32f876c..49d48f9cc4
--- a/plugins/flytekit-spark/scripts/flytekit_install_spark3.sh
+++ b/plugins/flytekit-spark/scripts/flytekit_install_spark3.sh
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ mkdir -p /opt/spark/work-dir
 touch /opt/spark/RELEASE
 
 # Fetch Spark Distribution
-wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/spark/spark-3.2.1/spark-3.2.1-bin-hadoop3.2.tgz -O spark-dist.tgz
-echo '224e058cb0c6fb68b39896427a3ccd11ae2246e9bf465b5e29e4fb192d39a59c spark-dist.tgz' | sha256sum --check
+wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/spark/spark-3.4.0/spark-3.4.0-bin-hadoop3.tgz -O spark-dist.tgz
+echo '67bc912e9192ef2159540cb480820e5466dfd91e907c97c5a4787587e3020be042b76c40c51854f2a5dbeb8c3775fe12d9021c1200c4704463ec644132243a69  spark-dist.tgz' > spark-dist.tgz.sha512 && sha512sum --check spark-dist.tgz.sha512
 mkdir -p spark-dist
 tar -xvf spark-dist.tgz -C spark-dist --strip-components 1
 
@@ -43,5 +43,5 @@ rm -rf spark-dist
 
 # Hadoop dist (via Apache) has older AWS SDK version. Fetch required AWS jars from maven directly (not-ideal) to support IAM role
 # https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/iam-roles-for-service-accounts-minimum-sdk.html
-wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/hadoop/hadoop-aws/3.3.1/hadoop-aws-3.3.1.jar -P /opt/spark/jars
-wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/amazonaws/aws-java-sdk-bundle/1.11.901/aws-java-sdk-bundle-1.11.901.jar -P /opt/spark/jars
+wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/hadoop/hadoop-aws/3.4.0/hadoop-aws-3.4.0.jar -P /opt/spark/jars
+wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/amazonaws/aws-java-sdk-bundle/1.12.262/aws-java-sdk-bundle-1.12.262.jar -P /opt/spark/jars
diff --git a/plugins/flytekit-spark/setup.py b/plugins/flytekit-spark/setup.py
index e591980d20..892f5fba87 100644
--- a/plugins/flytekit-spark/setup.py
+++ b/plugins/flytekit-spark/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 microlib_name = f"flytekitplugins-{PLUGIN_NAME}"
 
-plugin_requires = ["flytekit>=1.15.1", "pyspark>=3.0.0", "aiohttp", "flyteidl>=1.11.0b1", "pandas"]
+plugin_requires = ["flytekit>=1.15.1", "pyspark>=3.4.0", "aiohttp", "flyteidl>=1.11.0b1", "pandas"]
 
 __version__ = "0.0.0+develop"