Apache Spark Job Trends in England

Apache Spark
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 371 433
Rank change year-on-year -90 +62 -190
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 194 276 388
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.68% 0.53%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.19% 6.90% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 94 194 247
10th Percentile £54,875 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £71,938 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £131,875 £115,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £116,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -4.48%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,135 4,000 7,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.92% 9.81% 10.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,246 2,581 6,136
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £38,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,875 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +11.75% -10.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apache Spark relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in England

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in England over the 6 months to 8 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the England region over the 6 months to 8 March 2026. 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
London -32 136 £95,000 -13.64% 54
North of England -24 25 £65,000 +18.18% 24
Yorkshire -21 16 £65,000 +22.07% 13
East of England +17 13 - - 2
South West -14 9 £80,000 - 12
North West -9 8 £95,000 +72.73% 6
South East -45 4 £65,000 +13.04% 17
West Midlands +4 1 - - 2
North East -14 1 - - 5
Midlands -16 1 - - 3
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 77 (39.69%) Apache
1 77 (39.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.03%) SAS
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.52%) Camunda
3 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 128 (65.98%) AWS
2 82 (42.27%) Azure
3 67 (34.54%) GCP
4 48 (24.74%) Amazon S3
5 37 (19.07%) OpenShift
6 32 (16.49%) Serverless
7 31 (15.98%) dbt
8 29 (14.95%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (14.43%) Power Platform
10 24 (12.37%) Snowflake
11 20 (10.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (9.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (7.22%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (5.67%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (4.64%) AWS Step Functions
16 9 (4.64%) Dagster
17 8 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
18 7 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
18 7 (3.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.61%) Broadband
2 5 (2.58%) AMQP
2 5 (2.58%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.52%) 4G
3 1 (0.52%) 5G
3 1 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.52%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (34.54%) Big Data
2 58 (29.90%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (23.71%) Tableau
4 45 (23.20%) Hadoop
5 42 (21.65%) Data Lake
6 36 (18.56%) Apache Hive
7 35 (18.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 28 (14.43%) Power BI
9 27 (13.92%) Spark SQL
10 25 (12.89%) Impala
10 25 (12.89%) Oracle Database
10 25 (12.89%) Parquet
11 22 (11.34%) BigQuery
12 17 (8.76%) Relational Database
13 16 (8.25%) MySQL
14 15 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (7.22%) MongoDB
16 13 (6.70%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (6.70%) NoSQL
16 13 (6.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (21.65%) Git
2 25 (12.89%) IBM UrbanCode
3 12 (6.19%) MLflow
4 6 (3.09%) GitLab
4 6 (3.09%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.03%) Deequ
6 1 (0.52%) JUnit
General
1 80 (41.24%) Finance
1 80 (41.24%) Social Skills
2 58 (29.90%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (18.56%) Banking
4 26 (13.40%) Investment Banking
5 14 (7.22%) Legal
6 13 (6.70%) Law
7 9 (4.64%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.12%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.06%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.06%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.55%) Front Office
10 3 (1.55%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.03%) Advertising
11 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.03%) Marketing
11 2 (1.03%) Retail
12 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (39.69%) Data Engineer
2 53 (27.32%) Senior
3 30 (15.46%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (13.40%) Analyst
5 23 (11.86%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (11.34%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (11.34%) Developer
7 18 (9.28%) Python Developer
8 16 (8.25%) AWS Data Engineer
8 16 (8.25%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (7.22%) Architect
10 13 (6.70%) Business Analyst
11 12 (6.19%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (6.19%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (5.67%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 11 (5.67%) Software Engineer
13 10 (5.15%) Data Architect
13 10 (5.15%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (4.64%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 8 (4.12%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (41.24%) Kafka
2 50 (25.77%) PySpark
3 25 (12.89%) Pandas
4 24 (12.37%) REST
5 19 (9.79%) PyTorch
5 19 (9.79%) TensorFlow
6 14 (7.22%) scikit-learn
7 13 (6.70%) Spring
8 12 (6.19%) Spring Boot
9 11 (5.67%) LangChain
10 8 (4.12%) LlamaIndex
10 8 (4.12%) Node.js
10 8 (4.12%) OAuth
10 8 (4.12%) pgvector
11 7 (3.61%) NumPy
11 7 (3.61%) React
12 6 (3.09%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.09%) LDAP
12 6 (3.09%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.98%) Cloud Native
2 30 (15.46%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.15%) Algorithms
4 9 (4.64%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (4.12%) Clustering
5 8 (4.12%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.12%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.61%) e-Learning
6 7 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.09%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.09%) Social Media
8 4 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.55%) Equities
9 3 (1.55%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.25%) Linux
2 6 (3.09%) Unix
3 5 (2.58%) CentOS
3 5 (2.58%) Debian
3 5 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (64.43%) Data Pipeline
2 112 (57.73%) Analytics
3 103 (53.09%) Data Engineering
4 97 (50.00%) ETL
5 93 (47.94%) CI/CD
6 82 (42.27%) Data Governance
7 81 (41.75%) AI
8 70 (36.08%) Data Modelling
9 65 (33.51%) Data Science
10 63 (32.47%) Agile
11 60 (30.93%) Machine Learning
12 48 (24.74%) Software Engineering
13 44 (22.68%) Business Intelligence
14 43 (22.16%) Computer Science
15 42 (21.65%) DevOps
16 41 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
17 36 (18.56%) Data Transformation
17 36 (18.56%) Scrum
18 29 (14.95%) Performance Tuning
19 28 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 180 (92.78%) Python
2 140 (72.16%) SQL
3 53 (27.32%) Java
4 28 (14.43%) Scala
5 8 (4.12%) C++
5 8 (4.12%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.09%) R
7 4 (2.06%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.03%) C#
8 2 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.52%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.52%) Bash
9 1 (0.52%) Bicep
9 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.52%) Ruby
9 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (16.49%) Degree
2 16 (8.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (8.25%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.15%) PhD
5 9 (4.64%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.09%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.09%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.52%) MBA
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (40.72%) Data Quality
2 25 (12.89%) GDPR
3 20 (10.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (6.19%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.55%) QA
6 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (16.49%) Docker
2 6 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.06%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (18.56%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.40%) Terraform
3 14 (7.22%) Ansible
4 11 (5.67%) Grafana
4 11 (5.67%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.58%) Puppet
6 3 (1.55%) Kibana
6 3 (1.55%) logstash
7 1 (0.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (24.23%) Databricks
2 38 (19.59%) Oracle
3 32 (16.49%) Red Hat
4 16 (8.25%) Dell
5 12 (6.19%) Microsoft
6 11 (5.67%) Google
7 8 (4.12%) Cloudera
8 7 (3.61%) Informatica
9 6 (3.09%) Talend
10 5 (2.58%) Palantir
10 5 (2.58%) SaltStack
11 2 (1.03%) IBM
11 2 (1.03%) SAP
12 1 (0.52%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.52%) Foundry
12 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.52%) Pega
12 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.52%) UiPath