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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 395 408
Rank change year-on-year -64 +13 -170
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 167 284 391
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.64% 0.59%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.39% 6.74% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 94 202 252
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £70,438 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £93,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +17.19% -5.88%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%

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 3,099 4,216 6,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.18% 9.52% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,232 2,474 5,554
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £79,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,001 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -33 120 £95,000 -13.64% 46
North of England -8 27 £65,000 +18.18% 24
Yorkshire - 17 £65,000 - 7
North West 0 9 £75,000 +42.86% 11
South West -6 6 £75,000 -3.23% 14
East of England +18 5 - - 2
South East -16 2 £65,000 +13.04% 24
West Midlands +13 1 - - 3
Midlands 0 1 - - 5
North East -6 1 - - 6
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 51 (30.54%) Apache
2 42 (25.15%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.20%) SAS
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.60%) Camunda
4 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.60%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 107 (64.07%) AWS
2 81 (48.50%) Azure
3 66 (39.52%) GCP
4 35 (20.96%) Serverless
5 32 (19.16%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (13.77%) dbt
7 22 (13.17%) Amazon S3
8 18 (10.78%) Power Platform
9 17 (10.18%) Amazon EMR
9 17 (10.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (8.98%) Snowflake
11 14 (8.38%) Amazon Kinesis
11 14 (8.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (7.19%) AWS Step Functions
12 12 (7.19%) OpenShift
13 10 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (5.39%) Dagster
15 7 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (4.19%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.19%) Broadband
2 5 (2.99%) AMQP
3 4 (2.40%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.60%) 4G
4 1 (0.60%) 5G
4 1 (0.60%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.60%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (44.91%) Big Data
2 56 (33.53%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (32.34%) Hadoop
4 35 (20.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (20.36%) Data Lake
6 18 (10.78%) Power BI
7 17 (10.18%) MySQL
7 17 (10.18%) NoSQL
8 16 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (8.98%) MongoDB
9 15 (8.98%) Relational Database
9 15 (8.98%) Tableau
10 14 (8.38%) Apache Hive
10 14 (8.38%) BigQuery
10 14 (8.38%) Metadata
10 14 (8.38%) SQL Server
11 10 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (5.39%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (5.39%) DynamoDB
12 9 (5.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (9.58%) Git
2 6 (3.59%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.40%) GitLab
4 3 (1.80%) MLflow
5 2 (1.20%) Deequ
6 1 (0.60%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.60%) JUnit
General
1 82 (49.10%) Social Skills
2 61 (36.53%) Finance
3 40 (23.95%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.18%) Law
5 15 (8.98%) Banking
6 14 (8.38%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.39%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.40%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.80%) Front Office
9 3 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.80%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.20%) Advertising
10 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.20%) Legal
10 2 (1.20%) Marketing
10 2 (1.20%) Retail
11 1 (0.60%) Electronics
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (46.71%) Data Engineer
2 49 (29.34%) Senior
3 33 (19.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 22 (13.17%) Developer
5 18 (10.78%) AWS Data Engineer
5 18 (10.78%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (10.18%) Python Developer
7 13 (7.78%) Architect
8 11 (6.59%) Principal Engineer
8 11 (6.59%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.99%) Data Scientist
10 9 (5.39%) Data Architect
11 7 (4.19%) Lead
11 7 (4.19%) Senior Data Scientist
12 5 (2.99%) Azure Data Engineer
12 5 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (2.40%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 4 (2.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 4 (2.40%) Machine Learning Scientist
13 4 (2.40%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (43.71%) Kafka
2 25 (14.97%) PySpark
3 22 (13.17%) REST
4 13 (7.78%) Pandas
5 12 (7.19%) PyTorch
5 12 (7.19%) TensorFlow
6 11 (6.59%) Spring
7 10 (5.99%) Spring Boot
8 7 (4.19%) boto
8 7 (4.19%) NumPy
8 7 (4.19%) React
8 7 (4.19%) scikit-learn
8 7 (4.19%) Spark Streaming
9 6 (3.59%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.59%) Node.js
9 6 (3.59%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.59%) SpaCy
10 5 (2.99%) Material-UI
10 5 (2.99%) OpenAPI
10 5 (2.99%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 36 (21.56%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (13.17%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.78%) e-Learning
4 12 (7.19%) Product Ownership
5 11 (6.59%) Algorithms
6 9 (5.39%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.79%) Data Structures
7 8 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (4.19%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (4.19%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (3.59%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (3.59%) Social Media
10 3 (1.80%) Equities
10 3 (1.80%) FMCG
10 3 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.80%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.60%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.98%) Linux
2 6 (3.59%) Unix
3 5 (2.99%) CentOS
3 5 (2.99%) Debian
3 5 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.99%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (58.68%) Data Pipeline
2 90 (53.89%) Data Engineering
3 85 (50.90%) Analytics
4 76 (45.51%) CI/CD
5 69 (41.32%) ETL
6 66 (39.52%) Data Modelling
7 61 (36.53%) Data Science
8 54 (32.34%) Data Governance
8 54 (32.34%) Machine Learning
9 49 (29.34%) DevOps
10 47 (28.14%) Software Engineering
11 43 (25.75%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (25.15%) AI
13 40 (23.95%) Computer Science
14 38 (22.75%) Agile
14 38 (22.75%) Business Intelligence
15 34 (20.36%) Mentoring
16 28 (16.77%) Fintech
17 27 (16.17%) Microservices
17 27 (16.17%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 151 (90.42%) Python
2 110 (65.87%) SQL
3 58 (34.73%) Java
4 32 (19.16%) Scala
5 9 (5.39%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.79%) C++
7 7 (4.19%) R
8 5 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.80%) C#
10 2 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.60%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.60%) Bash
11 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.60%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.60%) Ruby
11 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (19.76%) Degree
2 15 (8.98%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.78%) PhD
4 13 (7.78%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.19%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.59%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.59%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.60%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (31.14%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.79%) GDPR
3 6 (3.59%) QA
4 3 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (16.17%) Docker
2 8 (4.79%) HDFS
3 5 (2.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (17.96%) Kubernetes
2 23 (13.77%) Terraform
3 12 (7.19%) Ansible
4 9 (5.39%) Grafana
4 9 (5.39%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.99%) Puppet
6 3 (1.80%) Kibana
6 3 (1.80%) logstash
7 1 (0.60%) Argo
Vendors
1 43 (25.75%) Databricks
2 16 (9.58%) Oracle
3 12 (7.19%) Google
4 10 (5.99%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.39%) Informatica
6 8 (4.79%) Red Hat
6 8 (4.79%) Talend
7 7 (4.19%) Dell
8 5 (2.99%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.40%) Palantir
9 4 (2.40%) SAP
10 2 (1.20%) IBM
11 1 (0.60%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.60%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.60%) Pega
11 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.60%) UiPath