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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 353 442
Rank change year-on-year -104 +89 -203
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 201 277 389
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.76% 0.51%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.27% 7.68% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 91 196 248
10th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £73,250 £56,250 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £131,250 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £119,125
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -5.88%

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 3,206 3,607 7,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.68% 9.85% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 2,590 6,307
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,563 £38,313 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
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 26 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 26 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 -37 137 £95,000 -13.64% 63
North of England -54 23 £65,000 +13.04% 16
East of England -3 18 £75,000 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire -39 13 £65,000 +13.04% 1
South West -20 11 £80,000 +60.00% 10
North West -32 8 £95,000 +72.73% 11
South East -64 4 £65,000 +8.33% 24
North East -25 2 £80,000 - 4
Midlands -49 2 £50,000 -28.83% 4
West Midlands -9 1 - - 2
East Midlands -49 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
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 91 (45.27%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (35.32%) Apache
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.50%) Camunda
3 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.50%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 132 (65.67%) AWS
2 91 (45.27%) Azure
3 77 (38.31%) GCP
4 49 (24.38%) Power Platform
5 46 (22.89%) Amazon S3
6 42 (20.90%) dbt
7 38 (18.91%) Snowflake
8 37 (18.41%) OpenShift
9 35 (17.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 28 (13.93%) Serverless
11 25 (12.44%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (8.46%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (5.97%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (4.98%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (4.48%) Dagster
15 9 (4.48%) GitHub
16 8 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.48%) Broadband
2 5 (2.49%) AMQP
2 5 (2.49%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.50%) 4G
3 1 (0.50%) 5G
3 1 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.50%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (32.84%) Big Data
1 66 (32.84%) Data Warehouse
2 64 (31.84%) Tableau
3 49 (24.38%) Data Lake
4 48 (23.88%) Power BI
5 42 (20.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 39 (19.40%) Hadoop
7 37 (18.41%) BigQuery
8 35 (17.41%) Apache Hive
9 30 (14.93%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (13.93%) Snowflake Schema
10 28 (13.93%) Spark SQL
11 25 (12.44%) Impala
11 25 (12.44%) Oracle Database
11 25 (12.44%) Parquet
12 24 (11.94%) Looker
13 17 (8.46%) MySQL
13 17 (8.46%) Relational Database
14 14 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
15 12 (5.97%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (20.90%) Git
2 27 (13.43%) MLflow
3 25 (12.44%) IBM UrbanCode
4 7 (3.48%) GitLab
4 7 (3.48%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.00%) Deequ
6 1 (0.50%) JIRA
6 1 (0.50%) JUnit
General
1 79 (39.30%) Finance
2 76 (37.81%) Social Skills
3 71 (35.32%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (15.42%) Banking
5 24 (11.94%) Investment Banking
6 13 (6.47%) Law
6 13 (6.47%) Legal
7 10 (4.98%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.99%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.99%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.99%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.00%) Advertising
9 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.00%) Marketing
9 2 (1.00%) Retail
9 2 (1.00%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.50%) Billing
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (35.32%) Data Engineer
2 64 (31.84%) Senior
3 28 (13.93%) Senior Data Engineer
4 27 (13.43%) Analyst
5 24 (11.94%) Developer
5 24 (11.94%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (11.44%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (11.44%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (10.95%) Banking Analyst
8 20 (9.95%) Python Developer
9 15 (7.46%) Architect
10 13 (6.47%) AWS Data Engineer
10 13 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (6.47%) Business Analyst
11 12 (5.97%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (5.97%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (5.47%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 11 (5.47%) Python Engineer
13 10 (4.98%) Data Architect
14 9 (4.48%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (47.26%) Kafka
2 49 (24.38%) PySpark
3 32 (15.92%) PyTorch
3 32 (15.92%) TensorFlow
4 27 (13.43%) REST
4 27 (13.43%) scikit-learn
5 25 (12.44%) LangChain
6 24 (11.94%) Pandas
7 23 (11.44%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (11.44%) pgvector
8 13 (6.47%) Spring
9 12 (5.97%) Spring Boot
10 10 (4.98%) Node.js
10 10 (4.98%) OAuth
11 8 (3.98%) NumPy
12 6 (2.99%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.99%) LDAP
12 6 (2.99%) OAuth2
12 6 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.99%) React
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.39%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.44%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (11.44%) Clustering
3 23 (11.44%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.98%) Algorithms
4 10 (4.98%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (3.98%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.48%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.99%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.99%) Social Media
8 5 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.49%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.00%) Data Fabric
11 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.97%) Linux
2 6 (2.99%) Unix
3 5 (2.49%) CentOS
3 5 (2.49%) Debian
3 5 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (67.16%) Data Pipeline
2 123 (61.19%) Analytics
3 110 (54.73%) ETL
4 109 (54.23%) Data Engineering
5 100 (49.75%) AI
6 95 (47.26%) Data Governance
7 87 (43.28%) CI/CD
8 84 (41.79%) Data Modelling
9 77 (38.31%) Machine Learning
10 71 (35.32%) Data Science
11 62 (30.85%) Agile
12 61 (30.35%) Business Intelligence
13 48 (23.88%) Software Engineering
14 46 (22.89%) Computer Science
15 43 (21.39%) Performance Tuning
16 38 (18.91%) DevOps
16 38 (18.91%) Generative AI
17 37 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
18 36 (17.91%) Data Transformation
19 35 (17.41%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 186 (92.54%) Python
2 153 (76.12%) SQL
3 45 (22.39%) Java
4 30 (14.93%) Scala
5 8 (3.98%) C++
6 7 (3.48%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.49%) R
8 3 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.50%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.50%) Bash
10 1 (0.50%) Bicep
10 1 (0.50%) C#
10 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.50%) Ruby
10 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (13.93%) Degree
2 17 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.97%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.98%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.48%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.48%) PhD
7 6 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.50%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (38.81%) Data Quality
2 39 (19.40%) GDPR
3 35 (17.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.97%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.49%) QA
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (14.43%) Docker
2 6 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 37 (18.41%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.44%) Terraform
3 15 (7.46%) Ansible
4 10 (4.98%) Grafana
5 9 (4.48%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.49%) Puppet
7 1 (0.50%) Argo
7 1 (0.50%) Kibana
7 1 (0.50%) logstash
Vendors
1 62 (30.85%) Databricks
2 36 (17.91%) Oracle
3 32 (15.92%) Red Hat
4 31 (15.42%) Dell
5 24 (11.94%) Cloudera
6 12 (5.97%) Microsoft
7 10 (4.98%) Google
8 6 (2.99%) Informatica
9 5 (2.49%) Palantir
9 5 (2.49%) SaltStack
9 5 (2.49%) Talend
10 2 (1.00%) IBM
10 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.50%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.50%) Foundry
11 1 (0.50%) Pega
11 1 (0.50%) SAP
11 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.50%) Splunk
11 1 (0.50%) UiPath