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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 370 464
Rank change year-on-year -103 +94 -227
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 201 275 381
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.73% 0.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.16% 7.50% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 91 199 260
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £50,172
25th Percentile £74,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £83,230 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% +4.04% -10.61%
75th Percentile £131,250 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,865 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.58% +3.58% -8.57%

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 3,262 3,669 8,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.09% 9.68% 10.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,389 2,660 6,494
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £92,500
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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -51 135 £95,000 -13.64% 47
North of England -55 23 £65,000 +13.04% 18
East of England -3 18 £75,000 -7.69% 2
Yorkshire -56 13 £62,500 +8.70% 1
South West -34 12 £84,000 +68.00% 9
North West -40 8 £95,000 +58.33% 11
South East -65 4 £57,500 -11.54% 14
North East -38 2 £68,750 -14.06% 6
Midlands -46 2 £50,000 -21.88% 4
West Midlands -35 1 - - 3
East Midlands -57 1 £50,000 -33.33% 1
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 92 (45.77%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (38.31%) Apache
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.50%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.50%) Camunda
3 1 (0.50%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 131 (65.17%) AWS
2 96 (47.76%) Azure
3 80 (39.80%) GCP
4 50 (24.88%) Power Platform
5 45 (22.39%) Amazon S3
6 41 (20.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 41 (20.40%) dbt
7 37 (18.41%) Snowflake
8 33 (16.42%) OpenShift
9 26 (12.94%) Serverless
10 22 (10.95%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (10.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (5.47%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (4.98%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.48%) GitHub
14 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (3.98%) Dagster
16 7 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.48%) Broadband
2 5 (2.49%) AMQP
3 2 (1.00%) 4G
3 2 (1.00%) 5G
3 2 (1.00%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.50%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (31.84%) Tableau
2 63 (31.34%) Big Data
2 63 (31.34%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (24.38%) Data Lake
3 49 (24.38%) Power BI
4 41 (20.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 36 (17.91%) BigQuery
6 34 (16.92%) Hadoop
7 33 (16.42%) Elasticsearch
8 30 (14.93%) Apache Hive
9 29 (14.43%) Spark SQL
10 28 (13.93%) Snowflake Schema
11 25 (12.44%) Impala
11 25 (12.44%) Oracle Database
11 25 (12.44%) Parquet
12 24 (11.94%) Looker
13 21 (10.45%) Relational Database
14 20 (9.95%) MySQL
15 16 (7.96%) Metadata
16 15 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (20.40%) Git
2 29 (14.43%) MLflow
3 25 (12.44%) IBM UrbanCode
4 6 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.49%) GitLab
6 2 (1.00%) JIRA
7 1 (0.50%) Deequ
7 1 (0.50%) JUnit
General
1 80 (39.80%) Finance
2 72 (35.82%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (32.34%) Social Skills
4 33 (16.42%) Banking
5 24 (11.94%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.97%) Law
6 14 (6.97%) Legal
7 7 (3.48%) 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%) Billing
9 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Retail
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (32.84%) Data Engineer
2 63 (31.34%) Senior
3 26 (12.94%) Analyst
4 24 (11.94%) Senior Data Engineer
4 24 (11.94%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.44%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.44%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.95%) Banking Analyst
7 21 (10.45%) Developer
8 17 (8.46%) Python Developer
8 17 (8.46%) Python Engineer
9 16 (7.96%) Architect
10 13 (6.47%) Business Analyst
10 13 (6.47%) Lead
11 12 (5.97%) AWS Data Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
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%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (47.26%) Kafka
2 52 (25.87%) PySpark
3 31 (15.42%) PyTorch
3 31 (15.42%) TensorFlow
4 27 (13.43%) scikit-learn
5 25 (12.44%) REST
6 24 (11.94%) LangChain
7 23 (11.44%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (11.44%) pgvector
8 22 (10.95%) Pandas
9 12 (5.97%) Spring
10 11 (5.47%) Spring Boot
11 10 (4.98%) Node.js
12 7 (3.48%) React
13 6 (2.99%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.99%) NumPy
13 6 (2.99%) OAuth
13 6 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.49%) gRPC
14 5 (2.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.90%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.44%) Clustering
2 23 (11.44%) Public Cloud
3 17 (8.46%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.48%) Algorithms
4 9 (4.48%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.48%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.99%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (2.99%) Social Media
7 5 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.49%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.99%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.49%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.48%) Linux
2 5 (2.49%) CentOS
2 5 (2.49%) Debian
2 5 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.49%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (66.17%) Data Pipeline
2 124 (61.69%) Analytics
3 118 (58.71%) Data Engineering
4 108 (53.73%) ETL
5 96 (47.76%) AI
6 91 (45.27%) Data Governance
7 88 (43.78%) CI/CD
8 83 (41.29%) Data Modelling
9 77 (38.31%) Machine Learning
10 76 (37.81%) Data Science
11 63 (31.34%) Agile
12 59 (29.35%) Business Intelligence
13 46 (22.89%) Software Engineering
14 44 (21.89%) Computer Science
15 43 (21.39%) Performance Tuning
16 42 (20.90%) DevOps
17 39 (19.40%) Generative AI
18 38 (18.91%) Use Case
19 36 (17.91%) Scrum
20 35 (17.41%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 184 (91.54%) Python
2 152 (75.62%) SQL
3 38 (18.91%) Java
4 30 (14.93%) Scala
5 8 (3.98%) C++
6 6 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.49%) R
8 4 (1.99%) Bicep
8 4 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.49%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.50%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.50%) Bash
10 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.50%) Ruby
10 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (13.93%) Degree
2 20 (9.95%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.97%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.48%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.48%) PhD
6 8 (3.98%) Master's Degree
7 7 (3.48%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.99%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.50%) CEH
11 1 (0.50%) CISM
11 1 (0.50%) CISSP
11 1 (0.50%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (42.29%) 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
6 2 (1.00%) IFRS
6 2 (1.00%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.00%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.50%) QA
7 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (13.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (15.92%) Kubernetes
2 29 (14.43%) Terraform
3 12 (5.97%) Ansible
4 8 (3.98%) Grafana
5 7 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.49%) Puppet
7 1 (0.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 66 (32.84%) Databricks
2 34 (16.92%) Oracle
3 32 (15.92%) Red Hat
4 25 (12.44%) Dell
5 24 (11.94%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.97%) 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 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.50%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.50%) Confluent
11 1 (0.50%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.50%) Pega
11 1 (0.50%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.50%) Splunk
11 1 (0.50%) UiPath