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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 441 359
Rank change year-on-year +20 -82 -105
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 192 271 334
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.54% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.18% 5.73% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 98 196 214
10th Percentile £55,875 £48,125 £50,495
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% -3.13% -1.23%
75th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% -

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 3,106 4,730 5,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.93% 9.39% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,252 2,908 3,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,125
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 +21 132 £97,500 -2.50% 77
North of England +28 33 £60,000 +20.00% 49
Yorkshire +10 21 £60,000 +21.77% 13
Midlands +25 9 £67,500 +12.50% 25
North West +13 9 £54,250 +8.50% 34
East of England +33 5 - - 19
South East +13 5 £65,000 +13.04% 47
East Midlands -7 5 - - 11
West Midlands +29 4 £67,500 +3.85% 12
North East +13 3 £90,000 +82.65% 2
South West -9 3 £50,000 -35.48% 15
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 47 (24.48%) Apache
2 36 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.56%) Apache Synapse
3 3 (1.56%) Luigi
3 3 (1.56%) SAS
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.52%) Appian
4 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 10 (5.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 135 (70.31%) AWS
2 100 (52.08%) Azure
3 67 (34.90%) GCP
4 41 (21.35%) Amazon S3
5 34 (17.71%) Serverless
6 27 (14.06%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (11.98%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (10.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 19 (9.90%) Amazon EMR
9 19 (9.90%) Power Platform
10 18 (9.38%) Amazon ELB
11 17 (8.85%) Snowflake
12 16 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
13 15 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (7.81%) dbt
14 14 (7.29%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (4.69%) OpenShift
16 8 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (3.65%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.08%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.56%) AMQP
3 1 (0.52%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (44.79%) Big Data
2 67 (34.90%) Hadoop
3 65 (33.85%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (25.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (18.23%) NoSQL
6 34 (17.71%) Metadata
7 32 (16.67%) Data Lake
7 32 (16.67%) DynamoDB
8 28 (14.58%) Delta Lake
9 25 (13.02%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (10.42%) MySQL
10 20 (10.42%) Spark SQL
10 20 (10.42%) SQL Server
11 19 (9.90%) MongoDB
12 18 (9.38%) Power BI
13 15 (7.81%) Relational Database
14 14 (7.29%) Apache Hive
15 13 (6.77%) Apache Cassandra
16 12 (6.25%) RDBMS
17 11 (5.73%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 26 (13.54%) MLflow
2 12 (6.25%) Git
3 10 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.56%) GitLab
5 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) Deequ
6 1 (0.52%) Gradle
6 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) Snyk
General
1 105 (54.69%) Social Skills
2 58 (30.21%) Finance
3 47 (24.48%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.50%) Law
5 18 (9.38%) Financial Institution
6 12 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.21%) Banking
8 5 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.08%) Front Office
9 4 (2.08%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.56%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.56%) Marketing
11 2 (1.04%) Advertising
11 2 (1.04%) Electronics
11 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.04%) Legal
11 2 (1.04%) Retail
11 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (38.02%) Data Engineer
2 47 (24.48%) Senior
3 32 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 19 (9.90%) Developer
4 19 (9.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 18 (9.38%) Operations Engineer
6 16 (8.33%) Architect
7 15 (7.81%) AWS Data Engineer
7 15 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (7.29%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (7.29%) Python Developer
9 13 (6.77%) Lead
10 11 (5.73%) Data Architect
10 11 (5.73%) Data Scientist
11 10 (5.21%) Product Lead
12 9 (4.69%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.17%) Senior Data Scientist
14 5 (2.60%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
15 4 (2.08%) Azure Engineer
15 4 (2.08%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (40.63%) Kafka
2 39 (20.31%) PySpark
3 36 (18.75%) PyTorch
3 36 (18.75%) TensorFlow
4 30 (15.63%) Pandas
4 30 (15.63%) scikit-learn
5 23 (11.98%) NumPy
6 18 (9.38%) Keras
6 18 (9.38%) Lambda Expressions
6 18 (9.38%) Metaflow
6 18 (9.38%) YAML
7 17 (8.85%) REST
8 10 (5.21%) Spark Streaming
9 8 (4.17%) boto
9 8 (4.17%) React
10 7 (3.65%) SpaCy
11 6 (3.13%) Spring
12 5 (2.60%) LDAP
12 5 (2.60%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.96%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (10.94%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.94%) Linux Command Line
2 21 (10.94%) Product Ownership
3 17 (8.85%) e-Learning
4 12 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 12 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 11 (5.73%) FMCG
5 11 (5.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (3.65%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (2.60%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.56%) Equities
10 3 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.04%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.52%) Genomics
12 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.02%) Unix
2 12 (6.25%) Linux
3 3 (1.56%) CentOS
3 3 (1.56%) Debian
3 3 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (52.08%) CI/CD
1 100 (52.08%) Data Pipeline
2 92 (47.92%) Data Engineering
3 90 (46.88%) Analytics
4 89 (46.35%) Machine Learning
5 83 (43.23%) Data Science
6 75 (39.06%) ETL
7 73 (38.02%) Data Modelling
8 64 (33.33%) AI
9 62 (32.29%) DevOps
10 51 (26.56%) Data Governance
11 48 (25.00%) Software Engineering
12 46 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (23.44%) Business Intelligence
14 41 (21.35%) Containerisation
15 39 (20.31%) Agile
15 39 (20.31%) MLOps
16 38 (19.79%) Mentoring
17 37 (19.27%) Visualisation
18 36 (18.75%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 166 (86.46%) Python
2 136 (70.83%) SQL
3 55 (28.65%) Java
4 35 (18.23%) Scala
5 7 (3.65%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.13%) R
7 4 (2.08%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.56%) C#
9 2 (1.04%) Bash
9 2 (1.04%) C++
9 2 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.52%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (18.75%) Degree
2 15 (7.81%) Master's Degree
3 14 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.29%) PhD
4 13 (6.77%) Security Cleared
5 11 (5.73%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.08%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.52%) MBA
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (24.48%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.29%) QA
3 10 (5.21%) GDPR
4 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 48 (25.00%) Docker
2 9 (4.69%) HDFS
3 5 (2.60%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 38 (19.79%) Terraform
3 23 (11.98%) Kubeflow
4 14 (7.29%) Ansible
5 7 (3.65%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.13%) Grafana
7 5 (2.60%) Puppet
8 3 (1.56%) Kibana
8 3 (1.56%) logstash
9 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 76 (39.58%) Databricks
2 21 (10.94%) Oracle
3 13 (6.77%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.77%) SAP
4 12 (6.25%) Informatica
5 11 (5.73%) Talend
6 8 (4.17%) Google
7 7 (3.65%) Dell
8 5 (2.60%) Palantir
9 4 (2.08%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.56%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.52%) Black Duck
11 1 (0.52%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.52%) IBM
11 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.52%) UiPath
11 1 (0.52%) VMware