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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 435 494
Rank change year-on-year -53 +59 -155
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 266 223 279
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.51% 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.54% 5.87% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 126 117 190
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,550 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% -10.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £109,250 £125,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £71,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.89% -10.63% -2.29%

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 4,070 3,798 6,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.22% 8.68% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,939 2,751 4,591
10th Percentile £29,543 £29,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -2.68%

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 August 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 August 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 -20 167 £95,000 +11.76% 69
North of England -33 49 £55,000 -4.35% 13
South West -50 27 £55,000 +10.00% 17
North East -45 23 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North West -1 16 £55,000 - 3
Yorkshire -45 10 £80,000 +39.13% 1
East of England -21 7 £75,000 +4.90% 3
South East -55 6 £62,500 -5.66% 5
Midlands -50 3 £58,403 -13.48% 1
West Midlands -34 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
East Midlands -30 1 £50,000 -33.33%
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
1 111 (41.73%) Apache
2 67 (25.19%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (7.14%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.88%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.13%) SAS
6 2 (0.75%) Luigi
6 2 (0.75%) Tornado
7 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 161 (60.53%) AWS
2 143 (53.76%) Azure
3 87 (32.71%) GCP
4 52 (19.55%) Power Platform
5 48 (18.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 38 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 36 (13.53%) Snowflake
8 35 (13.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 35 (13.16%) Serverless
9 28 (10.53%) dbt
10 23 (8.65%) Amazon EMR
11 21 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (7.52%) Amazon Kinesis
13 19 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (6.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (4.89%) Amazon ECR
18 12 (4.51%) Microsoft Purview
19 11 (4.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.26%) BGP
1 6 (2.26%) DNS
1 6 (2.26%) IPsec
1 6 (2.26%) VPN
2 5 (1.88%) AMQP
2 5 (1.88%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) 4G
3 1 (0.38%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (34.21%) Big Data
2 70 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (25.56%) Data Lake
4 56 (21.05%) Hadoop
5 55 (20.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 54 (20.30%) Elasticsearch
7 51 (19.17%) Power BI
8 42 (15.79%) NoSQL
8 42 (15.79%) Tableau
9 26 (9.77%) BigQuery
10 25 (9.40%) Delta Lake
11 24 (9.02%) Looker
12 23 (8.65%) Metadata
12 23 (8.65%) Relational Database
12 23 (8.65%) Snowflake Schema
13 21 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (6.02%) Apache Hive
14 16 (6.02%) Flink
15 13 (4.89%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (13.16%) Git
2 30 (11.28%) MLflow
3 18 (6.77%) GitLab
4 10 (3.76%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.50%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.75%) JIRA
6 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.38%) ERwin
General
1 105 (39.47%) Finance
2 71 (26.69%) Social Skills
3 57 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.65%) Banking
5 21 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.52%) Financial Institution
7 17 (6.39%) Law
8 15 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (4.14%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.76%) Military
11 9 (3.38%) Marketing
12 8 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (2.63%) Legal
14 6 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (2.26%) Retail
15 4 (1.50%) Games
15 4 (1.50%) Investment Banking
16 3 (1.13%) Front Office
17 2 (0.75%) Local Government
17 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 119 (44.74%) Data Engineer
2 97 (36.47%) Senior
3 41 (15.41%) Lead
4 32 (12.03%) Data Scientist
5 30 (11.28%) Senior Data Engineer
6 29 (10.90%) Senior Data Scientist
7 24 (9.02%) Lead Data Engineer
8 23 (8.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 23 (8.65%) Systems Engineer
9 20 (7.52%) Python Engineer
10 17 (6.39%) Architect
11 13 (4.89%) Data Architect
12 12 (4.51%) Developer
12 12 (4.51%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.76%) Python Developer
14 9 (3.38%) Consultant
14 9 (3.38%) Python Data Engineer
15 8 (3.01%) AWS Consultant
15 8 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
16 7 (2.63%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (43.98%) Kafka
2 52 (19.55%) PySpark
3 43 (16.17%) Terraform
4 25 (9.40%) PyTorch
4 25 (9.40%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.02%) LangChain
5 24 (9.02%) pgvector
5 24 (9.02%) TensorFlow
6 23 (8.65%) LlamaIndex
7 20 (7.52%) SpaCy
8 17 (6.39%) REST
9 15 (5.64%) Node.js
10 12 (4.51%) Pandas
11 9 (3.38%) Apache NiFi
12 8 (3.01%) RESTful
13 7 (2.63%) Spring
13 7 (2.63%) Spring Boot
14 6 (2.26%) gRPC
14 6 (2.26%) NumPy
14 6 (2.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 56 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.15%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.65%) Clustering
4 20 (7.52%) e-Learning
5 18 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (6.39%) Product Ownership
7 14 (5.26%) Data Structures
7 14 (5.26%) Onboarding
8 11 (4.14%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.63%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.88%) NHS
11 3 (1.13%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.13%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.51%) Linux
2 5 (1.88%) CentOS
2 5 (1.88%) Debian
2 5 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (64.29%) Data Engineering
2 162 (60.90%) Analytics
3 150 (56.39%) Data Pipeline
4 130 (48.87%) CI/CD
5 121 (45.49%) Data Science
6 119 (44.74%) Machine Learning
7 115 (43.23%) Data Modelling
8 102 (38.35%) AI
9 98 (36.84%) ETL
10 94 (35.34%) DevOps
11 77 (28.95%) Agile
12 67 (25.19%) Data Governance
13 65 (24.44%) Business Intelligence
13 65 (24.44%) Use Case
14 63 (23.68%) Mentoring
15 53 (19.92%) Generative AI
16 51 (19.17%) Infrastructure as Code
17 46 (17.29%) Data Ingestion
18 45 (16.92%) Software Engineering
18 45 (16.92%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 224 (84.21%) Python
2 183 (68.80%) SQL
3 50 (18.80%) Scala
4 37 (13.91%) Java
5 7 (2.63%) C#
5 7 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.26%) C
6 6 (2.26%) PHP
6 6 (2.26%) Ruby
7 5 (1.88%) VBA
8 4 (1.50%) Bash
8 4 (1.50%) Bicep
9 3 (1.13%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.75%) R
10 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 65 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.68%) Degree
3 47 (17.67%) SC Cleared
4 27 (10.15%) PhD
5 24 (9.02%) Master's Degree
6 19 (7.14%) Azure Certification
7 15 (5.64%) DV Cleared
8 14 (5.26%) AWS Certification
9 11 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.38%) CEH
13 1 (0.38%) CISM
13 1 (0.38%) CISSP
13 1 (0.38%) OCP
13 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (33.46%) Data Quality
2 32 (12.03%) GDPR
3 26 (9.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.51%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.01%) QA
6 3 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.13%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.75%) IFRS
7 2 (0.75%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.75%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (19.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (15.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.76%) Ansible
3 6 (2.26%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.88%) Puppet
5 3 (1.13%) Kibana
6 2 (0.75%) Argo
6 2 (0.75%) Grafana
7 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 102 (38.35%) Databricks
2 29 (10.90%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.02%) Cloudera
4 23 (8.65%) Dell
5 14 (5.26%) Oracle
6 10 (3.76%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.01%) Google
8 6 (2.26%) HP
8 6 (2.26%) IBM
8 6 (2.26%) Informatica
8 6 (2.26%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.26%) SAP
9 5 (1.88%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.13%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.13%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.13%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.38%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.38%) Foundry
11 1 (0.38%) Splunk