Apache Spark Jobs in England

Apache Spark
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Apache Spark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Apache Spark over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 522 312
Rank change year-on-year +74 -210 -62
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 264 345 856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.37% 1.08%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.39% 3.89% 9.62%
Number of salaries quoted 160 234 547
10th Percentile £47,900 £50,550 £60,000
25th Percentile £57,375 £63,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £115,000 £104,375 £110,000
90th Percentile £135,375 £122,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% +9.68%

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 4,134 8,870 8,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.09% 9.42% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,752 6,583 6,606
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,579 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £95,125
UK median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% -

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in England.

Salary trend for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in England over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 July 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 +66 165 £97,500 +8.33% 767
South East +111 37 £65,000 +18.18% 82
North of England +39 32 £57,500 +4.07% 83
Midlands +74 21 £64,000 -12.03% 50
Yorkshire +67 15 £57,500 -8.00% 32
East Midlands +49 15 £75,000 +25.00% 20
North West -4 11 £55,000 - 42
West Midlands +66 6 £57,000 -21.92% 30
North East +51 6 £47,500 -36.67% 9
South West +68 4 £55,000 -31.25% 44
East of England +30 4 £71,500 -35.00% 33
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 103 (39.02%) Apache
2 76 (28.79%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.52%) Apache Pulsar
3 4 (1.52%) Appian
4 3 (1.14%) Apache Synapse
4 3 (1.14%) SAS
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.76%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 166 (62.88%) AWS
2 119 (45.08%) Azure
3 65 (24.62%) Serverless
4 58 (21.97%) AWS Lambda
4 58 (21.97%) GCP
5 48 (18.18%) OpenShift
6 46 (17.42%) Amazon S3
7 42 (15.91%) Amazon ECS
7 42 (15.91%) dbt
8 40 (15.15%) Power Platform
9 25 (9.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 24 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
12 18 (6.82%) Amazon ELB
13 17 (6.44%) Snowflake
14 14 (5.30%) Amazon Kinesis
14 14 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (4.55%) GitHub
16 9 (3.41%) Amazon EMR
16 9 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.55%) HTTP
2 3 (1.14%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.38%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (34.09%) Big Data
2 69 (26.14%) Hadoop
3 68 (25.76%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (21.97%) Amazon Athena
5 55 (20.83%) Apache Iceberg
6 50 (18.94%) NoSQL
7 44 (16.67%) Apache Ignite
8 42 (15.91%) Apache Arrow
8 42 (15.91%) Dremio
9 39 (14.77%) Data Lake
10 38 (14.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 36 (13.64%) Power BI
12 35 (13.26%) Delta Lake
12 35 (13.26%) Metadata
13 31 (11.74%) Spark SQL
14 25 (9.47%) BigQuery
15 21 (7.95%) DynamoDB
16 16 (6.06%) Apache Hive
17 15 (5.68%) Tableau
18 13 (4.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (15.91%) Artifactory
2 23 (8.71%) Git
3 22 (8.33%) MLflow
4 15 (5.68%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.03%) Robot Framework
5 8 (3.03%) Selenium
6 5 (1.89%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.52%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.52%) GitLab
7 4 (1.52%) JMeter
7 4 (1.52%) Locust
7 4 (1.52%) Postman
7 4 (1.52%) Snyk
7 4 (1.52%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.38%) ERwin
8 1 (0.38%) Spinnaker
General
1 101 (38.26%) Social Skills
2 91 (34.47%) Finance
3 51 (19.32%) Law
4 45 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (16.67%) Front Office
6 39 (14.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (8.71%) Banking
8 18 (6.82%) Retail
9 16 (6.06%) Advertising
10 14 (5.30%) Games
11 11 (4.17%) Marketing
12 10 (3.79%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.89%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.89%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.52%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.52%) Retail Banking
15 3 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (1.14%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (43.18%) Data Engineer
2 73 (27.65%) Senior
3 57 (21.59%) Python Engineer
4 51 (19.32%) AWS Engineer
5 44 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (15.91%) AWS DevOps
6 42 (15.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 39 (14.77%) Senior Data Engineer
8 29 (10.98%) Lead
9 26 (9.85%) Software Engineer
10 23 (8.71%) Architect
11 20 (7.58%) Data Scientist
12 19 (7.20%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 18 (6.82%) Operations Engineer
14 14 (5.30%) Data Architect
15 12 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (4.55%) Senior Data Scientist
15 12 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
16 10 (3.79%) Analyst
17 9 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (48.48%) Kafka
2 94 (35.61%) PySpark
3 42 (15.91%) J2EE
4 39 (14.77%) TensorFlow
5 35 (13.26%) PyTorch
6 32 (12.12%) scikit-learn
7 28 (10.61%) Pandas
8 25 (9.47%) YAML
9 24 (9.09%) NumPy
10 22 (8.33%) Keras
11 18 (6.82%) Lambda Expressions
11 18 (6.82%) Metaflow
12 13 (4.92%) Spark Streaming
13 10 (3.79%) Apache NiFi
14 8 (3.03%) pytest
15 6 (2.27%) React
16 5 (1.89%) Django
16 5 (1.89%) Great Expectations
16 5 (1.89%) Hugging Face
16 5 (1.89%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.85%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.95%) Data Structures
4 18 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (6.06%) Algorithms
5 16 (6.06%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.79%) FMCG
7 9 (3.41%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.27%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.89%) Distributed Applications
10 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.52%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.52%) Mobile Banking
12 3 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (0.76%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.76%) Robotics
14 1 (0.38%) Blockchain
14 1 (0.38%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.47%) Unix
2 4 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (51.52%) CI/CD
2 119 (45.08%) Machine Learning
3 117 (44.32%) Agile
3 117 (44.32%) Data Engineering
4 106 (40.15%) DevOps
5 96 (36.36%) Data Science
6 92 (34.85%) Data Pipeline
7 91 (34.47%) Analytics
8 90 (34.09%) ETL
9 89 (33.71%) Software Engineering
10 86 (32.58%) Data Modelling
11 78 (29.55%) Artificial Intelligence
12 68 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
13 63 (23.86%) Visualisation
14 61 (23.11%) Data Governance
15 54 (20.45%) Open Source
16 51 (19.32%) Asset Management
17 49 (18.56%) Decision-Making
18 47 (17.80%) Computer Science
19 43 (16.29%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 221 (83.71%) Python
2 168 (63.64%) SQL
3 83 (31.44%) Java
4 43 (16.29%) Go
5 39 (14.77%) Scala
6 11 (4.17%) Bash
7 10 (3.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (3.79%) R
8 8 (3.03%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.52%) C#
9 4 (1.52%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.52%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.52%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.14%) C
10 3 (1.14%) C++
10 3 (1.14%) PROC SQL
11 2 (0.76%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.76%) Ruby
12 1 (0.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 52 (19.70%) Degree
2 28 (10.61%) Master's Degree
3 17 (6.44%) Azure Certification
4 16 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (6.06%) PhD
5 15 (5.68%) Security Cleared
6 13 (4.92%) AWS Certification
7 11 (4.17%) SC Cleared
8 6 (2.27%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.89%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.52%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (18.94%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.20%) GDPR
3 11 (4.17%) QA
4 10 (3.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.52%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 88 (33.33%) Docker
2 12 (4.55%) HDFS
3 8 (3.03%) Apache Flume
4 4 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 102 (38.64%) Kubernetes
2 99 (37.50%) Terraform
3 22 (8.33%) Kubeflow
4 8 (3.03%) Oozie
5 5 (1.89%) Ansible
6 3 (1.14%) Kibana
6 3 (1.14%) logstash
7 2 (0.76%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.38%) Bugsnag
8 1 (0.38%) Grafana
8 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 100 (37.88%) Databricks
2 39 (14.77%) Google
3 38 (14.39%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.55%) Apple
5 11 (4.17%) Cloudera
6 9 (3.41%) Oracle
7 7 (2.65%) Informatica
7 7 (2.65%) SAP
8 5 (1.89%) Palantir
8 5 (1.89%) Talend
9 4 (1.52%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.52%) Black Duck
9 4 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.52%) UiPath
9 4 (1.52%) VMware
10 3 (1.14%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.76%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.76%) MapR
12 1 (0.38%) Foundry