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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 424 477
Rank change year-on-year -90 +53 -133
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 255 212 275
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.49% 0.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.87% 6.04% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 129 105 190
10th Percentile £52,450 £50,650 £49,875
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +0.46%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,500 £134,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +0.46%

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 4,341 3,510 5,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.18% 8.12% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,026 2,521 3,536
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,188 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.63%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -51 151 £85,000 -8.11% 391
North of England -39 54 £57,500 -4.17% 57
South West -46 28 £59,500 +8.18% 34
North East -42 25 £55,000 +15.79% 12
North West -20 19 £55,000 -18.52% 37
Yorkshire -39 10 £80,000 +33.33% 8
South East -56 10 £63,002 -4.90% 39
West Midlands -44 4 £60,653 +13.37% 11
Midlands -60 4 £60,653 +13.37% 17
East of England -44 1 £80,000 +11.89% 13
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
1 117 (45.88%) Apache
2 41 (16.08%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (8.63%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.96%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.18%) SAS
6 2 (0.78%) Luigi
6 2 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.78%) Tornado
7 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.39%) Confluence
7 1 (0.39%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 141 (55.29%) AWS
2 137 (53.73%) Azure
3 72 (28.24%) GCP
4 42 (16.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 39 (15.29%) Serverless
6 35 (13.73%) Amazon S3
7 27 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (10.59%) Power Platform
8 25 (9.80%) Amazon EMR
8 25 (9.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (8.63%) Azure Databricks
9 22 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (8.24%) Amazon Kinesis
11 17 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (5.88%) Snowflake
14 13 (5.10%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.31%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.75%) AMQP
2 6 (2.35%) BGP
2 6 (2.35%) DNS
2 6 (2.35%) IPsec
2 6 (2.35%) VPN
3 5 (1.96%) Internet
4 1 (0.39%) 4G
4 1 (0.39%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (36.08%) Big Data
2 59 (23.14%) Hadoop
3 52 (20.39%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (18.82%) Data Lake
5 44 (17.25%) NoSQL
6 39 (15.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 28 (10.98%) Metadata
8 27 (10.59%) Power BI
9 25 (9.80%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (9.02%) Relational Database
11 22 (8.63%) Delta Lake
12 20 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
13 19 (7.45%) Tableau
14 18 (7.06%) Amazon Athena
15 17 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (6.27%) Flink
17 12 (4.71%) Apache Hive
17 12 (4.71%) DynamoDB
17 12 (4.71%) Spark SQL
18 10 (3.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (17.65%) Git
2 19 (7.45%) GitLab
3 15 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.14%) MLflow
5 2 (0.78%) JIRA
5 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.39%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.39%) ERwin
6 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (42.75%) Finance
2 74 (29.02%) Social Skills
3 41 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.94%) Banking
5 25 (9.80%) Financial Institution
5 25 (9.80%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (5.88%) Aerospace
7 15 (5.88%) Law
8 10 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.92%) Military
9 9 (3.53%) Marketing
10 6 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.35%) Retail
11 5 (1.96%) Legal
12 4 (1.57%) Front Office
13 3 (1.18%) Games
14 2 (0.78%) Aviation
14 2 (0.78%) Local Government
14 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (50.59%) Data Engineer
2 81 (31.76%) Senior
3 42 (16.47%) Lead
4 39 (15.29%) Data Scientist
5 34 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 34 (13.33%) Senior Data Scientist
6 24 (9.41%) Lead Data Engineer
7 23 (9.02%) Databricks Engineer
8 20 (7.84%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 16 (6.27%) Python Engineer
9 16 (6.27%) Software Engineer
10 13 (5.10%) Architect
11 11 (4.31%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.53%) Consultant
13 8 (3.14%) AWS Consultant
13 8 (3.14%) Developer
13 8 (3.14%) Python Data Engineer
13 8 (3.14%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (34.90%) Kafka
2 56 (21.96%) PySpark
3 48 (18.82%) Terraform
4 25 (9.80%) SpaCy
5 13 (5.10%) Node.js
5 13 (5.10%) REST
6 11 (4.31%) Pandas
7 10 (3.92%) gRPC
7 10 (3.92%) React
8 9 (3.53%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.53%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (3.14%) FastAPI
9 8 (3.14%) RESTful
9 8 (3.14%) Spring
9 8 (3.14%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.75%) Material-UI
10 7 (2.75%) NumPy
10 7 (2.75%) OpenAPI
10 7 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (2.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.12%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.80%) e-Learning
3 22 (8.63%) Product Ownership
4 17 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.88%) Data Structures
5 15 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.31%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (3.53%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.35%) NHS
10 5 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.57%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.57%) CUDA
11 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.78%) Blog
13 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.88%) Linux
2 7 (2.75%) CentOS
2 7 (2.75%) Debian
2 7 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (63.53%) Data Engineering
2 143 (56.08%) Analytics
3 140 (54.90%) CI/CD
4 134 (52.55%) Data Pipeline
5 114 (44.71%) Data Science
6 106 (41.57%) DevOps
7 101 (39.61%) Machine Learning
8 99 (38.82%) Data Modelling
9 82 (32.16%) Agile
10 78 (30.59%) ETL
11 77 (30.20%) AI
12 76 (29.80%) Mentoring
13 56 (21.96%) Infrastructure as Code
14 50 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
15 49 (19.22%) Lakehouse
15 49 (19.22%) Validation
16 45 (17.65%) Natural Language Processing
16 45 (17.65%) Software Engineering
17 44 (17.25%) Data Ingestion
18 43 (16.86%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 213 (83.53%) Python
2 162 (63.53%) SQL
3 53 (20.78%) Scala
4 38 (14.90%) Java
5 12 (4.71%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.14%) C#
7 7 (2.75%) R
8 6 (2.35%) C
8 6 (2.35%) PHP
8 6 (2.35%) Ruby
9 5 (1.96%) Bash
9 5 (1.96%) VBA
10 4 (1.57%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.18%) Bicep
11 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.39%) C++
13 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 61 (23.92%) Degree
2 61 (23.92%) SC Cleared
3 34 (13.33%) PhD
4 31 (12.16%) Master's Degree
5 21 (8.24%) Azure Certification
6 19 (7.45%) DV Cleared
7 17 (6.67%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.18%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.39%) CEH
12 1 (0.39%) CISM
12 1 (0.39%) CISSP
12 1 (0.39%) OCP
12 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (36.47%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.10%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.14%) QA
4 7 (2.75%) GDPR
5 5 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.78%) IFRS
6 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.78%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (23.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (18.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.92%) Ansible
3 7 (2.75%) Puppet
4 6 (2.35%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (1.18%) Kibana
6 2 (0.78%) Argo
7 1 (0.39%) Control-M
7 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 92 (36.08%) Databricks
2 31 (12.16%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.71%) Google
4 9 (3.53%) Oracle
5 8 (3.14%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.75%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.35%) HP
7 6 (2.35%) IBM
7 6 (2.35%) SAP
8 5 (1.96%) Informatica
9 4 (1.57%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.18%) Foundry
10 3 (1.18%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.18%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.18%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.78%) Palantir
11 2 (0.78%) Thales
12 1 (0.39%) Confluent
12 1 (0.39%) Mapbox
12 1 (0.39%) Sparx