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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 427 496
Rank change year-on-year -42 +69 -171
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 285 240 284
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.55% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.08% 6.09% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 133 136 192
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,000 £47,750
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 4,028 3,938 6,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.39% 9.02% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,963 2,801 4,880
10th Percentile £29,111 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,125 £36,250 £38,049
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,588 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -4.81%

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 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 2 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 -1 181 £95,000 +5.56% 126
North of England -28 46 £55,000 -4.35% 20
South West -46 23 £67,500 +22.73% 10
North East -39 20 £55,000 +15.79% 8
North West +1 16 £55,000 -10.20% 6
East of England -12 15 £75,000 +4.90% 2
Yorkshire -44 10 £80,000 +39.13% 6
South East -53 8 £62,500 -3.85% 19
Midlands -45 3 £58,403 -13.48% 7
West Midlands -42 2 £66,805 +10.42% 4
East Midlands -40 1 £50,000 -33.33% 3
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
1 125 (43.86%) Apache
2 102 (35.79%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (6.32%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.75%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.05%) SAS
6 2 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.35%) Luigi
7 1 (0.35%) Tornado
Applications
1 13 (4.56%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 180 (63.16%) AWS
2 132 (46.32%) Azure
3 87 (30.53%) GCP
4 58 (20.35%) Amazon S3
5 51 (17.89%) Power Platform
6 46 (16.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (14.04%) Snowflake
8 39 (13.68%) dbt
9 34 (11.93%) Serverless
10 33 (11.58%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (10.53%) OpenShift
12 23 (8.07%) Amazon EMR
13 21 (7.37%) Amazon Kinesis
14 20 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 14 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (4.91%) Cloud Computing
18 12 (4.21%) Amazon ECR
18 12 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.11%) BGP
1 6 (2.11%) Broadband
1 6 (2.11%) DNS
1 6 (2.11%) IPsec
1 6 (2.11%) VPN
2 5 (1.75%) Internet
3 4 (1.40%) AMQP
4 2 (0.70%) 4G
4 2 (0.70%) 5G
5 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (31.23%) Big Data
2 68 (23.86%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (21.75%) Tableau
4 61 (21.40%) Data Lake
5 53 (18.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 53 (18.60%) Elasticsearch
6 50 (17.54%) Power BI
7 49 (17.19%) Hadoop
8 40 (14.04%) NoSQL
9 38 (13.33%) Apache Hive
10 34 (11.93%) Spark SQL
11 33 (11.58%) BigQuery
12 28 (9.82%) Relational Database
13 27 (9.47%) Metadata
14 26 (9.12%) Parquet
15 25 (8.77%) Impala
15 25 (8.77%) Oracle Database
16 24 (8.42%) Snowflake Schema
17 23 (8.07%) Delta Lake
17 23 (8.07%) Looker
Development Applications
1 53 (18.60%) Git
2 29 (10.18%) MLflow
3 25 (8.77%) IBM UrbanCode
4 17 (5.96%) GitLab
5 9 (3.16%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.70%) JIRA
6 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 119 (41.75%) Finance
2 81 (28.42%) Social Skills
3 70 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (16.49%) Banking
5 24 (8.42%) Investment Banking
6 23 (8.07%) Law
7 18 (6.32%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.61%) Financial Institution
8 16 (5.61%) Legal
9 13 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.16%) Military
11 8 (2.81%) Marketing
12 7 (2.46%) Aerospace
13 6 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.75%) Retail
15 4 (1.40%) Games
16 3 (1.05%) Front Office
16 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 122 (42.81%) Data Engineer
2 101 (35.44%) Senior
3 37 (12.98%) Lead
3 37 (12.98%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (9.12%) Analyst
5 25 (8.77%) Data Scientist
6 24 (8.42%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.07%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.07%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.07%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (7.72%) Banking Analyst
8 22 (7.72%) Lead Data Engineer
8 22 (7.72%) Senior Data Scientist
9 16 (5.61%) Architect
10 14 (4.91%) Developer
11 13 (4.56%) Business Analyst
12 12 (4.21%) Data Architect
12 12 (4.21%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (4.21%) Python Developer
12 12 (4.21%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (44.91%) Kafka
2 73 (25.61%) PySpark
3 25 (8.77%) PyTorch
4 24 (8.42%) Pandas
4 24 (8.42%) pgvector
4 24 (8.42%) scikit-learn
4 24 (8.42%) TensorFlow
5 23 (8.07%) LangChain
5 23 (8.07%) LlamaIndex
6 20 (7.02%) REST
7 16 (5.61%) SpaCy
8 14 (4.91%) Node.js
9 10 (3.51%) Spring
9 10 (3.51%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.46%) Apache NiFi
10 7 (2.46%) NumPy
11 5 (1.75%) gRPC
11 5 (1.75%) OAuth
11 5 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.12%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.07%) Clustering
4 20 (7.02%) Data Structures
5 17 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (5.61%) e-Learning
7 14 (4.91%) Onboarding
7 14 (4.91%) Product Ownership
8 12 (4.21%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.11%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.11%) Social Media
10 5 (1.75%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.40%) NHS
12 3 (1.05%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
13 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.56%) Linux
2 4 (1.40%) CentOS
2 4 (1.40%) Debian
2 4 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.40%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (63.86%) Analytics
2 178 (62.46%) Data Engineering
3 173 (60.70%) Data Pipeline
4 141 (49.47%) CI/CD
5 121 (42.46%) AI
6 120 (42.11%) ETL
7 119 (41.75%) Data Modelling
8 113 (39.65%) Data Science
9 110 (38.60%) Machine Learning
10 96 (33.68%) Data Governance
11 93 (32.63%) Agile
12 82 (28.77%) DevOps
13 64 (22.46%) Use Case
14 63 (22.11%) Business Intelligence
15 58 (20.35%) Mentoring
15 58 (20.35%) Validation
16 50 (17.54%) Generative AI
16 50 (17.54%) Performance Tuning
17 48 (16.84%) Infrastructure as Code
17 48 (16.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 247 (86.67%) Python
2 209 (73.33%) SQL
3 52 (18.25%) Scala
4 43 (15.09%) Java
5 7 (2.46%) C#
5 7 (2.46%) C++
6 6 (2.11%) C
6 6 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.11%) PHP
6 6 (2.11%) Ruby
7 5 (1.75%) VBA
8 4 (1.40%) Bicep
9 3 (1.05%) Bash
9 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.70%) R
10 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (19.65%) Security Cleared
2 47 (16.49%) Degree
3 41 (14.39%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.72%) PhD
5 19 (6.67%) Master's Degree
6 16 (5.61%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.56%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.56%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.05%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.35%) CEH
11 1 (0.35%) CISM
11 1 (0.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (38.60%) Data Quality
2 40 (14.04%) GDPR
3 35 (12.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.21%) HIPAA
5 8 (2.81%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.46%) QA
7 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (18.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (15.79%) Terraform
2 41 (14.39%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.16%) Ansible
4 6 (2.11%) Grafana
4 6 (2.11%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.40%) Puppet
7 3 (1.05%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) Argo
8 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 98 (34.39%) Databricks
2 34 (11.93%) Oracle
3 29 (10.18%) Red Hat
4 25 (8.77%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.42%) Cloudera
5 24 (8.42%) Dell
6 8 (2.81%) Google
7 6 (2.11%) HP
7 6 (2.11%) IBM
7 6 (2.11%) Informatica
7 6 (2.11%) SAP
8 5 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.40%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.70%) Foundry
10 2 (0.70%) LexisNexis
10 2 (0.70%) Palantir
10 2 (0.70%) PeopleSoft
10 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.35%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.35%) Splunk