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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 410 366
Rank change year-on-year -31 -44 -126
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 162 270 352
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.56% 0.72%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.49% 6.09% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 93 195 222
10th Percentile £53,000 £53,750 £50,280
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £67,805
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -3.03%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £129,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -3.03%

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 2,952 4,436 5,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.56% 9.20% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,128 2,617 4,127
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £57,000 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +8.57% -4.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -4.55%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +7 117 £97,500 -2.50% 39
North of England +27 30 £60,000 +14.29% 21
Yorkshire - 20 £62,500 - 7
North West +17 9 £55,000 +10.00% 9
East of England +26 4 - - 16
Midlands +10 2 - - 10
South East 0 2 £72,500 +26.09% 38
South West -19 2 £50,000 -35.48% 11
West Midlands +15 1 - - 2
North East +11 1 - - 5
East Midlands -18 1 - - 8
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 (29.01%) Apache
2 30 (18.52%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.85%) Luigi
4 2 (1.23%) SAS
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.62%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 7 (4.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 110 (67.90%) AWS
2 89 (54.94%) Azure
3 64 (39.51%) GCP
4 35 (21.60%) Serverless
5 31 (19.14%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (13.58%) Amazon S3
7 19 (11.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
8 18 (11.11%) Power Platform
9 17 (10.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (9.26%) Amazon Kinesis
10 15 (9.26%) dbt
11 14 (8.64%) AWS Step Functions
12 13 (8.02%) Snowflake
13 9 (5.56%) OpenShift
14 8 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (4.32%) GitHub
16 5 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
17 3 (1.85%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.47%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.85%) AMQP
3 1 (0.62%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (48.77%) Big Data
2 63 (38.89%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (37.65%) Hadoop
4 45 (27.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (21.60%) Data Lake
6 25 (15.43%) NoSQL
7 22 (13.58%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (11.73%) MySQL
9 18 (11.11%) MongoDB
9 18 (11.11%) Power BI
10 17 (10.49%) SQL Server
11 14 (8.64%) Apache Hive
11 14 (8.64%) Metadata
11 14 (8.64%) Relational Database
12 13 (8.02%) DynamoDB
13 12 (7.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (7.41%) Tableau
14 11 (6.79%) RDBMS
15 10 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (6.17%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 12 (7.41%) Git
2 8 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.09%) MLflow
4 3 (1.85%) GitLab
5 2 (1.23%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.62%) Deequ
6 1 (0.62%) Gradle
General
1 76 (46.91%) Social Skills
2 56 (34.57%) Finance
3 41 (25.31%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 17 (10.49%) Law
6 12 (7.41%) Banking
7 11 (6.79%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.47%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.85%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.85%) Front Office
10 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.23%) Marketing
10 2 (1.23%) Retail
11 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Electronics
11 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (45.06%) Data Engineer
2 44 (27.16%) Senior
3 30 (18.52%) Senior Data Engineer
4 20 (12.35%) Developer
5 17 (10.49%) AWS Data Engineer
5 17 (10.49%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) Python Developer
7 13 (8.02%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (7.41%) Architect
9 10 (6.17%) Data Architect
9 10 (6.17%) Data Scientist
10 9 (5.56%) Lead
10 9 (5.56%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) Product Lead
11 7 (4.32%) Senior Data Scientist
12 6 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 6 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (3.09%) Azure Data Engineer
14 4 (2.47%) Data Manager
14 4 (2.47%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (41.36%) Kafka
2 21 (12.96%) PySpark
3 17 (10.49%) REST
4 14 (8.64%) PyTorch
4 14 (8.64%) TensorFlow
5 13 (8.02%) Pandas
6 10 (6.17%) scikit-learn
6 10 (6.17%) Spark Streaming
7 8 (4.94%) boto
8 7 (4.32%) SpaCy
9 6 (3.70%) NumPy
9 6 (3.70%) Spring
10 5 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (3.09%) LDAP
10 5 (3.09%) OAuth
10 5 (3.09%) OAuth2
10 5 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.09%) React
11 4 (2.47%) pytest
11 4 (2.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 42 (25.93%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (12.96%) Cloud Native
3 19 (11.73%) Product Ownership
4 17 (10.49%) e-Learning
5 12 (7.41%) Algorithms
6 11 (6.79%) Management Information System
7 10 (6.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (4.94%) FMCG
8 8 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (4.32%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (2.47%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.85%) Equities
11 3 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.23%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.62%) Culture of Ownership
13 1 (0.62%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.41%) Linux
2 7 (4.32%) Unix
3 3 (1.85%) CentOS
3 3 (1.85%) Debian
3 3 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (58.64%) Data Pipeline
2 85 (52.47%) Data Engineering
3 81 (50.00%) Analytics
4 75 (46.30%) CI/CD
5 70 (43.21%) ETL
6 68 (41.98%) Data Modelling
7 62 (38.27%) Machine Learning
8 61 (37.65%) Data Science
9 52 (32.10%) DevOps
10 47 (29.01%) Data Governance
11 44 (27.16%) Business Intelligence
12 43 (26.54%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (26.54%) Software Engineering
13 42 (25.93%) AI
14 36 (22.22%) Agile
15 35 (21.60%) Mentoring
16 34 (20.99%) Computer Science
17 28 (17.28%) Observability
18 27 (16.67%) Fintech
19 25 (15.43%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 141 (87.04%) Python
2 107 (66.05%) SQL
3 56 (34.57%) Java
4 34 (20.99%) Scala
5 7 (4.32%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.32%) R
6 4 (2.47%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.85%) C#
8 2 (1.23%) C++
8 2 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.62%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.62%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (20.99%) Degree
2 14 (8.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (8.64%) Master's Degree
2 14 (8.64%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.02%) PhD
4 12 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.09%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.09%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.62%) MBA
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (27.78%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.79%) QA
3 9 (5.56%) GDPR
4 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (14.81%) Docker
2 9 (5.56%) HDFS
3 5 (3.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (16.05%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.88%) Terraform
3 13 (8.02%) Ansible
4 7 (4.32%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.70%) Grafana
6 5 (3.09%) Puppet
7 3 (1.85%) Kibana
7 3 (1.85%) logstash
8 2 (1.23%) Kubeflow
8 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.62%) Argo
Vendors
1 48 (29.63%) Databricks
2 20 (12.35%) Oracle
3 13 (8.02%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.79%) Informatica
5 10 (6.17%) Talend
6 9 (5.56%) Google
6 9 (5.56%) SAP
7 7 (4.32%) Dell
8 5 (3.09%) Palantir
9 4 (2.47%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.85%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.62%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.62%) IBM