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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 409 520
Rank change year-on-year -61 +111 -192
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 269 249 292
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.58% 0.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.86% 6.40% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 127 144 197
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,000 £49,000
25th Percentile £62,376 £57,375 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £103,313 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £120,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 3,922 3,891 7,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.40% 8.99% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,914 2,756 5,548
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,643 £51,500
% change year-on-year -8.50% +6.10% -6.53%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -6 172 £100,000 +8.11% 93
North of England -31 41 £56,250 -2.17% 21
South West -42 21 £70,000 +27.27% 9
North West -1 16 £55,000 - 10
East of England -2 15 £75,000 +4.90% 3
North East -38 15 £55,000 +15.79% 9
Yorkshire -39 10 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -48 8 £62,500 -3.85% 22
Midlands -50 3 £58,403 -13.48% 3
West Midlands -38 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
East Midlands -37 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
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
1 115 (42.75%) Apache
2 99 (36.80%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (6.32%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.86%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.12%) SAS
6 2 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.83%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.37%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 173 (64.31%) AWS
2 127 (47.21%) Azure
3 84 (31.23%) GCP
4 57 (21.19%) Amazon S3
5 48 (17.84%) Power Platform
6 45 (16.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 37 (13.75%) dbt
7 37 (13.75%) Snowflake
8 34 (12.64%) Serverless
9 32 (11.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (11.15%) OpenShift
11 22 (8.18%) Amazon EMR
11 22 (8.18%) Amazon Kinesis
12 20 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (4.83%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (4.46%) Microsoft Purview
17 11 (4.09%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.23%) BGP
1 6 (2.23%) Broadband
1 6 (2.23%) DNS
1 6 (2.23%) IPsec
1 6 (2.23%) VPN
2 5 (1.86%) Internet
3 4 (1.49%) AMQP
4 2 (0.74%) 4G
4 2 (0.74%) 5G
5 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (31.60%) Big Data
2 66 (24.54%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (23.05%) Tableau
4 56 (20.82%) Data Lake
5 52 (19.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 51 (18.96%) Elasticsearch
7 47 (17.47%) Power BI
8 43 (15.99%) Hadoop
9 38 (14.13%) Apache Hive
9 38 (14.13%) NoSQL
10 34 (12.64%) Spark SQL
11 31 (11.52%) BigQuery
12 26 (9.67%) Metadata
12 26 (9.67%) Parquet
13 25 (9.29%) Impala
13 25 (9.29%) Oracle Database
13 25 (9.29%) Snowflake Schema
14 24 (8.92%) Relational Database
15 23 (8.55%) Looker
16 21 (7.81%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 49 (18.22%) Git
2 29 (10.78%) MLflow
3 25 (9.29%) IBM UrbanCode
4 16 (5.95%) GitLab
5 8 (2.97%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.74%) JIRA
6 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.37%) JUnit
General
1 113 (42.01%) Finance
2 82 (30.48%) Social Skills
3 69 (25.65%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (17.10%) Banking
5 24 (8.92%) Investment Banking
6 21 (7.81%) Law
7 17 (6.32%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.95%) Legal
9 15 (5.58%) Financial Institution
10 11 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (3.35%) Military
12 7 (2.60%) Aerospace
12 7 (2.60%) Marketing
13 6 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.49%) Games
14 4 (1.49%) Retail
14 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.12%) Front Office
16 2 (0.74%) Billing
Job Titles
1 107 (39.78%) Data Engineer
2 96 (35.69%) Senior
3 34 (12.64%) Lead
3 34 (12.64%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (9.67%) Analyst
5 24 (8.92%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (8.55%) Python Engineer
6 23 (8.55%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (8.55%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (8.18%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (8.18%) Data Scientist
8 21 (7.81%) Lead Data Engineer
9 19 (7.06%) Senior Data Scientist
10 17 (6.32%) Architect
11 16 (5.95%) Developer
12 13 (4.83%) Business Analyst
12 13 (4.83%) Python Developer
13 12 (4.46%) Data Architect
13 12 (4.46%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (4.46%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (44.61%) Kafka
2 73 (27.14%) PySpark
3 24 (8.92%) PyTorch
3 24 (8.92%) scikit-learn
3 24 (8.92%) TensorFlow
4 23 (8.55%) LangChain
4 23 (8.55%) LlamaIndex
4 23 (8.55%) Pandas
4 23 (8.55%) pgvector
5 20 (7.43%) REST
6 15 (5.58%) SpaCy
7 14 (5.20%) Node.js
8 11 (4.09%) Spring
8 11 (4.09%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.23%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (2.23%) NumPy
10 5 (1.86%) OAuth
10 5 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.86%) React
10 5 (1.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.96%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.67%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.55%) Clustering
4 19 (7.06%) Data Structures
5 15 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.58%) e-Learning
6 14 (5.20%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.20%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.72%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.60%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.23%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.23%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.23%) Social Media
10 5 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.49%) NHS
12 3 (1.12%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.83%) Linux
2 4 (1.49%) CentOS
2 4 (1.49%) Debian
2 4 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.49%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (63.57%) Analytics
2 167 (62.08%) Data Engineering
3 161 (59.85%) Data Pipeline
4 130 (48.33%) CI/CD
5 113 (42.01%) AI
5 113 (42.01%) Data Modelling
5 113 (42.01%) ETL
6 108 (40.15%) Data Science
7 104 (38.66%) Machine Learning
8 96 (35.69%) Data Governance
9 84 (31.23%) Agile
10 76 (28.25%) DevOps
11 62 (23.05%) Use Case
12 61 (22.68%) Business Intelligence
13 56 (20.82%) Mentoring
14 54 (20.07%) Validation
15 50 (18.59%) Performance Tuning
16 48 (17.84%) Generative AI
17 44 (16.36%) Computer Science
18 43 (15.99%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 233 (86.62%) Python
2 202 (75.09%) SQL
3 49 (18.22%) Scala
4 37 (13.75%) Java
5 7 (2.60%) C#
5 7 (2.60%) C++
6 6 (2.23%) C
6 6 (2.23%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.23%) PHP
6 6 (2.23%) Ruby
7 5 (1.86%) VBA
8 4 (1.49%) Bicep
9 3 (1.12%) Bash
9 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.74%) R
11 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.73%) Degree
3 39 (14.50%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.43%) PhD
5 18 (6.69%) Master's Degree
6 14 (5.20%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.83%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.83%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.37%) CEH
12 1 (0.37%) CISM
12 1 (0.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (37.92%) Data Quality
2 39 (14.50%) GDPR
3 35 (13.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.46%) HIPAA
5 8 (2.97%) QA
6 6 (2.23%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.74%) IFRS
7 2 (0.74%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.74%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (16.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (15.61%) Terraform
2 36 (13.38%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.35%) Ansible
4 6 (2.23%) Grafana
4 6 (2.23%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.86%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.49%) Puppet
7 3 (1.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 94 (34.94%) Databricks
2 33 (12.27%) Oracle
3 30 (11.15%) Red Hat
4 24 (8.92%) Cloudera
4 24 (8.92%) Dell
5 23 (8.55%) Microsoft
6 7 (2.60%) Google
7 6 (2.23%) HP
7 6 (2.23%) IBM
7 6 (2.23%) Informatica
7 6 (2.23%) SAP
8 4 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.49%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.74%) Foundry
9 2 (0.74%) Palantir
10 1 (0.37%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.37%) Splunk
10 1 (0.37%) Talend
10 1 (0.37%) UiPath