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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 441 494
Rank change year-on-year -68 +53 -153
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 261 217 278
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.50% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.24% 6.06% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 127 108 195
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £60,000 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £95,313 £102,500
90th Percentile £135,100 £116,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +0.23%

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 4,184 3,583 6,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.16% 8.30% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,970 2,577 3,775
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,411 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.34% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £130,446
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -36 160 £95,000 +5.56% 433
North of England -44 50 £55,000 -8.33% 62
South West -49 26 £55,000 - 27
North East -45 23 £55,000 +15.79% 13
North West -7 18 £55,000 -31.25% 39
Yorkshire -40 9 £80,000 +33.33% 10
South East -65 8 £62,500 -7.41% 38
East of England -32 5 £80,000 +11.89% 19
Midlands -43 5 £54,500 -14.84% 18
West Midlands -43 4 £60,653 +0.25% 10
East Midlands -40 1 £50,000 -33.33% 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
1 109 (41.76%) Apache
2 51 (19.54%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (7.28%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.92%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.15%) SAS
6 2 (0.77%) Luigi
6 2 (0.77%) Tornado
7 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.38%) Confluence
7 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 152 (58.24%) AWS
2 145 (55.56%) Azure
3 83 (31.80%) GCP
4 43 (16.48%) Power Platform
5 40 (15.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 39 (14.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (14.56%) Serverless
8 35 (13.41%) Amazon S3
9 26 (9.96%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (9.96%) Snowflake
10 24 (9.20%) Amazon EMR
11 22 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (8.05%) Azure Databricks
13 20 (7.66%) Amazon Kinesis
14 18 (6.90%) dbt
15 16 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (6.13%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (4.98%) Amazon ECR
17 12 (4.60%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.68%) AMQP
2 6 (2.30%) BGP
2 6 (2.30%) DNS
2 6 (2.30%) IPsec
2 6 (2.30%) VPN
3 5 (1.92%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) 4G
4 1 (0.38%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (34.87%) Big Data
2 63 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (23.37%) Data Lake
4 57 (21.84%) Hadoop
5 50 (19.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 44 (16.86%) NoSQL
7 42 (16.09%) Power BI
8 41 (15.71%) Elasticsearch
9 33 (12.64%) Tableau
10 27 (10.34%) Metadata
11 24 (9.20%) Delta Lake
12 21 (8.05%) Relational Database
13 19 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
14 17 (6.51%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (6.51%) BigQuery
15 16 (6.13%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (6.13%) Flink
16 15 (5.75%) Looker
16 15 (5.75%) Milvus
17 14 (5.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (13.79%) Git
2 21 (8.05%) MLflow
3 16 (6.13%) GitLab
4 14 (5.36%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.77%) JIRA
5 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.38%) ERwin
6 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 106 (40.61%) Finance
2 72 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 48 (18.39%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.88%) Banking
5 23 (8.81%) Financial Institution
6 22 (8.43%) Public Sector
7 16 (6.13%) Law
8 15 (5.75%) Aerospace
8 15 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.83%) Military
10 9 (3.45%) Marketing
11 6 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.30%) Retail
12 5 (1.92%) Legal
13 4 (1.53%) Front Office
14 3 (1.15%) Games
15 2 (0.77%) Aviation
15 2 (0.77%) Local Government
15 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 124 (47.51%) Data Engineer
2 89 (34.10%) Senior
3 43 (16.48%) Lead
4 37 (14.18%) Data Scientist
5 32 (12.26%) Senior Data Scientist
6 31 (11.88%) Senior Data Engineer
7 25 (9.58%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (9.20%) Databricks Engineer
9 21 (8.05%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 16 (6.13%) Architect
11 15 (5.75%) Python Engineer
12 14 (5.36%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 14 (5.36%) Software Engineer
12 14 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
13 13 (4.98%) Data Architect
14 9 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (3.45%) Consultant
14 9 (3.45%) Developer
15 8 (3.07%) AWS Consultant
15 8 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (40.23%) Kafka
2 52 (19.92%) PySpark
3 42 (16.09%) Terraform
4 23 (8.81%) SpaCy
5 18 (6.90%) PyTorch
5 18 (6.90%) scikit-learn
6 17 (6.51%) TensorFlow
7 15 (5.75%) LangChain
7 15 (5.75%) pgvector
7 15 (5.75%) REST
8 14 (5.36%) LlamaIndex
8 14 (5.36%) Node.js
9 11 (4.21%) Pandas
10 10 (3.83%) gRPC
11 9 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
12 8 (3.07%) React
12 8 (3.07%) RESTful
12 8 (3.07%) Spring
12 8 (3.07%) Spring Boot
13 7 (2.68%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.62%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.81%) e-Learning
3 22 (8.43%) Product Ownership
4 18 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 17 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (5.75%) Data Structures
6 15 (5.75%) Onboarding
7 14 (5.36%) Clustering
8 11 (4.21%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (3.45%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.68%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (2.30%) NHS
12 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.53%) AI Agents
14 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
15 2 (0.77%) Derivative
15 2 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.36%) Linux
2 7 (2.68%) CentOS
2 7 (2.68%) Debian
2 7 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (63.98%) Data Engineering
2 151 (57.85%) Analytics
3 141 (54.02%) Data Pipeline
4 130 (49.81%) CI/CD
5 120 (45.98%) Data Science
6 113 (43.30%) Machine Learning
7 109 (41.76%) Data Modelling
8 100 (38.31%) DevOps
9 91 (34.87%) AI
10 86 (32.95%) ETL
11 75 (28.74%) Agile
12 69 (26.44%) Mentoring
13 67 (25.67%) Lakehouse
14 56 (21.46%) Data Governance
15 55 (21.07%) Business Intelligence
15 55 (21.07%) Use Case
16 50 (19.16%) Infrastructure as Code
17 48 (18.39%) Generative AI
18 46 (17.62%) Validation
19 45 (17.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 218 (83.52%) Python
2 175 (67.05%) SQL
3 52 (19.92%) Scala
4 38 (14.56%) Java
5 11 (4.21%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.07%) C#
7 6 (2.30%) C
7 6 (2.30%) PHP
7 6 (2.30%) Ruby
8 5 (1.92%) Bash
8 5 (1.92%) VBA
9 4 (1.53%) R
10 3 (1.15%) Bicep
10 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.77%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (29.50%) Security Cleared
2 57 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 56 (21.46%) Degree
4 32 (12.26%) PhD
5 28 (10.73%) Master's Degree
6 20 (7.66%) Azure Certification
7 18 (6.90%) DV Cleared
8 14 (5.36%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.38%) CEH
13 1 (0.38%) CISM
13 1 (0.38%) CISSP
13 1 (0.38%) OCP
13 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (34.10%) Data Quality
2 21 (8.05%) GDPR
3 15 (5.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.98%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.07%) QA
6 3 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.77%) IFRS
7 2 (0.77%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.77%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (19.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 42 (16.09%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.83%) Ansible
3 7 (2.68%) Puppet
4 6 (2.30%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (1.15%) Kibana
6 2 (0.77%) Argo
7 1 (0.38%) Control-M
7 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 100 (38.31%) Databricks
2 30 (11.49%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.75%) Cloudera
4 14 (5.36%) Dell
5 10 (3.83%) Google
6 9 (3.45%) Oracle
7 8 (3.07%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.68%) SaltStack
9 6 (2.30%) HP
9 6 (2.30%) IBM
9 6 (2.30%) SAP
10 5 (1.92%) Informatica
11 4 (1.53%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.15%) LexisNexis
12 3 (1.15%) PeopleSoft
12 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.77%) Thales
14 1 (0.38%) Confluent
14 1 (0.38%) Mapbox
14 1 (0.38%) Sparx