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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 395 421
Rank change year-on-year -67 +26 -181
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 170 284 391
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.65% 0.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.45% 6.82% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 96 202 254
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £72,313 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £93,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +17.19% -3.03%
75th Percentile £130,625 £115,000 £109,375
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -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 3,121 4,162 6,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.14% 9.54% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,254 2,496 5,597
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -26 122 £95,000 -13.64% 42
North of England -19 26 £65,000 +18.18% 26
Yorkshire - 17 £65,000 - 11
North West -12 8 £95,000 +80.95% 10
South West -12 7 £80,000 +3.23% 13
East of England +17 5 - - 2
South East -43 2 £65,000 +13.04% 19
West Midlands +3 1 - - 2
Midlands -8 1 - - 4
North East -14 1 - - 5
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 52 (30.59%) Apache
2 44 (25.88%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.18%) SAS
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.59%) Camunda
4 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.59%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 106 (62.35%) AWS
2 82 (48.24%) Azure
3 66 (38.82%) GCP
4 34 (20.00%) Serverless
5 31 (18.24%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (14.12%) dbt
7 21 (12.35%) Amazon S3
8 18 (10.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (10.59%) Power Platform
9 16 (9.41%) Amazon EMR
9 16 (9.41%) Snowflake
10 14 (8.24%) Amazon Kinesis
10 14 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (7.06%) AWS Step Functions
11 12 (7.06%) OpenShift
12 10 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (5.29%) Dagster
14 7 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (4.12%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.12%) Broadband
2 5 (2.94%) AMQP
3 4 (2.35%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.59%) 4G
4 1 (0.59%) 5G
4 1 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.59%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (44.71%) Big Data
2 56 (32.94%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (31.76%) Hadoop
4 34 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 34 (20.00%) Data Lake
5 18 (10.59%) MySQL
5 18 (10.59%) NoSQL
5 18 (10.59%) Power BI
6 17 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (10.00%) Relational Database
7 16 (9.41%) MongoDB
8 15 (8.82%) Tableau
9 14 (8.24%) Apache Hive
9 14 (8.24%) BigQuery
9 14 (8.24%) SQL Server
10 13 (7.65%) Metadata
11 10 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (5.29%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (5.29%) DynamoDB
12 9 (5.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (9.41%) Git
2 6 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.35%) GitLab
4 3 (1.76%) MLflow
5 2 (1.18%) Deequ
6 1 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.59%) JUnit
General
1 84 (49.41%) Social Skills
2 63 (37.06%) Finance
3 41 (24.12%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.00%) Law
5 15 (8.82%) Banking
6 14 (8.24%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.29%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.35%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.76%) Front Office
9 3 (1.76%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.76%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.18%) Advertising
10 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.18%) Legal
10 2 (1.18%) Marketing
10 2 (1.18%) Retail
11 1 (0.59%) Electronics
11 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (46.47%) Data Engineer
2 50 (29.41%) Senior
3 33 (19.41%) Senior Data Engineer
4 23 (13.53%) Developer
5 18 (10.59%) AWS Data Engineer
5 18 (10.59%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (10.59%) Python Developer
6 14 (8.24%) Architect
7 12 (7.06%) Principal Engineer
8 11 (6.47%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) Data Architect
9 10 (5.88%) Data Scientist
10 7 (4.12%) Lead
10 7 (4.12%) Senior Data Scientist
11 5 (2.94%) Azure Data Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) Python Engineer
12 4 (2.35%) Machine Learning Scientist
12 4 (2.35%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (45.29%) Kafka
2 25 (14.71%) PySpark
3 23 (13.53%) REST
4 14 (8.24%) Pandas
5 12 (7.06%) PyTorch
5 12 (7.06%) Spring
5 12 (7.06%) TensorFlow
6 11 (6.47%) Spring Boot
7 8 (4.71%) NumPy
8 7 (4.12%) boto
8 7 (4.12%) React
8 7 (4.12%) scikit-learn
8 7 (4.12%) Spark Streaming
9 6 (3.53%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.53%) Node.js
9 6 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.53%) SpaCy
10 5 (2.94%) LDAP
10 5 (2.94%) OAuth
10 5 (2.94%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.59%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (12.94%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.65%) e-Learning
4 12 (7.06%) Product Ownership
5 11 (6.47%) Algorithms
6 9 (5.29%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (5.29%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.71%) Data Structures
7 8 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (3.53%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (3.53%) Social Media
10 3 (1.76%) Equities
10 3 (1.76%) FMCG
10 3 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.59%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.82%) Linux
2 5 (2.94%) CentOS
2 5 (2.94%) Debian
2 5 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.94%) Ubuntu
2 5 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (57.65%) Data Pipeline
2 91 (53.53%) Data Engineering
3 85 (50.00%) Analytics
4 77 (45.29%) CI/CD
5 69 (40.59%) ETL
6 67 (39.41%) Data Modelling
7 60 (35.29%) Data Science
8 55 (32.35%) Data Governance
9 53 (31.18%) Machine Learning
10 49 (28.82%) DevOps
10 49 (28.82%) Software Engineering
11 44 (25.88%) AI
12 43 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (24.12%) Computer Science
14 39 (22.94%) Agile
15 38 (22.35%) Business Intelligence
16 34 (20.00%) Mentoring
17 29 (17.06%) Fintech
18 28 (16.47%) Microservices
18 28 (16.47%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 154 (90.59%) Python
2 111 (65.29%) SQL
3 59 (34.71%) Java
4 30 (17.65%) Scala
5 9 (5.29%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.71%) C++
7 7 (4.12%) R
8 5 (2.94%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.76%) C#
10 2 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.59%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.59%) Bash
11 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.59%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.59%) Ruby
11 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (19.41%) Degree
2 16 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.65%) PhD
4 13 (7.65%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.06%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.53%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.59%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (31.76%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.71%) GDPR
3 5 (2.94%) QA
4 3 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (17.06%) Docker
2 8 (4.71%) HDFS
3 5 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (18.82%) Kubernetes
2 24 (14.12%) Terraform
3 12 (7.06%) Ansible
4 10 (5.88%) Grafana
4 10 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.94%) Puppet
6 3 (1.76%) Kibana
6 3 (1.76%) logstash
7 1 (0.59%) Argo
Vendors
1 44 (25.88%) Databricks
2 16 (9.41%) Oracle
3 12 (7.06%) Google
4 10 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.29%) Informatica
6 8 (4.71%) Red Hat
6 8 (4.71%) Talend
7 7 (4.12%) Dell
8 5 (2.94%) Palantir
8 5 (2.94%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.35%) SAP
10 2 (1.18%) IBM
11 1 (0.59%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.59%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.59%) Foundry
11 1 (0.59%) Pega
11 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.59%) UiPath