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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 416 389
Rank change year-on-year -37 -27 -150
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 164 274 387
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.58% 0.65%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.50% 6.22% 6.17%
Number of salaries quoted 92 198 251
10th Percentile £52,750 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £84,115 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +1.96% -
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £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 2,981 4,402 6,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.40% 9.26% 10.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,122 2,589 4,975
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £35,858
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -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 25 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 25 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 -16 119 £95,000 -5.00% 44
North of England +17 29 £62,500 +25.00% 14
Yorkshire - 18 £65,000 - 4
North West +8 10 £55,000 +10.00% 6
East of England +20 4 - - 8
South West -16 4 £50,000 -35.48% 9
Midlands +2 2 - - 7
West Midlands +22 1 - - 4
North East +2 1 - - 4
South East 0 1 £65,000 +13.04% 36
East Midlands -9 1 - - 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 49 (29.88%) Apache
2 31 (18.90%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.83%) Luigi
4 2 (1.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 6 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 112 (68.29%) AWS
2 91 (55.49%) Azure
3 68 (41.46%) GCP
4 36 (21.95%) Serverless
5 32 (19.51%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (13.41%) Amazon S3
7 18 (10.98%) Amazon EMR
8 17 (10.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (10.37%) Power Platform
9 16 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (9.15%) Amazon Kinesis
11 14 (8.54%) dbt
12 13 (7.93%) AWS Step Functions
12 13 (7.93%) Snowflake
13 11 (6.71%) OpenShift
14 10 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (4.88%) GitHub
16 7 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
17 3 (1.83%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.05%) AMQP
2 4 (2.44%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.61%) Broadband
3 1 (0.61%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (50.00%) Big Data
2 63 (38.41%) Hadoop
3 61 (37.20%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (25.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (20.12%) Data Lake
6 25 (15.24%) NoSQL
7 21 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (11.59%) MySQL
9 18 (10.98%) MongoDB
10 17 (10.37%) Power BI
10 17 (10.37%) SQL Server
11 14 (8.54%) Apache Hive
11 14 (8.54%) Relational Database
12 13 (7.93%) Metadata
13 12 (7.32%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (7.32%) DynamoDB
14 11 (6.71%) RDBMS
14 11 (6.71%) Tableau
15 10 (6.10%) DataStage
15 10 (6.10%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 13 (7.93%) Git
2 8 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.05%) MLflow
4 4 (2.44%) GitLab
5 2 (1.22%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.22%) Deequ
General
1 75 (45.73%) Social Skills
2 58 (35.37%) Finance
3 40 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.98%) Financial Institution
5 16 (9.76%) Law
6 13 (7.93%) Banking
7 11 (6.71%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.44%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.83%) Front Office
9 3 (1.83%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.22%) Legal
10 2 (1.22%) Marketing
10 2 (1.22%) Retail
10 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.61%) Advertising
11 1 (0.61%) Electronics
11 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (45.12%) Data Engineer
2 44 (26.83%) Senior
3 29 (17.68%) Senior Data Engineer
4 20 (12.20%) Developer
5 17 (10.37%) AWS Data Engineer
5 17 (10.37%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (8.54%) Python Developer
7 13 (7.93%) Architect
7 13 (7.93%) Principal Engineer
8 11 (6.71%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.10%) Data Architect
9 10 (6.10%) Data Scientist
10 9 (5.49%) Lead
11 7 (4.27%) Senior Data Scientist
12 6 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 6 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.66%) Product Lead
13 5 (3.05%) Azure Data Engineer
14 4 (2.44%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 4 (2.44%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (40.85%) Kafka
2 22 (13.41%) PySpark
3 19 (11.59%) REST
4 15 (9.15%) PyTorch
4 15 (9.15%) TensorFlow
5 13 (7.93%) Pandas
6 10 (6.10%) scikit-learn
6 10 (6.10%) Spark Streaming
7 8 (4.88%) boto
8 7 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (4.27%) React
8 7 (4.27%) SpaCy
8 7 (4.27%) Spring
9 6 (3.66%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.66%) Node.js
9 6 (3.66%) NumPy
9 6 (3.66%) Spring Boot
10 5 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (3.05%) pytest
10 5 (3.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (25.61%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (13.41%) Cloud Native
3 18 (10.98%) Product Ownership
4 17 (10.37%) e-Learning
5 13 (7.93%) Algorithms
6 11 (6.71%) Management Information System
7 10 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (4.27%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (4.27%) FMCG
10 4 (2.44%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.44%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.83%) Equities
11 3 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.61%) Culture of Ownership
13 1 (0.61%) Data Fabric
13 1 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.54%) Linux
2 7 (4.27%) Unix
3 5 (3.05%) CentOS
3 5 (3.05%) Debian
3 5 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (57.32%) Data Pipeline
2 86 (52.44%) Data Engineering
3 83 (50.61%) Analytics
4 77 (46.95%) CI/CD
5 70 (42.68%) ETL
6 66 (40.24%) Data Modelling
7 63 (38.41%) Machine Learning
8 62 (37.80%) Data Science
9 50 (30.49%) DevOps
10 48 (29.27%) Data Governance
11 46 (28.05%) Software Engineering
12 43 (26.22%) AI
12 43 (26.22%) Business Intelligence
12 43 (26.22%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (22.56%) Agile
14 36 (21.95%) Computer Science
15 34 (20.73%) Mentoring
16 28 (17.07%) Observability
17 27 (16.46%) Fintech
18 25 (15.24%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 144 (87.80%) Python
2 107 (65.24%) SQL
3 56 (34.15%) Java
4 34 (20.73%) Scala
5 9 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.27%) R
7 4 (2.44%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.83%) C#
9 2 (1.22%) C++
9 2 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.22%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.61%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.61%) Bash
10 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.61%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (21.95%) Degree
2 15 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.54%) Master's Degree
3 14 (8.54%) PhD
4 13 (7.93%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.66%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.66%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.05%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.61%) MBA
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (28.66%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.10%) QA
3 9 (5.49%) GDPR
4 3 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (14.63%) Docker
2 9 (5.49%) HDFS
3 5 (3.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (16.46%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.98%) Terraform
3 14 (8.54%) Ansible
4 7 (4.27%) Puppet
5 6 (3.66%) Grafana
5 6 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.83%) Kibana
6 3 (1.83%) logstash
7 2 (1.22%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.61%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (28.66%) Databricks
2 19 (11.59%) Oracle
3 13 (7.93%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.71%) Google
4 11 (6.71%) Informatica
5 10 (6.10%) Talend
6 8 (4.88%) SAP
7 7 (4.27%) Dell
8 6 (3.66%) Red Hat
9 5 (3.05%) Palantir
9 5 (3.05%) SaltStack
10 2 (1.22%) IBM
11 1 (0.61%) Cloudera