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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 426 472
Rank change year-on-year -83 +46 -139
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 261 221 283
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.51% 0.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.20% 6.06% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 129 111 201
10th Percentile £52,450 £47,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £111,250 £125,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -

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 4,210 3,649 6,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.22% 8.39% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,034 2,629 3,907
10th Percentile £29,076 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +0.60%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £109,000 £136,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% -2.39% -0.09%

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 10 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 10 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 -44 158 £95,000 +11.76% 137
North of England -34 51 £55,000 -6.38% 18
South West -59 26 £55,000 +10.00% 17
North East -42 23 £55,000 +15.79% 7
North West -3 18 £55,000 -18.52% 9
Yorkshire -52 10 £80,000 +33.33% 2
South East -36 8 £62,500 -5.66% 22
East of England -27 6 £77,500 +8.39% 4
Midlands -57 5 £54,500 -14.84% 1
West Midlands -32 4 £60,653 +0.25%
East Midlands -33 1 £50,000 -33.33% 1
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
1 110 (42.15%) Apache
2 54 (20.69%) 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
2 141 (54.02%) Azure
3 82 (31.42%) GCP
4 43 (16.48%) Power Platform
5 40 (15.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 38 (14.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 37 (14.18%) Serverless
8 36 (13.79%) Amazon S3
9 27 (10.34%) Snowflake
10 25 (9.58%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (9.20%) Amazon EMR
12 20 (7.66%) Amazon Kinesis
12 20 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (7.28%) Azure Databricks
13 19 (7.28%) dbt
14 17 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (5.75%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (4.98%) Amazon ECR
18 11 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.30%) AMQP
1 6 (2.30%) BGP
1 6 (2.30%) DNS
1 6 (2.30%) IPsec
1 6 (2.30%) VPN
2 5 (1.92%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) 4G
3 1 (0.38%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (35.25%) Big Data
2 61 (23.37%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (22.99%) Data Lake
4 56 (21.46%) Hadoop
5 50 (19.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 44 (16.86%) Elasticsearch
7 43 (16.48%) NoSQL
8 42 (16.09%) Power BI
9 32 (12.26%) Tableau
10 26 (9.96%) Metadata
11 23 (8.81%) Delta Lake
12 21 (8.05%) Relational Database
13 20 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
14 18 (6.90%) BigQuery
15 16 (6.13%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (6.13%) Flink
15 16 (6.13%) Looker
15 16 (6.13%) Milvus
16 15 (5.75%) Snowflake Schema
17 14 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 34 (13.03%) Git
2 22 (8.43%) MLflow
3 17 (6.51%) GitLab
4 13 (4.98%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.77%) JIRA
5 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.38%) ERwin
General
1 105 (40.23%) Finance
2 72 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 47 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (11.49%) Banking
5 22 (8.43%) Financial Institution
6 21 (8.05%) Public Sector
7 16 (6.13%) Law
8 15 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (5.36%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.83%) Military
11 9 (3.45%) Marketing
12 6 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.30%) Retail
13 5 (1.92%) Legal
14 4 (1.53%) Games
15 3 (1.15%) Front Office
16 2 (0.77%) Aviation
16 2 (0.77%) Local Government
16 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 123 (47.13%) Data Engineer
2 89 (34.10%) Senior
3 43 (16.48%) Lead
4 36 (13.79%) Data Scientist
5 31 (11.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 31 (11.88%) Senior Data Scientist
6 26 (9.96%) Lead Data Engineer
7 24 (9.20%) Databricks Engineer
8 21 (8.05%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 16 (6.13%) Architect
9 16 (6.13%) Python Engineer
10 15 (5.75%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 15 (5.75%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (4.98%) Data Architect
11 13 (4.98%) Software Engineer
12 11 (4.21%) Developer
13 9 (3.45%) Consultant
13 9 (3.45%) Python Developer
14 8 (3.07%) AWS Consultant
14 8 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (40.23%) Kafka
2 50 (19.16%) PySpark
3 41 (15.71%) Terraform
4 22 (8.43%) SpaCy
5 19 (7.28%) PyTorch
5 19 (7.28%) scikit-learn
6 18 (6.90%) TensorFlow
7 16 (6.13%) LangChain
7 16 (6.13%) pgvector
7 16 (6.13%) REST
8 15 (5.75%) LlamaIndex
9 14 (5.36%) Node.js
10 11 (4.21%) Pandas
11 9 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
11 9 (3.45%) gRPC
12 8 (3.07%) RESTful
13 7 (2.68%) NumPy
13 7 (2.68%) React
13 7 (2.68%) Spring
13 7 (2.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.62%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.43%) e-Learning
2 22 (8.43%) Product Ownership
3 19 (7.28%) Public Cloud
4 17 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.75%) Clustering
5 15 (5.75%) Data Structures
5 15 (5.75%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.83%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (3.45%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.68%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.30%) NHS
10 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.77%) Blog
12 2 (0.77%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.98%) Linux
2 6 (2.30%) CentOS
2 6 (2.30%) Debian
2 6 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (63.60%) Data Engineering
2 152 (58.24%) Analytics
3 141 (54.02%) Data Pipeline
4 129 (49.43%) CI/CD
5 120 (45.98%) Data Science
6 113 (43.30%) Machine Learning
7 108 (41.38%) Data Modelling
8 98 (37.55%) DevOps
9 91 (34.87%) AI
10 87 (33.33%) ETL
11 73 (27.97%) Agile
12 68 (26.05%) Lakehouse
13 66 (25.29%) Mentoring
14 56 (21.46%) Data Governance
14 56 (21.46%) Use Case
15 55 (21.07%) Business Intelligence
16 49 (18.77%) Generative AI
17 48 (18.39%) Infrastructure as Code
18 45 (17.24%) Data Ingestion
18 45 (17.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 218 (83.52%) Python
2 176 (67.43%) SQL
3 51 (19.54%) Scala
4 37 (14.18%) Java
5 9 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.68%) 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 3 (1.15%) Bicep
9 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.15%) R
10 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.77%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.38%) C++
11 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (27.97%) Security Cleared
2 56 (21.46%) Degree
3 53 (20.31%) SC Cleared
4 31 (11.88%) PhD
5 28 (10.73%) Master's Degree
6 18 (6.90%) Azure Certification
7 17 (6.51%) DV Cleared
8 14 (5.36%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.07%) 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%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 87 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.43%) GDPR
3 16 (6.13%) 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
Systems Management
1 40 (15.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.45%) Ansible
3 6 (2.30%) Hadoop YARN
3 6 (2.30%) Puppet
4 3 (1.15%) Kibana
5 2 (0.77%) Argo
6 1 (0.38%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 98 (37.55%) Databricks
2 30 (11.49%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.13%) Cloudera
4 15 (5.75%) Dell
5 9 (3.45%) Google
5 9 (3.45%) Oracle
6 7 (2.68%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.30%) HP
7 6 (2.30%) IBM
7 6 (2.30%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.30%) SAP
8 5 (1.92%) Informatica
9 4 (1.53%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.15%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.15%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.77%) Thales
12 1 (0.38%) Confluent
12 1 (0.38%) Mapbox
12 1 (0.38%) Sparx