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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 437 493
Rank change year-on-year -90 +56 -141
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 252 214 276
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.50% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.85% 6.02% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 128 108 191
10th Percentile £51,950 £49,275 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,938 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% - -
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £125,625 £123,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +0.46%

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 4,309 3,554 6,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.17% 8.24% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,025 2,564 3,643
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,750 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £130,000
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 25 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 25 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 -37 151 £90,000 -1.37% 346
North of England -45 52 £55,000 -8.33% 47
South West -54 26 £58,000 +5.45% 34
North East -50 25 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West -17 18 £55,000 -31.25% 28
South East -61 10 £63,002 -6.66% 31
Yorkshire -44 9 £80,000 +33.33% 9
Midlands -55 5 £54,500 -14.84% 16
West Midlands -48 4 £60,653 +0.25% 12
East of England -25 1 £80,000 +11.89% 12
East Midlands -41 1 £50,000 -33.33% 4
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
1 112 (44.44%) Apache
2 39 (15.48%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (8.33%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.98%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.19%) SAS
6 2 (0.79%) Luigi
6 2 (0.79%) Tornado
7 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.40%) Confluence
7 1 (0.40%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 139 (55.16%) AWS
2 136 (53.97%) Azure
3 69 (27.38%) GCP
4 42 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 38 (15.08%) Serverless
6 34 (13.49%) Amazon S3
7 28 (11.11%) Power Platform
8 26 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (9.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 24 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
11 23 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (8.73%) Azure Databricks
13 20 (7.94%) Amazon Kinesis
14 17 (6.75%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (5.95%) Snowflake
17 13 (5.16%) Amazon ECR
18 12 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
19 10 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.78%) AMQP
2 6 (2.38%) BGP
2 6 (2.38%) DNS
2 6 (2.38%) IPsec
2 6 (2.38%) VPN
3 5 (1.98%) Internet
4 1 (0.40%) 4G
4 1 (0.40%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (36.90%) Big Data
2 58 (23.02%) Hadoop
3 51 (20.24%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (19.05%) Data Lake
5 44 (17.46%) NoSQL
6 37 (14.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 28 (11.11%) Metadata
7 28 (11.11%) Power BI
8 25 (9.92%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (9.13%) Delta Lake
10 21 (8.33%) Relational Database
10 21 (8.33%) Tableau
11 18 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (6.75%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (6.75%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (6.35%) Flink
14 12 (4.76%) Apache Hive
14 12 (4.76%) DynamoDB
14 12 (4.76%) Spark SQL
15 10 (3.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (15.87%) Git
2 17 (6.75%) GitLab
3 15 (5.95%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.17%) MLflow
5 2 (0.79%) JIRA
5 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.40%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.40%) ERwin
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 108 (42.86%) Finance
2 72 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 38 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.70%) Banking
5 24 (9.52%) Financial Institution
5 24 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.35%) Law
7 15 (5.95%) Aerospace
7 15 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.97%) Military
9 9 (3.57%) Marketing
10 6 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.38%) Retail
11 5 (1.98%) Legal
12 4 (1.59%) Front Office
13 3 (1.19%) Games
14 2 (0.79%) Aviation
14 2 (0.79%) Local Government
14 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 127 (50.40%) Data Engineer
2 80 (31.75%) Senior
3 43 (17.06%) Lead
4 38 (15.08%) Data Scientist
5 34 (13.49%) Senior Data Engineer
6 33 (13.10%) Senior Data Scientist
7 24 (9.52%) Databricks Engineer
7 24 (9.52%) Lead Data Engineer
8 21 (8.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 14 (5.56%) Architect
9 14 (5.56%) Python Engineer
9 14 (5.56%) Software Engineer
10 11 (4.37%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.57%) Consultant
11 9 (3.57%) Developer
12 8 (3.17%) AWS Consultant
12 8 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.17%) Azure Data Engineer
12 8 (3.17%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (35.32%) Kafka
2 55 (21.83%) PySpark
3 44 (17.46%) Terraform
4 24 (9.52%) SpaCy
5 13 (5.16%) Node.js
5 13 (5.16%) REST
6 11 (4.37%) Pandas
7 10 (3.97%) gRPC
8 9 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (3.17%) React
9 8 (3.17%) RESTful
9 8 (3.17%) Spring
9 8 (3.17%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.78%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.78%) Material-UI
10 7 (2.78%) NumPy
10 7 (2.78%) OpenAPI
10 7 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (2.78%) Swagger
11 5 (1.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.49%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.52%) e-Learning
3 22 (8.73%) Product Ownership
4 17 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.95%) Data Structures
5 15 (5.95%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.37%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (3.57%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.38%) NHS
10 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.59%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.79%) Synthetic Data
13 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.56%) Linux
2 7 (2.78%) CentOS
2 7 (2.78%) Debian
2 7 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (61.90%) Data Engineering
2 140 (55.56%) Analytics
3 134 (53.17%) CI/CD
4 131 (51.98%) Data Pipeline
5 110 (43.65%) Data Science
6 104 (41.27%) DevOps
7 100 (39.68%) Machine Learning
8 97 (38.49%) Data Modelling
9 80 (31.75%) Agile
10 77 (30.56%) AI
11 76 (30.16%) ETL
12 74 (29.37%) Mentoring
13 52 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 51 (20.24%) Lakehouse
15 47 (18.65%) Validation
16 46 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
17 44 (17.46%) Software Engineering
18 43 (17.06%) Data Ingestion
18 43 (17.06%) Natural Language Processing
19 42 (16.67%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 209 (82.94%) Python
2 164 (65.08%) SQL
3 53 (21.03%) Scala
4 38 (15.08%) Java
5 12 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.17%) C#
7 7 (2.78%) R
8 6 (2.38%) C
8 6 (2.38%) PHP
8 6 (2.38%) Ruby
9 5 (1.98%) Bash
9 5 (1.98%) VBA
10 3 (1.19%) Bicep
10 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.40%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 80 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 60 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 58 (23.02%) Degree
4 33 (13.10%) PhD
5 29 (11.51%) Master's Degree
6 21 (8.33%) Azure Certification
7 18 (7.14%) DV Cleared
8 16 (6.35%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.40%) CEH
13 1 (0.40%) CISM
13 1 (0.40%) CISSP
13 1 (0.40%) OCP
13 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (36.11%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.16%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.17%) QA
4 7 (2.78%) GDPR
5 5 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.79%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (17.06%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.97%) Ansible
3 7 (2.78%) Puppet
4 6 (2.38%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (1.19%) Kibana
6 2 (0.79%) Argo
7 1 (0.40%) Control-M
7 1 (0.40%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 91 (36.11%) Databricks
2 31 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.97%) Google
4 9 (3.57%) Oracle
5 8 (3.17%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.78%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.38%) HP
7 6 (2.38%) IBM
7 6 (2.38%) SAP
8 5 (1.98%) Informatica
9 4 (1.59%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.19%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.19%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.79%) Thales
12 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.40%) Confluent
12 1 (0.40%) Mapbox
12 1 (0.40%) Refinitiv
12 1 (0.40%) Sparx