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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 427 375
Rank change year-on-year -32 -52 -140
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 164 269 374
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.56% 0.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.53% 6.08% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 93 195 239
10th Percentile £53,000 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £65,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £83,230 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +4.04% -3.03%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £120,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £84,115 £80,000
% change year-on-year +1.05% +5.14% -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 2,964 4,421 5,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.44% 9.24% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,118 2,601 4,654
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £57,000 £51,764
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +10.12% -5.88%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +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 22 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 22 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 -9 118 £95,000 -5.00% 49
North of England +32 30 £60,000 +14.29% 43
Yorkshire - 19 £62,500 - 17
North West +18 10 £55,000 +10.00% 18
East of England +19 4 - - 32
South West -1 4 £50,000 -35.48% 30
Midlands +8 2 - - 26
West Midlands +25 1 - - 8
North East +5 1 - - 8
South East +4 1 £65,000 +13.04% 68
East Midlands -9 1 - - 18
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 50 (30.49%) 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 90 (54.88%) Azure
3 67 (40.85%) GCP
4 37 (22.56%) Serverless
5 33 (20.12%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (14.02%) 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 62 (37.80%) Data Warehouse
2 62 (37.80%) Hadoop
3 43 (26.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 34 (20.73%) Data Lake
5 25 (15.24%) NoSQL
6 21 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (11.59%) MySQL
8 18 (10.98%) MongoDB
9 17 (10.37%) Power BI
9 17 (10.37%) SQL Server
10 14 (8.54%) Apache Hive
10 14 (8.54%) Relational Database
11 13 (7.93%) Metadata
12 12 (7.32%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (7.32%) DynamoDB
13 11 (6.71%) RDBMS
13 11 (6.71%) Tableau
14 10 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
14 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 57 (34.76%) 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
8 4 (2.44%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.83%) Front Office
10 2 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.22%) Marketing
10 2 (1.22%) Retail
10 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.61%) Advertising
11 1 (0.61%) Legal
11 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (45.73%) Data Engineer
2 44 (26.83%) Senior
3 30 (18.29%) 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%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (7.32%) Architect
9 11 (6.71%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.10%) Data Architect
10 10 (6.10%) Data Scientist
11 8 (4.88%) Lead
12 7 (4.27%) Senior Data Scientist
13 6 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 6 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (3.66%) Product Lead
14 5 (3.05%) Azure Data Engineer
15 4 (2.44%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 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 14 (8.54%) PyTorch
4 14 (8.54%) 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%) OAuth2
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%) Genomics
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 95 (57.93%) Data Pipeline
2 86 (52.44%) Data Engineering
3 83 (50.61%) Analytics
4 77 (46.95%) CI/CD
5 71 (43.29%) ETL
6 67 (40.85%) Data Modelling
7 62 (37.80%) Data Science
7 62 (37.80%) Machine Learning
8 50 (30.49%) DevOps
9 48 (29.27%) Data Governance
10 46 (28.05%) Software Engineering
11 44 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (26.22%) Business Intelligence
13 42 (25.61%) AI
14 37 (22.56%) Agile
15 35 (21.34%) Computer Science
15 35 (21.34%) Mentoring
16 28 (17.07%) Observability
17 27 (16.46%) Fintech
18 25 (15.24%) Data Security
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 35 (21.34%) Degree
2 15 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.54%) Master's Degree
4 13 (7.93%) PhD
4 13 (7.93%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.05%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.05%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.61%) MBA
7 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%) Informatica
5 10 (6.10%) Google
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 1 (0.61%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.61%) IBM