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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 383 480
Rank change year-on-year -96 +97 -245
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 218 263 367
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.68% 0.42%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.30% 7.31% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 106 180 256
10th Percentile £53,125 £49,800 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,375 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -10.61%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £108,125
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%

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 3,460 3,597 8,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.16% 9.30% 9.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,574 2,502 6,539
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,125 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £97,695
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -51 145 £100,000 -9.09% 45
North of England -53 29 £67,500 +17.39% 31
South West -37 18 £75,000 +50.00% 14
East of England -2 17 £75,000 +4.90% 2
North West -4 10 £75,000 +36.36% 14
North East -35 10 £56,250 -16.67% 16
Yorkshire -48 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South East -53 4 £57,500 -11.54% 6
East Midlands -31 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -48 1 £50,000 -25.93% 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 98 (44.95%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (42.66%) Apache
3 14 (6.42%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.38%) SAS
5 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.46%) Camunda
5 1 (0.46%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.96%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 142 (65.14%) AWS
2 101 (46.33%) Azure
3 80 (36.70%) GCP
4 52 (23.85%) Amazon S3
5 46 (21.10%) Power Platform
6 41 (18.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (17.89%) dbt
8 35 (16.06%) Snowflake
9 31 (14.22%) OpenShift
10 26 (11.93%) Serverless
11 23 (10.55%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (10.09%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (7.80%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (5.05%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (4.59%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
17 8 (3.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.21%) Broadband
2 5 (2.29%) AMQP
3 2 (0.92%) 4G
3 2 (0.92%) 5G
4 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.46%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (34.40%) Big Data
2 64 (29.36%) Tableau
3 62 (28.44%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (22.48%) Data Lake
5 46 (21.10%) Amazon Redshift
6 45 (20.64%) Power BI
7 39 (17.89%) Elasticsearch
8 34 (15.60%) BigQuery
9 32 (14.68%) Hadoop
9 32 (14.68%) Spark SQL
10 27 (12.39%) Apache Hive
10 27 (12.39%) Snowflake Schema
11 25 (11.47%) Impala
11 25 (11.47%) Oracle Database
11 25 (11.47%) Parquet
11 25 (11.47%) Relational Database
12 23 (10.55%) Looker
12 23 (10.55%) NoSQL
13 16 (7.34%) Metadata
14 15 (6.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 42 (19.27%) Git
2 28 (12.84%) MLflow
3 25 (11.47%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (5.50%) GitLab
5 6 (2.75%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.92%) JIRA
6 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.46%) Deequ
7 1 (0.46%) JUnit
General
1 88 (40.37%) Finance
2 72 (33.03%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (31.19%) Social Skills
4 38 (17.43%) Banking
5 24 (11.01%) Investment Banking
6 16 (7.34%) Legal
7 15 (6.88%) Law
8 9 (4.13%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.67%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.92%) Advertising
13 2 (0.92%) Billing
13 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Front Office
14 1 (0.46%) Games
Job Titles
1 74 (33.94%) Data Engineer
2 69 (31.65%) Senior
3 26 (11.93%) Analyst
4 24 (11.01%) Lead
4 24 (11.01%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.55%) Senior Data Engineer
5 23 (10.55%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.55%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.09%) Banking Analyst
7 21 (9.63%) Developer
7 21 (9.63%) Python Engineer
8 17 (7.80%) Architect
9 16 (7.34%) Python Developer
10 14 (6.42%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (5.96%) Business Analyst
11 13 (5.96%) Data Scientist
11 13 (5.96%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.50%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.50%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (5.05%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (44.50%) Kafka
2 59 (27.06%) PySpark
3 29 (13.30%) PyTorch
3 29 (13.30%) TensorFlow
4 26 (11.93%) scikit-learn
5 24 (11.01%) LangChain
5 24 (11.01%) REST
6 23 (10.55%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (10.55%) pgvector
7 22 (10.09%) Pandas
8 11 (5.05%) Spring
8 11 (5.05%) Spring Boot
9 9 (4.13%) Node.js
10 8 (3.67%) NumPy
10 8 (3.67%) SpaCy
11 6 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.75%) React
12 5 (2.29%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.29%) OAuth
12 5 (2.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.64%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.01%) Public Cloud
3 23 (10.55%) Clustering
4 16 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (5.96%) Data Structures
6 12 (5.50%) Product Ownership
7 10 (4.59%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.59%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (3.67%) e-Learning
9 6 (2.75%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.75%) Social Media
10 5 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.38%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.67%) Linux
2 5 (2.29%) CentOS
2 5 (2.29%) Debian
2 5 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (64.22%) Data Pipeline
2 138 (63.30%) Analytics
3 132 (60.55%) Data Engineering
4 110 (50.46%) ETL
5 100 (45.87%) CI/CD
6 93 (42.66%) AI
7 91 (41.74%) Data Governance
7 91 (41.74%) Data Modelling
8 81 (37.16%) Data Science
9 77 (35.32%) Agile
10 75 (34.40%) Machine Learning
11 58 (26.61%) Business Intelligence
12 48 (22.02%) DevOps
12 48 (22.02%) Use Case
13 47 (21.56%) Software Engineering
14 46 (21.10%) Performance Tuning
15 40 (18.35%) Computer Science
16 38 (17.43%) Generative AI
16 38 (17.43%) Validation
17 35 (16.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 202 (92.66%) Python
2 166 (76.15%) SQL
3 40 (18.35%) Java
4 37 (16.97%) Scala
5 7 (3.21%) C++
6 6 (2.75%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.83%) Bash
7 4 (1.83%) Bicep
7 4 (1.83%) R
7 4 (1.83%) VBA
8 3 (1.38%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.92%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.46%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.46%) C#
10 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 28 (12.84%) Degree
3 21 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.50%) Master's Degree
5 12 (5.50%) PhD
6 10 (4.59%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.13%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.21%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.46%) CEH
11 1 (0.46%) CISM
11 1 (0.46%) CISSP
11 1 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (42.20%) Data Quality
2 37 (16.97%) GDPR
3 35 (16.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.50%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.83%) QA
6 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.92%) IFRS
7 2 (0.92%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.92%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (14.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (16.06%) Terraform
2 30 (13.76%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.13%) Ansible
4 6 (2.75%) Grafana
5 5 (2.29%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.29%) Puppet
6 3 (1.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 65 (29.82%) Databricks
2 31 (14.22%) Red Hat
3 29 (13.30%) Oracle
4 24 (11.01%) Cloudera
4 24 (11.01%) Dell
5 10 (4.59%) Google
6 9 (4.13%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.29%) Informatica
7 5 (2.29%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.83%) Talend
9 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.46%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.46%) Confluent
10 1 (0.46%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.46%) Palantir
10 1 (0.46%) Pega
10 1 (0.46%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.46%) UiPath