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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 366 459
Rank change year-on-year -104 +93 -222
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 200 278 391
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.76% 0.48%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.09% 7.59% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 88 196 256
10th Percentile £53,375 £52,500 £50,172
25th Percentile £73,438 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +6.25% -9.60%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £119,375
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 3,284 3,664 8,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.33% 9.97% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,392 2,650 6,474
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £90,000
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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -54 135 £95,000 -13.64% 64
North of England -72 23 £72,500 +26.09% 14
East of England -8 18 £75,000 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire -57 12 £62,500 +8.70% 1
South West -42 11 £80,000 +60.00% 14
North West -29 9 £95,000 +72.73% 9
South East -76 5 £61,250 -5.77% 17
North East -29 2 £80,000 - 4
Midlands -52 2 £50,000 -25.93% 7
West Midlands -22 1 - - 5
East Midlands -55 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
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 94 (47.00%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (38.00%) Apache
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.50%) Camunda
3 1 (0.50%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.50%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 128 (64.00%) AWS
2 90 (45.00%) Azure
3 77 (38.50%) GCP
4 48 (24.00%) Power Platform
5 44 (22.00%) Amazon S3
6 43 (21.50%) dbt
7 38 (19.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 37 (18.50%) Snowflake
9 34 (17.00%) OpenShift
10 27 (13.50%) Serverless
11 23 (11.50%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (9.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (4.50%) Dagster
15 8 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (4.00%) GitHub
16 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.50%) Broadband
2 6 (3.00%) AMQP
3 2 (1.00%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.50%) 4G
4 1 (0.50%) 5G
4 1 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.50%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (33.00%) Big Data
2 64 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
2 64 (32.00%) Tableau
3 47 (23.50%) Data Lake
3 47 (23.50%) Power BI
4 41 (20.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (18.50%) BigQuery
5 37 (18.50%) Hadoop
6 32 (16.00%) Apache Hive
7 31 (15.50%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (14.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 28 (14.00%) Spark SQL
9 25 (12.50%) Impala
9 25 (12.50%) Oracle Database
9 25 (12.50%) Parquet
10 24 (12.00%) Looker
11 20 (10.00%) Relational Database
12 19 (9.50%) MySQL
13 15 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (6.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (21.00%) Git
2 27 (13.50%) MLflow
3 25 (12.50%) IBM UrbanCode
4 6 (3.00%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.50%) GitLab
6 2 (1.00%) JIRA
7 1 (0.50%) Deequ
7 1 (0.50%) JUnit
General
1 81 (40.50%) Finance
2 72 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (34.00%) Social Skills
4 32 (16.00%) Banking
5 24 (12.00%) Investment Banking
6 14 (7.00%) Law
7 13 (6.50%) Legal
8 7 (3.50%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.50%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.00%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.00%) Advertising
11 2 (1.00%) Marketing
11 2 (1.00%) Retail
12 1 (0.50%) Billing
12 1 (0.50%) Electronics
12 1 (0.50%) Games
12 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 69 (34.50%) Data Engineer
2 63 (31.50%) Senior
3 26 (13.00%) Analyst
3 26 (13.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 24 (12.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.50%) Developer
5 23 (11.50%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.50%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (11.00%) Banking Analyst
7 19 (9.50%) Python Developer
8 16 (8.00%) Python Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Architect
9 13 (6.50%) Business Analyst
10 12 (6.00%) AWS Data Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Data Business Analyst
10 12 (6.00%) Software Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Technical Analyst
11 11 (5.50%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 10 (5.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (48.50%) Kafka
2 50 (25.00%) PySpark
3 31 (15.50%) PyTorch
3 31 (15.50%) TensorFlow
4 28 (14.00%) REST
5 27 (13.50%) scikit-learn
6 25 (12.50%) Pandas
7 24 (12.00%) LangChain
8 23 (11.50%) LlamaIndex
8 23 (11.50%) pgvector
9 13 (6.50%) Spring
10 12 (6.00%) Spring Boot
11 11 (5.50%) Node.js
12 9 (4.50%) NumPy
13 8 (4.00%) React
14 7 (3.50%) AngularJS
14 7 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (3.00%) gRPC
15 6 (3.00%) OAuth
15 6 (3.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.50%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.50%) Clustering
2 23 (11.50%) Public Cloud
3 19 (9.50%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.00%) Algorithms
5 9 (4.50%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (4.00%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.00%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.00%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.00%) Social Media
8 5 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.00%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.50%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.00%) Linux
2 6 (3.00%) CentOS
2 6 (3.00%) Debian
2 6 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (3.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (64.50%) Data Pipeline
2 120 (60.00%) Analytics
3 114 (57.00%) Data Engineering
4 107 (53.50%) ETL
5 95 (47.50%) AI
6 90 (45.00%) Data Governance
7 86 (43.00%) CI/CD
8 81 (40.50%) Data Modelling
9 72 (36.00%) Machine Learning
10 70 (35.00%) Data Science
11 66 (33.00%) Agile
12 60 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
13 49 (24.50%) Software Engineering
14 47 (23.50%) Computer Science
15 42 (21.00%) Performance Tuning
16 39 (19.50%) DevOps
16 39 (19.50%) Generative AI
17 37 (18.50%) Scrum
18 35 (17.50%) Data Transformation
18 35 (17.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 186 (93.00%) Python
2 153 (76.50%) SQL
3 42 (21.00%) Java
4 31 (15.50%) Scala
5 8 (4.00%) C++
6 7 (3.50%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.50%) R
8 3 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.50%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.00%) Bicep
10 1 (0.50%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.50%) Bash
10 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.50%) Ruby
10 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (14.00%) Degree
2 18 (9.00%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.50%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.50%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.50%) PhD
7 6 (3.00%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.50%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (39.50%) Data Quality
2 39 (19.50%) GDPR
3 35 (17.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (6.00%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.50%) QA
6 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (15.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.50%) HDFS
3 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 28 (14.00%) Terraform
3 13 (6.50%) Ansible
4 8 (4.00%) Grafana
5 7 (3.50%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.00%) Puppet
7 1 (0.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 62 (31.00%) Databricks
2 34 (17.00%) Oracle
3 33 (16.50%) Red Hat
4 25 (12.50%) Dell
5 24 (12.00%) Cloudera
6 12 (6.00%) Google
6 12 (6.00%) Microsoft
7 6 (3.00%) Informatica
7 6 (3.00%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.50%) Palantir
8 5 (2.50%) Talend
9 3 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.00%) IBM
11 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.50%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.50%) Foundry
11 1 (0.50%) Pega
11 1 (0.50%) SAP
11 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.50%) Splunk