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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 391 513
Rank change year-on-year -82 +122 -245
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 217 258 362
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.66% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.21% 7.01% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 106 167 258
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,800 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,250 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +6.25% -10.86%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £84,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% +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 3,494 3,681 8,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.25% 9.37% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,592 2,570 6,580
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,520 £110,000 £100,125
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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -38 140 £95,000 -12.64% 51
North of England -25 31 £67,500 +20.00% 26
South West -32 19 £70,000 +40.00% 14
East of England -3 17 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North West +8 12 £65,000 +18.18% 15
North East -36 10 £56,250 +18.42% 9
Yorkshire -44 9 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -54 4 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Midlands -31 2 £50,000 -25.93% 5
West Midlands -23 1 - - 3
East Midlands -32 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 99 (45.62%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (44.70%) Apache
3 13 (5.99%) 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 (5.99%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 145 (66.82%) AWS
2 103 (47.47%) Azure
3 82 (37.79%) GCP
4 52 (23.96%) Amazon S3
5 47 (21.66%) Power Platform
6 41 (18.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (17.97%) dbt
8 35 (16.13%) Snowflake
9 31 (14.29%) OpenShift
10 25 (11.52%) Serverless
11 22 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (10.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (6.45%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (4.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.61%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (3.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.23%) Broadband
2 5 (2.30%) AMQP
3 2 (0.92%) 4G
3 2 (0.92%) 5G
4 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (32.26%) Big Data
2 64 (29.49%) Tableau
3 59 (27.19%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (22.58%) Data Lake
5 48 (22.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (21.20%) Power BI
7 39 (17.97%) Elasticsearch
8 34 (15.67%) BigQuery
9 32 (14.75%) Spark SQL
10 27 (12.44%) Apache Hive
10 27 (12.44%) Hadoop
10 27 (12.44%) Snowflake Schema
11 25 (11.52%) Impala
11 25 (11.52%) Oracle Database
11 25 (11.52%) Parquet
12 23 (10.60%) Looker
13 22 (10.14%) Relational Database
14 21 (9.68%) NoSQL
15 16 (7.37%) Metadata
16 14 (6.45%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 44 (20.28%) Git
2 28 (12.90%) MLflow
3 25 (11.52%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (5.53%) GitLab
5 7 (3.23%) 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 84 (38.71%) Finance
2 69 (31.80%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (29.95%) Social Skills
4 40 (18.43%) Banking
5 24 (11.06%) Investment Banking
6 16 (7.37%) Legal
7 14 (6.45%) Law
8 10 (4.61%) Financial Institution
8 10 (4.61%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.84%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.92%) Billing
12 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.46%) Advertising
13 1 (0.46%) Front Office
13 1 (0.46%) Games
Job Titles
1 80 (36.87%) Data Engineer
2 70 (32.26%) Senior
3 26 (11.98%) Analyst
4 24 (11.06%) Lead
4 24 (11.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.60%) Senior Data Engineer
5 23 (10.60%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.60%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.14%) Banking Analyst
7 21 (9.68%) Python Engineer
8 19 (8.76%) Developer
9 16 (7.37%) Architect
10 15 (6.91%) Data Scientist
11 14 (6.45%) Lead Data Engineer
11 14 (6.45%) Python Developer
12 13 (5.99%) Business Analyst
12 13 (5.99%) Software Engineer
13 12 (5.53%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (5.53%) Senior Data Scientist
13 12 (5.53%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (44.24%) Kafka
2 59 (27.19%) PySpark
3 28 (12.90%) PyTorch
3 28 (12.90%) TensorFlow
4 26 (11.98%) scikit-learn
5 24 (11.06%) LangChain
6 23 (10.60%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (10.60%) pgvector
7 21 (9.68%) Pandas
7 21 (9.68%) REST
8 11 (5.07%) Spring
8 11 (5.07%) Spring Boot
9 10 (4.61%) SpaCy
10 9 (4.15%) Node.js
11 8 (3.69%) NumPy
12 6 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.76%) React
13 5 (2.30%) gRPC
13 5 (2.30%) OpenAPI
13 5 (2.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.20%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.06%) Public Cloud
3 23 (10.60%) Clustering
4 12 (5.53%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.61%) e-Learning
6 9 (4.15%) Algorithms
6 9 (4.15%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (4.15%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.76%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (2.76%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (2.76%) Social Media
8 5 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.38%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.92%) NHS
10 2 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.92%) Replication
10 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.69%) Linux
2 5 (2.30%) CentOS
2 5 (2.30%) Debian
2 5 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.30%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (63.13%) Data Pipeline
2 136 (62.67%) Analytics
3 133 (61.29%) Data Engineering
4 107 (49.31%) ETL
5 100 (46.08%) CI/CD
6 91 (41.94%) AI
7 89 (41.01%) Data Modelling
8 87 (40.09%) Data Governance
9 80 (36.87%) Data Science
10 75 (34.56%) Agile
10 75 (34.56%) Machine Learning
11 56 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
12 50 (23.04%) DevOps
13 48 (22.12%) Use Case
14 46 (21.20%) Performance Tuning
15 43 (19.82%) Software Engineering
16 41 (18.89%) Validation
17 37 (17.05%) Generative AI
18 35 (16.13%) Computer Science
18 35 (16.13%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 200 (92.17%) Python
2 163 (75.12%) SQL
3 37 (17.05%) Scala
4 34 (15.67%) Java
5 7 (3.23%) C++
6 6 (2.76%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.30%) VBA
8 4 (1.84%) Bash
8 4 (1.84%) Bicep
9 3 (1.38%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.38%) R
10 2 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.92%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.46%) C#
11 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.44%) Degree
3 22 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (5.99%) Master's Degree
5 12 (5.53%) PhD
6 9 (4.15%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.15%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.23%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.46%) CEH
10 1 (0.46%) CISM
10 1 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (43.32%) Data Quality
2 37 (17.05%) GDPR
3 35 (16.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.53%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.84%) 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 33 (15.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (16.59%) Terraform
2 31 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.15%) Ansible
4 6 (2.76%) Grafana
5 5 (2.30%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.30%) Puppet
6 3 (1.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 70 (32.26%) Databricks
2 31 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 26 (11.98%) Oracle
4 24 (11.06%) Cloudera
4 24 (11.06%) Dell
5 10 (4.61%) Google
6 9 (4.15%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.30%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.92%) Informatica
10 1 (0.46%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.46%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.46%) Foundry
10 1 (0.46%) IBM
10 1 (0.46%) Palantir
10 1 (0.46%) Pega
10 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.46%) Splunk
10 1 (0.46%) Talend