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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 390 474
Rank change year-on-year -92 +84 -245
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 209 259 381
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.66% 0.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.28% 7.00% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 97 188 271
10th Percentile £53,250 £50,875 £50,172
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +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 3,328 3,698 8,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.05% 9.39% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,467 2,607 6,553
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £96,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.18%

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 20 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 20 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 -33 141 £100,000 -9.09% 41
North of England -38 24 £80,000 +39.13% 25
East of England -3 18 £75,000 +3.45%
South West -46 17 £80,000 +60.00% 8
Yorkshire -45 11 £80,000 +39.13% 2
North West -3 8 £85,000 +54.55% 11
North East -36 5 £57,500 -14.81% 13
South East -48 4 £57,500 -11.54% 8
East Midlands -40 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -44 1 £50,000 -25.93% 5
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 93 (44.50%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (39.23%) Apache
3 6 (2.87%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.48%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.48%) Camunda
4 1 (0.48%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.22%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.48%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 133 (63.64%) AWS
2 102 (48.80%) Azure
3 81 (38.76%) GCP
4 50 (23.92%) Power Platform
5 45 (21.53%) Amazon S3
6 44 (21.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (19.14%) dbt
8 38 (18.18%) Snowflake
9 31 (14.83%) OpenShift
10 24 (11.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 24 (11.48%) Serverless
11 20 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (5.74%) Amazon EMR
13 11 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (4.78%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (3.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 8 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (3.83%) SaaS
16 7 (3.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.35%) Broadband
2 5 (2.39%) AMQP
3 2 (0.96%) 4G
3 2 (0.96%) 5G
4 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.48%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (33.49%) Big Data
2 67 (32.06%) Tableau
3 62 (29.67%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (23.44%) Power BI
5 45 (21.53%) Data Lake
6 44 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (17.70%) Elasticsearch
8 36 (17.22%) BigQuery
9 32 (15.31%) Hadoop
9 32 (15.31%) Spark SQL
10 28 (13.40%) Snowflake Schema
11 27 (12.92%) Apache Hive
12 26 (12.44%) Relational Database
13 25 (11.96%) Impala
13 25 (11.96%) Oracle Database
13 25 (11.96%) Parquet
14 24 (11.48%) Looker
15 22 (10.53%) NoSQL
16 19 (9.09%) MySQL
17 17 (8.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 44 (21.05%) Git
2 28 (13.40%) MLflow
3 25 (11.96%) IBM UrbanCode
4 8 (3.83%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.35%) GitLab
6 2 (0.96%) JIRA
7 1 (0.48%) Deequ
7 1 (0.48%) JUnit
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (41.63%) Finance
2 71 (33.97%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (31.10%) Social Skills
4 36 (17.22%) Banking
5 24 (11.48%) Investment Banking
6 16 (7.66%) Legal
7 15 (7.18%) Law
8 7 (3.35%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.87%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.91%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.91%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.96%) Advertising
12 2 (0.96%) Billing
12 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.48%) Front Office
13 1 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 66 (31.58%) Data Engineer
2 65 (31.10%) Senior
3 26 (12.44%) Analyst
4 24 (11.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.00%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.00%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.53%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (10.53%) Developer
6 22 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
7 21 (10.05%) Python Engineer
8 19 (9.09%) Lead
9 18 (8.61%) Architect
10 17 (8.13%) Python Developer
11 13 (6.22%) Business Analyst
11 13 (6.22%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (6.22%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.74%) Data Architect
12 12 (5.74%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.74%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (5.26%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (46.41%) Kafka
2 55 (26.32%) PySpark
3 30 (14.35%) PyTorch
3 30 (14.35%) TensorFlow
4 26 (12.44%) scikit-learn
5 25 (11.96%) REST
6 24 (11.48%) LangChain
7 23 (11.00%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (11.00%) pgvector
8 21 (10.05%) Pandas
9 11 (5.26%) Spring
9 11 (5.26%) Spring Boot
10 9 (4.31%) Node.js
11 7 (3.35%) NumPy
12 6 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.87%) React
12 6 (2.87%) SpaCy
13 5 (2.39%) Material-UI
13 5 (2.39%) OpenAPI
13 5 (2.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (19.62%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.48%) Public Cloud
3 23 (11.00%) Clustering
4 16 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.78%) Algorithms
7 9 (4.31%) Data Structures
7 9 (4.31%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (2.87%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.87%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.87%) e-Learning
8 6 (2.87%) Social Media
9 5 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.44%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.96%) Replication
11 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.83%) Linux
2 5 (2.39%) CentOS
2 5 (2.39%) Debian
2 5 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.39%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (63.16%) Data Pipeline
2 129 (61.72%) Analytics
3 123 (58.85%) Data Engineering
4 109 (52.15%) ETL
5 93 (44.50%) AI
6 91 (43.54%) CI/CD
6 91 (43.54%) Data Governance
7 84 (40.19%) Data Modelling
8 77 (36.84%) Data Science
9 74 (35.41%) Machine Learning
10 69 (33.01%) Agile
11 58 (27.75%) Business Intelligence
12 47 (22.49%) Software Engineering
13 44 (21.05%) DevOps
13 44 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
14 43 (20.57%) Use Case
15 42 (20.10%) Computer Science
16 39 (18.66%) Generative AI
17 36 (17.22%) Data Transformation
18 35 (16.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 193 (92.34%) Python
2 159 (76.08%) SQL
3 37 (17.70%) Java
4 34 (16.27%) Scala
5 7 (3.35%) C++
6 6 (2.87%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.91%) Bicep
7 4 (1.91%) R
8 3 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.44%) VBA
9 2 (0.96%) Bash
9 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.48%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.48%) C#
10 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (12.92%) Degree
2 24 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 11 (5.26%) PhD
6 10 (4.78%) Master's Degree
7 9 (4.31%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.87%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.48%) CEH
11 1 (0.48%) CISM
11 1 (0.48%) CISSP
11 1 (0.48%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (41.63%) Data Quality
2 38 (18.18%) GDPR
3 35 (16.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.74%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.96%) IFRS
6 2 (0.96%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.96%) QA
6 2 (0.96%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (12.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (14.35%) Kubernetes
1 30 (14.35%) Terraform
2 9 (4.31%) Ansible
3 6 (2.87%) Grafana
4 5 (2.39%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.39%) Puppet
5 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 67 (32.06%) Databricks
2 32 (15.31%) Oracle
3 31 (14.83%) Red Hat
4 24 (11.48%) Cloudera
4 24 (11.48%) Dell
5 10 (4.78%) Google
6 9 (4.31%) Microsoft
7 6 (2.87%) Informatica
8 5 (2.39%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.39%) Talend
9 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.44%) Palantir
10 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.48%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.48%) Confluent
10 1 (0.48%) Foundry
10 1 (0.48%) IBM
10 1 (0.48%) Pega
10 1 (0.48%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.48%) Splunk