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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 410 480
Rank change year-on-year -56 +70 -152
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 288 235 286
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.54% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.03% 5.97% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 130 130 194
10th Percentile £52,375 £46,975 £48,250
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £124,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 4,096 3,937 6,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.39% 9.03% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,992 2,790 4,787
10th Percentile £29,008 £29,225 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,844 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -2.10% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.26% -5.11%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +1 179 £95,000 +8.57% 154
North of England -33 47 £55,000 -4.35% 21
South West -47 27 £67,500 +35.00% 10
North East -37 20 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West +2 16 £55,000 -10.20% 8
East of England -14 15 £75,000 +4.90% 2
Yorkshire -44 11 £80,000 +39.13% 3
South East -64 8 £62,500 -3.85% 17
Midlands -44 3 £58,403 -13.48% 5
West Midlands -28 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
East Midlands -33 1 £50,000 -33.33% 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
1 129 (44.79%) Apache
2 98 (34.03%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (6.25%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.74%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.04%) SAS
6 2 (0.69%) Luigi
6 2 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.69%) Tornado
7 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.51%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 184 (63.89%) AWS
2 137 (47.57%) Azure
3 90 (31.25%) GCP
4 60 (20.83%) Amazon S3
5 52 (18.06%) Power Platform
6 46 (15.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (13.19%) Snowflake
8 36 (12.50%) dbt
8 36 (12.50%) Serverless
9 34 (11.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (10.76%) OpenShift
11 23 (7.99%) Amazon EMR
12 22 (7.64%) Amazon Kinesis
12 22 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (4.86%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (4.17%) Amazon ECR
16 12 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.08%) BGP
1 6 (2.08%) DNS
1 6 (2.08%) IPsec
1 6 (2.08%) VPN
2 5 (1.74%) Broadband
2 5 (1.74%) Internet
3 4 (1.39%) AMQP
4 2 (0.69%) 4G
4 2 (0.69%) 5G
5 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (31.60%) Big Data
2 71 (24.65%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (22.57%) Data Lake
4 63 (21.88%) Tableau
5 55 (19.10%) Amazon Redshift
6 54 (18.75%) Hadoop
7 53 (18.40%) Elasticsearch
8 51 (17.71%) Power BI
9 42 (14.58%) NoSQL
10 38 (13.19%) Apache Hive
11 34 (11.81%) Spark SQL
12 32 (11.11%) BigQuery
13 27 (9.38%) Metadata
14 26 (9.03%) Parquet
14 26 (9.03%) Relational Database
15 25 (8.68%) Impala
15 25 (8.68%) Oracle Database
16 24 (8.33%) Delta Lake
16 24 (8.33%) Looker
16 24 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 54 (18.75%) Git
2 29 (10.07%) MLflow
3 25 (8.68%) IBM UrbanCode
4 17 (5.90%) GitLab
5 9 (3.13%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.69%) JIRA
6 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.35%) ERwin
General
1 123 (42.71%) Finance
2 78 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 70 (24.31%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (17.01%) Banking
5 24 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 23 (7.99%) Law
7 20 (6.94%) Public Sector
8 17 (5.90%) Financial Institution
8 17 (5.90%) Legal
9 15 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (3.47%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.47%) Military
11 9 (3.13%) Marketing
12 6 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.08%) Retail
13 4 (1.39%) Games
14 3 (1.04%) Front Office
14 3 (1.04%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 124 (43.06%) Data Engineer
2 99 (34.38%) Senior
3 39 (13.54%) Lead
4 35 (12.15%) Senior Data Engineer
5 27 (9.38%) Data Scientist
6 26 (9.03%) Analyst
7 24 (8.33%) Senior Data Scientist
7 24 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 23 (7.99%) Lead Data Engineer
8 23 (7.99%) Systems Engineer
8 23 (7.99%) Transformation Analyst
9 22 (7.64%) Banking Analyst
9 22 (7.64%) Python Engineer
10 17 (5.90%) Architect
11 13 (4.51%) Business Analyst
11 13 (4.51%) Data Architect
11 13 (4.51%) Developer
12 12 (4.17%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (3.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (43.40%) Kafka
2 72 (25.00%) PySpark
3 25 (8.68%) PyTorch
4 24 (8.33%) pgvector
4 24 (8.33%) scikit-learn
4 24 (8.33%) TensorFlow
5 23 (7.99%) LangChain
5 23 (7.99%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (7.99%) Pandas
6 19 (6.60%) REST
7 17 (5.90%) SpaCy
8 14 (4.86%) Node.js
9 10 (3.47%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (2.78%) Spring
10 8 (2.78%) Spring Boot
11 6 (2.08%) NumPy
11 6 (2.08%) RESTful
12 5 (1.74%) Flask
12 5 (1.74%) OAuth
12 5 (1.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.40%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.38%) Public Cloud
3 23 (7.99%) Clustering
4 19 (6.60%) Data Structures
5 17 (5.90%) e-Learning
6 16 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (4.86%) Onboarding
7 14 (4.86%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.82%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.43%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.74%) Anti-Piracy
11 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.74%) NHS
11 5 (1.74%) Social Media
12 3 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.04%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.17%) Linux
2 4 (1.39%) CentOS
2 4 (1.39%) Debian
2 4 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.39%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (64.93%) Analytics
2 182 (63.19%) Data Engineering
3 176 (61.11%) Data Pipeline
4 144 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 124 (43.06%) ETL
6 123 (42.71%) AI
7 119 (41.32%) Data Science
8 118 (40.97%) Data Modelling
9 116 (40.28%) Machine Learning
10 98 (34.03%) Agile
11 94 (32.64%) Data Governance
12 86 (29.86%) DevOps
13 64 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
13 64 (22.22%) Use Case
14 59 (20.49%) Mentoring
15 57 (19.79%) Validation
16 51 (17.71%) Generative AI
17 50 (17.36%) Performance Tuning
18 49 (17.01%) Infrastructure as Code
19 45 (15.63%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 247 (85.76%) Python
2 209 (72.57%) SQL
3 52 (18.06%) Scala
4 41 (14.24%) Java
5 7 (2.43%) C#
6 6 (2.08%) C
6 6 (2.08%) C++
6 6 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.08%) PHP
6 6 (2.08%) Ruby
7 5 (1.74%) VBA
8 4 (1.39%) Bicep
9 3 (1.04%) Bash
9 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.69%) R
10 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (21.18%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.36%) Degree
3 45 (15.63%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.99%) PhD
5 20 (6.94%) Master's Degree
6 17 (5.90%) Azure Certification
7 15 (5.21%) DV Cleared
8 14 (4.86%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.04%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.35%) CEH
13 1 (0.35%) CISM
13 1 (0.35%) CISSP
13 1 (0.35%) OCP
13 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (38.19%) Data Quality
2 42 (14.58%) GDPR
3 36 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.51%) HIPAA
5 11 (3.82%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.43%) QA
7 3 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.69%) IFRS
8 2 (0.69%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.69%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (18.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (15.28%) Terraform
2 41 (14.24%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.47%) Ansible
4 6 (2.08%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (1.39%) Grafana
5 4 (1.39%) Puppet
6 3 (1.04%) Kibana
6 3 (1.04%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.69%) Argo
8 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 100 (34.72%) Databricks
2 35 (12.15%) Oracle
3 30 (10.42%) Red Hat
4 25 (8.68%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.33%) Cloudera
5 24 (8.33%) Dell
6 8 (2.78%) Google
7 6 (2.08%) HP
7 6 (2.08%) IBM
7 6 (2.08%) Informatica
7 6 (2.08%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.08%) SAP
8 4 (1.39%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.04%) LexisNexis
9 3 (1.04%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.69%) Foundry
10 2 (0.69%) Palantir
11 1 (0.35%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.35%) Talend