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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 411 405
Rank change year-on-year -39 -6 -168
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 168 272 394
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.60% 0.60%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.54% 6.41% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 96 198 255
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +12.12% -
75th Percentile £133,750 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%

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 3,035 4,244 6,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.24% 9.42% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,169 2,492 5,549
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,656 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,749 £110,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -15 124 £95,000 -13.64% 53
North of England +5 26 £65,000 +23.81% 19
Yorkshire - 16 £65,000 - 4
North West +12 9 £75,000 +50.00% 10
South West -24 5 £70,000 -9.68% 15
East of England +21 4 - - 2
Midlands -1 2 - - 7
South East -15 2 £65,000 +13.04% 24
West Midlands +13 1 - - 5
North East -2 1 - - 5
East Midlands -19 1 - - 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 48 (28.57%) Apache
2 35 (20.83%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.79%) Luigi
4 2 (1.19%) SAS
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.60%) Camunda
5 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 4 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.60%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 110 (65.48%) AWS
2 84 (50.00%) Azure
3 65 (38.69%) GCP
4 36 (21.43%) Serverless
5 32 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (13.10%) Amazon S3
7 18 (10.71%) Amazon EMR
8 17 (10.12%) Power Platform
9 16 (9.52%) dbt
10 15 (8.93%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (8.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 14 (8.33%) Snowflake
12 12 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (6.55%) OpenShift
14 9 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (4.17%) GitHub
16 4 (2.38%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.98%) AMQP
2 4 (2.38%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.19%) Broadband
4 1 (0.60%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.60%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (48.21%) Big Data
2 61 (36.31%) Hadoop
3 60 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (22.62%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (19.05%) Data Lake
6 23 (13.69%) NoSQL
7 21 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (11.31%) MySQL
9 17 (10.12%) MongoDB
9 17 (10.12%) Power BI
9 17 (10.12%) Relational Database
10 16 (9.52%) SQL Server
11 14 (8.33%) Apache Hive
12 13 (7.74%) Tableau
13 12 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (7.14%) DynamoDB
14 11 (6.55%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (6.55%) Metadata
14 11 (6.55%) RDBMS
15 10 (5.95%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 14 (8.33%) Git
2 6 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.38%) GitLab
4 3 (1.79%) MLflow
5 2 (1.19%) Deequ
6 1 (0.60%) JUnit
General
1 78 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 63 (37.50%) Finance
3 40 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.52%) Financial Institution
5 15 (8.93%) Banking
5 15 (8.93%) Law
6 9 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.38%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.79%) Front Office
8 3 (1.79%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.19%) Advertising
9 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.19%) Legal
9 2 (1.19%) Marketing
9 2 (1.19%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Electronics
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 75 (44.64%) Data Engineer
2 45 (26.79%) Senior
3 29 (17.26%) Senior Data Engineer
4 22 (13.10%) Developer
5 18 (10.71%) AWS Data Engineer
5 18 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (10.12%) Python Developer
7 14 (8.33%) Architect
8 13 (7.74%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Data Scientist
9 11 (6.55%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.95%) Data Architect
11 8 (4.76%) Senior Data Scientist
12 7 (4.17%) Lead
13 5 (2.98%) Azure Data Engineer
13 5 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
14 4 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
14 4 (2.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 4 (2.38%) Machine Learning Scientist
14 4 (2.38%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (42.86%) Kafka
2 23 (13.69%) PySpark
3 22 (13.10%) REST
4 12 (7.14%) Pandas
4 12 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 12 (7.14%) TensorFlow
5 10 (5.95%) Spring
6 9 (5.36%) Spring Boot
7 8 (4.76%) boto
7 8 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (4.76%) Spark Streaming
8 7 (4.17%) NumPy
8 7 (4.17%) React
8 7 (4.17%) scikit-learn
8 7 (4.17%) SpaCy
9 6 (3.57%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.57%) Node.js
10 5 (2.98%) LDAP
10 5 (2.98%) OAuth
10 5 (2.98%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 42 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (13.10%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 15 (8.93%) e-Learning
5 13 (7.74%) Algorithms
6 11 (6.55%) Management Information System
7 10 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.98%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.98%) FMCG
10 3 (1.79%) Equities
10 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.79%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.93%) Linux
2 7 (4.17%) Unix
3 5 (2.98%) CentOS
3 5 (2.98%) Debian
3 5 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.98%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (56.55%) Data Pipeline
2 88 (52.38%) Data Engineering
3 83 (49.40%) Analytics
4 78 (46.43%) CI/CD
5 68 (40.48%) ETL
6 66 (39.29%) Data Modelling
7 62 (36.90%) Data Science
8 59 (35.12%) Machine Learning
9 51 (30.36%) Data Governance
9 51 (30.36%) DevOps
10 50 (29.76%) Software Engineering
11 44 (26.19%) AI
12 42 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (24.40%) Business Intelligence
13 41 (24.40%) Computer Science
14 39 (23.21%) Agile
15 35 (20.83%) Mentoring
16 30 (17.86%) Fintech
17 28 (16.67%) Observability
18 27 (16.07%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 149 (88.69%) Python
2 107 (63.69%) SQL
3 58 (34.52%) Java
4 32 (19.05%) Scala
5 9 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.17%) R
7 5 (2.98%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.79%) C#
8 3 (1.79%) C++
9 2 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.60%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.60%) Bash
10 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.60%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.60%) Ruby
10 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (20.83%) Degree
2 15 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.33%) PhD
4 13 (7.74%) Master's Degree
4 13 (7.74%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.60%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (29.76%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.36%) GDPR
2 9 (5.36%) QA
3 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (15.48%) Docker
2 9 (5.36%) HDFS
3 5 (2.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (17.26%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.90%) Terraform
3 14 (8.33%) Ansible
4 8 (4.76%) Grafana
4 8 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.17%) Puppet
6 3 (1.79%) Kibana
6 3 (1.79%) logstash
7 2 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.60%) Argo
Vendors
1 45 (26.79%) Databricks
2 17 (10.12%) Oracle
3 11 (6.55%) Google
3 11 (6.55%) Informatica
4 10 (5.95%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.95%) Talend
5 7 (4.17%) Dell
5 7 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.57%) SAP
7 5 (2.98%) SaltStack
8 4 (2.38%) Palantir
9 2 (1.19%) IBM
10 1 (0.60%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.60%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.60%) Pega
10 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.60%) UiPath