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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 427 480
Rank change year-on-year -88 +53 -146
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 259 220 285
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.51% 0.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.22% 6.01% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 130 111 201
10th Percentile £52,475 £47,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -3.03%
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £110,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +8.47% -7.81% -1.23%

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 4,164 3,662 6,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.21% 8.44% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,013 2,650 4,116
10th Percentile £29,111 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £108,875 £123,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% -2.39% -1.35%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -37 160 £95,000 +11.76% 311
North of England -39 50 £55,000 -4.35% 36
South West -58 26 £55,000 +10.00% 22
North East -50 23 £55,000 +15.79% 8
North West -6 17 £55,000 -18.52% 25
Yorkshire -52 10 £80,000 +39.13% 3
East of England -30 6 £77,500 +8.39% 10
South East -61 6 £62,500 -7.41% 31
Midlands -51 4 £54,500 -14.84% 6
West Midlands -37 3 £60,653 +0.25% 2
East Midlands -39 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
1 111 (42.86%) Apache
2 56 (21.62%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (7.34%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.93%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.16%) SAS
6 2 (0.77%) Luigi
6 2 (0.77%) Tornado
7 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.39%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 151 (58.30%) AWS
2 139 (53.67%) Azure
3 80 (30.89%) GCP
4 44 (16.99%) Power Platform
5 41 (15.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 38 (14.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 37 (14.29%) Amazon S3
8 36 (13.90%) Serverless
9 27 (10.42%) Snowflake
10 23 (8.88%) Amazon EMR
10 23 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (7.72%) Amazon Kinesis
11 20 (7.72%) Azure Databricks
11 20 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (7.34%) dbt
13 17 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (5.79%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (5.02%) Amazon ECR
16 12 (4.63%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.32%) BGP
1 6 (2.32%) DNS
1 6 (2.32%) IPsec
1 6 (2.32%) VPN
2 5 (1.93%) AMQP
2 5 (1.93%) Internet
3 1 (0.39%) 4G
3 1 (0.39%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (35.52%) Big Data
2 63 (24.32%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (23.55%) Data Lake
4 55 (21.24%) Hadoop
5 49 (18.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 44 (16.99%) Elasticsearch
7 43 (16.60%) NoSQL
7 43 (16.60%) Power BI
8 33 (12.74%) Tableau
9 26 (10.04%) Metadata
10 24 (9.27%) Delta Lake
11 21 (8.11%) Relational Database
12 20 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (6.95%) BigQuery
14 16 (6.18%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (6.18%) Flink
14 16 (6.18%) Looker
14 16 (6.18%) Milvus
15 15 (5.79%) Snowflake Schema
16 14 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 34 (13.13%) Git
2 21 (8.11%) MLflow
3 17 (6.56%) GitLab
4 13 (5.02%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.77%) JIRA
5 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.39%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.39%) ERwin
6 1 (0.39%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 105 (40.54%) Finance
2 72 (27.80%) Social Skills
3 46 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (11.58%) Banking
5 21 (8.11%) Financial Institution
5 21 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.18%) Law
7 15 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.25%) Aerospace
9 10 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.86%) Military
10 9 (3.47%) Marketing
11 6 (2.32%) Legal
11 6 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.32%) Retail
12 4 (1.54%) Games
13 3 (1.16%) Front Office
14 2 (0.77%) Local Government
14 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 123 (47.49%) Data Engineer
2 89 (34.36%) Senior
3 43 (16.60%) Lead
4 34 (13.13%) Data Scientist
5 31 (11.97%) Senior Data Engineer
6 30 (11.58%) Senior Data Scientist
7 26 (10.04%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (9.27%) Databricks Engineer
9 21 (8.11%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 17 (6.56%) Architect
10 17 (6.56%) Python Engineer
11 15 (5.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 15 (5.79%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (5.02%) Data Architect
13 12 (4.63%) Developer
13 12 (4.63%) Software Engineer
14 10 (3.86%) Python Developer
15 9 (3.47%) Consultant
15 9 (3.47%) Python Data Engineer
16 8 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (41.70%) Kafka
2 51 (19.69%) PySpark
3 41 (15.83%) Terraform
4 21 (8.11%) SpaCy
5 17 (6.56%) PyTorch
5 17 (6.56%) scikit-learn
6 16 (6.18%) LangChain
6 16 (6.18%) pgvector
6 16 (6.18%) REST
6 16 (6.18%) TensorFlow
7 15 (5.79%) LlamaIndex
8 13 (5.02%) Node.js
9 10 (3.86%) Pandas
10 9 (3.47%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (3.09%) RESTful
12 6 (2.32%) gRPC
12 6 (2.32%) NumPy
12 6 (2.32%) React
12 6 (2.32%) Spring
12 6 (2.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.76%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.11%) e-Learning
3 19 (7.34%) Product Ownership
3 19 (7.34%) Public Cloud
4 17 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.79%) Clustering
6 14 (5.41%) Data Structures
6 14 (5.41%) Onboarding
7 11 (4.25%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.70%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.32%) NHS
10 5 (1.93%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.16%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.77%) Data Fabric
13 2 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.63%) Linux
2 5 (1.93%) CentOS
2 5 (1.93%) Debian
2 5 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (64.09%) Data Engineering
2 151 (58.30%) Analytics
3 142 (54.83%) Data Pipeline
4 128 (49.42%) CI/CD
5 116 (44.79%) Data Science
6 110 (42.47%) Machine Learning
7 109 (42.08%) Data Modelling
8 98 (37.84%) DevOps
9 89 (34.36%) AI
10 88 (33.98%) ETL
11 74 (28.57%) Agile
12 68 (26.25%) Lakehouse
13 64 (24.71%) Mentoring
14 58 (22.39%) Data Governance
14 58 (22.39%) Use Case
15 56 (21.62%) Business Intelligence
16 48 (18.53%) Infrastructure as Code
17 46 (17.76%) Data Ingestion
17 46 (17.76%) Generative AI
18 43 (16.60%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 217 (83.78%) Python
2 176 (67.95%) SQL
3 51 (19.69%) Scala
4 36 (13.90%) Java
5 8 (3.09%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.70%) C#
7 6 (2.32%) C
7 6 (2.32%) PHP
7 6 (2.32%) Ruby
8 5 (1.93%) VBA
9 4 (1.54%) Bash
10 3 (1.16%) Bicep
10 3 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.16%) R
11 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.77%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.39%) C++
12 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (26.64%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.85%) Degree
3 49 (18.92%) SC Cleared
4 28 (10.81%) PhD
5 25 (9.65%) Master's Degree
6 19 (7.34%) Azure Certification
7 16 (6.18%) DV Cleared
8 14 (5.41%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.39%) CEH
12 1 (0.39%) CISM
12 1 (0.39%) CISSP
12 1 (0.39%) OCP
12 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (33.59%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.88%) GDPR
3 17 (6.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (5.02%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.09%) QA
6 3 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.77%) IFRS
7 2 (0.77%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.77%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (20.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (15.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.47%) Ansible
3 6 (2.32%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.93%) Puppet
5 3 (1.16%) Kibana
6 2 (0.77%) Argo
7 1 (0.39%) Grafana
7 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 98 (37.84%) Databricks
2 30 (11.58%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.18%) Cloudera
4 15 (5.79%) Dell
5 10 (3.86%) Oracle
6 8 (3.09%) Google
7 7 (2.70%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.32%) HP
8 6 (2.32%) IBM
8 6 (2.32%) SAP
9 5 (1.93%) Informatica
9 5 (1.93%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.93%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.16%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.16%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.16%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.39%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.39%) Foundry
11 1 (0.39%) Splunk