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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 408 518
Rank change year-on-year -74 +110 -209
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 258 255 313
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.59% 0.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.64% 6.58% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 121 149 215
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,000 £48,100
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £105,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £116,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -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 3,884 3,878 7,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.41% 8.97% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,899 2,743 6,098
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,125
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.58% -11.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -12 166 £100,000 +8.11% 52
North of England -43 39 £57,500 - 13
South West -43 19 £70,000 +27.27% 5
North West +6 16 £55,000 - 5
East of England 0 15 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North East -45 14 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -40 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South East -54 7 £65,000 - 18
Midlands -48 3 £58,403 -13.48% 4
West Midlands -26 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
East Midlands -26 1 £50,000 -33.33% 3
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
1 114 (44.19%) Apache
2 97 (37.60%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (6.20%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.94%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.16%) SAS
6 2 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.39%) Camunda
7 1 (0.39%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (5.04%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 169 (65.50%) AWS
2 121 (46.90%) Azure
3 83 (32.17%) GCP
4 55 (21.32%) Amazon S3
5 46 (17.83%) Power Platform
6 44 (17.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 37 (14.34%) dbt
8 34 (13.18%) Snowflake
9 33 (12.79%) Serverless
10 30 (11.63%) OpenShift
11 29 (11.24%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (8.53%) Amazon EMR
12 22 (8.53%) Amazon Kinesis
13 19 (7.36%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
17 11 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
18 10 (3.88%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.71%) Broadband
2 6 (2.33%) BGP
2 6 (2.33%) DNS
2 6 (2.33%) IPsec
2 6 (2.33%) VPN
3 5 (1.94%) Internet
4 4 (1.55%) AMQP
5 2 (0.78%) 4G
5 2 (0.78%) 5G
6 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (31.40%) Big Data
2 62 (24.03%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (23.64%) Tableau
4 54 (20.93%) Data Lake
5 50 (19.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 50 (19.38%) Elasticsearch
6 45 (17.44%) Power BI
7 41 (15.89%) Hadoop
8 38 (14.73%) Apache Hive
9 36 (13.95%) NoSQL
10 33 (12.79%) Spark SQL
11 32 (12.40%) BigQuery
12 26 (10.08%) Parquet
13 25 (9.69%) Impala
13 25 (9.69%) Oracle Database
13 25 (9.69%) Snowflake Schema
14 24 (9.30%) Metadata
15 23 (8.91%) Looker
16 22 (8.53%) Relational Database
17 19 (7.36%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 46 (17.83%) Git
2 29 (11.24%) MLflow
3 25 (9.69%) IBM UrbanCode
4 16 (6.20%) GitLab
5 7 (2.71%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.78%) JIRA
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.39%) Deequ
7 1 (0.39%) JUnit
General
1 104 (40.31%) Finance
2 81 (31.40%) Social Skills
3 68 (26.36%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (16.67%) Banking
5 24 (9.30%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.75%) Law
7 16 (6.20%) Legal
7 16 (6.20%) Public Sector
8 14 (5.43%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.49%) Military
10 8 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.33%) Marketing
11 6 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.94%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.94%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.55%) Games
14 3 (1.16%) Front Office
14 3 (1.16%) Retail
15 2 (0.78%) Billing
Job Titles
1 100 (38.76%) Data Engineer
2 92 (35.66%) Senior
3 32 (12.40%) Lead
3 32 (12.40%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (10.08%) Analyst
5 24 (9.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (8.91%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (8.91%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (8.53%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (8.53%) Python Engineer
8 19 (7.36%) Data Scientist
8 19 (7.36%) Lead Data Engineer
9 18 (6.98%) Architect
10 16 (6.20%) Developer
10 16 (6.20%) Senior Data Scientist
11 13 (5.04%) Business Analyst
11 13 (5.04%) Python Developer
12 12 (4.65%) Data Architect
12 12 (4.65%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (4.65%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (45.35%) Kafka
2 69 (26.74%) PySpark
3 25 (9.69%) PyTorch
3 25 (9.69%) TensorFlow
4 24 (9.30%) LangChain
4 24 (9.30%) scikit-learn
5 23 (8.91%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.91%) pgvector
6 21 (8.14%) Pandas
7 19 (7.36%) REST
8 14 (5.43%) Node.js
8 14 (5.43%) SpaCy
9 11 (4.26%) Spring
9 11 (4.26%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.33%) NumPy
11 5 (1.94%) OAuth
11 5 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.94%) React
11 5 (1.94%) RESTful
12 4 (1.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (18.99%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.69%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.91%) Clustering
4 18 (6.98%) Data Structures
5 15 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (5.43%) e-Learning
6 14 (5.43%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.43%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.88%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (2.33%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.33%) Social Media
9 5 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.16%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.16%) NHS
11 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.43%) Linux
2 4 (1.55%) CentOS
2 4 (1.55%) Debian
2 4 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.55%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (63.95%) Analytics
2 159 (61.63%) Data Engineering
3 153 (59.30%) Data Pipeline
4 122 (47.29%) CI/CD
5 112 (43.41%) ETL
6 108 (41.86%) Data Modelling
7 106 (41.09%) AI
8 99 (38.37%) Data Science
9 96 (37.21%) Machine Learning
10 95 (36.82%) Data Governance
11 79 (30.62%) Agile
12 68 (26.36%) DevOps
13 60 (23.26%) Use Case
14 58 (22.48%) Business Intelligence
15 52 (20.16%) Mentoring
16 51 (19.77%) Validation
17 50 (19.38%) Performance Tuning
18 47 (18.22%) Generative AI
19 46 (17.83%) Computer Science
20 43 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 223 (86.43%) Python
2 195 (75.58%) SQL
3 46 (17.83%) Scala
4 37 (14.34%) Java
5 7 (2.71%) C#
5 7 (2.71%) C++
6 6 (2.33%) C
6 6 (2.33%) PHP
6 6 (2.33%) Ruby
7 5 (1.94%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.94%) VBA
8 4 (1.55%) Bash
8 4 (1.55%) Bicep
9 3 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.39%) R
11 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (17.05%) Degree
1 44 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.75%) PhD
4 17 (6.59%) Master's Degree
5 14 (5.43%) AWS Certification
6 13 (5.04%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.26%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.39%) CEH
9 1 (0.39%) CISM
9 1 (0.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (37.98%) Data Quality
2 38 (14.73%) GDPR
3 35 (13.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.65%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.10%) QA
6 5 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.78%) IFRS
7 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.78%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (15.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (15.12%) Terraform
2 33 (12.79%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.10%) Ansible
4 6 (2.33%) Grafana
4 6 (2.33%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.55%) Puppet
7 3 (1.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 86 (33.33%) Databricks
2 32 (12.40%) Oracle
3 30 (11.63%) Red Hat
4 24 (9.30%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.30%) Dell
5 20 (7.75%) Microsoft
6 8 (3.10%) Google
7 7 (2.71%) IBM
8 6 (2.33%) HP
8 6 (2.33%) Informatica
8 6 (2.33%) SAP
9 4 (1.55%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.16%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.78%) Foundry
11 2 (0.78%) Palantir
12 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.39%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.39%) Pega
12 1 (0.39%) Splunk
12 1 (0.39%) Talend