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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 431 487
Rank change year-on-year -85 +56 -157
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 264 219 280
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.51% 0.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.17% 6.10% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 130 110 197
10th Percentile £52,150 £46,975 £49,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £111,875 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £135,025 £115,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -

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 4,279 3,589 6,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.18% 8.31% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,020 2,588 3,784
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £130,446
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% -2.39% -2.70%

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 19 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 19 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 -49 161 £95,000 +5.56% 355
North of England -48 51 £55,000 -8.33% 42
South West -52 27 £58,000 +5.45% 28
North East -49 24 £55,000 +15.79% 11
North West -7 18 £55,000 -31.25% 24
Yorkshire -51 9 £80,000 +33.33% 7
South East -58 9 £61,005 -9.62% 25
Midlands -59 5 £54,500 -14.84% 15
East of England -27 4 £80,000 +11.89% 11
West Midlands -48 4 £60,653 +0.25% 10
East Midlands -45 1 £50,000 -33.33% 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
1 112 (42.42%) Apache
2 48 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (7.58%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.89%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.76%) Luigi
6 2 (0.76%) Tornado
7 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.38%) Confluence
7 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 150 (56.82%) AWS
2 146 (55.30%) Azure
3 80 (30.30%) GCP
4 42 (15.91%) Azure Data Factory
5 40 (15.15%) Power Platform
6 38 (14.39%) Serverless
7 35 (13.26%) Amazon S3
7 35 (13.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 26 (9.85%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (9.47%) Snowflake
10 24 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
10 24 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (8.33%) Azure Databricks
12 20 (7.58%) Amazon Kinesis
13 17 (6.44%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (5.68%) dbt
16 13 (4.92%) Amazon ECR
16 13 (4.92%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.65%) AMQP
2 6 (2.27%) BGP
2 6 (2.27%) DNS
2 6 (2.27%) IPsec
2 6 (2.27%) VPN
3 5 (1.89%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) 4G
4 1 (0.38%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (36.36%) Big Data
2 61 (23.11%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (21.97%) Data Lake
3 58 (21.97%) Hadoop
4 46 (17.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 44 (16.67%) NoSQL
6 39 (14.77%) Power BI
7 36 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
8 32 (12.12%) Tableau
9 28 (10.61%) Metadata
10 25 (9.47%) Delta Lake
11 21 (7.95%) Relational Database
12 18 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
13 17 (6.44%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (6.44%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (6.06%) Flink
15 13 (4.92%) BigQuery
16 12 (4.55%) Apache Hive
16 12 (4.55%) DynamoDB
16 12 (4.55%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 39 (14.77%) Git
2 17 (6.44%) GitLab
2 17 (6.44%) MLflow
3 15 (5.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.76%) JIRA
4 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.38%) ERwin
5 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 108 (40.91%) Finance
2 74 (28.03%) Social Skills
3 47 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.74%) Banking
5 23 (8.71%) Financial Institution
5 23 (8.71%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.06%) Law
7 15 (5.68%) Aerospace
7 15 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.79%) Military
9 9 (3.41%) Marketing
10 6 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.27%) Retail
11 5 (1.89%) Legal
12 4 (1.52%) Front Office
13 3 (1.14%) Games
14 2 (0.76%) Aviation
14 2 (0.76%) Local Government
14 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 127 (48.11%) Data Engineer
2 89 (33.71%) Senior
3 42 (15.91%) Lead
4 37 (14.02%) Data Scientist
5 34 (12.88%) Senior Data Engineer
6 32 (12.12%) Senior Data Scientist
7 24 (9.09%) Databricks Engineer
7 24 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
8 21 (7.95%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 16 (6.06%) Architect
10 15 (5.68%) Python Engineer
11 14 (5.30%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.92%) Data Architect
13 10 (3.79%) Developer
13 10 (3.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 10 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
14 9 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (3.41%) Consultant
15 8 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
15 8 (3.03%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (38.26%) Kafka
2 55 (20.83%) PySpark
3 43 (16.29%) Terraform
4 23 (8.71%) SpaCy
5 15 (5.68%) REST
6 14 (5.30%) Node.js
6 14 (5.30%) PyTorch
6 14 (5.30%) scikit-learn
7 13 (4.92%) TensorFlow
8 11 (4.17%) LangChain
8 11 (4.17%) Pandas
8 11 (4.17%) pgvector
9 10 (3.79%) gRPC
9 10 (3.79%) LlamaIndex
10 9 (3.41%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (3.03%) React
11 8 (3.03%) RESTful
11 8 (3.03%) Spring
11 8 (3.03%) Spring Boot
12 7 (2.65%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.71%) e-Learning
3 22 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 17 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.68%) Data Structures
5 15 (5.68%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.30%) Public Cloud
7 11 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (3.79%) Clustering
9 9 (3.41%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.65%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (2.27%) NHS
12 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.52%) AI Agents
14 3 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
15 2 (0.76%) Blog
15 2 (0.76%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.30%) Linux
2 7 (2.65%) CentOS
2 7 (2.65%) Debian
2 7 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 151 (57.20%) Analytics
3 141 (53.41%) Data Pipeline
4 134 (50.76%) CI/CD
5 119 (45.08%) Data Science
6 111 (42.05%) Machine Learning
7 108 (40.91%) Data Modelling
8 103 (39.02%) DevOps
9 89 (33.71%) AI
10 87 (32.95%) ETL
11 79 (29.92%) Agile
12 72 (27.27%) Mentoring
13 63 (23.86%) Lakehouse
14 53 (20.08%) Data Governance
15 52 (19.70%) Business Intelligence
16 51 (19.32%) Infrastructure as Code
16 51 (19.32%) Use Case
17 47 (17.80%) Validation
18 46 (17.42%) Generative AI
18 46 (17.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 221 (83.71%) Python
2 177 (67.05%) SQL
3 55 (20.83%) Scala
4 38 (14.39%) Java
5 12 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.03%) C#
7 7 (2.65%) R
8 6 (2.27%) C
8 6 (2.27%) PHP
8 6 (2.27%) Ruby
9 5 (1.89%) Bash
9 5 (1.89%) VBA
10 3 (1.14%) Bicep
10 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.14%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.76%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (29.92%) Security Cleared
2 59 (22.35%) SC Cleared
3 57 (21.59%) Degree
4 32 (12.12%) PhD
5 28 (10.61%) Master's Degree
6 21 (7.95%) Azure Certification
7 18 (6.82%) DV Cleared
8 15 (5.68%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.14%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.38%) CEH
13 1 (0.38%) CISM
13 1 (0.38%) CISSP
13 1 (0.38%) OCP
13 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (34.47%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.44%) GDPR
3 13 (4.92%) Accessibility
4 11 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (3.03%) QA
6 5 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.76%) IFRS
7 2 (0.76%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.76%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (20.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.79%) Ansible
3 7 (2.65%) Puppet
4 6 (2.27%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (1.14%) Kibana
6 2 (0.76%) Argo
7 1 (0.38%) Control-M
7 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 102 (38.64%) Databricks
2 31 (11.74%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.17%) Cloudera
4 10 (3.79%) Dell
4 10 (3.79%) Google
5 9 (3.41%) Oracle
6 8 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.65%) SaltStack
8 6 (2.27%) HP
8 6 (2.27%) IBM
8 6 (2.27%) SAP
9 5 (1.89%) Informatica
10 4 (1.52%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.14%) LexisNexis
11 3 (1.14%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (1.14%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.76%) Thales
13 1 (0.38%) Confluent
13 1 (0.38%) Mapbox
13 1 (0.38%) Sparx