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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 388 478
Rank change year-on-year -105 +90 -247
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 205 257 380
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.65% 0.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.18% 6.97% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 96 186 271
10th Percentile £54,375 £50,625 £50,172
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £130,625 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -8.57%

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 3,315 3,688 8,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.04% 9.37% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,457 2,599 6,552
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,903 £110,000 £96,125
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.18%

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 May 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 May 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 -49 138 £100,000 -9.09% 45
North of England -28 23 £80,000 +39.13% 29
East of England -2 18 £75,000 -7.69%
South West -39 17 £80,000 +60.00% 10
Yorkshire -48 11 £80,000 +39.13% 2
North West 0 8 £85,000 +54.55% 10
North East -36 4 £57,500 -14.81% 17
South East -51 4 £57,500 -11.54% 6
East Midlands -36 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -41 1 £50,000 -25.93% 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 91 (44.39%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (39.51%) Apache
3 5 (2.44%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.49%) Camunda
4 1 (0.49%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.49%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.34%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.49%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 133 (64.88%) AWS
2 99 (48.29%) Azure
3 81 (39.51%) GCP
4 47 (22.93%) Power Platform
5 45 (21.95%) Amazon S3
6 44 (21.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (19.51%) dbt
8 38 (18.54%) Snowflake
9 31 (15.12%) OpenShift
10 25 (12.20%) Serverless
11 21 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (10.24%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (5.85%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (3.90%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (3.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (3.41%) GitHub
15 7 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.41%) Broadband
2 5 (2.44%) AMQP
3 2 (0.98%) 4G
3 2 (0.98%) 5G
4 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.49%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (33.66%) Big Data
2 64 (31.22%) Tableau
3 59 (28.78%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (22.44%) Power BI
5 45 (21.95%) Data Lake
6 44 (21.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (17.56%) BigQuery
7 36 (17.56%) Elasticsearch
8 32 (15.61%) Hadoop
9 31 (15.12%) Spark SQL
10 28 (13.66%) Snowflake Schema
11 27 (13.17%) Apache Hive
12 25 (12.20%) Impala
12 25 (12.20%) Oracle Database
12 25 (12.20%) Parquet
13 24 (11.71%) Looker
14 22 (10.73%) Relational Database
15 18 (8.78%) MySQL
15 18 (8.78%) NoSQL
16 14 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (20.49%) Git
2 28 (13.66%) MLflow
3 25 (12.20%) IBM UrbanCode
4 6 (2.93%) GitLab
5 5 (2.44%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.98%) JIRA
7 1 (0.49%) Deequ
7 1 (0.49%) JUnit
7 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 85 (41.46%) Finance
2 71 (34.63%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (30.73%) Social Skills
4 36 (17.56%) Banking
5 24 (11.71%) Investment Banking
6 16 (7.80%) Legal
7 15 (7.32%) Law
8 7 (3.41%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.93%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.95%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.98%) Advertising
12 2 (0.98%) Billing
12 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Front Office
13 1 (0.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 64 (31.22%) Senior
2 63 (30.73%) Data Engineer
3 26 (12.68%) Analyst
4 24 (11.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.22%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.22%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.73%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (10.73%) Developer
7 21 (10.24%) Senior Data Engineer
8 20 (9.76%) Python Engineer
9 18 (8.78%) Architect
9 18 (8.78%) Lead
10 17 (8.29%) Python Developer
11 13 (6.34%) Business Analyst
11 13 (6.34%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.85%) Data Architect
12 12 (5.85%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.85%) Lead Data Engineer
12 12 (5.85%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (45.37%) Kafka
2 51 (24.88%) PySpark
3 30 (14.63%) PyTorch
3 30 (14.63%) TensorFlow
4 26 (12.68%) scikit-learn
5 25 (12.20%) REST
6 24 (11.71%) LangChain
7 23 (11.22%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (11.22%) pgvector
8 21 (10.24%) Pandas
9 11 (5.37%) Spring
9 11 (5.37%) Spring Boot
10 9 (4.39%) Node.js
11 7 (3.41%) NumPy
12 6 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.93%) React
12 6 (2.93%) SpaCy
13 5 (2.44%) Material-UI
13 5 (2.44%) OpenAPI
13 5 (2.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.71%) Public Cloud
3 23 (11.22%) Clustering
4 16 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.37%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.88%) Algorithms
7 9 (4.39%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (3.90%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.93%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.93%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.93%) e-Learning
9 6 (2.93%) Social Media
10 5 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.44%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.46%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.98%) Replication
12 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.90%) Linux
2 5 (2.44%) CentOS
2 5 (2.44%) Debian
2 5 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.44%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (62.93%) Analytics
2 128 (62.44%) Data Pipeline
3 119 (58.05%) Data Engineering
4 109 (53.17%) ETL
5 92 (44.88%) AI
6 88 (42.93%) CI/CD
6 88 (42.93%) Data Governance
7 81 (39.51%) Data Modelling
8 74 (36.10%) Data Science
8 74 (36.10%) Machine Learning
9 67 (32.68%) Agile
10 55 (26.83%) Business Intelligence
11 48 (23.41%) Software Engineering
12 44 (21.46%) Performance Tuning
13 43 (20.98%) Use Case
14 42 (20.49%) Computer Science
15 40 (19.51%) DevOps
16 39 (19.02%) Generative AI
17 35 (17.07%) Scrum
18 33 (16.10%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 189 (92.20%) Python
2 155 (75.61%) SQL
3 37 (18.05%) Java
4 31 (15.12%) Scala
5 7 (3.41%) C++
6 5 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.95%) Bicep
8 3 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.46%) R
8 3 (1.46%) VBA
9 2 (0.98%) Bash
9 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.49%) C#
10 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (13.17%) Degree
2 21 (10.24%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (6.34%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.37%) PhD
6 10 (4.88%) Master's Degree
7 9 (4.39%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.90%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.93%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.49%) CEH
12 1 (0.49%) CISM
12 1 (0.49%) CISSP
12 1 (0.49%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 38 (18.54%) GDPR
3 35 (17.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.85%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.98%) IFRS
6 2 (0.98%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.98%) QA
6 2 (0.98%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (11.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (14.15%) Terraform
2 27 (13.17%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.39%) Ansible
4 6 (2.93%) Grafana
5 5 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.44%) Puppet
6 1 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 64 (31.22%) Databricks
2 32 (15.61%) Oracle
3 31 (15.12%) Red Hat
4 24 (11.71%) Cloudera
4 24 (11.71%) Dell
5 10 (4.88%) Google
6 9 (4.39%) Microsoft
7 6 (2.93%) Informatica
8 5 (2.44%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.44%) Talend
9 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.46%) Palantir
10 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.49%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.49%) Confluent
10 1 (0.49%) Foundry
10 1 (0.49%) IBM
10 1 (0.49%) Pega
10 1 (0.49%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.49%) Splunk