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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 410 522
Rank change year-on-year -57 +112 -235
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 236 249 347
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.62% 0.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.40% 6.65% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 117 163 244
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,200 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -8.57%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% -7.25%

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 3,685 3,743 8,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.36% 9.30% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,742 2,642 6,552
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,579
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,051 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -37 151 £100,000 +2.04% 47
North of England -25 36 £57,500 +2.22% 18
South West -43 20 £70,000 +27.27% 11
East of England -3 16 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North West +7 14 £55,000 - 9
North East -34 13 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -41 9 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -67 4 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Midlands -34 2 £50,000 -21.88% 5
West Midlands -21 1 - - 4
East Midlands -33 1 £50,000 -33.33% 1
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 (47.46%) Apache
2 100 (42.37%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (6.36%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.27%) SAS
5 2 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.42%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.42%) Camunda
6 1 (0.42%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (5.51%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 155 (65.68%) AWS
2 112 (47.46%) Azure
3 85 (36.02%) GCP
4 55 (23.31%) Amazon S3
5 48 (20.34%) Power Platform
6 43 (18.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (16.10%) dbt
8 34 (14.41%) Snowflake
9 31 (13.14%) OpenShift
10 28 (11.86%) Serverless
11 26 (11.02%) Azure Data Factory
12 23 (9.75%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (6.78%) Amazon EMR
14 13 (5.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (5.51%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (4.66%) Microsoft Purview
16 9 (3.81%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (3.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.97%) Broadband
2 5 (2.12%) AMQP
3 2 (0.85%) 4G
3 2 (0.85%) 5G
3 2 (0.85%) BGP
3 2 (0.85%) DNS
3 2 (0.85%) IPsec
3 2 (0.85%) VPN
4 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (30.93%) Big Data
2 64 (27.12%) Tableau
3 62 (26.27%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (22.88%) Data Lake
5 50 (21.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (19.92%) Power BI
7 45 (19.07%) Elasticsearch
8 33 (13.98%) BigQuery
8 33 (13.98%) Spark SQL
9 32 (13.56%) Hadoop
10 29 (12.29%) Apache Hive
11 26 (11.02%) NoSQL
11 26 (11.02%) Parquet
11 26 (11.02%) Snowflake Schema
12 25 (10.59%) Impala
12 25 (10.59%) Oracle Database
13 23 (9.75%) Looker
14 22 (9.32%) Relational Database
15 21 (8.90%) Metadata
16 17 (7.20%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 46 (19.49%) Git
2 29 (12.29%) MLflow
3 25 (10.59%) IBM UrbanCode
4 15 (6.36%) GitLab
5 7 (2.97%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.85%) JIRA
6 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.42%) Deequ
7 1 (0.42%) JUnit
General
1 95 (40.25%) Finance
2 77 (32.63%) Social Skills
3 68 (28.81%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (17.80%) Banking
5 24 (10.17%) Investment Banking
6 19 (8.05%) Law
7 16 (6.78%) Legal
8 11 (4.66%) Financial Institution
9 10 (4.24%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.12%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.69%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.69%) Military
13 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.27%) Games
14 2 (0.85%) Billing
14 2 (0.85%) Front Office
14 2 (0.85%) Marketing
14 2 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 90 (38.14%) Data Engineer
2 83 (35.17%) Senior
3 30 (12.71%) Lead
4 28 (11.86%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (11.02%) Analyst
6 24 (10.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (9.75%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (9.75%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (9.32%) Banking Analyst
8 22 (9.32%) Python Engineer
9 19 (8.05%) Architect
10 17 (7.20%) Developer
10 17 (7.20%) Lead Data Engineer
11 16 (6.78%) Data Scientist
12 13 (5.51%) Business Analyst
12 13 (5.51%) Data Architect
12 13 (5.51%) Python Developer
12 13 (5.51%) Senior Data Scientist
13 12 (5.08%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (5.08%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (42.37%) Kafka
2 64 (27.12%) PySpark
3 26 (11.02%) PyTorch
3 26 (11.02%) TensorFlow
4 25 (10.59%) scikit-learn
5 24 (10.17%) LangChain
6 23 (9.75%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.75%) pgvector
7 21 (8.90%) Pandas
8 20 (8.47%) REST
9 12 (5.08%) Spring
9 12 (5.08%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.66%) Node.js
10 11 (4.66%) SpaCy
11 7 (2.97%) NumPy
12 6 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.54%) React
13 5 (2.12%) AngularJS
13 5 (2.12%) gRPC
13 5 (2.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.76%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.59%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.75%) Clustering
4 17 (7.20%) Data Structures
5 13 (5.51%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.66%) e-Learning
7 10 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (3.81%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.97%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.54%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (2.54%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.54%) Social Media
11 5 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.27%) Data Fabric
13 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.27%) NHS
14 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
14 2 (0.85%) Replication
14 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.24%) Linux
2 5 (2.12%) CentOS
2 5 (2.12%) Debian
2 5 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.12%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (63.14%) Analytics
2 148 (62.71%) Data Engineering
3 146 (61.86%) Data Pipeline
4 110 (46.61%) CI/CD
5 109 (46.19%) ETL
6 102 (43.22%) Data Modelling
7 94 (39.83%) Data Governance
8 92 (38.98%) AI
9 89 (37.71%) Data Science
10 80 (33.90%) Machine Learning
11 77 (32.63%) Agile
12 59 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
13 58 (24.58%) DevOps
14 56 (23.73%) Use Case
15 51 (21.61%) Performance Tuning
16 48 (20.34%) Validation
17 42 (17.80%) Software Engineering
18 39 (16.53%) Data Transformation
19 38 (16.10%) Generative AI
20 37 (15.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 208 (88.14%) Python
2 176 (74.58%) SQL
3 44 (18.64%) Scala
4 34 (14.41%) Java
5 7 (2.97%) C++
6 6 (2.54%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.12%) VBA
8 4 (1.69%) Bash
8 4 (1.69%) Bicep
9 3 (1.27%) C#
9 3 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.85%) C
10 2 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.85%) PHP
10 2 (0.85%) R
10 2 (0.85%) Ruby
10 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (15.68%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.71%) Degree
3 27 (11.44%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.93%) Master's Degree
5 12 (5.08%) PhD
6 11 (4.66%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.66%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.81%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.85%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.42%) CEH
11 1 (0.42%) CISM
11 1 (0.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (41.95%) Data Quality
2 37 (15.68%) GDPR
3 35 (14.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.08%) HIPAA
5 7 (2.97%) QA
6 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.85%) IFRS
7 2 (0.85%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.85%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (15.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (16.95%) Terraform
2 33 (13.98%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.81%) Ansible
4 6 (2.54%) Grafana
5 5 (2.12%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.12%) Puppet
6 3 (1.27%) Kibana
7 2 (0.85%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 79 (33.47%) Databricks
2 31 (13.14%) Red Hat
3 28 (11.86%) Oracle
4 24 (10.17%) Cloudera
4 24 (10.17%) Dell
5 13 (5.51%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.24%) Google
7 5 (2.12%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.27%) IBM
8 3 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.85%) Foundry
9 2 (0.85%) HP
9 2 (0.85%) Informatica
9 2 (0.85%) Palantir
9 2 (0.85%) SAP
10 1 (0.42%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.42%) Confluent
10 1 (0.42%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.42%) UiPath