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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 477 369
Rank change year-on-year +64 -108 -100
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 203 264 342
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.46% 0.76%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.23% 5.23% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 100 191 238
10th Percentile £54,525 £48,750 £53,375
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £118,125 £110,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £81,000 £77,500 £79,816
% change year-on-year +4.52% -2.90% -0.23%

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 3,260 5,051 5,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.87% 8.88% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,392 3,131 4,125
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £116,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,811 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.93% +1.47% -

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 +38 140 £95,000 - 50
North of England +33 34 £60,000 +20.00% 14
Yorkshire +19 22 £60,000 +21.77% 8
Midlands +58 12 £55,000 -8.33% 2
North West +27 7 £54,250 +3.33% 3
East Midlands +22 7 - - 1
West Midlands +43 5 £55,000 -15.38% 1
South East +29 5 £65,000 +13.04% 36
North East +16 5 £47,500 -3.60% 3
East of England +38 4 - - 2
South West 0 4 £55,000 -29.03% 2
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 49 (24.14%) Apache
2 42 (20.69%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.46%) Apache Synapse
3 5 (2.46%) SAS
4 3 (1.48%) Luigi
5 2 (0.99%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.49%) Appian
6 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 13 (6.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 142 (69.95%) AWS
2 109 (53.69%) Azure
3 72 (35.47%) GCP
4 39 (19.21%) Amazon S3
5 32 (15.76%) Serverless
6 26 (12.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 25 (12.32%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (11.82%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (9.85%) Power Platform
10 19 (9.36%) Amazon EMR
10 19 (9.36%) Snowflake
11 18 (8.87%) Amazon ELB
12 17 (8.37%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (6.90%) dbt
14 11 (5.42%) GitHub
15 8 (3.94%) OpenShift
16 7 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.97%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.99%) AMQP
2 2 (0.99%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.49%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (44.83%) Big Data
2 67 (33.00%) Data Warehouse
2 67 (33.00%) Hadoop
3 55 (27.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 43 (21.18%) NoSQL
5 39 (19.21%) Metadata
6 35 (17.24%) Data Lake
7 31 (15.27%) DynamoDB
8 29 (14.29%) Delta Lake
9 26 (12.81%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (12.32%) Spark SQL
11 21 (10.34%) SQL Server
12 20 (9.85%) MySQL
13 19 (9.36%) Power BI
14 18 (8.87%) MongoDB
15 16 (7.88%) Apache Hive
15 16 (7.88%) Relational Database
16 15 (7.39%) BigQuery
17 12 (5.91%) Apache Cassandra
17 12 (5.91%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 28 (13.79%) MLflow
2 14 (6.90%) Git
3 11 (5.42%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.48%) GitLab
5 2 (0.99%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.99%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.49%) Deequ
6 1 (0.49%) Gradle
6 1 (0.49%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.49%) Selenium
6 1 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 111 (54.68%) Social Skills
2 63 (31.03%) Finance
3 52 (25.62%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (17.73%) Law
5 18 (8.87%) Financial Institution
6 16 (7.88%) Banking
7 13 (6.40%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.45%) Marketing
10 5 (2.46%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.46%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.97%) Front Office
11 4 (1.97%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.48%) Retail
13 2 (0.99%) Advertising
13 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.99%) Electronics
13 2 (0.99%) Legal
13 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 76 (37.44%) Data Engineer
2 47 (23.15%) Senior
3 32 (15.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 21 (10.34%) Lead
5 20 (9.85%) Architect
6 19 (9.36%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 18 (8.87%) Operations Engineer
8 16 (7.88%) Developer
9 15 (7.39%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (6.40%) AWS Data Engineer
11 13 (6.40%) Data Architect
11 13 (6.40%) Data Scientist
11 13 (6.40%) Product Lead
11 13 (6.40%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.91%) Python Developer
13 8 (3.94%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.94%) Senior Data Scientist
14 5 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
15 4 (1.97%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (41.87%) Kafka
2 39 (19.21%) PySpark
3 36 (17.73%) PyTorch
3 36 (17.73%) TensorFlow
4 32 (15.76%) scikit-learn
5 29 (14.29%) Pandas
6 22 (10.84%) NumPy
7 18 (8.87%) Keras
7 18 (8.87%) Lambda Expressions
7 18 (8.87%) Metaflow
7 18 (8.87%) YAML
8 14 (6.90%) REST
9 12 (5.91%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (3.94%) boto
11 7 (3.45%) React
11 7 (3.45%) SpaCy
12 6 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.46%) LDAP
13 5 (2.46%) OAuth
13 5 (2.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 49 (24.14%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (11.33%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.33%) Product Ownership
3 21 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (8.37%) e-Learning
5 14 (6.90%) FMCG
6 13 (6.40%) Algorithms
7 11 (5.42%) Data Structures
7 11 (5.42%) Management Information System
8 10 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (3.94%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.48%) Equities
12 3 (1.48%) Robotics
12 3 (1.48%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.99%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.99%) Mobile Banking
13 2 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.30%) Unix
2 11 (5.42%) Linux
3 2 (0.99%) CentOS
3 2 (0.99%) Debian
3 2 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.99%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (52.22%) Data Pipeline
2 104 (51.23%) CI/CD
3 99 (48.77%) Machine Learning
4 96 (47.29%) Data Engineering
5 91 (44.83%) Analytics
6 88 (43.35%) Data Science
7 83 (40.89%) ETL
8 79 (38.92%) Data Modelling
9 69 (33.99%) DevOps
10 68 (33.50%) AI
11 54 (26.60%) Software Engineering
12 53 (26.11%) Data Governance
13 52 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (23.15%) Business Intelligence
15 46 (22.66%) Containerisation
16 44 (21.67%) MLOps
17 42 (20.69%) Mentoring
18 41 (20.20%) Visualisation
19 38 (18.72%) Agile
20 36 (17.73%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 172 (84.73%) Python
2 147 (72.41%) SQL
3 57 (28.08%) Java
4 32 (15.76%) Scala
5 9 (4.43%) R
6 6 (2.96%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.97%) Bash
7 4 (1.97%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.48%) C#
8 3 (1.48%) C++
8 3 (1.48%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.48%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.99%) PROC SQL
10 1 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.49%) C
10 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (18.23%) Degree
2 20 (9.85%) Master's Degree
3 17 (8.37%) PhD
4 12 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.93%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.94%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.46%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.97%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.49%) MBA
11 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (25.12%) Data Quality
2 19 (9.36%) QA
3 10 (4.93%) GDPR
4 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (27.09%) Docker
2 11 (5.42%) HDFS
3 5 (2.46%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 41 (20.20%) Terraform
3 25 (12.32%) Kubeflow
4 13 (6.40%) Ansible
5 7 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.96%) Grafana
7 5 (2.46%) Kibana
7 5 (2.46%) logstash
8 4 (1.97%) Puppet
9 2 (0.99%) Oozie
9 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 83 (40.89%) Databricks
2 20 (9.85%) Oracle
3 18 (8.87%) SAP
4 15 (7.39%) Microsoft
5 13 (6.40%) Informatica
6 10 (4.93%) Talend
7 7 (3.45%) Dell
7 7 (3.45%) Google
8 5 (2.46%) Palantir
9 3 (1.48%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.99%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.99%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.49%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.49%) Black Duck
11 1 (0.49%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.49%) IBM
11 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.49%) UiPath
11 1 (0.49%) VMware