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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 437 362
Rank change year-on-year +11 -75 -95
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 194 269 337
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.52% 0.77%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.14% 5.60% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 98 193 223
10th Percentile £57,125 £47,750 £51,900
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% -3.03%
75th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £81,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.52% -3.13% -

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 3,162 4,804 5,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.19% 9.26% 11.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,324 2,996 4,065
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,125 £57,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,312 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.52% - -

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 15 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 15 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 +16 133 £97,500 +2.63% 32
North of England +36 32 £60,000 +20.00% 9
Yorkshire +2 22 £60,000 +21.77% 5
Midlands +33 11 £67,500 +12.50%
North West +14 7 £54,250 +3.33% 2
East Midlands +5 7 - -
South East +11 5 £65,000 +13.04% 17
West Midlands +25 4 £67,500 +3.85%
East of England +23 4 - - 5
South West -4 4 £55,000 -29.03% 5
North East +1 3 £90,000 +82.65% 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 46 (23.71%) Apache
2 36 (18.56%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.06%) Apache Synapse
4 3 (1.55%) Luigi
4 3 (1.55%) SAS
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.52%) Appian
5 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 12 (6.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 134 (69.07%) AWS
2 102 (52.58%) Azure
3 64 (32.99%) GCP
4 40 (20.62%) Amazon S3
5 33 (17.01%) Serverless
6 26 (13.40%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (12.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 22 (11.34%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (9.79%) Amazon EMR
9 19 (9.79%) Power Platform
10 18 (9.28%) Amazon ELB
10 18 (9.28%) Snowflake
11 16 (8.25%) Amazon Kinesis
12 14 (7.22%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (7.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (7.22%) dbt
13 9 (4.64%) GitHub
14 8 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (4.12%) OpenShift
15 7 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.06%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.03%) AMQP
3 1 (0.52%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (44.33%) Big Data
2 67 (34.54%) Data Warehouse
2 67 (34.54%) Hadoop
3 53 (27.32%) Amazon Redshift
4 39 (20.10%) NoSQL
5 36 (18.56%) Metadata
6 34 (17.53%) Data Lake
7 32 (16.49%) DynamoDB
8 29 (14.95%) Delta Lake
9 25 (12.89%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (10.82%) Spark SQL
11 20 (10.31%) MySQL
11 20 (10.31%) SQL Server
12 19 (9.79%) MongoDB
13 18 (9.28%) Power BI
14 15 (7.73%) Relational Database
15 14 (7.22%) Apache Hive
16 13 (6.70%) Apache Cassandra
17 12 (6.19%) RDBMS
18 11 (5.67%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 27 (13.92%) MLflow
2 12 (6.19%) Git
3 11 (5.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.55%) GitLab
5 2 (1.03%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) Deequ
6 1 (0.52%) Gradle
6 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) Snyk
General
1 109 (56.19%) Social Skills
2 58 (29.90%) Finance
3 50 (25.77%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (14.43%) Law
5 18 (9.28%) Financial Institution
6 11 (5.67%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.15%) Banking
8 5 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.58%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.06%) Front Office
10 3 (1.55%) Marketing
10 3 (1.55%) Retail
11 2 (1.03%) Advertising
11 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.03%) Electronics
11 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.03%) Legal
11 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (37.11%) Data Engineer
2 48 (24.74%) Senior
3 33 (17.01%) Senior Data Engineer
4 19 (9.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 18 (9.28%) Operations Engineer
6 17 (8.76%) Architect
6 17 (8.76%) Developer
7 15 (7.73%) Lead
7 15 (7.73%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (7.22%) AWS Data Engineer
8 14 (7.22%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (6.70%) Data Scientist
9 13 (6.70%) Python Developer
10 12 (6.19%) Product Lead
11 11 (5.67%) Data Architect
12 8 (4.12%) Senior Data Scientist
13 7 (3.61%) Software Engineer
14 4 (2.06%) Azure Engineer
14 4 (2.06%) Machine Learning Scientist
14 4 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (40.72%) Kafka
2 38 (19.59%) PySpark
3 36 (18.56%) PyTorch
3 36 (18.56%) TensorFlow
4 30 (15.46%) scikit-learn
5 29 (14.95%) Pandas
6 22 (11.34%) NumPy
7 18 (9.28%) Keras
7 18 (9.28%) Lambda Expressions
7 18 (9.28%) Metaflow
7 18 (9.28%) YAML
8 15 (7.73%) REST
9 10 (5.15%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (4.12%) boto
11 7 (3.61%) React
11 7 (3.61%) SpaCy
12 5 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (2.58%) OAuth
12 5 (2.58%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.58%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 45 (23.20%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (11.86%) Product Ownership
3 21 (10.82%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (9.79%) Cloud Native
5 17 (8.76%) e-Learning
6 13 (6.70%) FMCG
7 12 (6.19%) Algorithms
7 12 (6.19%) Management Information System
8 11 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (3.61%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (3.09%) Data Structures
12 5 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.55%) Equities
13 3 (1.55%) Virtual Team
14 2 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
14 2 (1.03%) Mainframe
14 2 (1.03%) Robotics
15 1 (0.52%) Data Fabric
15 1 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.89%) Unix
2 11 (5.67%) Linux
3 2 (1.03%) CentOS
3 2 (1.03%) Debian
3 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (52.58%) CI/CD
1 102 (52.58%) Data Pipeline
2 93 (47.94%) Data Engineering
2 93 (47.94%) Machine Learning
3 92 (47.42%) Analytics
4 84 (43.30%) Data Science
5 79 (40.72%) ETL
6 76 (39.18%) Data Modelling
7 65 (33.51%) DevOps
8 63 (32.47%) AI
9 54 (27.84%) Data Governance
10 46 (23.71%) Business Intelligence
10 46 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (23.71%) Software Engineering
11 41 (21.13%) Containerisation
12 40 (20.62%) MLOps
13 39 (20.10%) Mentoring
14 37 (19.07%) Agile
14 37 (19.07%) Computer Science
14 37 (19.07%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 164 (84.54%) Python
2 140 (72.16%) SQL
3 52 (26.80%) Java
4 33 (17.01%) Scala
5 7 (3.61%) R
6 6 (3.09%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.06%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.55%) C#
8 3 (1.55%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.03%) Bash
9 2 (1.03%) C++
9 2 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.52%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (19.59%) Degree
2 18 (9.28%) Master's Degree
3 17 (8.76%) PhD
4 13 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.67%) Security Cleared
6 9 (4.64%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.09%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.06%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.52%) MBA
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (24.23%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.25%) QA
3 10 (5.15%) GDPR
4 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 49 (25.26%) Docker
2 9 (4.64%) HDFS
3 5 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (24.74%) Kubernetes
2 38 (19.59%) Terraform
3 24 (12.37%) Kubeflow
4 13 (6.70%) Ansible
5 7 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.09%) Grafana
7 4 (2.06%) Puppet
8 3 (1.55%) Kibana
8 3 (1.55%) logstash
9 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 78 (40.21%) Databricks
2 21 (10.82%) Oracle
3 15 (7.73%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.73%) SAP
4 12 (6.19%) Informatica
5 11 (5.67%) Talend
6 7 (3.61%) Dell
6 7 (3.61%) Google
7 5 (2.58%) Palantir
8 3 (1.55%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.03%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.52%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.52%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.52%) IBM
10 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.52%) UiPath
10 1 (0.52%) VMware