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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 431 508
Rank change year-on-year -43 +77 -181
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 284 236 283
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.54% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.04% 5.99% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 129 133 190
10th Percentile £52,250 £47,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £60,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £122,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 4,036 3,938 6,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.36% 9.04% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,964 2,797 4,848
10th Percentile £29,128 £29,400 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -4.81%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -18 178 £95,000 +5.56% 164
North of England -25 46 £55,000 -4.35% 24
South West -38 25 £67,500 +22.73% 10
North East -39 20 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West +7 16 £55,000 -10.20% 7
East of England -14 15 £75,000 +4.90% 3
Yorkshire -41 10 £80,000 +39.13% 7
South East -56 8 £62,500 -3.85% 19
Midlands -49 3 £58,403 -13.48% 13
West Midlands -36 2 £66,805 +10.42% 8
East Midlands -34 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
1 124 (43.66%) Apache
2 100 (35.21%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (6.34%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.76%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.06%) SAS
6 2 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.35%) Luigi
7 1 (0.35%) Tornado
Applications
1 13 (4.58%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 180 (63.38%) AWS
2 133 (46.83%) Azure
3 88 (30.99%) GCP
4 58 (20.42%) Amazon S3
5 50 (17.61%) Power Platform
6 46 (16.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (13.73%) dbt
7 39 (13.73%) Snowflake
8 34 (11.97%) Serverless
9 33 (11.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (10.56%) OpenShift
11 23 (8.10%) Amazon EMR
12 21 (7.39%) Amazon Kinesis
13 20 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (4.58%) Cloud Computing
18 12 (4.23%) Amazon ECR
18 12 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.11%) BGP
1 6 (2.11%) Broadband
1 6 (2.11%) DNS
1 6 (2.11%) IPsec
1 6 (2.11%) VPN
2 5 (1.76%) Internet
3 4 (1.41%) AMQP
4 2 (0.70%) 4G
4 2 (0.70%) 5G
5 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (31.34%) Big Data
2 67 (23.59%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (21.48%) Data Lake
3 61 (21.48%) Tableau
4 54 (19.01%) Amazon Redshift
5 53 (18.66%) Elasticsearch
6 50 (17.61%) Hadoop
7 49 (17.25%) Power BI
8 41 (14.44%) NoSQL
9 38 (13.38%) Apache Hive
10 34 (11.97%) Spark SQL
11 33 (11.62%) BigQuery
12 27 (9.51%) Metadata
12 27 (9.51%) Relational Database
13 26 (9.15%) Parquet
14 25 (8.80%) Impala
14 25 (8.80%) Oracle Database
15 24 (8.45%) Snowflake Schema
16 23 (8.10%) Delta Lake
16 23 (8.10%) Looker
Development Applications
1 53 (18.66%) Git
2 29 (10.21%) MLflow
3 25 (8.80%) IBM UrbanCode
4 17 (5.99%) GitLab
5 9 (3.17%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.70%) JIRA
6 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 121 (42.61%) Finance
2 80 (28.17%) Social Skills
3 70 (24.65%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (16.90%) Banking
5 24 (8.45%) Investment Banking
6 23 (8.10%) Law
7 18 (6.34%) Public Sector
8 17 (5.99%) Financial Institution
9 16 (5.63%) Legal
10 15 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (3.17%) Aerospace
11 9 (3.17%) Military
12 8 (2.82%) Marketing
13 6 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.76%) Retail
15 4 (1.41%) Games
16 3 (1.06%) Front Office
16 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 122 (42.96%) Data Engineer
2 101 (35.56%) Senior
3 37 (13.03%) Lead
3 37 (13.03%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (9.15%) Analyst
5 25 (8.80%) Data Scientist
6 24 (8.45%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.10%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.10%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.10%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (7.75%) Banking Analyst
8 22 (7.75%) Lead Data Engineer
8 22 (7.75%) Senior Data Scientist
9 16 (5.63%) Architect
10 13 (4.58%) Business Analyst
10 13 (4.58%) Developer
11 12 (4.23%) Data Architect
11 12 (4.23%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (4.23%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (3.87%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (44.01%) Kafka
2 72 (25.35%) PySpark
3 25 (8.80%) PyTorch
4 24 (8.45%) pgvector
4 24 (8.45%) scikit-learn
4 24 (8.45%) TensorFlow
5 23 (8.10%) LangChain
5 23 (8.10%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.10%) Pandas
6 19 (6.69%) REST
7 17 (5.99%) SpaCy
8 14 (4.93%) Node.js
9 10 (3.52%) Spring
9 10 (3.52%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.17%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (2.11%) NumPy
12 5 (1.76%) gRPC
12 5 (1.76%) OAuth
12 5 (1.76%) React
12 5 (1.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.96%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.15%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.10%) Clustering
4 20 (7.04%) Data Structures
5 17 (5.99%) e-Learning
6 16 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (4.93%) Onboarding
7 14 (4.93%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.87%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.46%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.11%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.11%) Social Media
11 5 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.41%) NHS
13 3 (1.06%) Data Fabric
13 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.23%) Linux
2 4 (1.41%) CentOS
2 4 (1.41%) Debian
2 4 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.41%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (64.08%) Analytics
2 181 (63.73%) Data Engineering
3 173 (60.92%) Data Pipeline
4 142 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 122 (42.96%) AI
6 121 (42.61%) ETL
7 118 (41.55%) Data Modelling
8 115 (40.49%) Data Science
9 112 (39.44%) Machine Learning
10 96 (33.80%) Data Governance
11 95 (33.45%) Agile
12 83 (29.23%) DevOps
13 63 (22.18%) Use Case
14 62 (21.83%) Business Intelligence
15 59 (20.77%) Mentoring
16 57 (20.07%) Validation
17 50 (17.61%) Generative AI
17 50 (17.61%) Performance Tuning
18 48 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
19 46 (16.20%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 246 (86.62%) Python
2 208 (73.24%) SQL
3 52 (18.31%) Scala
4 43 (15.14%) Java
5 7 (2.46%) C#
5 7 (2.46%) C++
6 6 (2.11%) C
6 6 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.11%) PHP
6 6 (2.11%) Ruby
7 5 (1.76%) VBA
8 4 (1.41%) Bicep
9 3 (1.06%) Bash
9 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.70%) R
10 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.25%) Degree
3 43 (15.14%) SC Cleared
4 23 (8.10%) PhD
5 20 (7.04%) Master's Degree
6 16 (5.63%) Azure Certification
7 15 (5.28%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.58%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.35%) CEH
13 1 (0.35%) CISM
13 1 (0.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (38.03%) Data Quality
2 40 (14.08%) GDPR
3 35 (12.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.23%) HIPAA
5 10 (3.52%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.46%) QA
7 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (17.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (15.85%) Terraform
2 41 (14.44%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.52%) Ansible
4 6 (2.11%) Grafana
4 6 (2.11%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.76%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.41%) Puppet
7 3 (1.06%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) Argo
8 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 97 (34.15%) Databricks
2 34 (11.97%) Oracle
3 29 (10.21%) Red Hat
4 25 (8.80%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.45%) Cloudera
5 24 (8.45%) Dell
6 8 (2.82%) Google
7 6 (2.11%) HP
7 6 (2.11%) IBM
7 6 (2.11%) Informatica
7 6 (2.11%) SAP
8 5 (1.76%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.41%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.70%) Foundry
10 2 (0.70%) LexisNexis
10 2 (0.70%) Palantir
10 2 (0.70%) PeopleSoft
10 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.35%) Splunk
11 1 (0.35%) Talend