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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 431 475
Rank change year-on-year -83 +44 -117
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 253 209 267
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.48% 0.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.88% 5.98% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 127 103 186
10th Percentile £52,400 £51,350 £49,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% +0.46%
75th Percentile £97,500 £99,375 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,100 £139,500 £121,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +0.46%

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 4,301 3,495 5,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.15% 8.07% 8.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,969 2,508 3,413
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £57,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% -5.81% +3.64%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -64 144 £90,000 -2.70% 370
North of England -36 57 £58,750 -2.08% 50
South West -43 31 £60,500 +10.00% 23
North East -39 26 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North West -8 20 £58,750 -12.96% 28
Yorkshire -39 11 £80,000 +33.33% 13
South East -56 9 £65,000 -3.70% 37
West Midlands -41 4 £60,653 +13.37% 5
Midlands -51 4 £60,653 +13.37% 9
East of England -35 1 £80,000 +11.89% 12
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
1 116 (45.85%) Apache
2 42 (16.60%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (9.09%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.98%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.19%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.19%) SAS
6 2 (0.79%) Luigi
6 2 (0.79%) Tornado
7 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 145 (57.31%) AWS
2 137 (54.15%) Azure
3 74 (29.25%) GCP
4 41 (16.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 41 (16.21%) Serverless
5 39 (15.42%) Amazon S3
6 30 (11.86%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (10.67%) Amazon EMR
7 27 (10.67%) Power Platform
8 24 (9.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
9 22 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (8.30%) Azure Databricks
11 19 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (7.51%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (6.72%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (6.32%) Snowflake
14 14 (5.53%) Amazon ECR
15 12 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (3.95%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.77%) AMQP
2 6 (2.37%) BGP
2 6 (2.37%) DNS
2 6 (2.37%) IPsec
2 6 (2.37%) VPN
3 5 (1.98%) Internet
4 1 (0.40%) 4G
4 1 (0.40%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (33.99%) Big Data
2 55 (21.74%) Hadoop
3 53 (20.95%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (18.58%) Data Lake
5 44 (17.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 43 (17.00%) NoSQL
7 31 (12.25%) Metadata
8 27 (10.67%) Power BI
9 24 (9.49%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (8.70%) Delta Lake
10 22 (8.70%) Relational Database
11 20 (7.91%) Amazon Athena
11 20 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (7.11%) Tableau
13 17 (6.72%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (6.72%) Flink
14 13 (5.14%) Spark SQL
15 12 (4.74%) DynamoDB
16 11 (4.35%) Apache Hive
17 10 (3.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (18.18%) Git
2 21 (8.30%) GitLab
3 15 (5.93%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.77%) MLflow
5 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.40%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.40%) ERwin
6 1 (0.40%) JIRA
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 107 (42.29%) Finance
2 74 (29.25%) Social Skills
3 41 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (13.44%) Banking
5 27 (10.67%) Public Sector
6 26 (10.28%) Financial Institution
7 17 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (5.93%) Aerospace
9 14 (5.53%) Law
10 10 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.95%) Military
11 9 (3.56%) Marketing
12 6 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.37%) Retail
13 5 (1.98%) Legal
14 4 (1.58%) Front Office
15 3 (1.19%) Games
16 2 (0.79%) Aviation
16 2 (0.79%) Local Government
16 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (50.99%) Data Engineer
2 80 (31.62%) Senior
3 41 (16.21%) Lead
4 39 (15.42%) Data Scientist
5 34 (13.44%) Senior Data Engineer
5 34 (13.44%) Senior Data Scientist
6 23 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
7 22 (8.70%) Databricks Engineer
8 20 (7.91%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 15 (5.93%) Architect
10 14 (5.53%) Data Architect
10 14 (5.53%) Python Engineer
10 14 (5.53%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) AWS Data Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) AWS Consultant
13 8 (3.16%) Azure Data Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) Consultant
13 8 (3.16%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (33.20%) Kafka
2 57 (22.53%) PySpark
3 49 (19.37%) Terraform
4 26 (10.28%) SpaCy
5 13 (5.14%) Node.js
6 12 (4.74%) REST
7 10 (3.95%) gRPC
7 10 (3.95%) Pandas
8 9 (3.56%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.56%) Apache NiFi
8 9 (3.56%) React
9 8 (3.16%) Spring
9 8 (3.16%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.77%) Material-UI
10 7 (2.77%) OpenAPI
10 7 (2.77%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (2.77%) RESTful
10 7 (2.77%) Swagger
11 6 (2.37%) FastAPI
11 6 (2.37%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.28%) e-Learning
3 21 (8.30%) Product Ownership
4 17 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (6.32%) Data Structures
6 15 (5.93%) Onboarding
7 11 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (3.16%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.37%) NHS
10 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.58%) CUDA
11 4 (1.58%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.19%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.79%) Blog
13 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.79%) Derivative
13 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.79%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.93%) Linux
2 7 (2.77%) CentOS
2 7 (2.77%) Debian
2 7 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (63.64%) Data Engineering
2 145 (57.31%) Analytics
3 142 (56.13%) CI/CD
4 135 (53.36%) Data Pipeline
5 114 (45.06%) Data Science
6 110 (43.48%) DevOps
7 104 (41.11%) Data Modelling
8 100 (39.53%) Machine Learning
9 81 (32.02%) Agile
9 81 (32.02%) ETL
10 77 (30.43%) Mentoring
11 74 (29.25%) AI
12 57 (22.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 52 (20.55%) Validation
14 50 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
15 48 (18.97%) Lakehouse
16 46 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
17 44 (17.39%) Data Governance
18 43 (17.00%) Software Engineering
19 42 (16.60%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 209 (82.61%) Python
2 160 (63.24%) SQL
3 53 (20.95%) Scala
4 36 (14.23%) Java
5 12 (4.74%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.16%) C#
7 7 (2.77%) R
8 6 (2.37%) C
8 6 (2.37%) PHP
8 6 (2.37%) Ruby
9 5 (1.98%) Bash
9 5 (1.98%) VBA
10 3 (1.19%) Bicep
10 3 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.19%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (33.20%) Security Cleared
2 64 (25.30%) SC Cleared
3 60 (23.72%) Degree
4 35 (13.83%) PhD
5 33 (13.04%) Master's Degree
6 20 (7.91%) Azure Certification
7 19 (7.51%) DV Cleared
8 18 (7.11%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.40%) CEH
12 1 (0.40%) CISM
12 1 (0.40%) CISSP
12 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.40%) OCP
12 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (37.55%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.14%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.16%) QA
4 7 (2.77%) GDPR
5 5 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.79%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (22.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 45 (17.79%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.56%) Ansible
3 7 (2.77%) Puppet
4 6 (2.37%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (1.19%) Kibana
6 2 (0.79%) Argo
7 1 (0.40%) Control-M
7 1 (0.40%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 91 (35.97%) Databricks
2 32 (12.65%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.14%) Google
4 9 (3.56%) Oracle
5 8 (3.16%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.77%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.37%) HP
7 6 (2.37%) IBM
7 6 (2.37%) SAP
8 5 (1.98%) Informatica
9 4 (1.58%) Foundry
10 3 (1.19%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.19%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.19%) Palantir
10 3 (1.19%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.79%) Thales
12 1 (0.40%) Confluent
12 1 (0.40%) Refinitiv
12 1 (0.40%) Sparx