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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 386 426
Rank change year-on-year -66 +40 -188
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 191 273 383
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.66% 0.55%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.07% 6.89% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 96 196 244
10th Percentile £55,625 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £71,313 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £130,625 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%

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 3,146 3,961 7,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.96% 9.64% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,257 2,500 5,755
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,251 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% +14.50% -10.40%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £88,750
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 5 March 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 March 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 -16 133 £95,000 -13.64% 63
North of England -20 26 £65,000 +18.18% 29
Yorkshire -21 17 £65,000 +32.65% 14
East of England +17 12 - - 8
South West -17 8 £80,000 +3.23% 14
North West -20 8 £95,000 +72.73% 10
South East -51 4 £65,000 +13.04% 20
West Midlands +1 1 - - 2
Midlands -13 1 - - 5
North East -15 1 - - 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 75 (39.27%) Apache
2 71 (37.17%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.05%) SAS
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.52%) Camunda
4 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (6.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 125 (65.45%) AWS
2 81 (42.41%) Azure
3 65 (34.03%) GCP
4 45 (23.56%) Amazon S3
5 35 (18.32%) OpenShift
6 33 (17.28%) Serverless
7 30 (15.71%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (14.14%) dbt
9 23 (12.04%) Power Platform
10 20 (10.47%) Snowflake
11 18 (9.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (8.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (7.33%) Amazon EMR
14 12 (6.28%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (5.24%) AWS Step Functions
16 9 (4.71%) Dagster
17 8 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
18 7 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
18 7 (3.66%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.66%) Broadband
2 5 (2.62%) AMQP
2 5 (2.62%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.52%) 4G
3 1 (0.52%) 5G
3 1 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.52%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (37.17%) Big Data
2 56 (29.32%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (25.65%) Hadoop
4 40 (20.94%) Tableau
5 38 (19.90%) Data Lake
6 35 (18.32%) Apache Hive
7 34 (17.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (13.09%) Spark SQL
9 23 (12.04%) Impala
9 23 (12.04%) Oracle Database
9 23 (12.04%) Parquet
9 23 (12.04%) Power BI
10 18 (9.42%) BigQuery
11 17 (8.90%) Relational Database
12 16 (8.38%) MySQL
13 15 (7.85%) NoSQL
13 15 (7.85%) PostgreSQL
14 14 (7.33%) MongoDB
15 12 (6.28%) Metadata
15 12 (6.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (20.94%) Git
2 23 (12.04%) IBM UrbanCode
3 7 (3.66%) MLflow
4 6 (3.14%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.62%) GitLab
6 2 (1.05%) Deequ
7 1 (0.52%) JUnit
General
1 81 (42.41%) Social Skills
2 80 (41.88%) Finance
3 54 (28.27%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (18.32%) Banking
5 24 (12.57%) Investment Banking
6 14 (7.33%) Law
7 13 (6.81%) Legal
8 10 (5.24%) Financial Institution
9 9 (4.71%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.09%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.09%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.57%) Front Office
11 3 (1.57%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.05%) Advertising
12 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.05%) Marketing
12 2 (1.05%) Retail
13 1 (0.52%) Billing
13 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (41.36%) Data Engineer
2 51 (26.70%) Senior
3 32 (16.75%) Senior Data Engineer
4 24 (12.57%) Analyst
5 22 (11.52%) Developer
6 21 (10.99%) Transformation Analyst
7 20 (10.47%) Banking Analyst
8 18 (9.42%) Python Developer
9 17 (8.90%) AWS Data Engineer
9 17 (8.90%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (7.33%) Architect
11 12 (6.28%) Business Analyst
12 11 (5.76%) Data Business Analyst
12 11 (5.76%) Software Engineer
12 11 (5.76%) Technical Analyst
13 10 (5.24%) Data Architect
13 10 (5.24%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 10 (5.24%) Principal Engineer
14 8 (4.19%) Data Scientist
15 7 (3.66%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (40.84%) Kafka
2 48 (25.13%) PySpark
3 24 (12.57%) Pandas
3 24 (12.57%) REST
4 15 (7.85%) PyTorch
4 15 (7.85%) TensorFlow
5 13 (6.81%) Spring
6 12 (6.28%) Spring Boot
7 10 (5.24%) scikit-learn
8 7 (3.66%) LangChain
8 7 (3.66%) Node.js
8 7 (3.66%) NumPy
8 7 (3.66%) OAuth
8 7 (3.66%) React
9 6 (3.14%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.14%) LDAP
9 6 (3.14%) OAuth2
9 6 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.62%) pytest
10 5 (2.62%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.23%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (13.61%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.24%) Algorithms
4 9 (4.71%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (4.71%) e-Learning
4 9 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.19%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.14%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.14%) Social Media
8 5 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.09%) Clustering
9 4 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.57%) Equities
10 3 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.38%) Linux
2 6 (3.14%) Unix
3 5 (2.62%) CentOS
3 5 (2.62%) Debian
3 5 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (63.87%) Data Pipeline
2 106 (55.50%) Analytics
3 101 (52.88%) Data Engineering
4 94 (49.21%) CI/CD
5 93 (48.69%) ETL
6 77 (40.31%) Data Governance
7 73 (38.22%) AI
8 68 (35.60%) Data Modelling
9 61 (31.94%) Data Science
10 60 (31.41%) Agile
11 56 (29.32%) Machine Learning
12 48 (25.13%) Software Engineering
13 45 (23.56%) DevOps
14 43 (22.51%) Computer Science
15 42 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
16 40 (20.94%) Business Intelligence
17 35 (18.32%) Data Transformation
18 34 (17.80%) Scrum
19 28 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
19 28 (14.66%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 176 (92.15%) Python
2 136 (71.20%) SQL
3 56 (29.32%) Java
4 29 (15.18%) Scala
5 9 (4.71%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.19%) C++
7 6 (3.14%) R
8 5 (2.62%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.57%) C#
10 2 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.52%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.52%) Bash
11 1 (0.52%) Bicep
11 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.52%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (17.28%) Degree
2 16 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (8.38%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.81%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.76%) PhD
5 10 (5.24%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.66%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.14%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.14%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (40.31%) Data Quality
2 21 (10.99%) GDPR
3 15 (7.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (5.76%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.09%) QA
6 3 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (16.23%) Docker
2 6 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (18.32%) Kubernetes
2 25 (13.09%) Terraform
3 13 (6.81%) Ansible
4 11 (5.76%) Grafana
4 11 (5.76%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.62%) Puppet
6 3 (1.57%) Kibana
6 3 (1.57%) logstash
7 1 (0.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 45 (23.56%) Databricks
2 36 (18.85%) Oracle
3 30 (15.71%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.28%) Dell
4 12 (6.28%) Google
5 11 (5.76%) Microsoft
6 7 (3.66%) Informatica
7 6 (3.14%) Talend
8 5 (2.62%) Cloudera
8 5 (2.62%) Palantir
8 5 (2.62%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.57%) SAP
10 2 (1.05%) IBM
11 1 (0.52%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.52%) Foundry
11 1 (0.52%) Pega
11 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.52%) UiPath