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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 401 500
Rank change year-on-year -77 +99 -230
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 218 257 366
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.65% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.27% 7.03% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 106 171 257
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £66,563 £57,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +6.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%

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 3,475 3,657 8,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.21% 9.27% 9.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,576 2,564 6,578
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,313 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £100,000
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 8 June 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 June 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 -37 143 £100,000 -9.09% 49
North of England -38 30 £67,500 +17.39% 22
South West -37 18 £75,000 +50.00% 10
East of England -15 17 £75,000 +4.90%
North West -4 11 £75,000 +36.36% 11
North East -33 10 £56,250 -16.67% 10
Yorkshire -39 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South East -60 4 £57,500 -11.54% 12
Midlands -44 2 £50,000 -25.93% 2
West Midlands -33 1 - - 1
East Midlands -41 1 £50,000 -33.33% 1
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 99 (45.41%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (44.04%) Apache
3 13 (5.96%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.38%) SAS
5 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.46%) Camunda
5 1 (0.46%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.96%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 143 (65.60%) AWS
2 102 (46.79%) Azure
3 80 (36.70%) GCP
4 52 (23.85%) Amazon S3
5 47 (21.56%) Power Platform
6 40 (18.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (17.89%) dbt
8 35 (16.06%) Snowflake
9 31 (14.22%) OpenShift
10 25 (11.47%) Serverless
11 23 (10.55%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (10.09%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (6.42%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (4.59%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (4.59%) Microsoft Purview
16 9 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (3.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 8 (3.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.21%) Broadband
2 5 (2.29%) AMQP
3 2 (0.92%) 4G
3 2 (0.92%) 5G
4 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (32.57%) Big Data
2 65 (29.82%) Tableau
3 61 (27.98%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (22.48%) Data Lake
5 47 (21.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (21.10%) Power BI
7 39 (17.89%) Elasticsearch
8 34 (15.60%) BigQuery
9 32 (14.68%) Spark SQL
10 29 (13.30%) Hadoop
11 27 (12.39%) Apache Hive
11 27 (12.39%) Snowflake Schema
12 25 (11.47%) Impala
12 25 (11.47%) Oracle Database
12 25 (11.47%) Parquet
13 23 (10.55%) Looker
14 22 (10.09%) Relational Database
15 21 (9.63%) NoSQL
16 16 (7.34%) Metadata
17 13 (5.96%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 44 (20.18%) Git
2 28 (12.84%) MLflow
3 25 (11.47%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (5.50%) GitLab
5 8 (3.67%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.92%) JIRA
6 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.46%) Deequ
7 1 (0.46%) JUnit
General
1 85 (38.99%) Finance
2 69 (31.65%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (29.82%) Social Skills
4 39 (17.89%) Banking
5 24 (11.01%) Investment Banking
6 16 (7.34%) Legal
7 13 (5.96%) Law
8 10 (4.59%) Public Sector
9 9 (4.13%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.92%) Billing
13 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Advertising
14 1 (0.46%) Front Office
14 1 (0.46%) Games
Job Titles
1 79 (36.24%) Data Engineer
2 70 (32.11%) Senior
3 26 (11.93%) Analyst
4 24 (11.01%) Lead
4 24 (11.01%) Senior Data Engineer
4 24 (11.01%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.55%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.55%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.09%) Banking Analyst
7 21 (9.63%) Python Engineer
8 20 (9.17%) Developer
9 16 (7.34%) Architect
10 15 (6.88%) Python Developer
11 14 (6.42%) Data Scientist
11 14 (6.42%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (5.96%) Business Analyst
12 13 (5.96%) Software Engineer
13 12 (5.50%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (5.50%) Technical Analyst
14 11 (5.05%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (45.41%) Kafka
2 60 (27.52%) PySpark
3 29 (13.30%) PyTorch
3 29 (13.30%) TensorFlow
4 26 (11.93%) scikit-learn
5 24 (11.01%) LangChain
6 23 (10.55%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (10.55%) pgvector
7 22 (10.09%) REST
8 21 (9.63%) Pandas
9 11 (5.05%) Spring
9 11 (5.05%) Spring Boot
10 9 (4.13%) Node.js
10 9 (4.13%) SpaCy
11 8 (3.67%) NumPy
12 6 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.75%) React
13 5 (2.29%) AngularJS
13 5 (2.29%) gRPC
13 5 (2.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.10%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.01%) Public Cloud
3 23 (10.55%) Clustering
4 13 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.50%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.59%) Algorithms
7 9 (4.13%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (4.13%) e-Learning
7 9 (4.13%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.75%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.75%) Social Media
9 5 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.38%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.92%) NHS
11 2 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.92%) Replication
11 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.67%) Linux
2 5 (2.29%) CentOS
2 5 (2.29%) Debian
2 5 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (62.84%) Data Pipeline
2 135 (61.93%) Analytics
3 133 (61.01%) Data Engineering
4 108 (49.54%) ETL
5 98 (44.95%) CI/CD
6 92 (42.20%) AI
7 89 (40.83%) Data Governance
7 89 (40.83%) Data Modelling
8 78 (35.78%) Data Science
9 76 (34.86%) Agile
10 75 (34.40%) Machine Learning
11 56 (25.69%) Business Intelligence
12 50 (22.94%) DevOps
13 47 (21.56%) Use Case
14 46 (21.10%) Performance Tuning
15 44 (20.18%) Software Engineering
16 40 (18.35%) Validation
17 38 (17.43%) Computer Science
17 38 (17.43%) Generative AI
18 35 (16.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 200 (91.74%) Python
2 164 (75.23%) SQL
3 38 (17.43%) Scala
4 35 (16.06%) Java
5 7 (3.21%) C++
6 6 (2.75%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.83%) Bash
7 4 (1.83%) Bicep
7 4 (1.83%) VBA
8 3 (1.38%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.38%) R
9 2 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.92%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.46%) C#
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (14.22%) Security Cleared
2 28 (12.84%) Degree
3 23 (10.55%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.50%) Master's Degree
5 12 (5.50%) PhD
6 10 (4.59%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.13%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.21%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.46%) CEH
11 1 (0.46%) CISM
11 1 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (43.12%) Data Quality
2 37 (16.97%) GDPR
3 35 (16.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.50%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.83%) QA
6 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.92%) IFRS
7 2 (0.92%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.92%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (15.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (16.51%) Terraform
2 32 (14.68%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.13%) Ansible
4 6 (2.75%) Grafana
5 5 (2.29%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.29%) Puppet
6 3 (1.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 69 (31.65%) Databricks
2 31 (14.22%) Red Hat
3 26 (11.93%) Oracle
4 24 (11.01%) Cloudera
4 24 (11.01%) Dell
5 10 (4.59%) Google
6 9 (4.13%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.29%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.92%) Informatica
10 1 (0.46%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.46%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.46%) Confluent
10 1 (0.46%) Foundry
10 1 (0.46%) IBM
10 1 (0.46%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.46%) Pega
10 1 (0.46%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.46%) Splunk
10 1 (0.46%) UiPath