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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 443 481
Rank change year-on-year -52 +38 -160
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 264 225 283
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.51% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.47% 5.96% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 127 116 197
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% -10.63% -1.23%
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £110,625 £123,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £71,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.89% -10.63% -

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 4,081 3,777 6,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.22% 8.61% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,956 2,737 4,375
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -2.39% -2.70%
75th Percentile £71,751 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -0.08%

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 29 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 29 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 -23 165 £95,000 +11.76% 283
North of England -36 50 £55,000 -4.35% 38
South West -45 26 £55,000 +10.00% 24
North East -44 23 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West -6 17 £55,000 - 23
Yorkshire -48 10 £80,000 +39.13% 5
East of England -10 8 £77,500 +8.39% 7
South East -60 6 £62,500 -5.66% 25
Midlands -49 3 £58,403 -8.75% 7
West Midlands -26 2 £66,805 +10.42% 4
East Midlands -35 1 £50,000 -33.33% 3
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
1 110 (41.67%) Apache
2 65 (24.62%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (7.20%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.89%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.76%) Luigi
6 2 (0.76%) Tornado
7 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 159 (60.23%) AWS
2 145 (54.92%) Azure
3 88 (33.33%) GCP
4 52 (19.70%) Power Platform
5 49 (18.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 36 (13.64%) Amazon S3
6 36 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 36 (13.64%) Serverless
7 35 (13.26%) Snowflake
8 27 (10.23%) dbt
9 24 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
10 22 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (7.58%) Amazon Kinesis
12 19 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (5.30%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (4.92%) Amazon ECR
17 12 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
18 11 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.27%) BGP
1 6 (2.27%) DNS
1 6 (2.27%) IPsec
1 6 (2.27%) VPN
2 5 (1.89%) AMQP
2 5 (1.89%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) 4G
3 1 (0.38%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (34.85%) Big Data
2 71 (26.89%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (26.14%) Data Lake
4 56 (21.21%) Hadoop
5 55 (20.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 53 (20.08%) Elasticsearch
7 51 (19.32%) Power BI
8 42 (15.91%) NoSQL
9 40 (15.15%) Tableau
10 26 (9.85%) BigQuery
11 25 (9.47%) Delta Lake
12 24 (9.09%) Looker
12 24 (9.09%) Metadata
13 23 (8.71%) Snowflake Schema
14 22 (8.33%) Relational Database
15 21 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
16 16 (6.06%) Flink
17 14 (5.30%) Apache Hive
18 13 (4.92%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (12.50%) Git
2 30 (11.36%) MLflow
3 17 (6.44%) GitLab
4 11 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.76%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.76%) JIRA
5 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.38%) ERwin
General
1 102 (38.64%) Finance
2 71 (26.89%) Social Skills
3 55 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.98%) Banking
5 21 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.58%) Financial Institution
7 17 (6.44%) Law
8 15 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (4.17%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.79%) Military
11 9 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (3.41%) Marketing
12 6 (2.27%) Legal
12 6 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.27%) Retail
13 4 (1.52%) Games
14 3 (1.14%) Front Office
15 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.76%) Local Government
15 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 120 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 96 (36.36%) Senior
3 42 (15.91%) Lead
4 32 (12.12%) Data Scientist
5 30 (11.36%) Senior Data Engineer
6 29 (10.98%) Senior Data Scientist
7 25 (9.47%) Lead Data Engineer
8 23 (8.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 23 (8.71%) Systems Engineer
9 18 (6.82%) Architect
9 18 (6.82%) Python Engineer
10 13 (4.92%) Data Architect
11 12 (4.55%) Developer
11 12 (4.55%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.79%) Python Developer
13 9 (3.41%) Consultant
13 9 (3.41%) Python Data Engineer
14 8 (3.03%) AWS Consultant
14 8 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
15 7 (2.65%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (43.94%) Kafka
2 51 (19.32%) PySpark
3 43 (16.29%) Terraform
4 25 (9.47%) PyTorch
4 25 (9.47%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.09%) LangChain
5 24 (9.09%) pgvector
5 24 (9.09%) TensorFlow
6 23 (8.71%) LlamaIndex
7 20 (7.58%) SpaCy
8 17 (6.44%) REST
9 14 (5.30%) Node.js
10 11 (4.17%) Pandas
11 9 (3.41%) Apache NiFi
12 8 (3.03%) RESTful
13 6 (2.27%) gRPC
13 6 (2.27%) NumPy
13 6 (2.27%) React
13 6 (2.27%) Spring
13 6 (2.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.23%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.71%) Clustering
4 20 (7.58%) e-Learning
5 18 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (6.82%) Product Ownership
6 14 (5.30%) Data Structures
6 14 (5.30%) Onboarding
7 11 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.65%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.65%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.89%) NHS
10 3 (1.14%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.14%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.55%) Linux
2 5 (1.89%) CentOS
2 5 (1.89%) Debian
2 5 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (64.39%) Data Engineering
2 160 (60.61%) Analytics
3 148 (56.06%) Data Pipeline
4 127 (48.11%) CI/CD
5 121 (45.83%) Data Science
6 118 (44.70%) Machine Learning
7 115 (43.56%) Data Modelling
8 99 (37.50%) AI
9 97 (36.74%) ETL
10 95 (35.98%) DevOps
11 74 (28.03%) Agile
12 66 (25.00%) Use Case
13 65 (24.62%) Business Intelligence
13 65 (24.62%) Data Governance
14 63 (23.86%) Mentoring
15 54 (20.45%) Generative AI
16 50 (18.94%) Infrastructure as Code
17 47 (17.80%) Data Ingestion
18 44 (16.67%) Software Engineering
19 43 (16.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 222 (84.09%) Python
2 182 (68.94%) SQL
3 50 (18.94%) Scala
4 37 (14.02%) Java
5 7 (2.65%) C#
5 7 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.27%) C
6 6 (2.27%) PHP
6 6 (2.27%) Ruby
7 5 (1.89%) VBA
8 4 (1.52%) Bash
8 4 (1.52%) Bicep
9 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.76%) R
10 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.76%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.38%) C++
11 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.83%) Degree
3 47 (17.80%) SC Cleared
4 27 (10.23%) PhD
5 24 (9.09%) Master's Degree
6 19 (7.20%) Azure Certification
7 15 (5.68%) DV Cleared
8 14 (5.30%) AWS Certification
9 11 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.14%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.38%) CEH
13 1 (0.38%) CISM
13 1 (0.38%) CISSP
13 1 (0.38%) OCP
13 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (32.95%) Data Quality
2 31 (11.74%) GDPR
3 25 (9.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.55%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.03%) QA
6 3 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.76%) IFRS
7 2 (0.76%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.76%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (19.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (14.77%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.79%) Ansible
3 6 (2.27%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.89%) Puppet
5 3 (1.14%) Kibana
6 2 (0.76%) Argo
7 1 (0.38%) Grafana
7 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 103 (39.02%) Databricks
2 30 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.09%) Cloudera
4 23 (8.71%) Dell
5 12 (4.55%) Oracle
6 8 (3.03%) Google
6 8 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.27%) HP
7 6 (2.27%) IBM
7 6 (2.27%) Informatica
7 6 (2.27%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.27%) SAP
8 5 (1.89%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.14%) LexisNexis
9 3 (1.14%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (1.14%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.38%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.38%) Foundry
10 1 (0.38%) Splunk