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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 385 474
Rank change year-on-year -83 +89 -242
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 209 276 381
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.71% 0.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.42% 7.34% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 100 201 265
10th Percentile £53,625 £52,500 £50,172
25th Percentile £73,938 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £125,313 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £83,230 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.13% +4.04% -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 3,253 3,760 8,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.00% 9.67% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,390 2,661 6,526
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,250 £93,750
UK median annual salary £50,724 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.78% +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -59 140 £97,500 -11.36% 56
North of England -52 24 £77,500 +34.78% 28
East of England +2 18 £75,000 -7.69% 1
South West -36 15 £75,000 +50.00% 8
Yorkshire -46 12 £80,000 +39.13% 2
North West -30 9 £85,000 +41.67% 13
South East -58 4 £57,500 -11.54% 11
North East -28 3 £57,500 -28.13% 13
East Midlands -49 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -49 1 £50,000 -21.88% 6
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 93 (44.50%) Apache Airflow
2 79 (37.80%) Apache
3 2 (0.96%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.48%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.48%) Camunda
4 1 (0.48%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.22%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.48%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 132 (63.16%) AWS
2 101 (48.33%) Azure
3 81 (38.76%) GCP
4 49 (23.44%) Power Platform
5 45 (21.53%) Amazon S3
6 44 (21.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (19.14%) dbt
8 38 (18.18%) Snowflake
9 32 (15.31%) OpenShift
10 25 (11.96%) Serverless
11 23 (11.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (4.78%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (4.31%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (3.83%) Dagster
16 8 (3.83%) GitHub
17 7 (3.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.35%) Broadband
2 5 (2.39%) AMQP
3 2 (0.96%) 4G
3 2 (0.96%) 5G
4 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.48%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (33.01%) Big Data
2 64 (30.62%) Tableau
3 62 (29.67%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (23.44%) Data Lake
5 48 (22.97%) Power BI
6 41 (19.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (17.22%) BigQuery
8 35 (16.75%) Elasticsearch
9 33 (15.79%) Hadoop
10 30 (14.35%) Spark SQL
11 28 (13.40%) Apache Hive
11 28 (13.40%) Snowflake Schema
12 25 (11.96%) Impala
12 25 (11.96%) Oracle Database
12 25 (11.96%) Parquet
13 24 (11.48%) Looker
14 22 (10.53%) Relational Database
15 20 (9.57%) MySQL
16 17 (8.13%) NoSQL
17 16 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (21.05%) Git
2 29 (13.88%) MLflow
3 25 (11.96%) IBM UrbanCode
4 6 (2.87%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.39%) GitLab
6 2 (0.96%) JIRA
7 1 (0.48%) Deequ
7 1 (0.48%) JUnit
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (38.76%) Finance
2 72 (34.45%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (31.58%) Social Skills
4 34 (16.27%) Banking
5 24 (11.48%) Investment Banking
6 15 (7.18%) Legal
7 14 (6.70%) Law
8 7 (3.35%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.91%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.91%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.96%) Advertising
10 2 (0.96%) Billing
10 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) Games
11 1 (0.48%) Marketing
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (32.06%) Data Engineer
2 64 (30.62%) Senior
3 26 (12.44%) Analyst
4 24 (11.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 23 (11.00%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.00%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.53%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (10.53%) Developer
7 19 (9.09%) Python Engineer
8 17 (8.13%) Architect
8 17 (8.13%) Python Developer
9 16 (7.66%) Lead
10 13 (6.22%) Business Analyst
11 12 (5.74%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (5.74%) Software Engineer
11 12 (5.74%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (5.26%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 11 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (46.89%) Kafka
2 53 (25.36%) PySpark
3 31 (14.83%) PyTorch
3 31 (14.83%) TensorFlow
4 27 (12.92%) scikit-learn
5 25 (11.96%) REST
6 24 (11.48%) LangChain
7 23 (11.00%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (11.00%) pgvector
8 21 (10.05%) Pandas
9 12 (5.74%) Spring
10 11 (5.26%) Spring Boot
11 10 (4.78%) Node.js
12 7 (3.35%) React
13 6 (2.87%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.87%) NumPy
13 6 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.39%) gRPC
14 5 (2.39%) OAuth
14 5 (2.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.14%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.00%) Clustering
2 23 (11.00%) Public Cloud
3 15 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.78%) Algorithms
4 10 (4.78%) Distributed Computing
4 10 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.35%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.87%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (2.87%) Social Media
7 5 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.39%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.91%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.44%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.96%) IoT
10 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.83%) Linux
2 5 (2.39%) CentOS
2 5 (2.39%) Debian
2 5 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.39%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (64.11%) Data Pipeline
2 131 (62.68%) Analytics
3 118 (56.46%) Data Engineering
4 111 (53.11%) ETL
5 96 (45.93%) AI
6 91 (43.54%) Data Governance
7 89 (42.58%) CI/CD
8 84 (40.19%) Data Modelling
9 79 (37.80%) Data Science
10 77 (36.84%) Machine Learning
11 65 (31.10%) Agile
12 57 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (22.49%) Software Engineering
14 43 (20.57%) Computer Science
14 43 (20.57%) Performance Tuning
14 43 (20.57%) Use Case
15 42 (20.10%) DevOps
16 39 (18.66%) Generative AI
17 35 (16.75%) Data Transformation
17 35 (16.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 190 (90.91%) Python
2 158 (75.60%) SQL
3 36 (17.22%) Java
4 31 (14.83%) Scala
5 8 (3.83%) C++
6 6 (2.87%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.39%) R
8 4 (1.91%) Bicep
9 3 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.44%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.44%) VBA
10 1 (0.48%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.48%) Bash
10 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.48%) Ruby
10 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (12.92%) Degree
2 22 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.18%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.78%) PhD
6 9 (4.31%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.31%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.83%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.87%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.48%) CEH
11 1 (0.48%) CISM
11 1 (0.48%) CISSP
11 1 (0.48%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (42.11%) Data Quality
2 38 (18.18%) GDPR
3 35 (16.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.74%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.96%) IFRS
6 2 (0.96%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.96%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.48%) QA
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (12.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (14.83%) Kubernetes
2 30 (14.35%) Terraform
3 11 (5.26%) Ansible
4 8 (3.83%) Grafana
5 7 (3.35%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.39%) Puppet
7 1 (0.48%) Argo
Vendors
1 69 (33.01%) Databricks
2 33 (15.79%) Oracle
3 32 (15.31%) Red Hat
4 24 (11.48%) Cloudera
4 24 (11.48%) Dell
5 12 (5.74%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.78%) Google
7 6 (2.87%) Informatica
8 5 (2.39%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.39%) Talend
9 4 (1.91%) Palantir
10 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.48%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.48%) Confluent
11 1 (0.48%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.48%) Pega
11 1 (0.48%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.48%) UiPath