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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 431 346
Rank change year-on-year +25 -85 -80
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 193 271 336
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.53% 0.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.15% 5.67% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 97 197 220
10th Percentile £57,000 £48,250 £51,700
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -3.13% -2.14%
75th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £98,125
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £115,375
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% -

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 3,137 4,778 5,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.07% 9.37% 11.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,298 2,955 4,043
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,125
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,075 £112,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +27 132 £95,000 -1.30% 59
North of England +32 33 £60,000 +20.00% 46
Yorkshire +1 21 £60,000 +21.77% 18
Midlands +18 11 £67,500 +12.50% 23
North West +19 9 £54,250 +3.33% 24
East Midlands -5 7 - - 9
South East +18 5 £65,000 +13.04% 64
West Midlands +30 4 £67,500 +3.85% 13
East of England +27 4 - - 38
North East +9 3 £90,000 +82.65% 4
South West -2 3 £50,000 -35.48% 20
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 45 (23.32%) Apache
2 36 (18.65%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.55%) Apache Synapse
3 3 (1.55%) Luigi
3 3 (1.55%) SAS
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.52%) Appian
4 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 11 (5.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 134 (69.43%) AWS
2 102 (52.85%) Azure
3 66 (34.20%) GCP
4 40 (20.73%) Amazon S3
5 33 (17.10%) Serverless
6 26 (13.47%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (11.92%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (10.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 19 (9.84%) Amazon EMR
9 19 (9.84%) Power Platform
10 18 (9.33%) Amazon ELB
10 18 (9.33%) Snowflake
11 15 (7.77%) Amazon Kinesis
12 14 (7.25%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (7.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (7.25%) dbt
13 9 (4.66%) GitHub
13 9 (4.66%) OpenShift
14 8 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.07%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.55%) AMQP
3 1 (0.52%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (45.08%) Big Data
2 68 (35.23%) Hadoop
3 65 (33.68%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (25.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (19.17%) NoSQL
6 35 (18.13%) Metadata
7 32 (16.58%) Data Lake
7 32 (16.58%) DynamoDB
8 28 (14.51%) Delta Lake
9 25 (12.95%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (10.36%) MySQL
10 20 (10.36%) Spark SQL
10 20 (10.36%) SQL Server
11 19 (9.84%) MongoDB
12 18 (9.33%) Power BI
13 15 (7.77%) Relational Database
14 14 (7.25%) Apache Hive
15 13 (6.74%) Apache Cassandra
16 12 (6.22%) RDBMS
17 11 (5.70%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 27 (13.99%) MLflow
2 12 (6.22%) Git
3 10 (5.18%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.55%) GitLab
5 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) Deequ
6 1 (0.52%) Gradle
6 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) Snyk
General
1 107 (55.44%) Social Skills
2 58 (30.05%) Finance
3 49 (25.39%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (13.99%) Law
5 18 (9.33%) Financial Institution
6 12 (6.22%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.18%) Banking
8 5 (2.59%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.07%) Front Office
9 4 (2.07%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.55%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.55%) Marketing
11 2 (1.04%) Advertising
11 2 (1.04%) Electronics
11 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.04%) Legal
11 2 (1.04%) Retail
11 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (36.79%) Data Engineer
2 47 (24.35%) Senior
3 32 (16.58%) Senior Data Engineer
4 19 (9.84%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 18 (9.33%) Operations Engineer
6 17 (8.81%) Developer
7 16 (8.29%) Architect
8 14 (7.25%) AWS Data Engineer
8 14 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (7.25%) Lead
8 14 (7.25%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (6.74%) Data Scientist
9 13 (6.74%) Python Developer
10 11 (5.70%) Data Architect
10 11 (5.70%) Product Lead
11 9 (4.66%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.15%) Senior Data Scientist
13 4 (2.07%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 4 (2.07%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (2.07%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (39.90%) Kafka
2 37 (19.17%) PySpark
3 36 (18.65%) PyTorch
3 36 (18.65%) TensorFlow
4 30 (15.54%) scikit-learn
5 29 (15.03%) Pandas
6 22 (11.40%) NumPy
7 18 (9.33%) Keras
7 18 (9.33%) Lambda Expressions
7 18 (9.33%) Metaflow
7 18 (9.33%) YAML
8 16 (8.29%) REST
9 10 (5.18%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (4.15%) boto
10 8 (4.15%) React
11 7 (3.63%) SpaCy
12 6 (3.11%) Spring
13 5 (2.59%) LDAP
13 5 (2.59%) OAuth2
13 5 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.83%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (11.40%) Product Ownership
3 21 (10.88%) Linux Command Line
4 20 (10.36%) Cloud Native
5 17 (8.81%) e-Learning
6 12 (6.22%) Algorithms
6 12 (6.22%) FMCG
6 12 (6.22%) Management Information System
7 11 (5.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (3.63%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (3.11%) Data Structures
11 4 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.55%) Equities
12 3 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (1.04%) Mainframe
13 2 (1.04%) Robotics
14 1 (0.52%) Data Fabric
14 1 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.95%) Unix
2 12 (6.22%) Linux
3 3 (1.55%) CentOS
3 3 (1.55%) Debian
3 3 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (52.33%) CI/CD
1 101 (52.33%) Data Pipeline
2 93 (48.19%) Data Engineering
3 92 (47.67%) Machine Learning
4 90 (46.63%) Analytics
5 84 (43.52%) Data Science
6 76 (39.38%) ETL
7 74 (38.34%) Data Modelling
8 64 (33.16%) AI
8 64 (33.16%) DevOps
9 53 (27.46%) Data Governance
10 48 (24.87%) Software Engineering
11 45 (23.32%) Business Intelligence
11 45 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (21.76%) Containerisation
13 40 (20.73%) MLOps
14 39 (20.21%) Agile
15 38 (19.69%) Computer Science
15 38 (19.69%) Mentoring
16 37 (19.17%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 166 (86.01%) Python
2 138 (71.50%) SQL
3 54 (27.98%) Java
4 34 (17.62%) Scala
5 7 (3.63%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.63%) R
6 4 (2.07%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.55%) C#
8 2 (1.04%) Bash
8 2 (1.04%) C++
8 2 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.52%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (20.21%) Degree
2 18 (9.33%) Master's Degree
3 17 (8.81%) PhD
4 14 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.74%) Security Cleared
6 11 (5.70%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.11%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.59%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.52%) MBA
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (24.35%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.77%) QA
3 10 (5.18%) GDPR
4 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 49 (25.39%) Docker
2 9 (4.66%) HDFS
3 5 (2.59%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (25.39%) Kubernetes
2 38 (19.69%) Terraform
3 24 (12.44%) Kubeflow
4 14 (7.25%) Ansible
5 7 (3.63%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.11%) Grafana
7 5 (2.59%) Puppet
8 3 (1.55%) Kibana
8 3 (1.55%) logstash
9 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 76 (39.38%) Databricks
2 21 (10.88%) Oracle
3 14 (7.25%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.25%) SAP
4 12 (6.22%) Informatica
5 11 (5.70%) Talend
6 8 (4.15%) Google
7 7 (3.63%) Dell
8 5 (2.59%) Palantir
9 4 (2.07%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.55%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.52%) Black Duck
11 1 (0.52%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.52%) IBM
11 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.52%) UiPath
11 1 (0.52%) VMware