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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 390 494
Rank change year-on-year -97 +104 -262
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 208 261 374
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.69% 0.43%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.10% 7.38% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 97 182 264
10th Percentile £54,500 £50,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +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 3,408 3,536 8,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.11% 9.31% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,533 2,467 6,557
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,900 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -12.89%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%

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 27 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 27 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 -42 140 £100,000 -9.09% 58
North of England -28 25 £75,000 +30.43% 35
East of England -13 17 £75,000 +4.90% 3
South West -43 17 £80,000 +60.00% 16
North West -17 9 £75,000 +36.36% 17
Yorkshire -42 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
North East -33 7 £57,500 -14.81% 17
South East -49 4 £57,500 -11.54% 6
East Midlands -44 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -44 1 £50,000 -25.93% 4
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 (44.71%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (41.83%) Apache
3 10 (4.81%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.44%) SAS
5 1 (0.48%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.48%) Camunda
5 1 (0.48%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.48%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 135 (64.90%) AWS
2 97 (46.63%) Azure
3 77 (37.02%) GCP
4 48 (23.08%) Amazon S3
5 46 (22.12%) Power Platform
6 41 (19.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (18.75%) dbt
8 35 (16.83%) Snowflake
9 31 (14.90%) OpenShift
10 25 (12.02%) Serverless
11 22 (10.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (10.10%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (5.29%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (4.33%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 8 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (3.85%) SaaS
17 7 (3.37%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.37%) Broadband
2 5 (2.40%) 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 70 (33.65%) Big Data
2 64 (30.77%) Tableau
3 61 (29.33%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (22.12%) Data Lake
5 45 (21.63%) Power BI
6 44 (21.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 38 (18.27%) Elasticsearch
8 34 (16.35%) BigQuery
9 32 (15.38%) Spark SQL
10 30 (14.42%) Hadoop
11 27 (12.98%) Apache Hive
11 27 (12.98%) Snowflake Schema
12 25 (12.02%) Impala
12 25 (12.02%) Oracle Database
12 25 (12.02%) Parquet
12 25 (12.02%) Relational Database
13 23 (11.06%) Looker
14 22 (10.58%) NoSQL
15 16 (7.69%) Metadata
16 15 (7.21%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (19.71%) Git
2 28 (13.46%) MLflow
3 25 (12.02%) IBM UrbanCode
4 9 (4.33%) GitLab
5 6 (2.88%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.96%) JIRA
7 1 (0.48%) Deequ
7 1 (0.48%) JUnit
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 86 (41.35%) Finance
2 70 (33.65%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 37 (17.79%) Banking
5 24 (11.54%) Investment Banking
6 16 (7.69%) Legal
7 14 (6.73%) Law
8 7 (3.37%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.37%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.92%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.92%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Advertising
11 2 (0.96%) Billing
11 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Front Office
12 1 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 69 (33.17%) Data Engineer
2 66 (31.73%) Senior
3 26 (12.50%) Analyst
4 24 (11.54%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.06%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.06%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.58%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (10.58%) Lead
6 22 (10.58%) Senior Data Engineer
7 21 (10.10%) Developer
7 21 (10.10%) Python Engineer
8 17 (8.17%) Architect
9 16 (7.69%) Python Developer
10 14 (6.73%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (6.25%) Business Analyst
11 13 (6.25%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.77%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.77%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (5.29%) Data Architect
13 11 (5.29%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (45.67%) Kafka
2 54 (25.96%) PySpark
3 29 (13.94%) PyTorch
3 29 (13.94%) TensorFlow
4 26 (12.50%) scikit-learn
5 24 (11.54%) LangChain
5 24 (11.54%) REST
6 23 (11.06%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (11.06%) pgvector
7 21 (10.10%) Pandas
8 11 (5.29%) Spring
8 11 (5.29%) Spring Boot
9 9 (4.33%) Node.js
10 7 (3.37%) NumPy
10 7 (3.37%) SpaCy
11 6 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.88%) React
12 5 (2.40%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.40%) OAuth
12 5 (2.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.67%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.54%) Public Cloud
3 23 (11.06%) Clustering
4 15 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.77%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.81%) Data Structures
7 9 (4.33%) Algorithms
8 8 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (3.37%) e-Learning
10 6 (2.88%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.88%) Social Media
11 5 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.92%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.44%) Data Fabric
14 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (0.96%) Replication
14 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.85%) Linux
2 5 (2.40%) CentOS
2 5 (2.40%) Debian
2 5 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.40%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (64.42%) Data Pipeline
2 130 (62.50%) Analytics
3 125 (60.10%) Data Engineering
4 107 (51.44%) ETL
5 94 (45.19%) CI/CD
6 91 (43.75%) AI
7 89 (42.79%) Data Governance
8 85 (40.87%) Data Modelling
9 77 (37.02%) Data Science
10 72 (34.62%) Machine Learning
11 71 (34.13%) Agile
12 56 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
13 46 (22.12%) Software Engineering
14 45 (21.63%) Performance Tuning
14 45 (21.63%) Use Case
15 43 (20.67%) DevOps
16 40 (19.23%) Computer Science
17 38 (18.27%) Generative AI
18 35 (16.83%) Scrum
19 34 (16.35%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 193 (92.79%) Python
2 158 (75.96%) SQL
3 39 (18.75%) Java
4 35 (16.83%) Scala
5 7 (3.37%) C++
6 6 (2.88%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.92%) Bicep
7 4 (1.92%) R
8 3 (1.44%) Bash
8 3 (1.44%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.44%) VBA
9 2 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.48%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.48%) C#
10 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (12.98%) Degree
2 25 (12.02%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.17%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.29%) Master's Degree
5 11 (5.29%) PhD
6 10 (4.81%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.33%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.88%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.40%) 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 87 (41.83%) Data Quality
2 37 (17.79%) GDPR
3 35 (16.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.77%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.44%) QA
6 2 (0.96%) IFRS
6 2 (0.96%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.96%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (13.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (14.42%) Terraform
2 29 (13.94%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.33%) Ansible
4 6 (2.88%) Grafana
5 5 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.40%) Puppet
6 3 (1.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 63 (30.29%) Databricks
2 31 (14.90%) Red Hat
3 29 (13.94%) Oracle
4 24 (11.54%) Cloudera
4 24 (11.54%) Dell
5 10 (4.81%) Google
6 9 (4.33%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.40%) Informatica
7 5 (2.40%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.92%) Talend
9 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.48%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.48%) Confluent
10 1 (0.48%) Foundry
10 1 (0.48%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.48%) Palantir
10 1 (0.48%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.48%) Splunk
10 1 (0.48%) UiPath