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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 389 417
Rank change year-on-year -66 +28 -177
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 187 286 383
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.67% 0.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.97% 7.00% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 97 205 247
10th Percentile £56,000 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £71,750 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £132,500 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%

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 3,130 4,087 6,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.09% 9.54% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,256 2,506 5,548
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £110,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -13 130 £95,000 -13.64% 43
North of England -13 26 £65,000 +18.18% 27
Yorkshire -28 17 £65,000 +32.65% 12
East of England +16 12 - - 3
North West -17 8 £95,000 +72.73% 9
South West -14 7 £80,000 +3.23% 11
South East -40 4 £65,000 +13.04% 15
West Midlands +15 1 - - 1
North East -3 1 - - 6
Midlands -4 1 - - 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 72 (38.50%) Apache
2 64 (34.22%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.07%) SAS
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.53%) Camunda
4 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (65.24%) AWS
2 79 (42.25%) Azure
3 64 (34.22%) GCP
4 42 (22.46%) Amazon S3
5 34 (18.18%) Serverless
6 33 (17.65%) OpenShift
7 31 (16.58%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (11.76%) dbt
9 18 (9.63%) Power Platform
10 17 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (8.02%) Amazon EMR
11 15 (8.02%) Snowflake
12 13 (6.95%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (6.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (4.81%) Dagster
17 7 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (3.74%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.74%) Broadband
2 5 (2.67%) AMQP
2 5 (2.67%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.53%) 4G
3 1 (0.53%) 5G
3 1 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.53%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (40.11%) Big Data
2 53 (28.34%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (27.81%) Hadoop
4 35 (18.72%) Tableau
5 34 (18.18%) Apache Hive
6 33 (17.65%) Data Lake
7 32 (17.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (12.30%) Spark SQL
9 21 (11.23%) Impala
9 21 (11.23%) Oracle Database
9 21 (11.23%) Parquet
10 18 (9.63%) Power BI
11 17 (9.09%) MySQL
12 16 (8.56%) NoSQL
12 16 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (8.56%) Relational Database
13 15 (8.02%) MongoDB
14 14 (7.49%) BigQuery
15 13 (6.95%) SQL Server
16 12 (6.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 37 (19.79%) Git
2 21 (11.23%) IBM UrbanCode
3 6 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.14%) GitLab
5 3 (1.60%) MLflow
6 2 (1.07%) Deequ
7 1 (0.53%) JUnit
General
1 82 (43.85%) Social Skills
2 81 (43.32%) Finance
3 49 (26.20%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (18.18%) Banking
5 22 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 15 (8.02%) Law
7 12 (6.42%) Financial Institution
7 12 (6.42%) Legal
8 9 (4.81%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.14%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.60%) Front Office
10 3 (1.60%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.07%) Advertising
11 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.07%) Marketing
11 2 (1.07%) Retail
12 1 (0.53%) Billing
12 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (42.25%) Data Engineer
2 49 (26.20%) Senior
3 33 (17.65%) Senior Data Engineer
4 24 (12.83%) Developer
5 22 (11.76%) Analyst
6 19 (10.16%) Python Developer
6 19 (10.16%) Transformation Analyst
7 18 (9.63%) AWS Data Engineer
7 18 (9.63%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (9.63%) Banking Analyst
8 14 (7.49%) Architect
9 11 (5.88%) Business Analyst
9 11 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Data Architect
10 10 (5.35%) Data Business Analyst
10 10 (5.35%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (4.81%) Data Scientist
11 9 (4.81%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 6 (3.21%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (39.57%) Kafka
2 45 (24.06%) PySpark
3 24 (12.83%) Pandas
3 24 (12.83%) REST
4 12 (6.42%) PyTorch
4 12 (6.42%) Spring
4 12 (6.42%) TensorFlow
5 11 (5.88%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.28%) NumPy
7 7 (3.74%) React
7 7 (3.74%) scikit-learn
8 6 (3.21%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.21%) boto
8 6 (3.21%) LDAP
8 6 (3.21%) Node.js
8 6 (3.21%) OAuth
8 6 (3.21%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (3.21%) Spark Streaming
9 5 (2.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (11.23%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 11 (5.88%) e-Learning
4 10 (5.35%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.81%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (4.28%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.28%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.21%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (3.21%) Social Media
9 4 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.60%) Equities
10 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.07%) FMCG
11 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.56%) Linux
2 6 (3.21%) Unix
3 5 (2.67%) CentOS
3 5 (2.67%) Debian
3 5 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (62.03%) Data Pipeline
2 101 (54.01%) Analytics
3 97 (51.87%) Data Engineering
4 92 (49.20%) CI/CD
5 87 (46.52%) ETL
6 72 (38.50%) Data Governance
7 65 (34.76%) AI
8 64 (34.22%) Data Modelling
9 58 (31.02%) Agile
9 58 (31.02%) Data Science
10 52 (27.81%) Machine Learning
11 49 (26.20%) Software Engineering
12 46 (24.60%) DevOps
13 43 (22.99%) Computer Science
14 42 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (19.25%) Business Intelligence
16 33 (17.65%) Data Transformation
17 32 (17.11%) Scrum
18 30 (16.04%) Mentoring
19 29 (15.51%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 172 (91.98%) Python
2 130 (69.52%) SQL
3 57 (30.48%) Java
4 28 (14.97%) Scala
5 9 (4.81%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.28%) C++
7 7 (3.74%) R
8 5 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.60%) C#
10 2 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.53%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.53%) Bash
11 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.53%) Ruby
11 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (17.65%) Degree
2 16 (8.56%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (6.95%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.42%) PhD
6 11 (5.88%) Master's Degree
7 6 (3.21%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.21%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.21%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.53%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (39.04%) Data Quality
2 17 (9.09%) GDPR
3 10 (5.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (5.35%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.14%) QA
5 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (15.51%) Docker
2 7 (3.74%) HDFS
3 6 (3.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 23 (12.30%) Terraform
3 13 (6.95%) Ansible
4 10 (5.35%) Grafana
4 10 (5.35%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.67%) Puppet
6 3 (1.60%) Kibana
6 3 (1.60%) logstash
7 1 (0.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 41 (21.93%) Databricks
2 35 (18.72%) Oracle
3 28 (14.97%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.42%) Google
5 10 (5.35%) Microsoft
6 8 (4.28%) Dell
6 8 (4.28%) Informatica
7 7 (3.74%) Talend
8 5 (2.67%) Palantir
8 5 (2.67%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.60%) SAP
10 2 (1.07%) IBM
11 1 (0.53%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.53%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.53%) Foundry
11 1 (0.53%) Pega
11 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.53%) UiPath