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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 369 475
Rank change year-on-year -108 +106 -242
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 204 275 382
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.73% 0.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.29% 7.50% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 94 200 263
10th Percentile £54,125 £52,500 £50,172
25th Percentile £74,250 £56,250 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £84,115 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +5.14% -9.60%
75th Percentile £128,438 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,865 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.58% +3.58% -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 3,242 3,665 8,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.05% 9.69% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,377 2,658 6,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,246 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 1 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 1 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 -66 137 £95,000 -13.64% 56
North of England -64 23 £65,000 +13.04% 23
East of England -8 18 £75,000 -7.69% 1
South West -42 13 £82,000 +64.00% 7
Yorkshire -54 13 £62,500 +8.70% 1
North West -34 8 £95,000 +58.33% 14
South East -58 4 £57,500 -11.54% 9
North East -36 2 £68,750 -14.06% 8
Midlands -51 2 £50,000 -21.88% 5
West Midlands -34 1 - - 4
East Midlands -53 1 £50,000 -33.33% 1
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 (45.59%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (38.24%) Apache
3 2 (0.98%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.49%) Camunda
4 1 (0.49%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 131 (64.22%) AWS
2 99 (48.53%) Azure
3 81 (39.71%) GCP
4 50 (24.51%) Power Platform
5 45 (22.06%) Amazon S3
6 42 (20.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 41 (20.10%) dbt
8 38 (18.63%) Snowflake
9 32 (15.69%) OpenShift
10 25 (12.25%) Serverless
11 22 (10.78%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (5.39%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (4.90%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (4.41%) GitHub
15 9 (4.41%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (3.92%) Dagster
17 7 (3.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.43%) Broadband
2 5 (2.45%) AMQP
3 2 (0.98%) 4G
3 2 (0.98%) 5G
4 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.49%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (31.37%) Tableau
2 63 (30.88%) Big Data
3 62 (30.39%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (24.51%) Data Lake
5 49 (24.02%) Power BI
6 41 (20.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (17.65%) BigQuery
8 34 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
9 32 (15.69%) Hadoop
10 29 (14.22%) Spark SQL
11 28 (13.73%) Apache Hive
11 28 (13.73%) Snowflake Schema
12 25 (12.25%) Impala
12 25 (12.25%) Oracle Database
12 25 (12.25%) Parquet
13 24 (11.76%) Looker
14 22 (10.78%) Relational Database
15 21 (10.29%) MySQL
16 16 (7.84%) NoSQL
16 16 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (20.59%) Git
2 29 (14.22%) MLflow
3 25 (12.25%) IBM UrbanCode
4 6 (2.94%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.45%) GitLab
6 2 (0.98%) JIRA
7 1 (0.49%) Deequ
7 1 (0.49%) JUnit
7 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 80 (39.22%) Finance
2 72 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (31.86%) Social Skills
4 34 (16.67%) Banking
5 24 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.86%) Law
6 14 (6.86%) Legal
7 7 (3.43%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.96%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.96%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.96%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.98%) Advertising
9 2 (0.98%) Billing
9 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Retail
10 1 (0.49%) Games
10 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (31.86%) Data Engineer
2 62 (30.39%) Senior
3 26 (12.75%) Analyst
4 24 (11.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.27%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.27%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.78%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (10.78%) Senior Data Engineer
7 21 (10.29%) Developer
8 18 (8.82%) Python Engineer
9 17 (8.33%) Architect
9 17 (8.33%) Python Developer
10 14 (6.86%) Lead
11 13 (6.37%) Business Analyst
12 12 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (5.39%) Data Architect
13 11 (5.39%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 11 (5.39%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (47.06%) Kafka
2 53 (25.98%) PySpark
3 31 (15.20%) PyTorch
3 31 (15.20%) TensorFlow
4 27 (13.24%) scikit-learn
5 25 (12.25%) REST
6 24 (11.76%) LangChain
7 23 (11.27%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (11.27%) pgvector
8 22 (10.78%) Pandas
9 12 (5.88%) Spring
10 11 (5.39%) Spring Boot
11 10 (4.90%) Node.js
12 7 (3.43%) React
13 6 (2.94%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.94%) NumPy
13 6 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.45%) gRPC
14 5 (2.45%) OAuth
14 5 (2.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.27%) Clustering
2 23 (11.27%) Public Cloud
3 15 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.90%) Algorithms
4 10 (4.90%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (4.41%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.43%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.94%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (2.94%) Social Media
8 5 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.45%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.96%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.47%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.98%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.92%) Linux
2 5 (2.45%) CentOS
2 5 (2.45%) Debian
2 5 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.45%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (64.71%) Data Pipeline
2 126 (61.76%) Analytics
3 118 (57.84%) Data Engineering
4 109 (53.43%) ETL
5 96 (47.06%) AI
6 90 (44.12%) Data Governance
7 88 (43.14%) CI/CD
8 82 (40.20%) Data Modelling
9 77 (37.75%) Data Science
9 77 (37.75%) Machine Learning
10 64 (31.37%) Agile
11 59 (28.92%) Business Intelligence
12 46 (22.55%) Software Engineering
13 43 (21.08%) Computer Science
13 43 (21.08%) DevOps
13 43 (21.08%) Performance Tuning
14 39 (19.12%) Generative AI
14 39 (19.12%) Use Case
15 36 (17.65%) Scrum
16 35 (17.16%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 186 (91.18%) Python
2 154 (75.49%) SQL
3 36 (17.65%) Java
4 29 (14.22%) Scala
5 8 (3.92%) C++
6 6 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.45%) R
8 4 (1.96%) Bicep
8 4 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.47%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.49%) Bash
10 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.49%) Ruby
10 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (13.73%) Degree
2 21 (10.29%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.86%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.90%) PhD
6 9 (4.41%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.41%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.92%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.94%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.49%) CEH
11 1 (0.49%) CISM
11 1 (0.49%) CISSP
11 1 (0.49%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (42.16%) Data Quality
2 38 (18.63%) GDPR
3 35 (17.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.88%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.47%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.98%) IFRS
6 2 (0.98%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.98%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.49%) QA
7 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (13.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (15.20%) Kubernetes
2 29 (14.22%) Terraform
3 11 (5.39%) Ansible
4 8 (3.92%) Grafana
5 7 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.45%) Puppet
7 1 (0.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 67 (32.84%) Databricks
2 34 (16.67%) Oracle
3 32 (15.69%) Red Hat
4 24 (11.76%) Cloudera
4 24 (11.76%) Dell
5 14 (6.86%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.90%) Google
7 6 (2.94%) Informatica
8 5 (2.45%) Palantir
8 5 (2.45%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.45%) Talend
9 3 (1.47%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.49%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.49%) Confluent
10 1 (0.49%) Foundry
10 1 (0.49%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.49%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.49%) Splunk
10 1 (0.49%) UiPath