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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 403 528
Rank change year-on-year -78 +125 -236
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 241 262 335
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.64% 0.36%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.46% 6.95% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 117 162 237
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,200 £50,850
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,813 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% +4.69% -8.57%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,375 £122,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% -5.88%

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 3,729 3,770 8,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.37% 9.21% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,778 2,652 6,576
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,579
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £110,000
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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -17 153 £100,000 +1.52% 44
North of England -51 38 £57,500 - 16
South West -53 20 £70,000 +27.27% 9
North West +5 16 £55,000 - 6
East of England -2 16 £75,000 +4.90%
North East -41 13 £55,000 +15.79% 8
Yorkshire -35 9 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -60 4 £57,500 -11.54% 15
Midlands -52 2 £50,000 -21.88% 4
West Midlands -24 1 - - 3
East Midlands -32 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
1 114 (47.30%) Apache
2 100 (41.49%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (6.22%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.24%) SAS
5 2 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.41%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.41%) Camunda
6 1 (0.41%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (5.39%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 159 (65.98%) AWS
2 114 (47.30%) Azure
3 86 (35.68%) GCP
4 56 (23.24%) Amazon S3
5 48 (19.92%) Power Platform
6 43 (17.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (15.77%) dbt
8 34 (14.11%) Snowflake
9 32 (13.28%) OpenShift
10 31 (12.86%) Serverless
11 27 (11.20%) Azure Data Factory
12 25 (10.37%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (7.05%) Amazon EMR
14 15 (6.22%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (5.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (4.56%) Microsoft Purview
17 10 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
18 9 (3.73%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.90%) Broadband
2 6 (2.49%) AMQP
3 2 (0.83%) 4G
3 2 (0.83%) 5G
3 2 (0.83%) BGP
3 2 (0.83%) DNS
3 2 (0.83%) IPsec
3 2 (0.83%) VPN
4 1 (0.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (30.71%) Big Data
2 64 (26.56%) Tableau
3 62 (25.73%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (22.82%) Data Lake
5 50 (20.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (19.50%) Power BI
7 46 (19.09%) Elasticsearch
8 35 (14.52%) Hadoop
9 33 (13.69%) BigQuery
9 33 (13.69%) Spark SQL
10 30 (12.45%) Apache Hive
11 28 (11.62%) NoSQL
12 26 (10.79%) Parquet
12 26 (10.79%) Snowflake Schema
13 25 (10.37%) Impala
13 25 (10.37%) Oracle Database
14 23 (9.54%) Looker
15 22 (9.13%) Relational Database
16 21 (8.71%) Metadata
17 17 (7.05%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 46 (19.09%) Git
2 29 (12.03%) MLflow
3 25 (10.37%) IBM UrbanCode
4 15 (6.22%) GitLab
5 7 (2.90%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.83%) JIRA
6 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.41%) Deequ
7 1 (0.41%) JUnit
General
1 97 (40.25%) Finance
2 77 (31.95%) Social Skills
3 68 (28.22%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (17.43%) Banking
5 24 (9.96%) Investment Banking
6 20 (8.30%) Law
7 16 (6.64%) Legal
8 11 (4.56%) Financial Institution
9 10 (4.15%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.07%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.07%) Military
11 5 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.66%) Games
12 4 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.24%) Retail
14 2 (0.83%) Billing
14 2 (0.83%) Front Office
14 2 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 91 (37.76%) Data Engineer
2 85 (35.27%) Senior
3 30 (12.45%) Lead
4 28 (11.62%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (10.79%) Analyst
6 24 (9.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (9.54%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (9.54%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (9.13%) Banking Analyst
8 22 (9.13%) Python Engineer
9 19 (7.88%) Architect
10 17 (7.05%) Developer
10 17 (7.05%) Lead Data Engineer
11 16 (6.64%) Data Scientist
12 13 (5.39%) Business Analyst
12 13 (5.39%) Data Architect
12 13 (5.39%) Python Developer
12 13 (5.39%) Senior Data Scientist
13 12 (4.98%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.98%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (42.32%) Kafka
2 65 (26.97%) PySpark
3 26 (10.79%) PyTorch
3 26 (10.79%) TensorFlow
4 25 (10.37%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.96%) LangChain
6 23 (9.54%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (9.54%) pgvector
7 21 (8.71%) Pandas
7 21 (8.71%) REST
8 13 (5.39%) Spring
8 13 (5.39%) Spring Boot
9 12 (4.98%) Node.js
10 11 (4.56%) SpaCy
11 7 (2.90%) NumPy
11 7 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.90%) React
12 6 (2.49%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.49%) Material-UI
12 6 (2.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 50 (20.75%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.37%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.54%) Clustering
4 17 (7.05%) Data Structures
5 13 (5.39%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.56%) e-Learning
7 9 (3.73%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.90%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.49%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.49%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.49%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.49%) Social Media
10 5 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.66%) NHS
12 3 (1.24%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.83%) Replication
13 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.56%) Linux
2 6 (2.49%) CentOS
2 6 (2.49%) Debian
2 6 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.49%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (62.24%) Analytics
1 150 (62.24%) Data Engineering
2 148 (61.41%) Data Pipeline
3 111 (46.06%) CI/CD
4 110 (45.64%) ETL
5 103 (42.74%) Data Modelling
6 95 (39.42%) Data Governance
7 94 (39.00%) AI
8 91 (37.76%) Data Science
9 82 (34.02%) Machine Learning
10 78 (32.37%) Agile
11 59 (24.48%) Business Intelligence
12 58 (24.07%) DevOps
13 56 (23.24%) Use Case
14 51 (21.16%) Performance Tuning
15 48 (19.92%) Validation
16 44 (18.26%) Software Engineering
17 40 (16.60%) Generative AI
18 39 (16.18%) Data Transformation
18 39 (16.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 211 (87.55%) Python
2 180 (74.69%) SQL
3 44 (18.26%) Scala
4 35 (14.52%) Java
5 7 (2.90%) C++
5 7 (2.90%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.07%) VBA
7 4 (1.66%) Bash
7 4 (1.66%) Bicep
8 3 (1.24%) C#
8 3 (1.24%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.83%) C
9 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.83%) PHP
9 2 (0.83%) R
9 2 (0.83%) Ruby
9 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.28%) Degree
3 28 (11.62%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.81%) Master's Degree
5 13 (5.39%) PhD
6 12 (4.98%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.56%) AWS Certification
7 11 (4.56%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.41%) CEH
10 1 (0.41%) CISM
10 1 (0.41%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (41.08%) Data Quality
2 37 (15.35%) GDPR
3 35 (14.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.98%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.32%) QA
6 5 (2.07%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.83%) IFRS
7 2 (0.83%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.83%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (15.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (17.01%) Terraform
2 34 (14.11%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.15%) Ansible
4 6 (2.49%) Grafana
4 6 (2.49%) Puppet
5 5 (2.07%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.24%) Kibana
7 2 (0.83%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 81 (33.61%) Databricks
2 32 (13.28%) Red Hat
3 28 (11.62%) Oracle
4 24 (9.96%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.96%) Dell
5 13 (5.39%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.56%) Google
7 6 (2.49%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.24%) IBM
8 3 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.83%) Foundry
9 2 (0.83%) HP
9 2 (0.83%) Informatica
9 2 (0.83%) Palantir
9 2 (0.83%) SAP
10 1 (0.41%) Confluent
10 1 (0.41%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.41%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.41%) Talend