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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 446 476
Rank change year-on-year -70 +30 -124
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 252 209 272
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.48% 0.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.87% 5.94% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 126 102 187
10th Percentile £52,375 £51,300 £49,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +0.46%
75th Percentile £96,875 £98,438 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £136,750 £121,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +0.46%

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 4,294 3,516 5,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.13% 8.12% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,976 2,520 3,466
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,738 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +1.72%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £55,762
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.16% +1.31%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -65 147 £85,000 -6.85% 375
North of England -25 55 £57,500 -4.17% 62
South West -49 28 £59,500 +8.18% 32
North East -42 25 £55,000 +15.79% 16
North West -19 20 £58,750 -12.96% 30
Yorkshire -48 10 £80,000 +33.33% 16
South East -55 10 £63,002 -6.66% 53
West Midlands -37 4 £60,653 +13.37% 11
Midlands -61 4 £60,653 +13.37% 21
East of England -38 1 £80,000 +11.89% 30
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
1 115 (45.63%) Apache
2 43 (17.06%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (8.73%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.98%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.19%) SAS
6 2 (0.79%) Luigi
6 2 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.79%) Tornado
7 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 142 (56.35%) AWS
2 137 (54.37%) Azure
3 72 (28.57%) GCP
4 42 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 40 (15.87%) Serverless
6 36 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 28 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (11.11%) Power Platform
8 26 (10.32%) Amazon EMR
9 25 (9.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 22 (8.73%) Amazon Kinesis
10 22 (8.73%) Azure Databricks
10 22 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (6.75%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (6.35%) Snowflake
14 13 (5.16%) Amazon ECR
15 12 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.78%) AMQP
2 6 (2.38%) BGP
2 6 (2.38%) DNS
2 6 (2.38%) IPsec
2 6 (2.38%) VPN
3 5 (1.98%) Internet
4 1 (0.40%) 4G
4 1 (0.40%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (35.32%) Big Data
2 57 (22.62%) Hadoop
3 52 (20.63%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (19.05%) Data Lake
5 43 (17.06%) NoSQL
6 41 (16.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 28 (11.11%) Metadata
7 28 (11.11%) Power BI
8 25 (9.92%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (9.13%) Delta Lake
9 23 (9.13%) Relational Database
10 20 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (7.54%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (7.14%) Tableau
13 17 (6.75%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (5.95%) Flink
15 12 (4.76%) DynamoDB
15 12 (4.76%) Spark SQL
16 11 (4.37%) Apache Hive
17 10 (3.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (18.25%) Git
2 20 (7.94%) GitLab
3 15 (5.95%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.17%) MLflow
5 2 (0.79%) JIRA
5 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.40%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.40%) ERwin
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 107 (42.46%) Finance
2 75 (29.76%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (13.10%) Banking
5 26 (10.32%) Public Sector
6 25 (9.92%) Financial Institution
7 17 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (5.95%) Aerospace
8 15 (5.95%) Law
9 10 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.97%) Military
10 9 (3.57%) Marketing
11 6 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.38%) Retail
12 5 (1.98%) Legal
13 4 (1.59%) Front Office
14 3 (1.19%) Games
15 2 (0.79%) Aviation
15 2 (0.79%) Local Government
15 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (51.59%) Data Engineer
2 81 (32.14%) Senior
3 42 (16.67%) Lead
4 39 (15.48%) Data Scientist
5 34 (13.49%) Senior Data Engineer
5 34 (13.49%) Senior Data Scientist
6 24 (9.52%) Lead Data Engineer
7 22 (8.73%) Databricks Engineer
8 20 (7.94%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 15 (5.95%) Python Engineer
10 14 (5.56%) Software Engineer
11 13 (5.16%) Architect
12 11 (4.37%) Data Architect
13 10 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (3.57%) AWS Data Engineer
14 9 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (3.57%) Consultant
15 8 (3.17%) Azure Data Engineer
15 8 (3.17%) Developer
15 8 (3.17%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (34.52%) Kafka
2 56 (22.22%) PySpark
3 49 (19.44%) Terraform
4 25 (9.92%) SpaCy
5 13 (5.16%) Node.js
6 12 (4.76%) REST
7 11 (4.37%) Pandas
8 10 (3.97%) gRPC
9 9 (3.57%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
9 9 (3.57%) React
10 8 (3.17%) Spring
10 8 (3.17%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.78%) Material-UI
11 7 (2.78%) NumPy
11 7 (2.78%) OpenAPI
11 7 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.78%) RESTful
11 7 (2.78%) Swagger
12 6 (2.38%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.92%) e-Learning
3 22 (8.73%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.95%) Data Structures
4 15 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.95%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.37%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (3.17%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (2.38%) NHS
8 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.59%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.59%) CUDA
9 4 (1.59%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.79%) Blog
11 2 (0.79%) Derivative
11 2 (0.79%) Life Science
11 2 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.95%) Linux
2 7 (2.78%) CentOS
2 7 (2.78%) Debian
2 7 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (63.89%) Data Engineering
2 144 (57.14%) Analytics
3 141 (55.95%) CI/CD
4 135 (53.57%) Data Pipeline
5 113 (44.84%) Data Science
6 107 (42.46%) DevOps
7 100 (39.68%) Data Modelling
8 99 (39.29%) Machine Learning
9 83 (32.94%) Agile
10 78 (30.95%) ETL
11 76 (30.16%) AI
11 76 (30.16%) Mentoring
12 57 (22.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 50 (19.84%) Lakehouse
13 50 (19.84%) Validation
14 49 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (17.86%) Natural Language Processing
16 44 (17.46%) Data Ingestion
17 43 (17.06%) Data Governance
17 43 (17.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 211 (83.73%) Python
2 160 (63.49%) SQL
3 52 (20.63%) Scala
4 36 (14.29%) Java
5 12 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.17%) C#
7 7 (2.78%) R
8 6 (2.38%) C
8 6 (2.38%) PHP
8 6 (2.38%) Ruby
9 5 (1.98%) Bash
9 5 (1.98%) VBA
10 3 (1.19%) Bicep
10 3 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.19%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 61 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 59 (23.41%) Degree
4 34 (13.49%) PhD
5 31 (12.30%) Master's Degree
6 21 (8.33%) Azure Certification
7 19 (7.54%) DV Cleared
8 18 (7.14%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.40%) CEH
13 1 (0.40%) CISM
13 1 (0.40%) CISSP
13 1 (0.40%) OCP
13 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (37.70%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.16%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.17%) QA
4 7 (2.78%) GDPR
5 5 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.79%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (23.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (18.25%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.97%) Ansible
3 7 (2.78%) Puppet
4 6 (2.38%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (1.19%) Kibana
6 2 (0.79%) Argo
7 1 (0.40%) Control-M
7 1 (0.40%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 93 (36.90%) Databricks
2 31 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.76%) Google
4 9 (3.57%) Oracle
5 8 (3.17%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.78%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.38%) HP
7 6 (2.38%) IBM
7 6 (2.38%) SAP
8 5 (1.98%) Informatica
9 4 (1.59%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.19%) Foundry
10 3 (1.19%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.19%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.79%) Palantir
11 2 (0.79%) Thales
12 1 (0.40%) Confluent
12 1 (0.40%) Refinitiv
12 1 (0.40%) Sparx