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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 368 437
Rank change year-on-year -96 +69 -194
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 190 277 388
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.73% 0.52%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.97% 7.43% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 89 193 247
10th Percentile £56,750 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £74,000 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £116,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -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 3,185 3,729 7,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.79% 9.78% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,304 2,580 6,221
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,688 £38,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -42 131 £95,000 -13.64% 52
North of England -43 23 £65,000 +15.56% 19
East of England 0 15 £75,000 -7.69% 5
Yorkshire -29 14 £65,000 +13.04% 5
South West -22 10 £80,000 +23.08% 8
North West -16 8 £95,000 +72.73% 9
South East -63 4 £65,000 +13.04% 23
West Midlands -5 1 - - 3
North East -22 1 - - 5
Midlands -30 1 - - 5
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 83 (43.68%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (38.95%) Apache
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.53%) Camunda
3 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.84%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 120 (63.16%) AWS
2 79 (41.58%) Azure
3 65 (34.21%) GCP
4 46 (24.21%) Amazon S3
5 37 (19.47%) OpenShift
6 35 (18.42%) Power Platform
7 34 (17.89%) dbt
8 28 (14.74%) Serverless
8 28 (14.74%) Snowflake
9 25 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (13.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (8.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (6.84%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (4.74%) Dagster
14 8 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (3.68%) GitHub
16 6 (3.16%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.68%) Broadband
2 5 (2.63%) AMQP
2 5 (2.63%) 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 65 (34.21%) Big Data
2 58 (30.53%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (26.84%) Tableau
4 40 (21.05%) Data Lake
4 40 (21.05%) Hadoop
5 35 (18.42%) Apache Hive
5 35 (18.42%) Power BI
6 34 (17.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 27 (14.21%) BigQuery
7 27 (14.21%) Spark SQL
8 25 (13.16%) Impala
8 25 (13.16%) Oracle Database
8 25 (13.16%) Parquet
9 21 (11.05%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (9.47%) MySQL
10 18 (9.47%) Relational Database
10 18 (9.47%) Snowflake Schema
11 16 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (7.37%) Looker
13 13 (6.84%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (22.11%) Git
2 25 (13.16%) IBM UrbanCode
3 17 (8.95%) MLflow
4 7 (3.68%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.16%) GitLab
6 2 (1.05%) Deequ
7 1 (0.53%) JIRA
7 1 (0.53%) JUnit
General
1 80 (42.11%) Finance
2 77 (40.53%) Social Skills
3 62 (32.63%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (16.84%) Banking
5 24 (12.63%) Investment Banking
6 13 (6.84%) Law
6 13 (6.84%) Legal
7 9 (4.74%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.63%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.11%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.05%) Advertising
10 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.05%) Marketing
10 2 (1.05%) Retail
10 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.53%) Billing
11 1 (0.53%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 71 (37.37%) Data Engineer
2 55 (28.95%) Senior
3 28 (14.74%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (13.68%) Analyst
5 23 (12.11%) Developer
5 23 (12.11%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (11.58%) Banking Analyst
7 19 (10.00%) Python Developer
8 14 (7.37%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 13 (6.84%) AWS Data Engineer
9 13 (6.84%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (6.84%) Business Analyst
9 13 (6.84%) Systems Engineer
10 12 (6.32%) Architect
10 12 (6.32%) Data Business Analyst
10 12 (6.32%) Technical Analyst
11 11 (5.79%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 11 (5.79%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.26%) Python Engineer
13 8 (4.21%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (44.21%) Kafka
2 48 (25.26%) PySpark
3 26 (13.68%) REST
4 24 (12.63%) Pandas
5 22 (11.58%) PyTorch
5 22 (11.58%) TensorFlow
6 17 (8.95%) scikit-learn
7 15 (7.89%) LangChain
8 13 (6.84%) LlamaIndex
8 13 (6.84%) pgvector
8 13 (6.84%) Spring
9 12 (6.32%) Spring Boot
10 9 (4.74%) Node.js
10 9 (4.74%) OAuth
11 8 (4.21%) NumPy
12 6 (3.16%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.16%) LDAP
12 6 (3.16%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (3.16%) React
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 28 (14.74%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.84%) Clustering
3 13 (6.84%) Public Cloud
4 10 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (4.21%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.21%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.68%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.16%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.16%) Social Media
8 4 (2.11%) e-Learning
8 4 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.58%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.05%) Data Fabric
10 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.42%) Linux
2 6 (3.16%) Unix
3 5 (2.63%) CentOS
3 5 (2.63%) Debian
3 5 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (65.79%) Data Pipeline
2 111 (58.42%) Analytics
3 102 (53.68%) Data Engineering
4 100 (52.63%) ETL
5 87 (45.79%) CI/CD
6 86 (45.26%) AI
7 85 (44.74%) Data Governance
8 73 (38.42%) Data Modelling
9 64 (33.68%) Agile
10 63 (33.16%) Machine Learning
11 62 (32.63%) Data Science
12 50 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
13 49 (25.79%) Software Engineering
14 47 (24.74%) Computer Science
15 37 (19.47%) DevOps
15 37 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (18.42%) Data Transformation
16 35 (18.42%) Scrum
17 33 (17.37%) Performance Tuning
18 29 (15.26%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 176 (92.63%) Python
2 142 (74.74%) SQL
3 47 (24.74%) Java
4 27 (14.21%) Scala
5 8 (4.21%) C++
6 7 (3.68%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.63%) R
8 3 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.53%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.53%) Bash
10 1 (0.53%) Bicep
10 1 (0.53%) C#
10 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.53%) Ruby
10 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (16.32%) Degree
2 18 (9.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (8.42%) Security Cleared
4 13 (6.84%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.21%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.21%) Master's Degree
5 8 (4.21%) PhD
6 6 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.53%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (40.53%) Data Quality
2 29 (15.26%) GDPR
3 25 (13.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (6.32%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.58%) QA
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (15.26%) Docker
2 6 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.58%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (18.95%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.68%) Terraform
3 15 (7.89%) Ansible
4 12 (6.32%) Grafana
5 11 (5.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.63%) Puppet
7 3 (1.58%) Kibana
7 3 (1.58%) logstash
8 1 (0.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (24.74%) Databricks
2 37 (19.47%) Oracle
3 32 (16.84%) Red Hat
4 21 (11.05%) Dell
5 13 (6.84%) Cloudera
6 11 (5.79%) Microsoft
7 10 (5.26%) Google
8 7 (3.68%) Informatica
9 6 (3.16%) Talend
10 5 (2.63%) Palantir
10 5 (2.63%) SaltStack
11 2 (1.05%) IBM
11 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.53%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.53%) Foundry
12 1 (0.53%) Pega
12 1 (0.53%) SAP
12 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.53%) UiPath