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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 406 533
Rank change year-on-year -78 +127 -231
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 246 264 324
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.62% 0.36%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.45% 6.82% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 114 158 228
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,700 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,313 £62,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £124,500 £117,875
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £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 3,815 3,871 8,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.41% 9.10% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,855 2,731 6,484
10th Percentile £28,600 £29,500 £27,575
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £71,752 £75,000 £75,662
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £112,500
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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -30 158 £100,000 +5.26% 64
North of England -35 39 £57,500 - 20
South West -40 20 £70,000 +27.27% 13
North West -3 17 £55,000 - 7
East of England -12 15 £75,000 +4.90%
North East -38 13 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -34 9 £80,000 +39.13% 6
South East -60 4 £57,500 -11.54% 22
Midlands -43 2 £50,000 -25.93% 5
West Midlands -21 1 - - 1
East Midlands -38 1 £50,000 -33.33% 4
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
1 112 (45.53%) Apache
2 99 (40.24%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (6.10%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Pig
4 3 (1.22%) SAS
5 2 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.41%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.41%) Camunda
6 1 (0.41%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (5.28%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 164 (66.67%) AWS
2 115 (46.75%) Azure
3 87 (35.37%) GCP
4 55 (22.36%) Amazon S3
5 47 (19.11%) Power Platform
6 43 (17.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (15.45%) dbt
8 34 (13.82%) Serverless
8 34 (13.82%) Snowflake
9 32 (13.01%) OpenShift
10 27 (10.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 24 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (7.72%) Amazon EMR
13 18 (7.32%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (4.47%) Microsoft Purview
16 10 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (4.07%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.85%) Broadband
2 6 (2.44%) AMQP
3 4 (1.63%) BGP
3 4 (1.63%) DNS
3 4 (1.63%) IPsec
3 4 (1.63%) VPN
4 3 (1.22%) Internet
5 2 (0.81%) 4G
5 2 (0.81%) 5G
6 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (30.89%) Big Data
2 63 (25.61%) Tableau
3 60 (24.39%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (21.95%) Data Lake
5 51 (20.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 48 (19.51%) Elasticsearch
7 46 (18.70%) Power BI
8 38 (15.45%) Hadoop
9 34 (13.82%) Apache Hive
10 33 (13.41%) BigQuery
10 33 (13.41%) Spark SQL
11 32 (13.01%) NoSQL
12 26 (10.57%) Parquet
13 25 (10.16%) Impala
13 25 (10.16%) Oracle Database
13 25 (10.16%) Snowflake Schema
14 23 (9.35%) Looker
14 23 (9.35%) Metadata
15 22 (8.94%) Relational Database
16 17 (6.91%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 45 (18.29%) Git
2 29 (11.79%) MLflow
3 25 (10.16%) IBM UrbanCode
4 15 (6.10%) GitLab
5 7 (2.85%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.81%) JIRA
6 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.41%) Deequ
7 1 (0.41%) JUnit
General
1 100 (40.65%) Finance
2 80 (32.52%) Social Skills
3 68 (27.64%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (17.07%) Banking
5 24 (9.76%) Investment Banking
6 20 (8.13%) Law
7 16 (6.50%) Legal
8 13 (5.28%) Financial Institution
9 10 (4.07%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.85%) Military
11 5 (2.03%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.63%) Games
12 4 (1.63%) Marketing
12 4 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.22%) Retail
14 2 (0.81%) Billing
Job Titles
1 91 (36.99%) Data Engineer
2 85 (34.55%) Senior
3 31 (12.60%) Lead
4 26 (10.57%) Analyst
4 26 (10.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 24 (9.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.35%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (9.35%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (8.94%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (8.94%) Python Engineer
8 19 (7.72%) Architect
9 18 (7.32%) Data Scientist
9 18 (7.32%) Lead Data Engineer
10 16 (6.50%) Developer
11 15 (6.10%) Senior Data Scientist
12 13 (5.28%) Business Analyst
12 13 (5.28%) Data Architect
12 13 (5.28%) Python Developer
13 12 (4.88%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.88%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (43.50%) Kafka
2 64 (26.02%) PySpark
3 25 (10.16%) PyTorch
3 25 (10.16%) TensorFlow
4 24 (9.76%) LangChain
4 24 (9.76%) scikit-learn
5 23 (9.35%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (9.35%) pgvector
6 21 (8.54%) REST
7 20 (8.13%) Pandas
8 14 (5.69%) Node.js
9 13 (5.28%) SpaCy
9 13 (5.28%) Spring
9 13 (5.28%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (2.85%) React
11 6 (2.44%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.44%) Material-UI
11 6 (2.44%) NumPy
11 6 (2.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 50 (20.33%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.16%) Public Cloud
3 23 (9.35%) Clustering
4 17 (6.91%) Data Structures
5 13 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (5.28%) e-Learning
6 12 (4.88%) Product Ownership
7 10 (4.07%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.66%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.44%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.44%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.44%) Social Media
10 5 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.63%) NHS
12 3 (1.22%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.28%) Linux
2 6 (2.44%) CentOS
2 6 (2.44%) Debian
2 6 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.44%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (62.20%) Analytics
2 151 (61.38%) Data Engineering
3 147 (59.76%) Data Pipeline
4 114 (46.34%) CI/CD
5 108 (43.90%) ETL
6 104 (42.28%) Data Modelling
7 98 (39.84%) AI
8 97 (39.43%) Data Governance
9 94 (38.21%) Data Science
10 88 (35.77%) Machine Learning
11 78 (31.71%) Agile
12 60 (24.39%) DevOps
13 57 (23.17%) Business Intelligence
13 57 (23.17%) Use Case
14 50 (20.33%) Performance Tuning
15 48 (19.51%) Validation
16 44 (17.89%) Software Engineering
17 43 (17.48%) Generative AI
17 43 (17.48%) Mentoring
18 42 (17.07%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 213 (86.59%) Python
2 183 (74.39%) SQL
3 45 (18.29%) Scala
4 37 (15.04%) Java
5 7 (2.85%) C++
5 7 (2.85%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.03%) C#
6 5 (2.03%) VBA
7 4 (1.63%) Bash
7 4 (1.63%) Bicep
7 4 (1.63%) C
7 4 (1.63%) PHP
7 4 (1.63%) Ruby
8 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.81%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.41%) R
10 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.45%) Degree
3 28 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.91%) PhD
5 16 (6.50%) Master's Degree
6 12 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.88%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.47%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.22%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.41%) CEH
9 1 (0.41%) CISM
9 1 (0.41%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (39.02%) Data Quality
2 38 (15.45%) GDPR
3 35 (14.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.88%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.25%) QA
6 5 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.81%) IFRS
7 2 (0.81%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.81%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (15.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (16.67%) Terraform
2 34 (13.82%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.07%) Ansible
4 6 (2.44%) Grafana
4 6 (2.44%) Puppet
5 5 (2.03%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.63%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (1.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 83 (33.74%) Databricks
2 32 (13.01%) Red Hat
3 30 (12.20%) Oracle
4 24 (9.76%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.76%) Dell
5 15 (6.10%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.47%) Google
7 6 (2.44%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.03%) IBM
9 4 (1.63%) HP
9 4 (1.63%) SAP
10 3 (1.22%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.81%) Foundry
11 2 (0.81%) Informatica
11 2 (0.81%) Palantir
12 1 (0.41%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.41%) Mapbox
12 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.41%) Talend
12 1 (0.41%) UiPath