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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 487 330
Rank change year-on-year +56 -157 -65
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 219 280 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.41% 0.90%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.14% 4.57% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 110 197 393
10th Percentile £46,975 £49,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,500 £125,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +1.91%

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 3,565 6,128 6,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.25% 8.87% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,565 3,783 5,033
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,285 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £92,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £130,446 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,688 £55,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -2.39% -2.70% +2.77%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +59 144 £90,000 -5.26% 97
North of England +25 29 £60,000 +11.63% 14
South East +53 19 £67,500 +20.00% 38
Midlands +51 17 £64,000 -1.54% 3
Yorkshire +24 17 £60,000 +21.77% 6
East Midlands +27 10 £75,000 +50.00% 1
West Midlands +47 7 £60,500 -15.38% 2
North West -11 7 £80,000 +45.45% 7
North East +21 5 £47,500 -3.60% 1
East of England -15 5 £71,500 -35.00% 2
South West +31 4 £55,000 -31.25% 1
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 57 (26.03%) Apache
2 42 (19.18%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.28%) Appian
3 5 (2.28%) SAS
4 4 (1.83%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (1.83%) Apache Synapse
5 3 (1.37%) Luigi
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Maya
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (5.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 154 (70.32%) AWS
2 131 (59.82%) Azure
3 70 (31.96%) GCP
4 38 (17.35%) Amazon S3
5 31 (14.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 30 (13.70%) Serverless
7 25 (11.42%) Power Platform
8 22 (10.05%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (9.13%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (9.13%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (8.22%) Amazon ELB
10 18 (8.22%) Amazon Kinesis
11 17 (7.76%) Amazon EMR
12 14 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (6.39%) Snowflake
13 12 (5.48%) GitHub
14 11 (5.02%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (4.57%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (3.20%) Azure Functions
16 7 (3.20%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.37%) PuTTY
2 1 (0.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (43.38%) Big Data
2 67 (30.59%) Data Warehouse
2 67 (30.59%) Hadoop
3 53 (24.20%) NoSQL
4 52 (23.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 40 (18.26%) Metadata
6 38 (17.35%) Data Lake
7 32 (14.61%) Delta Lake
8 29 (13.24%) Spark SQL
9 27 (12.33%) DynamoDB
10 20 (9.13%) Power BI
11 18 (8.22%) SQL Server
12 16 (7.31%) BigQuery
12 16 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (6.39%) Relational Database
14 13 (5.94%) MySQL
15 12 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
16 11 (5.02%) Apache Iceberg
16 11 (5.02%) MongoDB
16 11 (5.02%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (12.33%) MLflow
2 13 (5.94%) Git
3 11 (5.02%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.11%) Robot Framework
4 9 (4.11%) Selenium
5 5 (2.28%) Snyk
6 4 (1.83%) JMeter
6 4 (1.83%) Locust
6 4 (1.83%) Postman
6 4 (1.83%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.46%) GitLab
8 1 (0.46%) Gradle
General
1 104 (47.49%) Social Skills
2 53 (24.20%) Analytical Skills
2 53 (24.20%) Law
3 52 (23.74%) Finance
4 23 (10.50%) Banking
5 20 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (7.31%) Financial Institution
7 9 (4.11%) Marketing
7 9 (4.11%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.74%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.28%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.83%) Front Office
10 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.83%) Retail
11 3 (1.37%) Games
12 2 (0.91%) Advertising
12 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.91%) Legal
12 2 (0.91%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (34.70%) Data Engineer
2 59 (26.94%) Senior
3 36 (16.44%) Senior Data Engineer
4 29 (13.24%) Architect
4 29 (13.24%) Lead
5 20 (9.13%) Data Scientist
6 19 (8.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 18 (8.22%) Operations Engineer
8 16 (7.31%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (7.31%) Data Architect
8 16 (7.31%) Python Engineer
8 16 (7.31%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.39%) Senior Data Scientist
10 13 (5.94%) Product Lead
11 12 (5.48%) AWS Data Engineer
12 9 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.11%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (3.65%) Python Software Engineer
14 7 (3.20%) Data Analytics Director
14 7 (3.20%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (40.64%) Kafka
2 44 (20.09%) PySpark
3 43 (19.63%) TensorFlow
4 41 (18.72%) PyTorch
5 37 (16.89%) scikit-learn
6 26 (11.87%) Pandas
7 25 (11.42%) YAML
8 22 (10.05%) NumPy
9 20 (9.13%) Keras
10 18 (8.22%) Lambda Expressions
10 18 (8.22%) Metaflow
11 14 (6.39%) Spark Streaming
12 9 (4.11%) Apache NiFi
13 8 (3.65%) pytest
13 8 (3.65%) SpaCy
14 7 (3.20%) Hugging Face
15 6 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (2.74%) React
16 5 (2.28%) Django
16 5 (2.28%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.89%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (15.53%) Cloud Native
3 25 (11.42%) Product Ownership
4 18 (8.22%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (6.85%) Algorithms
6 14 (6.39%) Data Structures
6 14 (6.39%) e-Learning
6 14 (6.39%) FMCG
7 13 (5.94%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.28%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.83%) Mobile Banking
11 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.37%) Equities
12 3 (1.37%) Robotics
13 2 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.46%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.50%) Unix
2 1 (0.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (52.51%) CI/CD
2 106 (48.40%) Data Pipeline
2 106 (48.40%) Machine Learning
3 96 (43.84%) Analytics
3 96 (43.84%) Data Science
4 93 (42.47%) ETL
5 91 (41.55%) Data Engineering
5 91 (41.55%) Data Modelling
6 82 (37.44%) DevOps
7 79 (36.07%) Artificial Intelligence
8 61 (27.85%) Agile
8 61 (27.85%) Data Governance
9 58 (26.48%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (23.29%) MLOps
10 51 (23.29%) Software Engineering
11 50 (22.83%) Visualisation
12 46 (21.00%) Containerisation
13 44 (20.09%) Business Intelligence
13 44 (20.09%) Decision-Making
14 42 (19.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 177 (80.82%) Python
2 163 (74.43%) SQL
3 53 (24.20%) Java
4 34 (15.53%) Scala
5 10 (4.57%) R
6 7 (3.20%) Bash
7 5 (2.28%) C#
7 5 (2.28%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.83%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.83%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.37%) PROC SQL
9 3 (1.37%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.91%) C
10 2 (0.91%) C++
10 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.46%) Go
Qualifications
1 38 (17.35%) Degree
2 26 (11.87%) Master's Degree
3 18 (8.22%) PhD
4 15 (6.85%) Azure Certification
5 14 (6.39%) Security Cleared
6 13 (5.94%) AWS Certification
7 12 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (4.11%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.28%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.83%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (18.72%) Data Quality
2 21 (9.59%) GDPR
2 21 (9.59%) QA
3 7 (3.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (26.48%) Docker
2 10 (4.57%) HDFS
3 5 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.37%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (26.94%) Kubernetes
2 57 (26.03%) Terraform
3 26 (11.87%) Kubeflow
4 8 (3.65%) Ansible
5 3 (1.37%) Kibana
5 3 (1.37%) logstash
5 3 (1.37%) Oozie
6 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.91%) Puppet
7 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 102 (46.58%) Databricks
2 24 (10.96%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.22%) SAP
4 16 (7.31%) Google
5 12 (5.48%) Informatica
5 12 (5.48%) Oracle
6 8 (3.65%) Talend
7 5 (2.28%) BiZZdesign
7 5 (2.28%) Black Duck
7 5 (2.28%) UiPath
7 5 (2.28%) VMware
8 3 (1.37%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (1.37%) Palantir
9 1 (0.46%) Apple
9 1 (0.46%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.46%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.46%) Salesforce