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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 413 395
Rank change year-on-year -53 -18 -161
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 162 278 399
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.62% 0.60%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.25% 6.55% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 93 201 258
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +13.85% -1.52%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -3.03%

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 3,086 4,244 6,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.22% 9.49% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,225 2,505 5,561
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,760
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,800 £110,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £56,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.89% +13.50% -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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -25 117 £95,000 -13.64% 36
North of England +9 27 £65,000 +18.18% 25
Yorkshire - 17 £65,000 - 7
North West +5 9 £75,000 +42.86% 13
South West -24 5 £70,000 -9.68% 14
East of England +19 4 - - 3
Midlands -3 2 - - 6
South East -18 2 £65,000 +13.04% 24
West Midlands +14 1 - - 3
North East -8 1 - - 5
East Midlands -23 1 - - 3
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 49 (30.25%) Apache
2 35 (21.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.23%) SAS
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.62%) Camunda
4 1 (0.62%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 103 (63.58%) AWS
2 82 (50.62%) Azure
3 62 (38.27%) GCP
4 35 (21.60%) Serverless
5 31 (19.14%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (12.35%) Amazon S3
7 18 (11.11%) dbt
7 18 (11.11%) Power Platform
8 17 (10.49%) Amazon EMR
9 16 (9.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (9.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (9.26%) Snowflake
11 13 (8.02%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (6.79%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (6.79%) OpenShift
13 9 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (4.32%) GitHub
15 4 (2.47%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.09%) AMQP
2 4 (2.47%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.23%) Broadband
4 1 (0.62%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.62%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (47.53%) Big Data
2 57 (35.19%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (34.57%) Hadoop
4 35 (21.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (20.37%) Data Lake
6 19 (11.73%) NoSQL
7 18 (11.11%) MySQL
7 18 (11.11%) Power BI
8 17 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (9.88%) MongoDB
9 16 (9.88%) Relational Database
10 15 (9.26%) SQL Server
11 14 (8.64%) Tableau
12 13 (8.02%) Apache Hive
13 11 (6.79%) DynamoDB
14 10 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (6.17%) RDBMS
15 9 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (5.56%) DataStage
15 9 (5.56%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 14 (8.64%) Git
2 6 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.47%) GitLab
4 3 (1.85%) MLflow
5 2 (1.23%) Deequ
6 1 (0.62%) JUnit
General
1 78 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 61 (37.65%) Finance
3 40 (24.69%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.64%) Banking
4 14 (8.64%) Financial Institution
5 13 (8.02%) Law
6 9 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.47%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Front Office
8 3 (1.85%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.23%) Advertising
9 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.23%) Legal
9 2 (1.23%) Marketing
9 2 (1.23%) Retail
10 1 (0.62%) Electronics
10 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 71 (43.83%) Data Engineer
2 44 (27.16%) Senior
3 28 (17.28%) Senior Data Engineer
4 22 (13.58%) Developer
5 17 (10.49%) AWS Data Engineer
5 17 (10.49%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (10.49%) Python Developer
6 14 (8.64%) Architect
7 12 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
8 11 (6.79%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Data Architect
9 10 (6.17%) Data Scientist
10 7 (4.32%) Lead
10 7 (4.32%) Senior Data Scientist
11 5 (3.09%) Azure Data Engineer
11 5 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (2.47%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 4 (2.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (2.47%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (41.98%) Kafka
2 23 (14.20%) PySpark
3 22 (13.58%) REST
4 12 (7.41%) Pandas
4 12 (7.41%) PyTorch
4 12 (7.41%) TensorFlow
5 11 (6.79%) Spring
6 10 (6.17%) Spring Boot
7 7 (4.32%) boto
7 7 (4.32%) NumPy
7 7 (4.32%) React
7 7 (4.32%) scikit-learn
7 7 (4.32%) Spark Streaming
8 6 (3.70%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.70%) Node.js
8 6 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (3.70%) SpaCy
9 5 (3.09%) gRPC
9 5 (3.09%) pytest
9 5 (3.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.84%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (13.58%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.64%) Product Ownership
4 13 (8.02%) e-Learning
5 11 (6.79%) Algorithms
6 10 (6.17%) Management Information System
7 9 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (4.32%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.47%) FMCG
10 3 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.85%) Equities
10 3 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.62%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.26%) Linux
2 6 (3.70%) Unix
3 5 (3.09%) CentOS
3 5 (3.09%) Debian
3 5 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (57.41%) Data Pipeline
2 85 (52.47%) Data Engineering
3 80 (49.38%) Analytics
4 75 (46.30%) CI/CD
5 64 (39.51%) ETL
6 62 (38.27%) Data Modelling
7 57 (35.19%) Data Science
8 54 (33.33%) Machine Learning
9 50 (30.86%) Data Governance
10 49 (30.25%) Software Engineering
11 48 (29.63%) DevOps
12 42 (25.93%) AI
12 42 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (24.69%) Business Intelligence
13 40 (24.69%) Computer Science
14 38 (23.46%) Agile
15 33 (20.37%) Mentoring
16 29 (17.90%) Fintech
17 28 (17.28%) Observability
18 27 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 145 (89.51%) Python
2 104 (64.20%) SQL
3 55 (33.95%) Java
4 27 (16.67%) Scala
5 9 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.32%) R
7 5 (3.09%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.85%) C#
8 3 (1.85%) C++
9 2 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.62%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.62%) Bash
10 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.62%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.62%) Ruby
10 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (20.37%) Degree
2 15 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (8.02%) PhD
4 13 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.41%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.70%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.09%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.62%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (31.48%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.94%) GDPR
3 7 (4.32%) QA
4 3 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (16.67%) Docker
2 8 (4.94%) HDFS
3 5 (3.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 21 (12.96%) Terraform
3 12 (7.41%) Ansible
4 9 (5.56%) Grafana
4 9 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.09%) Puppet
6 3 (1.85%) Kibana
6 3 (1.85%) logstash
7 1 (0.62%) Argo
Vendors
1 43 (26.54%) Databricks
2 16 (9.88%) Oracle
3 12 (7.41%) Google
4 10 (6.17%) Informatica
4 10 (6.17%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.56%) Talend
6 7 (4.32%) Dell
6 7 (4.32%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.09%) SaltStack
7 5 (3.09%) SAP
8 4 (2.47%) Palantir
9 2 (1.23%) IBM
10 1 (0.62%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.62%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.62%) Pega
10 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.62%) UiPath