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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 456 359
Rank change year-on-year +41 -97 -90
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 199 269 343
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.48% 0.76%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.17% 5.36% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 100 192 236
10th Percentile £54,525 £47,625 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £118,125 £104,688 £97,290
90th Percentile £140,000 £122,250 £115,000
UK median annual salary £81,000 £77,500 £79,816
% change year-on-year +4.52% -2.90% -0.23%

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 3,226 5,017 5,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.55% 9.01% 11.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,371 3,114 4,154
10th Percentile £28,325 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £57,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -

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 10 December 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 10 December 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 +45 136 £95,000 - 56
North of England +31 34 £60,000 +20.00% 62
Yorkshire +11 22 £60,000 +21.77% 28
Midlands +39 12 £55,000 -8.33% 48
North West +25 7 £54,250 +0.93% 25
East Midlands +18 7 - - 21
West Midlands +34 5 £55,000 -15.38% 24
South East +24 5 £65,000 +13.04% 75
North East +11 5 £47,500 -3.60% 9
East of England +23 4 - - 42
South West +5 4 £55,000 -29.03% 32
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 48 (24.12%) Apache
2 41 (20.60%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.51%) Apache Synapse
3 5 (2.51%) SAS
4 3 (1.51%) Luigi
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.50%) Appian
5 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 13 (6.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 141 (70.85%) AWS
2 108 (54.27%) Azure
3 71 (35.68%) GCP
4 39 (19.60%) Amazon S3
5 32 (16.08%) Serverless
6 26 (13.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 25 (12.56%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (11.56%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (10.05%) Power Platform
10 19 (9.55%) Amazon EMR
10 19 (9.55%) Snowflake
11 18 (9.05%) Amazon ELB
12 17 (8.54%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (7.04%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (7.04%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (7.04%) dbt
14 11 (5.53%) GitHub
15 8 (4.02%) OpenShift
16 7 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.01%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.01%) AMQP
2 2 (1.01%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.50%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (45.23%) Big Data
2 68 (34.17%) Data Warehouse
2 68 (34.17%) Hadoop
3 55 (27.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 44 (22.11%) NoSQL
5 39 (19.60%) Metadata
6 35 (17.59%) Data Lake
7 32 (16.08%) DynamoDB
8 29 (14.57%) Delta Lake
9 27 (13.57%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (12.06%) Spark SQL
11 22 (11.06%) SQL Server
12 21 (10.55%) MySQL
13 19 (9.55%) MongoDB
13 19 (9.55%) Power BI
14 16 (8.04%) Apache Hive
14 16 (8.04%) Relational Database
15 14 (7.04%) BigQuery
16 13 (6.53%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (6.53%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 28 (14.07%) MLflow
2 14 (7.04%) Git
3 11 (5.53%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.51%) GitLab
5 2 (1.01%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.50%) Deequ
6 1 (0.50%) Gradle
6 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.50%) Selenium
6 1 (0.50%) Snyk
6 1 (0.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 112 (56.28%) Social Skills
2 60 (30.15%) Finance
3 52 (26.13%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (16.58%) Law
5 18 (9.05%) Financial Institution
6 13 (6.53%) Banking
6 13 (6.53%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.51%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.51%) Marketing
8 5 (2.51%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.01%) Front Office
10 3 (1.51%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.51%) Retail
11 2 (1.01%) Advertising
11 2 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.01%) Electronics
11 2 (1.01%) Legal
11 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 74 (37.19%) Data Engineer
2 47 (23.62%) Senior
3 32 (16.08%) Senior Data Engineer
4 19 (9.55%) Architect
4 19 (9.55%) Lead
4 19 (9.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 18 (9.05%) Operations Engineer
6 16 (8.04%) Developer
7 15 (7.54%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (6.53%) AWS Data Engineer
9 13 (6.53%) Data Scientist
9 13 (6.53%) Product Lead
10 12 (6.03%) Data Architect
10 12 (6.03%) Python Developer
11 10 (5.03%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.02%) Senior Data Scientist
13 6 (3.02%) Python Engineer
14 5 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
15 4 (2.01%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (41.71%) Kafka
2 39 (19.60%) PySpark
3 36 (18.09%) PyTorch
3 36 (18.09%) TensorFlow
4 32 (16.08%) scikit-learn
5 29 (14.57%) Pandas
6 22 (11.06%) NumPy
7 18 (9.05%) Keras
7 18 (9.05%) Lambda Expressions
7 18 (9.05%) Metaflow
7 18 (9.05%) YAML
8 14 (7.04%) REST
9 11 (5.53%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (4.02%) boto
11 7 (3.52%) React
11 7 (3.52%) SpaCy
12 5 (2.51%) Apache Beam
12 5 (2.51%) Google JAX
12 5 (2.51%) Hugging Face
12 5 (2.51%) JAX
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.62%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (12.06%) Product Ownership
3 21 (10.55%) Cloud Native
3 21 (10.55%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (8.54%) e-Learning
5 14 (7.04%) FMCG
6 12 (6.03%) Algorithms
6 12 (6.03%) Management Information System
7 11 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (4.52%) Data Structures
9 8 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (3.52%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.51%) Equities
12 3 (1.51%) Robotics
12 3 (1.51%) Virtual Team
13 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (1.01%) Mainframe
14 1 (0.50%) Culture of Ownership
14 1 (0.50%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.57%) Unix
2 11 (5.53%) Linux
3 2 (1.01%) CentOS
3 2 (1.01%) Debian
3 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (52.76%) Data Pipeline
2 104 (52.26%) CI/CD
3 98 (49.25%) Machine Learning
4 96 (48.24%) Data Engineering
5 92 (46.23%) Analytics
6 88 (44.22%) Data Science
7 83 (41.71%) ETL
8 79 (39.70%) Data Modelling
9 68 (34.17%) DevOps
10 67 (33.67%) AI
11 54 (27.14%) Data Governance
12 51 (25.63%) Software Engineering
13 50 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
14 48 (24.12%) Business Intelligence
15 44 (22.11%) Containerisation
16 43 (21.61%) MLOps
17 42 (21.11%) Mentoring
18 40 (20.10%) Visualisation
19 38 (19.10%) Agile
20 36 (18.09%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 168 (84.42%) Python
2 145 (72.86%) SQL
3 56 (28.14%) Java
4 32 (16.08%) Scala
5 9 (4.52%) R
6 6 (3.02%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.01%) Bash
7 4 (2.01%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.51%) C#
8 3 (1.51%) C++
8 3 (1.51%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.01%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.01%) PROC SQL
10 1 (0.50%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.50%) C
10 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (18.59%) Degree
2 20 (10.05%) Master's Degree
3 17 (8.54%) PhD
4 12 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.03%) Security Cleared
6 8 (4.02%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.52%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.51%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.01%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.50%) MBA
11 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (25.63%) Data Quality
2 19 (9.55%) QA
3 10 (5.03%) GDPR
4 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 52 (26.13%) Docker
2 11 (5.53%) HDFS
3 5 (2.51%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (26.13%) Kubernetes
2 40 (20.10%) Terraform
3 25 (12.56%) Kubeflow
4 13 (6.53%) Ansible
5 7 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.02%) Grafana
7 5 (2.51%) Kibana
7 5 (2.51%) logstash
8 4 (2.01%) Puppet
9 2 (1.01%) Oozie
9 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 82 (41.21%) Databricks
2 21 (10.55%) Oracle
3 18 (9.05%) SAP
4 15 (7.54%) Microsoft
5 14 (7.04%) Informatica
6 11 (5.53%) Talend
7 7 (3.52%) Dell
7 7 (3.52%) Google
8 5 (2.51%) Palantir
9 3 (1.51%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.01%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (1.01%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.50%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.50%) Black Duck
11 1 (0.50%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.50%) IBM
11 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.50%) UiPath
11 1 (0.50%) VMware