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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 348 449
Rank change year-on-year -129 +101 -206
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 196 277 390
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.76% 0.50%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.07% 7.68% 4.84%
Number of salaries quoted 85 199 250
10th Percentile £53,000 £53,500 £50,172
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £120,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%

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 3,231 3,609 8,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.56% 9.87% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,348 2,615 6,388
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,188 £38,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,043 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.16% +10.09% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -47 132 £100,000 -9.09% 63
North of England -65 23 £65,000 +13.04% 16
East of England -10 18 £75,000 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire -45 13 £65,000 +13.04% 1
South West -24 11 £80,000 +60.00% 10
North West -30 8 £95,000 +72.73% 11
South East -74 4 £65,000 - 24
North East -25 2 £80,000 - 4
Midlands -46 2 £50,000 -25.93% 4
West Midlands -21 1 - - 2
East Midlands -55 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
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 91 (46.43%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (36.22%) Apache
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.51%) Camunda
3 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 125 (63.78%) AWS
2 84 (42.86%) Azure
3 71 (36.22%) GCP
4 49 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 45 (22.96%) Amazon S3
6 42 (21.43%) dbt
7 36 (18.37%) Snowflake
8 35 (17.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 33 (16.84%) OpenShift
10 27 (13.78%) Serverless
11 24 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (8.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (5.61%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (5.10%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (4.59%) Dagster
16 8 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (4.08%) GitHub
17 7 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.57%) Broadband
2 5 (2.55%) AMQP
3 2 (1.02%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.51%) 4G
4 1 (0.51%) 5G
4 1 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.51%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (32.65%) Tableau
2 63 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (31.12%) Big Data
4 48 (24.49%) Data Lake
4 48 (24.49%) Power BI
5 42 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 37 (18.88%) BigQuery
7 33 (16.84%) Hadoop
8 31 (15.82%) Apache Hive
9 29 (14.80%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
10 28 (14.29%) Spark SQL
11 25 (12.76%) Impala
11 25 (12.76%) Oracle Database
11 25 (12.76%) Parquet
12 24 (12.24%) Looker
13 17 (8.67%) MySQL
13 17 (8.67%) Relational Database
14 12 (6.12%) Metadata
14 12 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (21.43%) Git
2 27 (13.78%) MLflow
3 25 (12.76%) IBM UrbanCode
4 6 (3.06%) GitLab
4 6 (3.06%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.51%) Deequ
5 1 (0.51%) JIRA
5 1 (0.51%) JUnit
General
1 80 (40.82%) Finance
2 72 (36.73%) Social Skills
3 71 (36.22%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (15.82%) Banking
5 24 (12.24%) Investment Banking
6 13 (6.63%) Law
6 13 (6.63%) Legal
7 7 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.04%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.02%) Advertising
9 2 (1.02%) Marketing
9 2 (1.02%) Retail
9 2 (1.02%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.51%) Billing
10 1 (0.51%) Games
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (34.69%) Data Engineer
2 62 (31.63%) Senior
3 27 (13.78%) Analyst
4 26 (13.27%) Senior Data Engineer
5 25 (12.76%) Developer
6 24 (12.24%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (11.73%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (11.73%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (11.22%) Banking Analyst
9 21 (10.71%) Python Developer
10 13 (6.63%) Business Analyst
11 12 (6.12%) AWS Data Engineer
11 12 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (6.12%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (6.12%) Python Engineer
11 12 (6.12%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (5.61%) Architect
12 11 (5.61%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 10 (5.10%) Software Engineer
14 8 (4.08%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (46.94%) Kafka
2 49 (25.00%) PySpark
3 32 (16.33%) PyTorch
3 32 (16.33%) TensorFlow
4 29 (14.80%) REST
5 27 (13.78%) scikit-learn
6 25 (12.76%) LangChain
7 24 (12.24%) Pandas
8 23 (11.73%) LlamaIndex
8 23 (11.73%) pgvector
9 12 (6.12%) Spring
10 11 (5.61%) Spring Boot
11 10 (5.10%) Node.js
12 8 (4.08%) NumPy
13 7 (3.57%) React
14 6 (3.06%) AngularJS
14 6 (3.06%) OAuth
14 6 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (2.55%) gRPC
15 5 (2.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.73%) Clustering
2 23 (11.73%) Public Cloud
3 20 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.61%) Algorithms
5 10 (5.10%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (4.08%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.57%) Product Ownership
8 6 (3.06%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (3.06%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.06%) Social Media
9 5 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.53%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.02%) Data Fabric
11 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.59%) Linux
2 5 (2.55%) CentOS
2 5 (2.55%) Debian
2 5 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.55%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (65.82%) Data Pipeline
2 118 (60.20%) Analytics
3 108 (55.10%) Data Engineering
4 107 (54.59%) ETL
5 94 (47.96%) AI
6 91 (46.43%) Data Governance
7 85 (43.37%) CI/CD
8 81 (41.33%) Data Modelling
9 71 (36.22%) Machine Learning
10 70 (35.71%) Data Science
11 61 (31.12%) Agile
11 61 (31.12%) Business Intelligence
12 48 (24.49%) Software Engineering
13 46 (23.47%) Computer Science
14 42 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
15 38 (19.39%) Generative AI
16 37 (18.88%) DevOps
17 36 (18.37%) Data Transformation
17 36 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
18 35 (17.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 183 (93.37%) Python
2 153 (78.06%) SQL
3 41 (20.92%) Java
4 30 (15.31%) Scala
5 9 (4.59%) C++
6 7 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.55%) R
8 3 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.53%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.51%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.51%) Bash
9 1 (0.51%) Bicep
9 1 (0.51%) C#
9 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.51%) Ruby
9 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (13.27%) Degree
2 17 (8.67%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 7 (3.57%) PhD
6 6 (3.06%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.06%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.51%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (39.29%) Data Quality
2 39 (19.90%) GDPR
3 35 (17.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (6.12%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 28 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (1.53%) HDFS
3 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.76%) Terraform
3 11 (5.61%) Ansible
4 8 (4.08%) Grafana
5 7 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.55%) Puppet
7 1 (0.51%) Argo
Vendors
1 60 (30.61%) Databricks
2 34 (17.35%) Oracle
3 32 (16.33%) Red Hat
4 25 (12.76%) Dell
5 24 (12.24%) Cloudera
6 12 (6.12%) Microsoft
7 10 (5.10%) Google
8 6 (3.06%) Informatica
9 5 (2.55%) Palantir
9 5 (2.55%) SaltStack
9 5 (2.55%) Talend
10 2 (1.02%) IBM
10 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.51%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.51%) Foundry
11 1 (0.51%) Pega
11 1 (0.51%) SAP
11 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.51%) Splunk
11 1 (0.51%) UiPath