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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 358 448
Rank change year-on-year -118 +90 -207
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 201 282 396
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.77% 0.49%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.11% 7.72% 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 90 200 256
10th Percentile £53,625 £52,500 £50,172
25th Percentile £70,438 £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 £119,375
UK median annual salary £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -1.47% +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 3,288 3,651 8,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.46% 9.99% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,388 2,643 6,455
10th Percentile £27,570 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,750 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £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 9 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 9 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 -56 136 £95,000 -13.64% 63
North of England -76 23 £65,000 +13.04% 16
East of England -11 18 £75,000 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire -55 13 £65,000 +13.04% 1
South West -23 11 £80,000 +60.00% 10
North West -39 8 £95,000 +72.73% 11
South East -68 5 £61,250 -5.77% 24
North East -32 2 £80,000 - 4
Midlands -51 2 £50,000 -25.93% 4
West Midlands -24 1 - - 2
East Midlands -61 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 93 (46.27%) Apache Airflow
2 75 (37.31%) Apache
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.50%) Camunda
3 1 (0.50%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.50%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 129 (64.18%) AWS
2 90 (44.78%) Azure
3 76 (37.81%) GCP
4 49 (24.38%) Power Platform
5 45 (22.39%) Amazon S3
6 42 (20.90%) dbt
7 37 (18.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 37 (18.41%) Snowflake
8 33 (16.42%) OpenShift
9 27 (13.43%) Serverless
10 23 (11.44%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (8.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (4.98%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (4.98%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (4.48%) Dagster
14 8 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (3.98%) GitHub
14 8 (3.98%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.48%) Broadband
2 5 (2.49%) AMQP
3 2 (1.00%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.50%) 4G
4 1 (0.50%) 5G
4 1 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.50%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (32.34%) Big Data
2 64 (31.84%) Data Warehouse
2 64 (31.84%) Tableau
3 48 (23.88%) Data Lake
3 48 (23.88%) Power BI
4 42 (20.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (18.41%) BigQuery
6 36 (17.91%) Hadoop
7 32 (15.92%) Apache Hive
8 30 (14.93%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (13.93%) Snowflake Schema
9 28 (13.93%) Spark SQL
10 25 (12.44%) Impala
10 25 (12.44%) Oracle Database
10 25 (12.44%) Parquet
11 24 (11.94%) Looker
12 18 (8.96%) MySQL
12 18 (8.96%) Relational Database
13 13 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
14 12 (5.97%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (21.39%) Git
2 28 (13.93%) MLflow
3 25 (12.44%) IBM UrbanCode
4 6 (2.99%) GitLab
4 6 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.00%) JIRA
6 1 (0.50%) Deequ
6 1 (0.50%) JUnit
General
1 80 (39.80%) Finance
2 71 (35.32%) Analytical Skills
2 71 (35.32%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.92%) Banking
4 24 (11.94%) Investment Banking
5 14 (6.97%) Law
6 13 (6.47%) Legal
7 7 (3.48%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.99%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.99%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.99%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.00%) Advertising
9 2 (1.00%) Marketing
9 2 (1.00%) Retail
9 2 (1.00%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.50%) Billing
10 1 (0.50%) Electronics
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (35.32%) Data Engineer
2 64 (31.84%) Senior
3 27 (13.43%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (12.94%) Analyst
5 24 (11.94%) Developer
5 24 (11.94%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (11.44%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (11.44%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (10.95%) Banking Analyst
8 20 (9.95%) Python Developer
9 14 (6.97%) Python Engineer
10 13 (6.47%) Architect
10 13 (6.47%) Business Analyst
11 12 (5.97%) AWS Data Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (5.97%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (5.47%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 10 (4.98%) Software Engineer
14 9 (4.48%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (48.76%) Kafka
2 51 (25.37%) PySpark
3 32 (15.92%) PyTorch
3 32 (15.92%) TensorFlow
4 28 (13.93%) REST
4 28 (13.93%) scikit-learn
5 25 (12.44%) LangChain
5 25 (12.44%) Pandas
6 23 (11.44%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (11.44%) pgvector
7 12 (5.97%) Spring
8 11 (5.47%) Spring Boot
9 10 (4.98%) Node.js
10 9 (4.48%) NumPy
11 7 (3.48%) React
12 6 (2.99%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.99%) OAuth
12 6 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.49%) gRPC
13 5 (2.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 43 (21.39%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.44%) Clustering
2 23 (11.44%) Public Cloud
3 19 (9.45%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.98%) Algorithms
5 9 (4.48%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (3.98%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.98%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.99%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.99%) Social Media
8 5 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.99%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.49%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.48%) Linux
2 5 (2.49%) CentOS
2 5 (2.49%) Debian
2 5 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.49%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (65.17%) Data Pipeline
2 120 (59.70%) Analytics
3 113 (56.22%) Data Engineering
4 108 (53.73%) ETL
5 95 (47.26%) AI
6 92 (45.77%) Data Governance
7 88 (43.78%) CI/CD
8 81 (40.30%) Data Modelling
9 73 (36.32%) Machine Learning
10 72 (35.82%) Data Science
11 65 (32.34%) Agile
12 61 (30.35%) Business Intelligence
13 48 (23.88%) Software Engineering
14 47 (23.38%) Computer Science
15 42 (20.90%) Performance Tuning
16 40 (19.90%) DevOps
17 39 (19.40%) Generative AI
18 36 (17.91%) Data Transformation
18 36 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
18 36 (17.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 187 (93.03%) Python
2 155 (77.11%) SQL
3 41 (20.40%) Java
4 31 (15.42%) Scala
5 8 (3.98%) C++
6 6 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.49%) R
8 3 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.49%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.50%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.50%) Bash
9 1 (0.50%) Bicep
9 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.50%) Ruby
9 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (13.93%) Degree
2 17 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.97%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.48%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.48%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.48%) PhD
7 6 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.50%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (38.81%) Data Quality
2 39 (19.40%) GDPR
3 35 (17.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.97%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 31 (15.42%) Docker
2 3 (1.49%) HDFS
3 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (16.92%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.94%) Terraform
3 12 (5.97%) Ansible
4 8 (3.98%) Grafana
5 7 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.49%) Puppet
7 1 (0.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 64 (31.84%) Databricks
2 34 (16.92%) Oracle
3 32 (15.92%) Red Hat
4 25 (12.44%) Dell
5 24 (11.94%) Cloudera
6 12 (5.97%) Microsoft
7 11 (5.47%) Google
8 6 (2.99%) Informatica
9 5 (2.49%) Palantir
9 5 (2.49%) SaltStack
9 5 (2.49%) Talend
10 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.00%) IBM
12 1 (0.50%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.50%) Foundry
12 1 (0.50%) Pega
12 1 (0.50%) SAP
12 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.50%) Splunk
12 1 (0.50%) UiPath