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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 393 527
Rank change year-on-year -86 +134 -255
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 230 251 357
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.63% 0.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.36% 6.77% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 116 166 250
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £51,125
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £83,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% +4.69% -8.57%
75th Percentile £116,250 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £83,250 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% +3.13% -5.88%

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 3,615 3,705 8,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.32% 9.31% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,680 2,607 6,608
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,860 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -35 148 £100,000 -4.76% 38
North of England -21 32 £57,500 +2.22% 17
South West -44 20 £70,000 +27.27% 11
East of England +2 17 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North West +4 12 £55,000 - 9
North East -42 11 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -42 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South East -56 4 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Midlands -39 2 £50,000 -21.88% 3
West Midlands -21 1 - - 2
East Midlands -42 1 £50,000 -33.33% 1
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
1 108 (46.96%) Apache
2 99 (43.04%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (6.09%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.30%) SAS
5 2 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.43%) Camunda
6 1 (0.43%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (5.65%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 153 (66.52%) AWS
2 109 (47.39%) Azure
3 86 (37.39%) GCP
4 54 (23.48%) Amazon S3
5 48 (20.87%) Power Platform
6 43 (18.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (16.96%) dbt
8 34 (14.78%) Snowflake
9 31 (13.48%) OpenShift
10 27 (11.74%) Serverless
11 24 (10.43%) Azure Data Factory
12 23 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (6.09%) Amazon EMR
14 12 (5.22%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (4.78%) Microsoft Purview
16 10 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
17 9 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
18 8 (3.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.04%) Broadband
2 5 (2.17%) AMQP
3 2 (0.87%) 4G
3 2 (0.87%) 5G
4 1 (0.43%) BGP
4 1 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) IPsec
4 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (32.17%) Big Data
2 65 (28.26%) Tableau
3 63 (27.39%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (23.04%) Data Lake
5 49 (21.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (20.43%) Power BI
7 43 (18.70%) Elasticsearch
8 33 (14.35%) BigQuery
8 33 (14.35%) Spark SQL
9 31 (13.48%) Hadoop
10 28 (12.17%) Apache Hive
11 27 (11.74%) Snowflake Schema
12 25 (10.87%) Impala
12 25 (10.87%) Oracle Database
12 25 (10.87%) Parquet
13 24 (10.43%) NoSQL
14 23 (10.00%) Looker
15 22 (9.57%) Relational Database
16 19 (8.26%) Metadata
17 16 (6.96%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 46 (20.00%) Git
2 29 (12.61%) MLflow
3 25 (10.87%) IBM UrbanCode
4 14 (6.09%) GitLab
5 7 (3.04%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.87%) JIRA
6 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.43%) Deequ
7 1 (0.43%) JUnit
General
1 92 (40.00%) Finance
2 74 (32.17%) Social Skills
3 69 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (17.83%) Banking
5 24 (10.43%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.96%) Law
6 16 (6.96%) Legal
7 10 (4.35%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.74%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Billing
11 2 (0.87%) Military
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Front Office
12 1 (0.43%) Games
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 87 (37.83%) Data Engineer
2 78 (33.91%) Senior
3 29 (12.61%) Lead
4 27 (11.74%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (11.30%) Analyst
6 24 (10.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (10.00%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (9.57%) Banking Analyst
9 21 (9.13%) Python Engineer
10 19 (8.26%) Architect
10 19 (8.26%) Developer
11 16 (6.96%) Lead Data Engineer
12 15 (6.52%) Data Scientist
13 14 (6.09%) Python Developer
14 13 (5.65%) Business Analyst
14 13 (5.65%) Data Architect
15 12 (5.22%) Senior Data Scientist
15 12 (5.22%) Software Engineer
15 12 (5.22%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (43.48%) Kafka
2 63 (27.39%) PySpark
3 27 (11.74%) PyTorch
3 27 (11.74%) TensorFlow
4 26 (11.30%) scikit-learn
5 24 (10.43%) LangChain
6 23 (10.00%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (10.00%) pgvector
7 21 (9.13%) Pandas
7 21 (9.13%) REST
8 12 (5.22%) Spring
8 12 (5.22%) Spring Boot
9 10 (4.35%) Node.js
9 10 (4.35%) SpaCy
10 8 (3.48%) NumPy
11 6 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.61%) React
12 5 (2.17%) gRPC
12 5 (2.17%) OpenAPI
12 5 (2.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.87%) Public Cloud
3 23 (10.00%) Clustering
4 15 (6.52%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.35%) e-Learning
7 9 (3.91%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (3.48%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.61%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.61%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.61%) Social Media
10 5 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.30%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.30%) NHS
12 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.87%) Replication
12 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.91%) Linux
2 5 (2.17%) CentOS
2 5 (2.17%) Debian
2 5 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.17%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (63.04%) Analytics
2 142 (61.74%) Data Engineering
2 142 (61.74%) Data Pipeline
3 109 (47.39%) ETL
4 105 (45.65%) CI/CD
5 99 (43.04%) Data Modelling
6 92 (40.00%) AI
6 92 (40.00%) Data Governance
7 85 (36.96%) Data Science
8 77 (33.48%) Machine Learning
9 76 (33.04%) Agile
10 59 (25.65%) Business Intelligence
11 55 (23.91%) DevOps
12 54 (23.48%) Use Case
13 50 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
14 45 (19.57%) Validation
15 42 (18.26%) Software Engineering
16 38 (16.52%) Data Transformation
16 38 (16.52%) Generative AI
17 36 (15.65%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 204 (88.70%) Python
2 171 (74.35%) SQL
3 44 (19.13%) Scala
4 35 (15.22%) Java
5 7 (3.04%) C++
6 6 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.17%) VBA
8 4 (1.74%) Bash
8 4 (1.74%) Bicep
9 3 (1.30%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.30%) R
10 2 (0.87%) C#
10 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) Ruby
11 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.74%) Degree
3 26 (11.30%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.65%) Master's Degree
5 12 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.78%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.78%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.78%) PhD
7 9 (3.91%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.43%) CEH
10 1 (0.43%) CISM
10 1 (0.43%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (42.61%) Data Quality
2 37 (16.09%) GDPR
3 35 (15.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.22%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.17%) QA
6 4 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.87%) IFRS
7 2 (0.87%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.87%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (15.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (16.52%) Terraform
2 32 (13.91%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.91%) Ansible
4 6 (2.61%) Grafana
5 5 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.17%) Puppet
6 3 (1.30%) Kibana
7 1 (0.43%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 76 (33.04%) Databricks
2 31 (13.48%) Red Hat
3 27 (11.74%) Oracle
4 24 (10.43%) Cloudera
4 24 (10.43%) Dell
5 11 (4.78%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.35%) Google
7 5 (2.17%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.87%) Foundry
9 2 (0.87%) IBM
9 2 (0.87%) Informatica
9 2 (0.87%) Palantir
10 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.43%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.43%) HP
10 1 (0.43%) Pega
10 1 (0.43%) SAP
10 1 (0.43%) Splunk
10 1 (0.43%) Talend