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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 410 524
Rank change year-on-year -60 +114 -215
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 257 261 324
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.60% 0.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.65% 6.69% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 121 154 225
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,300 £49,400
25th Percentile £62,376 £58,313 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,188 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £120,000 £118,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +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 3,867 3,899 8,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.43% 9.02% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,886 2,750 6,376
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,301 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% +10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £115,000
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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -22 161 £100,000 +5.26% 60
North of England -22 43 £57,500 - 12
South West -45 20 £70,000 +27.27% 6
North West +1 18 £55,000 - 5
East of England -3 15 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North East -41 14 £55,000 +15.79% 4
Yorkshire -30 11 £80,000 +39.13% 3
South East -61 6 £61,250 -5.77% 19
Midlands -50 3 £58,403 -13.48% 4
West Midlands -23 2 £66,805 +10.42% 2
East Midlands -42 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
1 115 (44.75%) Apache
2 100 (38.91%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (6.23%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.56%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.17%) SAS
6 2 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.39%) Camunda
7 1 (0.39%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (5.06%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 172 (66.93%) AWS
2 122 (47.47%) Azure
3 87 (33.85%) GCP
4 56 (21.79%) Amazon S3
5 48 (18.68%) Power Platform
6 45 (17.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (14.79%) dbt
8 36 (14.01%) Serverless
9 34 (13.23%) Snowflake
10 32 (12.45%) OpenShift
11 29 (11.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 24 (9.34%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (8.17%) Amazon EMR
14 20 (7.78%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
17 11 (4.28%) Cloud Computing
17 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Purview
18 10 (3.89%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.72%) Broadband
2 6 (2.33%) AMQP
3 5 (1.95%) BGP
3 5 (1.95%) DNS
3 5 (1.95%) IPsec
3 5 (1.95%) VPN
4 4 (1.56%) Internet
5 2 (0.78%) 4G
5 2 (0.78%) 5G
6 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (31.91%) Big Data
2 63 (24.51%) Tableau
3 61 (23.74%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (21.40%) Data Lake
5 51 (19.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 49 (19.07%) Elasticsearch
7 47 (18.29%) Power BI
8 40 (15.56%) Hadoop
9 36 (14.01%) Apache Hive
10 34 (13.23%) NoSQL
11 33 (12.84%) BigQuery
11 33 (12.84%) Spark SQL
12 26 (10.12%) Parquet
13 25 (9.73%) Impala
13 25 (9.73%) Oracle Database
13 25 (9.73%) Snowflake Schema
14 24 (9.34%) Metadata
15 23 (8.95%) Looker
16 22 (8.56%) Relational Database
17 17 (6.61%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 45 (17.51%) Git
2 29 (11.28%) MLflow
3 25 (9.73%) IBM UrbanCode
4 16 (6.23%) GitLab
5 7 (2.72%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.78%) JIRA
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.39%) Deequ
7 1 (0.39%) JUnit
General
1 102 (39.69%) Finance
2 82 (31.91%) Social Skills
3 69 (26.85%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (16.34%) Banking
5 24 (9.34%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.78%) Law
7 16 (6.23%) Legal
7 16 (6.23%) Public Sector
8 13 (5.06%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.11%) Military
10 6 (2.33%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.95%) Marketing
11 5 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.95%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.56%) Games
13 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.17%) Retail
14 2 (0.78%) Billing
Job Titles
1 98 (38.13%) Data Engineer
2 90 (35.02%) Senior
3 32 (12.45%) Lead
4 31 (12.06%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (10.12%) Analyst
6 24 (9.34%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.95%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.95%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (8.56%) Banking Analyst
8 22 (8.56%) Python Engineer
9 19 (7.39%) Architect
9 19 (7.39%) Lead Data Engineer
10 18 (7.00%) Data Scientist
11 16 (6.23%) Developer
12 15 (5.84%) Senior Data Scientist
13 13 (5.06%) Business Analyst
13 13 (5.06%) Data Architect
13 13 (5.06%) Python Developer
14 12 (4.67%) Software Engineer
14 12 (4.67%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (45.14%) Kafka
2 70 (27.24%) PySpark
3 25 (9.73%) PyTorch
3 25 (9.73%) TensorFlow
4 24 (9.34%) LangChain
4 24 (9.34%) scikit-learn
5 23 (8.95%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.95%) pgvector
6 21 (8.17%) REST
7 20 (7.78%) Pandas
8 15 (5.84%) Node.js
9 13 (5.06%) SpaCy
9 13 (5.06%) Spring
9 13 (5.06%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (2.72%) React
11 6 (2.33%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.33%) gRPC
11 6 (2.33%) NumPy
11 6 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.46%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.73%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.95%) Clustering
4 18 (7.00%) Data Structures
5 14 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (5.45%) Product Ownership
6 13 (5.06%) e-Learning
7 12 (4.67%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.89%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.33%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.33%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.33%) Social Media
10 5 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.56%) NHS
12 3 (1.17%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.84%) Linux
2 6 (2.33%) CentOS
2 6 (2.33%) Debian
2 6 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (62.65%) Analytics
2 158 (61.48%) Data Engineering
3 154 (59.92%) Data Pipeline
4 118 (45.91%) CI/CD
5 114 (44.36%) ETL
6 108 (42.02%) Data Modelling
7 100 (38.91%) AI
8 98 (38.13%) Data Governance
9 97 (37.74%) Data Science
10 92 (35.80%) Machine Learning
11 80 (31.13%) Agile
12 63 (24.51%) DevOps
13 58 (22.57%) Business Intelligence
13 58 (22.57%) Use Case
14 50 (19.46%) Mentoring
14 50 (19.46%) Performance Tuning
14 50 (19.46%) Validation
15 45 (17.51%) Generative AI
16 44 (17.12%) Computer Science
16 44 (17.12%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 223 (86.77%) Python
2 193 (75.10%) SQL
3 45 (17.51%) Scala
4 38 (14.79%) Java
5 7 (2.72%) C++
5 7 (2.72%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.33%) C#
7 5 (1.95%) C
7 5 (1.95%) PHP
7 5 (1.95%) Ruby
7 5 (1.95%) VBA
8 4 (1.56%) Bash
8 4 (1.56%) Bicep
9 3 (1.17%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.39%) R
11 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.95%) Degree
3 35 (13.62%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.00%) PhD
5 16 (6.23%) Master's Degree
6 13 (5.06%) AWS Certification
7 12 (4.67%) Azure Certification
7 12 (4.67%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.39%) CEH
10 1 (0.39%) CISM
10 1 (0.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (38.52%) Data Quality
2 38 (14.79%) GDPR
3 35 (13.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.67%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.11%) QA
6 5 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.78%) IFRS
7 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.78%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (15.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (16.34%) Terraform
2 34 (13.23%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.89%) Ansible
4 6 (2.33%) Grafana
4 6 (2.33%) Puppet
5 5 (1.95%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.95%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 84 (32.68%) Databricks
2 32 (12.45%) Red Hat
3 31 (12.06%) Oracle
4 24 (9.34%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.34%) Dell
5 17 (6.61%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.28%) Google
7 7 (2.72%) Informatica
8 6 (2.33%) IBM
8 6 (2.33%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.95%) HP
9 5 (1.95%) SAP
10 3 (1.17%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.78%) Foundry
11 2 (0.78%) Palantir
12 1 (0.39%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.39%) Mapbox
12 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.39%) Talend
12 1 (0.39%) UiPath