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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 407 390
Rank change year-on-year -53 -17 -153
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 166 275 392
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.59% 0.63%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.47% 6.29% 5.96%
Number of salaries quoted 93 199 253
10th Percentile £53,000 £53,750 £50,388
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% -
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £122,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +9.38% -3.03%

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 3,035 4,372 6,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.41% 9.34% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,169 2,548 5,248
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,307 £108,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -15 120 £95,000 -9.52% 54
North of England +7 27 £65,000 +23.81% 18
Yorkshire - 16 £65,000 - 5
North West +11 10 £55,000 +10.00% 8
South West -6 6 £60,000 -22.58% 11
East of England +25 4 - - 2
Midlands +4 2 - - 4
South East 0 2 £65,000 +13.04% 23
West Midlands +20 1 - - 3
North East 0 1 - - 5
East Midlands -11 1 - - 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 49 (29.52%) Apache
2 32 (19.28%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.81%) Luigi
4 2 (1.20%) SAS
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.60%) Camunda
5 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 5 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.60%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 113 (68.07%) AWS
2 90 (54.22%) Azure
3 68 (40.96%) GCP
4 36 (21.69%) Serverless
5 32 (19.28%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (13.25%) Amazon S3
7 18 (10.84%) Amazon EMR
8 17 (10.24%) Power Platform
9 16 (9.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (9.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (9.04%) Amazon Kinesis
11 13 (7.83%) dbt
12 12 (7.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 12 (7.23%) Snowflake
13 11 (6.63%) OpenShift
14 9 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (4.22%) GitHub
16 3 (1.81%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.01%) AMQP
2 4 (2.41%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.60%) Broadband
3 1 (0.60%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.60%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (50.00%) Big Data
2 62 (37.35%) Hadoop
3 60 (36.14%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (24.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (19.88%) Data Lake
6 24 (14.46%) NoSQL
7 21 (12.65%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (11.45%) MySQL
9 17 (10.24%) MongoDB
9 17 (10.24%) Power BI
9 17 (10.24%) SQL Server
10 14 (8.43%) Apache Hive
10 14 (8.43%) Relational Database
11 12 (7.23%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (7.23%) DynamoDB
11 12 (7.23%) Metadata
11 12 (7.23%) Tableau
12 11 (6.63%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (6.63%) RDBMS
13 10 (6.02%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 14 (8.43%) Git
2 7 (4.22%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.01%) MLflow
4 4 (2.41%) GitLab
5 2 (1.20%) Deequ
6 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.60%) JUnit
General
1 76 (45.78%) Social Skills
2 60 (36.14%) Finance
3 40 (24.10%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.24%) Financial Institution
5 15 (9.04%) Banking
5 15 (9.04%) Law
6 10 (6.02%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.41%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.81%) Front Office
8 3 (1.81%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.81%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.20%) Advertising
9 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.20%) Legal
9 2 (1.20%) Marketing
9 2 (1.20%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Electronics
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (44.58%) Data Engineer
2 41 (24.70%) Senior
3 27 (16.27%) Senior Data Engineer
4 22 (13.25%) Developer
5 18 (10.84%) AWS Data Engineer
5 18 (10.84%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (9.04%) Python Developer
7 14 (8.43%) Architect
8 13 (7.83%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (6.63%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.02%) Data Architect
10 10 (6.02%) Data Scientist
11 8 (4.82%) Lead
12 7 (4.22%) Senior Data Scientist
13 6 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 6 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
14 5 (3.01%) Azure Data Engineer
14 5 (3.01%) Product Lead
15 4 (2.41%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 4 (2.41%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (40.96%) Kafka
2 23 (13.86%) PySpark
3 20 (12.05%) REST
4 14 (8.43%) PyTorch
4 14 (8.43%) TensorFlow
5 11 (6.63%) Pandas
6 9 (5.42%) scikit-learn
6 9 (5.42%) Spark Streaming
7 8 (4.82%) boto
7 8 (4.82%) Spring
8 7 (4.22%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (4.22%) React
8 7 (4.22%) SpaCy
8 7 (4.22%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.61%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.61%) Node.js
9 6 (3.61%) NumPy
10 5 (3.01%) LDAP
10 5 (3.01%) OAuth
10 5 (3.01%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 42 (25.30%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (13.86%) Cloud Native
3 17 (10.24%) Product Ownership
4 16 (9.64%) e-Learning
5 15 (9.04%) Algorithms
6 11 (6.63%) Management Information System
7 10 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (4.22%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (3.61%) FMCG
11 4 (2.41%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.81%) Equities
12 3 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.81%) Virtual Team
13 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
14 1 (0.60%) Data Fabric
14 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
14 1 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.43%) Linux
2 7 (4.22%) Unix
3 5 (3.01%) CentOS
3 5 (3.01%) Debian
3 5 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (56.63%) Data Pipeline
2 87 (52.41%) Data Engineering
3 84 (50.60%) Analytics
4 77 (46.39%) CI/CD
5 70 (42.17%) ETL
6 65 (39.16%) Data Modelling
7 63 (37.95%) Machine Learning
8 62 (37.35%) Data Science
9 50 (30.12%) DevOps
10 49 (29.52%) Data Governance
11 47 (28.31%) Software Engineering
12 44 (26.51%) AI
13 42 (25.30%) Business Intelligence
14 41 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (22.89%) Computer Science
16 37 (22.29%) Agile
17 34 (20.48%) Mentoring
18 28 (16.87%) Fintech
19 27 (16.27%) Observability
20 25 (15.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 145 (87.35%) Python
2 106 (63.86%) SQL
3 56 (33.73%) Java
4 32 (19.28%) Scala
5 9 (5.42%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.22%) R
7 5 (3.01%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.81%) C#
9 2 (1.20%) C++
9 2 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.20%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.60%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.60%) Bash
10 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.60%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (21.69%) Degree
2 16 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.04%) Master's Degree
4 14 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (8.43%) PhD
4 14 (8.43%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.61%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.01%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.60%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (28.92%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.02%) QA
3 9 (5.42%) GDPR
4 3 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (13.86%) Docker
2 9 (5.42%) HDFS
3 5 (3.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (16.27%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.84%) Terraform
3 14 (8.43%) Ansible
4 7 (4.22%) Puppet
5 6 (3.61%) Grafana
5 6 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.81%) Kibana
6 3 (1.81%) logstash
7 2 (1.20%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.60%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (28.31%) Databricks
2 18 (10.84%) Oracle
3 12 (7.23%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.63%) Google
4 11 (6.63%) Informatica
5 10 (6.02%) Talend
6 7 (4.22%) Dell
6 7 (4.22%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.22%) SAP
7 5 (3.01%) SaltStack
8 4 (2.41%) Palantir
9 2 (1.20%) IBM
10 1 (0.60%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.60%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.60%) Pega
10 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.60%) UiPath