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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 441 482
Rank change year-on-year -52 +41 -152
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 257 216 285
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.50% 0.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.26% 5.94% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 130 110 201
10th Percentile £52,475 £46,975 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,563 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £73,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% -7.81% -3.03%
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £110,125 £125,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -9.38% -

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 4,104 3,635 6,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.21% 8.47% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,978 2,630 4,154
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,844 £54,285 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% -1.30% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% -2.39% -1.79%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -29 158 £95,000 +11.76% 306
North of England -37 50 £55,000 -4.35% 37
South West -52 26 £55,000 +10.00% 23
North East -45 23 £55,000 +15.79% 8
North West -9 17 £55,000 -18.52% 26
Yorkshire -47 10 £80,000 +39.13% 3
East of England -23 6 £77,500 +8.39% 10
South East -61 6 £62,500 -7.41% 28
Midlands -50 4 £54,500 -14.84% 5
West Midlands -31 3 £60,653 +0.25%
East Midlands -43 1 £50,000 -33.33% 5
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
1 110 (42.80%) Apache
2 56 (21.79%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (7.39%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.95%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.17%) SAS
6 2 (0.78%) Luigi
6 2 (0.78%) Tornado
7 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.39%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 151 (58.75%) AWS
2 137 (53.31%) Azure
3 80 (31.13%) GCP
4 43 (16.73%) Power Platform
5 40 (15.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 37 (14.40%) Amazon S3
7 36 (14.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 36 (14.01%) Serverless
8 27 (10.51%) Snowflake
9 23 (8.95%) Amazon EMR
9 23 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (7.78%) Amazon Kinesis
11 19 (7.39%) Azure Databricks
11 19 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (7.39%) dbt
12 17 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (5.06%) Amazon ECR
16 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.33%) BGP
1 6 (2.33%) DNS
1 6 (2.33%) IPsec
1 6 (2.33%) VPN
2 5 (1.95%) AMQP
2 5 (1.95%) Internet
3 1 (0.39%) 4G
3 1 (0.39%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (35.41%) Big Data
2 61 (23.74%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (23.35%) Data Lake
4 55 (21.40%) Hadoop
5 49 (19.07%) Amazon Redshift
6 44 (17.12%) Elasticsearch
7 42 (16.34%) NoSQL
7 42 (16.34%) Power BI
8 32 (12.45%) Tableau
9 24 (9.34%) Metadata
10 23 (8.95%) Delta Lake
11 20 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (7.78%) Relational Database
12 18 (7.00%) BigQuery
13 16 (6.23%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (6.23%) Flink
13 16 (6.23%) Looker
13 16 (6.23%) Milvus
14 15 (5.84%) Snowflake Schema
15 13 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 33 (12.84%) Git
2 21 (8.17%) MLflow
3 17 (6.61%) GitLab
4 12 (4.67%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.78%) JIRA
5 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.39%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.39%) ERwin
6 1 (0.39%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 104 (40.47%) Finance
2 70 (27.24%) Social Skills
3 46 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (11.67%) Banking
5 21 (8.17%) Financial Institution
5 21 (8.17%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.23%) Law
7 15 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.28%) Aerospace
9 10 (3.89%) Military
10 9 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (3.50%) Marketing
11 6 (2.33%) Legal
11 6 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.33%) Retail
12 4 (1.56%) Games
13 3 (1.17%) Front Office
14 2 (0.78%) Local Government
14 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 121 (47.08%) Data Engineer
2 88 (34.24%) Senior
3 42 (16.34%) Lead
4 34 (13.23%) Data Scientist
5 30 (11.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 30 (11.67%) Senior Data Scientist
6 25 (9.73%) Lead Data Engineer
7 24 (9.34%) Databricks Engineer
8 21 (8.17%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 17 (6.61%) Architect
9 17 (6.61%) Python Engineer
10 15 (5.84%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 15 (5.84%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (5.06%) Data Architect
12 12 (4.67%) Developer
12 12 (4.67%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.89%) Python Developer
14 9 (3.50%) Consultant
14 9 (3.50%) Python Data Engineer
15 8 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (41.63%) Kafka
2 50 (19.46%) PySpark
3 41 (15.95%) Terraform
4 21 (8.17%) SpaCy
5 17 (6.61%) PyTorch
5 17 (6.61%) scikit-learn
6 16 (6.23%) LangChain
6 16 (6.23%) pgvector
6 16 (6.23%) REST
6 16 (6.23%) TensorFlow
7 15 (5.84%) LlamaIndex
8 13 (5.06%) Node.js
9 10 (3.89%) Pandas
10 9 (3.50%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (3.11%) RESTful
12 6 (2.33%) gRPC
12 6 (2.33%) NumPy
12 6 (2.33%) React
12 6 (2.33%) Spring
12 6 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.90%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.17%) e-Learning
3 19 (7.39%) Public Cloud
4 18 (7.00%) Product Ownership
5 17 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (5.84%) Clustering
7 14 (5.45%) Data Structures
7 14 (5.45%) Onboarding
8 11 (4.28%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.72%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.33%) NHS
11 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.17%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (0.78%) Data Fabric
14 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.67%) Linux
2 5 (1.95%) CentOS
2 5 (1.95%) Debian
2 5 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (63.81%) Data Engineering
2 151 (58.75%) Analytics
3 140 (54.47%) Data Pipeline
4 126 (49.03%) CI/CD
5 114 (44.36%) Data Science
6 110 (42.80%) Machine Learning
7 107 (41.63%) Data Modelling
8 96 (37.35%) DevOps
9 89 (34.63%) AI
10 87 (33.85%) ETL
11 73 (28.40%) Agile
12 67 (26.07%) Lakehouse
13 64 (24.90%) Mentoring
14 58 (22.57%) Use Case
15 56 (21.79%) Data Governance
16 55 (21.40%) Business Intelligence
17 48 (18.68%) Infrastructure as Code
18 46 (17.90%) Generative AI
19 45 (17.51%) Data Ingestion
20 43 (16.73%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 215 (83.66%) Python
2 174 (67.70%) SQL
3 50 (19.46%) Scala
4 36 (14.01%) Java
5 7 (2.72%) C#
5 7 (2.72%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.33%) C
6 6 (2.33%) PHP
6 6 (2.33%) Ruby
7 5 (1.95%) VBA
8 4 (1.56%) Bash
9 3 (1.17%) Bicep
9 3 (1.17%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.78%) R
10 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.39%) C++
11 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (26.46%) Security Cleared
2 54 (21.01%) Degree
3 48 (18.68%) SC Cleared
4 28 (10.89%) PhD
5 25 (9.73%) Master's Degree
6 18 (7.00%) Azure Certification
7 16 (6.23%) DV Cleared
8 14 (5.45%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.39%) CEH
12 1 (0.39%) CISM
12 1 (0.39%) CISSP
12 1 (0.39%) OCP
12 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (33.07%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.95%) GDPR
3 17 (6.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (5.06%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.11%) QA
6 3 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
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 53 (20.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.50%) Ansible
3 6 (2.33%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.95%) Puppet
5 3 (1.17%) Kibana
6 2 (0.78%) Argo
7 1 (0.39%) Grafana
7 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 97 (37.74%) Databricks
2 29 (11.28%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.23%) Cloudera
4 15 (5.84%) Dell
5 10 (3.89%) Oracle
6 8 (3.11%) Google
7 7 (2.72%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.33%) HP
8 6 (2.33%) IBM
8 6 (2.33%) SAP
9 5 (1.95%) Informatica
9 5 (1.95%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.95%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.17%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.17%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.17%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.39%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.39%) Foundry
11 1 (0.39%) Splunk