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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 417 355
Rank change year-on-year -15 -62 -108
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 169 276 347
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.32% 0.56% 0.77%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.59% 5.99% 6.78%
Number of salaries quoted 96 197 223
10th Percentile £55,625 £47,500 £51,350
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% - -3.03%
75th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

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 3,023 4,606 5,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.81% 9.29% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,196 2,773 3,989
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,725
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

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 1 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 1 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 -18 125 £95,000 -5.00% 62
North of England +27 27 £60,000 +21.77% 13
Yorkshire +10 18 £60,000 +21.77% 5
North West +16 8 £54,250 +8.50% 6
East of England +22 4 - - 13
Midlands +13 3 £67,500 +12.50% 2
South East +1 3 £65,000 +13.04% 31
West Midlands +14 2 £67,500 +3.85% 2
South West -13 2 £50,000 -35.48% 9
North East +7 1 - - 2
East Midlands -11 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 45 (26.63%) Apache
2 35 (20.71%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.78%) Luigi
3 3 (1.78%) SAS
4 2 (1.18%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.59%) Appian
5 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 9 (5.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.59%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 117 (69.23%) AWS
2 96 (56.80%) Azure
3 68 (40.24%) GCP
4 31 (18.34%) Serverless
5 27 (15.98%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (13.61%) Amazon S3
7 20 (11.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 19 (11.24%) Amazon EMR
9 17 (10.06%) Power Platform
10 15 (8.88%) Amazon Kinesis
10 15 (8.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (8.88%) dbt
10 15 (8.88%) Snowflake
11 14 (8.28%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (5.33%) OpenShift
13 8 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (4.14%) GitHub
15 5 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (2.96%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.78%) AMQP
3 1 (0.59%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (49.11%) Big Data
2 64 (37.87%) Data Warehouse
2 64 (37.87%) Hadoop
3 46 (27.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 33 (19.53%) Data Lake
5 30 (17.75%) NoSQL
6 25 (14.79%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (11.83%) MySQL
8 19 (11.24%) MongoDB
9 18 (10.65%) SQL Server
10 16 (9.47%) Power BI
11 15 (8.88%) Metadata
11 15 (8.88%) Relational Database
12 14 (8.28%) Apache Hive
12 14 (8.28%) DynamoDB
13 13 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (7.10%) RDBMS
15 11 (6.51%) DataStage
15 11 (6.51%) Neo4j
15 11 (6.51%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 12 (7.10%) Git
2 9 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.73%) MLflow
4 3 (1.78%) GitLab
5 2 (1.18%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.59%) Deequ
6 1 (0.59%) Gradle
6 1 (0.59%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.59%) Selenium
6 1 (0.59%) Snyk
General
1 84 (49.70%) Social Skills
2 58 (34.32%) Finance
3 44 (26.04%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.83%) Law
5 18 (10.65%) Financial Institution
6 12 (7.10%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.51%) Banking
8 4 (2.37%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.78%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.78%) Front Office
9 3 (1.78%) Marketing
10 2 (1.18%) Electronics
10 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Legal
10 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.18%) Retail
10 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (41.42%) Data Engineer
2 44 (26.04%) Senior
3 29 (17.16%) Senior Data Engineer
4 20 (11.83%) Developer
5 15 (8.88%) AWS Data Engineer
5 15 (8.88%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (8.28%) Architect
6 14 (8.28%) Principal Engineer
6 14 (8.28%) Python Developer
7 11 (6.51%) Data Scientist
7 11 (6.51%) Lead
8 10 (5.92%) Data Architect
8 10 (5.92%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.33%) Product Lead
10 8 (4.73%) Senior Data Scientist
11 6 (3.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 5 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (2.37%) Azure Data Engineer
13 4 (2.37%) Machine Learning Scientist
13 4 (2.37%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (43.20%) Kafka
2 19 (11.24%) PyTorch
2 19 (11.24%) TensorFlow
3 18 (10.65%) PySpark
4 17 (10.06%) REST
5 13 (7.69%) Pandas
5 13 (7.69%) scikit-learn
6 10 (5.92%) Spark Streaming
7 8 (4.73%) boto
8 7 (4.14%) SpaCy
9 6 (3.55%) NumPy
9 6 (3.55%) Spring
10 5 (2.96%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.96%) LDAP
10 5 (2.96%) OAuth
10 5 (2.96%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.96%) React
11 4 (2.37%) pytest
11 4 (2.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 46 (27.22%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (12.43%) Cloud Native
2 21 (12.43%) Product Ownership
3 17 (10.06%) e-Learning
4 13 (7.69%) Algorithms
5 12 (7.10%) Management Information System
6 11 (6.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (5.92%) FMCG
8 8 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (4.14%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (2.96%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.78%) Equities
11 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.18%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.59%) IoT
13 1 (0.59%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.10%) Linux
2 7 (4.14%) Unix
3 3 (1.78%) CentOS
3 3 (1.78%) Debian
3 3 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (56.80%) Data Pipeline
2 88 (52.07%) Data Engineering
3 85 (50.30%) Analytics
4 80 (47.34%) CI/CD
5 70 (41.42%) ETL
5 70 (41.42%) Machine Learning
6 69 (40.83%) Data Modelling
7 64 (37.87%) Data Science
8 59 (34.91%) DevOps
9 49 (28.99%) Software Engineering
10 48 (28.40%) Data Governance
11 47 (27.81%) AI
12 45 (26.63%) Business Intelligence
13 42 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (21.89%) Agile
14 37 (21.89%) Mentoring
15 36 (21.30%) Computer Science
16 29 (17.16%) Observability
17 28 (16.57%) Fintech
18 25 (14.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 145 (85.80%) Python
2 112 (66.27%) SQL
3 56 (33.14%) Java
4 35 (20.71%) Scala
5 7 (4.14%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.14%) R
6 4 (2.37%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.78%) C#
8 2 (1.18%) Bash
8 2 (1.18%) C++
8 2 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.59%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.59%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (21.30%) Degree
2 15 (8.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (8.88%) Master's Degree
3 14 (8.28%) PhD
4 13 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 11 (6.51%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.55%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.96%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.37%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.59%) MBA
10 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (26.63%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.69%) QA
3 10 (5.92%) GDPR
4 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (17.75%) Docker
2 9 (5.33%) HDFS
3 5 (2.96%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (17.75%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.24%) Terraform
3 14 (8.28%) Ansible
4 7 (4.14%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.55%) Grafana
6 5 (2.96%) Kubeflow
6 5 (2.96%) Puppet
7 3 (1.78%) Kibana
7 3 (1.78%) logstash
8 2 (1.18%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.59%) Argo
Vendors
1 51 (30.18%) Databricks
2 21 (12.43%) Oracle
3 12 (7.10%) Informatica
3 12 (7.10%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.10%) SAP
4 11 (6.51%) Talend
5 8 (4.73%) Google
6 7 (4.14%) Dell
7 5 (2.96%) Palantir
8 4 (2.37%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.78%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.59%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.59%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.59%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.59%) IBM
10 1 (0.59%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.59%) UiPath
10 1 (0.59%) VMware