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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 427 499
Rank change year-on-year -43 +72 -167
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 287 225 280
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.51% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.02% 5.92% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 128 120 191
10th Percentile £52,125 £46,700 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,844 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% -10.63% -3.03%
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £110,125 £125,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £71,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.89% -10.63% -1.23%

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 4,088 3,802 6,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.27% 8.69% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,941 2,755 4,608
10th Percentile £29,554 £29,000 £30,175
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -3.57%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +8 179 £95,000 +11.76% 39
North of England -31 49 £55,000 -4.35% 15
South West -49 27 £55,000 +10.00% 11
North East -39 23 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West -4 16 £55,000 - 3
East of England -11 14 £75,000 +4.90% 1
Yorkshire -52 10 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -48 8 £62,500 -3.85% 16
Midlands -47 3 £58,403 -13.48% 1
West Midlands -35 2 £66,805 +10.42%
East Midlands -38 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
1 132 (45.99%) Apache
2 88 (30.66%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.62%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.74%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.05%) SAS
6 2 (0.70%) Luigi
6 2 (0.70%) Tornado
7 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (4.18%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 182 (63.41%) AWS
2 143 (49.83%) Azure
3 87 (30.31%) GCP
4 59 (20.56%) Amazon S3
5 52 (18.12%) Power Platform
6 48 (16.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 36 (12.54%) Serverless
7 36 (12.54%) Snowflake
8 35 (12.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 31 (10.80%) OpenShift
10 28 (9.76%) dbt
11 23 (8.01%) Amazon EMR
12 22 (7.67%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (7.32%) Amazon Kinesis
14 19 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
18 13 (4.53%) Amazon ECR
19 12 (4.18%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.09%) BGP
1 6 (2.09%) DNS
1 6 (2.09%) IPsec
1 6 (2.09%) VPN
2 5 (1.74%) AMQP
2 5 (1.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) 4G
3 1 (0.35%) 5G
3 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (32.06%) Big Data
2 71 (24.74%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (23.69%) Data Lake
4 62 (21.60%) Tableau
5 57 (19.86%) Hadoop
6 55 (19.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 54 (18.82%) Elasticsearch
8 51 (17.77%) Power BI
9 42 (14.63%) NoSQL
10 37 (12.89%) Apache Hive
11 32 (11.15%) Spark SQL
12 26 (9.06%) BigQuery
13 25 (8.71%) Delta Lake
13 25 (8.71%) Parquet
14 24 (8.36%) Impala
14 24 (8.36%) Looker
14 24 (8.36%) Oracle Database
14 24 (8.36%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (8.01%) Metadata
15 23 (8.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 56 (19.51%) Git
2 30 (10.45%) MLflow
3 24 (8.36%) IBM UrbanCode
4 18 (6.27%) GitLab
5 10 (3.48%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.70%) JIRA
6 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.35%) ERwin
General
1 124 (43.21%) Finance
2 73 (25.44%) Social Skills
3 67 (23.34%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (17.42%) Banking
5 23 (8.01%) Investment Banking
6 21 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 19 (6.62%) Financial Institution
8 17 (5.92%) Law
8 17 (5.92%) Legal
9 15 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.83%) Aerospace
11 10 (3.48%) Military
12 9 (3.14%) Marketing
13 8 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (2.09%) Retail
15 4 (1.39%) Games
16 3 (1.05%) Front Office
17 2 (0.70%) Local Government
17 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 121 (42.16%) Data Engineer
2 97 (33.80%) Senior
3 41 (14.29%) Lead
4 31 (10.80%) Data Scientist
4 31 (10.80%) Senior Data Engineer
5 28 (9.76%) Senior Data Scientist
6 25 (8.71%) Analyst
7 24 (8.36%) Lead Data Engineer
8 23 (8.01%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 23 (8.01%) Systems Engineer
8 23 (8.01%) Transformation Analyst
9 22 (7.67%) Banking Analyst
10 20 (6.97%) Python Engineer
11 17 (5.92%) Architect
12 13 (4.53%) Data Architect
13 12 (4.18%) Business Analyst
13 12 (4.18%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (4.18%) Developer
13 12 (4.18%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.18%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (40.77%) Kafka
2 73 (25.44%) PySpark
3 43 (14.98%) Terraform
4 25 (8.71%) PyTorch
4 25 (8.71%) scikit-learn
5 24 (8.36%) LangChain
5 24 (8.36%) pgvector
5 24 (8.36%) TensorFlow
6 23 (8.01%) LlamaIndex
7 22 (7.67%) Pandas
8 19 (6.62%) SpaCy
9 18 (6.27%) REST
10 15 (5.23%) Node.js
11 9 (3.14%) Apache NiFi
12 7 (2.44%) RESTful
12 7 (2.44%) Spring
12 7 (2.44%) Spring Boot
13 6 (2.09%) gRPC
13 6 (2.09%) NumPy
13 6 (2.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.51%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.41%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.01%) Clustering
4 19 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (6.62%) e-Learning
5 17 (5.92%) Product Ownership
6 14 (4.88%) Data Structures
6 14 (4.88%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.83%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.44%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.74%) NHS
10 3 (1.05%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.05%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.53%) Linux
2 5 (1.74%) CentOS
2 5 (1.74%) Debian
2 5 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.74%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (63.41%) Analytics
1 182 (63.41%) Data Engineering
2 172 (59.93%) Data Pipeline
3 149 (51.92%) CI/CD
4 123 (42.86%) AI
5 121 (42.16%) Data Science
6 119 (41.46%) ETL
6 119 (41.46%) Machine Learning
7 116 (40.42%) Data Modelling
8 97 (33.80%) Agile
9 93 (32.40%) DevOps
10 87 (30.31%) Data Governance
11 65 (22.65%) Business Intelligence
11 65 (22.65%) Use Case
12 62 (21.60%) Mentoring
13 55 (19.16%) Validation
14 53 (18.47%) Generative AI
15 51 (17.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 50 (17.42%) Performance Tuning
17 46 (16.03%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 245 (85.37%) Python
2 204 (71.08%) SQL
3 50 (17.42%) Scala
4 38 (13.24%) Java
5 7 (2.44%) C#
5 7 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.09%) C
6 6 (2.09%) PHP
6 6 (2.09%) Ruby
7 5 (1.74%) VBA
8 4 (1.39%) Bash
8 4 (1.39%) Bicep
9 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.70%) R
10 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 65 (22.65%) Security Cleared
2 54 (18.82%) Degree
3 47 (16.38%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.06%) PhD
5 23 (8.01%) Master's Degree
6 19 (6.62%) Azure Certification
7 15 (5.23%) DV Cleared
8 14 (4.88%) AWS Certification
9 11 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.05%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.35%) CEH
13 1 (0.35%) CISM
13 1 (0.35%) CISSP
13 1 (0.35%) OCP
13 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (38.33%) Data Quality
2 42 (14.63%) GDPR
3 36 (12.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.53%) HIPAA
5 12 (4.18%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.79%) QA
7 3 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.70%) IFRS
8 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (18.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.83%) Ansible
3 6 (2.09%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.74%) Puppet
5 3 (1.05%) Kibana
6 2 (0.70%) Argo
6 2 (0.70%) Grafana
7 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 102 (35.54%) Databricks
2 34 (11.85%) Oracle
3 30 (10.45%) Red Hat
4 29 (10.10%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.36%) Cloudera
5 24 (8.36%) Dell
6 8 (2.79%) Google
7 6 (2.09%) HP
7 6 (2.09%) IBM
7 6 (2.09%) Informatica
7 6 (2.09%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.09%) SAP
8 5 (1.74%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.05%) LexisNexis
9 3 (1.05%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.35%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.35%) Foundry
10 1 (0.35%) Splunk