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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 394 511
Rank change year-on-year -84 +117 -229
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 225 253 358
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.64% 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.32% 6.84% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 114 167 252
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,600 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,438 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,250 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -8.57%

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 3,562 3,699 8,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.28% 9.35% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,640 2,596 6,575
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -49 144 £100,000 -5.88% 60
North of England -25 34 £57,500 +4.55% 46
South West -36 20 £70,000 +27.27% 25
East of England 0 17 £75,000 +4.90% 24
North West +1 14 £55,000 - 20
North East -40 11 £55,000 +15.79% 16
Yorkshire -44 9 £80,000 +39.13% 10
South East -48 4 £57,500 -11.54% 43
Midlands -33 2 £50,000 -21.88% 20
West Midlands -20 1 - - 9
East Midlands -39 1 £50,000 -33.33% 11
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
1 105 (46.67%) Apache
2 100 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (6.22%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.33%) SAS
5 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.44%) Camunda
5 1 (0.44%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (5.78%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.44%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 151 (67.11%) AWS
2 109 (48.44%) Azure
3 87 (38.67%) GCP
4 54 (24.00%) Amazon S3
5 48 (21.33%) Power Platform
6 42 (18.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (17.33%) dbt
8 35 (15.56%) Snowflake
9 32 (14.22%) OpenShift
10 26 (11.56%) Serverless
11 23 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (10.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (6.22%) Amazon EMR
13 11 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (4.44%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (3.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.11%) Broadband
2 6 (2.67%) AMQP
3 2 (0.89%) 4G
3 2 (0.89%) 5G
4 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (32.89%) Big Data
2 65 (28.89%) Tableau
3 62 (27.56%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (22.67%) Data Lake
5 49 (21.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (20.89%) Power BI
7 41 (18.22%) Elasticsearch
8 34 (15.11%) BigQuery
9 33 (14.67%) Spark SQL
10 29 (12.89%) Hadoop
11 27 (12.00%) Apache Hive
11 27 (12.00%) Snowflake Schema
12 25 (11.11%) Impala
12 25 (11.11%) Oracle Database
12 25 (11.11%) Parquet
13 23 (10.22%) Looker
14 22 (9.78%) NoSQL
14 22 (9.78%) Relational Database
15 17 (7.56%) Metadata
16 15 (6.67%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 46 (20.44%) Git
2 28 (12.44%) MLflow
3 25 (11.11%) IBM UrbanCode
4 14 (6.22%) GitLab
5 7 (3.11%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.89%) JIRA
6 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.44%) Deequ
7 1 (0.44%) JUnit
General
1 86 (38.22%) Finance
2 71 (31.56%) Social Skills
3 70 (31.11%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (18.22%) Banking
5 24 (10.67%) Investment Banking
6 16 (7.11%) Law
6 16 (7.11%) Legal
7 11 (4.89%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.44%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.22%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.89%) Billing
13 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Advertising
14 1 (0.44%) Front Office
14 1 (0.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 84 (37.33%) Data Engineer
2 73 (32.44%) Senior
3 27 (12.00%) Lead
4 26 (11.56%) Analyst
5 25 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 24 (10.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (10.22%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (10.22%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (9.78%) Banking Analyst
9 21 (9.33%) Python Engineer
10 19 (8.44%) Developer
11 18 (8.00%) Architect
12 15 (6.67%) Data Scientist
12 15 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
13 14 (6.22%) Python Developer
13 14 (6.22%) Software Engineer
14 13 (5.78%) Business Analyst
15 12 (5.33%) Data Architect
15 12 (5.33%) Data Business Analyst
15 12 (5.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (43.56%) Kafka
2 61 (27.11%) PySpark
3 27 (12.00%) PyTorch
3 27 (12.00%) TensorFlow
4 26 (11.56%) scikit-learn
5 24 (10.67%) LangChain
6 23 (10.22%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (10.22%) pgvector
7 22 (9.78%) REST
8 21 (9.33%) Pandas
9 13 (5.78%) Spring
9 13 (5.78%) Spring Boot
10 10 (4.44%) Node.js
10 10 (4.44%) SpaCy
11 8 (3.56%) NumPy
12 7 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (3.11%) React
13 6 (2.67%) gRPC
13 6 (2.67%) Material-UI
13 6 (2.67%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.78%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 23 (10.22%) Clustering
4 15 (6.67%) Data Structures
5 12 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.44%) e-Learning
7 9 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (4.00%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.56%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.67%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.67%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.67%) Social Media
10 5 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.33%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.89%) NHS
12 2 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.89%) Replication
12 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.00%) Linux
2 6 (2.67%) CentOS
2 6 (2.67%) Debian
2 6 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (62.67%) Analytics
2 140 (62.22%) Data Pipeline
3 138 (61.33%) Data Engineering
4 108 (48.00%) ETL
5 102 (45.33%) CI/CD
6 93 (41.33%) Data Modelling
7 91 (40.44%) AI
8 89 (39.56%) Data Governance
9 82 (36.44%) Data Science
10 78 (34.67%) Agile
11 75 (33.33%) Machine Learning
12 59 (26.22%) Business Intelligence
13 54 (24.00%) DevOps
14 51 (22.67%) Use Case
15 48 (21.33%) Performance Tuning
16 45 (20.00%) Validation
17 43 (19.11%) Software Engineering
18 38 (16.89%) Data Transformation
19 37 (16.44%) Generative AI
20 36 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 203 (90.22%) Python
2 167 (74.22%) SQL
3 43 (19.11%) Scala
4 36 (16.00%) Java
5 7 (3.11%) C++
5 7 (3.11%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.22%) VBA
7 4 (1.78%) Bash
7 4 (1.78%) Bicep
8 3 (1.33%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.33%) R
9 2 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.89%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.44%) C#
10 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (12.44%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.56%) Degree
4 13 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (5.78%) Master's Degree
5 12 (5.33%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.89%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.89%) PhD
7 8 (3.56%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.44%) CEH
10 1 (0.44%) CISM
10 1 (0.44%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (43.56%) Data Quality
2 37 (16.44%) GDPR
3 35 (15.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.33%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.22%) QA
6 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.89%) IFRS
7 2 (0.89%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.89%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (15.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (17.33%) Terraform
2 33 (14.67%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.44%) Ansible
4 6 (2.67%) Grafana
4 6 (2.67%) Puppet
5 5 (2.22%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 74 (32.89%) Databricks
2 32 (14.22%) Red Hat
3 26 (11.56%) Oracle
4 24 (10.67%) Cloudera
4 24 (10.67%) Dell
5 11 (4.89%) Google
6 9 (4.00%) Microsoft
7 6 (2.67%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.33%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.89%) Informatica
10 1 (0.44%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.44%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.44%) Confluent
10 1 (0.44%) Foundry
10 1 (0.44%) IBM
10 1 (0.44%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.44%) Pega
10 1 (0.44%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.44%) Splunk
10 1 (0.44%) UiPath