Apache Spark Jobs in England

Apache Spark
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Apache Spark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Apache Spark over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 472 239
Rank change year-on-year +72 -233 +9
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 275 393 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.46% 1.56%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.90% 4.41% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 200 263 598
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,172 £57,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,125 £66,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,115 £80,000 £88,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -9.60% +10.63%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £118,750 £150,000
UK median annual salary £82,865 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -8.57% +12.90%

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 3,987 8,920 10,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.66% 10.47% 11.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,804 6,568 7,238
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £56,125
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.91% +2.05%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £93,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in England.

Salary trend for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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 +52 186 £110,000 +22.22% 293
South East +132 36 £65,000 +32.65% 77
North of England +61 26 £57,500 +4.55% 46
North West +11 16 £60,000 -4.00% 23
Midlands +85 15 £64,000 -12.33% 35
East Midlands +52 9 £75,000 +25.00% 14
Yorkshire +72 8 £57,500 +11.59% 18
West Midlands +51 6 £60,250 -17.47% 19
East of England +54 3 £81,250 -19.75% 21
North East +51 2 £80,000 +6.67% 5
South West +56 1 £50,000 -37.50% 24
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 133 (48.36%) Apache
2 111 (40.36%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.09%) Maya
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 152 (55.27%) AWS
2 90 (32.73%) Azure
3 88 (32.00%) Serverless
4 86 (31.27%) AWS Lambda
5 84 (30.55%) dbt
6 83 (30.18%) OpenShift
7 71 (25.82%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (14.91%) GCP
9 39 (14.18%) Power Platform
10 24 (8.73%) Amazon S3
10 24 (8.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (8.00%) Snowflake
12 17 (6.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (4.36%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (3.27%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (3.27%) Amazon SageMaker
15 9 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (2.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.64%) HTTP
2 1 (0.36%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (30.91%) Amazon Athena
2 81 (29.45%) Apache Iceberg
2 81 (29.45%) Big Data
3 74 (26.91%) Apache Ignite
4 72 (26.18%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (26.18%) Dremio
5 71 (25.82%) Apache Arrow
6 66 (24.00%) Hadoop
7 42 (15.27%) NoSQL
8 40 (14.55%) Data Lake
9 39 (14.18%) Power BI
10 27 (9.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 25 (9.09%) Tableau
12 23 (8.36%) Apache Hive
13 19 (6.91%) Delta Lake
14 18 (6.55%) Relational Database
15 17 (6.18%) SQL Server
16 16 (5.82%) BigQuery
17 14 (5.09%) MongoDB
18 13 (4.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 71 (25.82%) Artifactory
2 28 (10.18%) Git
3 16 (5.82%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.27%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.55%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.18%) GitLab
7 5 (1.82%) MLflow
8 4 (1.45%) JMeter
8 4 (1.45%) Locust
8 4 (1.45%) Postman
8 4 (1.45%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.45%) Selenium
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.73%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.36%) ERwin
10 1 (0.36%) JIRA
10 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 127 (46.18%) Finance
2 78 (28.36%) Social Skills
3 72 (26.18%) Front Office
4 35 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (11.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (10.91%) Retail
7 24 (8.73%) Advertising
8 22 (8.00%) Law
9 21 (7.64%) Games
10 15 (5.45%) Banking
11 8 (2.91%) Public Sector
12 6 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.45%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.45%) Marketing
13 4 (1.45%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.73%) Legal
15 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 147 (53.45%) Data Engineer
2 86 (31.27%) Senior
3 82 (29.82%) Python Engineer
4 78 (28.36%) AWS Engineer
5 73 (26.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 71 (25.82%) AWS DevOps
6 71 (25.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 38 (13.82%) Senior Data Engineer
8 29 (10.55%) Lead
9 23 (8.36%) Software Engineer
10 21 (7.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (6.91%) Architect
12 18 (6.55%) Data Scientist
13 14 (5.09%) Analyst
13 14 (5.09%) Lead Data Engineer
14 12 (4.36%) Developer
15 11 (4.00%) Data Architect
15 11 (4.00%) Python Data Engineer
15 11 (4.00%) Senior Data Scientist
16 10 (3.64%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (54.91%) Kafka
2 101 (36.73%) PySpark
3 71 (25.82%) J2EE
4 16 (5.82%) REST
4 16 (5.82%) TensorFlow
5 13 (4.73%) Pandas
6 12 (4.36%) PyTorch
7 10 (3.64%) scikit-learn
8 9 (3.27%) PyArrow
8 9 (3.27%) React
8 9 (3.27%) Spark Streaming
9 8 (2.91%) GraphQL
9 8 (2.91%) NumPy
9 8 (2.91%) Redux
10 7 (2.55%) YAML
11 6 (2.18%) pytest
11 6 (2.18%) SciPy
12 5 (1.82%) Dask
12 5 (1.82%) Spring
12 5 (1.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.09%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.36%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.27%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.18%) FMCG
7 5 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
7 5 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.45%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.09%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.73%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.36%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.36%) Life Science
11 1 (0.36%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.27%) Unix
2 7 (2.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (53.45%) Agile
2 136 (49.45%) Data Engineering
3 125 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 113 (41.09%) Software Engineering
5 106 (38.55%) DevOps
6 104 (37.82%) Machine Learning
7 84 (30.55%) ETL
8 82 (29.82%) Data Pipeline
9 80 (29.09%) Asset Management
10 78 (28.36%) Open Source
11 71 (25.82%) Analytics
11 71 (25.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 70 (25.45%) Data Modelling
12 70 (25.45%) Data Science
13 62 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
14 55 (20.00%) Data Governance
15 47 (17.09%) Visualisation
16 46 (16.73%) Artificial Intelligence
17 41 (14.91%) Business Intelligence
17 41 (14.91%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 239 (86.91%) Python
2 138 (50.18%) SQL
3 111 (40.36%) Java
4 74 (26.91%) Go
5 53 (19.27%) Scala
6 10 (3.64%) R
7 9 (3.27%) Bash
7 9 (3.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (2.91%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.82%) C#
9 5 (1.82%) C++
10 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.73%) C
11 2 (0.73%) Ruby
12 1 (0.36%) Bicep
12 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 53 (19.27%) Degree
2 16 (5.82%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.45%) Master's Degree
3 15 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.27%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.91%) PhD
6 7 (2.55%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.45%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.73%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (16.36%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.18%) Accessibility
3 16 (5.82%) GDPR
4 7 (2.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.45%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.45%) QA
6 3 (1.09%) HIPAA
System Software
1 97 (35.27%) Docker
2 14 (5.09%) HDFS
3 5 (1.82%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 112 (40.73%) Kubernetes
2 99 (36.00%) Terraform
3 5 (1.82%) Oozie
4 3 (1.09%) Ansible
5 2 (0.73%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.73%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.36%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.36%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 71 (25.82%) Databricks
2 44 (16.00%) Google
3 43 (15.64%) Microsoft
4 21 (7.64%) Apple
5 14 (5.09%) Oracle
6 13 (4.73%) Cloudera
7 10 (3.64%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.55%) Informatica
9 5 (1.82%) Palantir
10 4 (1.45%) Talend
11 2 (0.73%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.73%) MapR
11 2 (0.73%) StreamSets
11 2 (0.73%) Teradata
12 1 (0.36%) Foundry
12 1 (0.36%) SAP