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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 466 378
Rank change year-on-year +61 -88 -74
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 212 262 349
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.44% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.19% 5.21% 6.56%
Number of salaries quoted 101 183 246
10th Percentile £56,250 £49,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £111,250 £102,500 £97,290
90th Percentile £140,000 £122,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £80,500 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.87% -3.13% -

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 3,423 5,029 5,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.45% 8.37% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,512 3,080 4,258
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,105 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 +46 145 £95,000 - 135
North of England +52 31 £60,000 +20.00% 34
Yorkshire +24 20 £60,000 +21.77% 10
Midlands +58 12 £55,000 -8.33% 10
South East +23 10 £65,000 +13.04% 27
East Midlands +29 7 - - 3
North West +12 6 £54,250 -1.36% 21
West Midlands +44 5 £55,000 -15.38% 6
East of England +19 5 £71,500 -37.83% 5
South West +8 5 £55,000 -29.03% 5
North East +6 5 £47,500 -3.60% 3
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 48 (22.64%) Apache
2 46 (21.70%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.36%) Appian
3 5 (2.36%) SAS
4 4 (1.89%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (1.89%) Apache Synapse
5 3 (1.42%) Luigi
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Superset
Business Applications
1 13 (6.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 150 (70.75%) AWS
2 116 (54.72%) Azure
3 74 (34.91%) GCP
4 42 (19.81%) Amazon S3
5 32 (15.09%) Serverless
6 26 (12.26%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (10.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 19 (8.96%) Power Platform
10 18 (8.49%) Amazon ELB
11 17 (8.02%) Amazon EMR
11 17 (8.02%) Amazon Kinesis
12 16 (7.55%) Snowflake
13 14 (6.60%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (6.13%) dbt
15 12 (5.66%) GitHub
16 11 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
17 10 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (3.77%) Azure Machine Learning
18 8 (3.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.89%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.94%) AMQP
2 2 (0.94%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (43.40%) Big Data
2 67 (31.60%) Hadoop
3 66 (31.13%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 45 (21.23%) NoSQL
6 39 (18.40%) Metadata
7 37 (17.45%) Data Lake
8 31 (14.62%) Delta Lake
9 28 (13.21%) DynamoDB
10 27 (12.74%) Spark SQL
11 23 (10.85%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (9.43%) SQL Server
13 16 (7.55%) Apache Hive
14 15 (7.08%) Apache Iceberg
14 15 (7.08%) BigQuery
14 15 (7.08%) MySQL
14 15 (7.08%) Relational Database
15 14 (6.60%) MongoDB
15 14 (6.60%) Power BI
16 9 (4.25%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 28 (13.21%) MLflow
2 11 (5.19%) Git
3 9 (4.25%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.36%) Robot Framework
4 5 (2.36%) Selenium
4 5 (2.36%) Snyk
5 4 (1.89%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.42%) GitLab
7 2 (0.94%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.47%) Deequ
8 1 (0.47%) Gradle
General
1 110 (51.89%) Social Skills
2 63 (29.72%) Finance
3 50 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (21.70%) Law
5 22 (10.38%) Banking
6 18 (8.49%) Financial Institution
6 18 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.66%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.19%) Marketing
9 6 (2.83%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.36%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.36%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.89%) Front Office
11 4 (1.89%) Retail
12 2 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.94%) Electronics
12 2 (0.94%) Games
12 2 (0.94%) Legal
12 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.47%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 81 (38.21%) Data Engineer
2 46 (21.70%) Senior
3 33 (15.57%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (12.26%) Lead
5 24 (11.32%) Architect
6 19 (8.96%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 19 (8.96%) Software Engineer
7 18 (8.49%) Operations Engineer
8 16 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (6.60%) Developer
10 13 (6.13%) Data Architect
10 13 (6.13%) Product Lead
10 13 (6.13%) Python Engineer
11 12 (5.66%) AWS Data Engineer
11 12 (5.66%) Data Scientist
12 11 (5.19%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (4.72%) Python Developer
14 8 (3.77%) Python Software Engineer
14 8 (3.77%) Senior Data Scientist
15 6 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (44.81%) Kafka
2 38 (17.92%) PySpark
3 37 (17.45%) PyTorch
3 37 (17.45%) TensorFlow
4 32 (15.09%) scikit-learn
5 28 (13.21%) Pandas
6 22 (10.38%) NumPy
7 18 (8.49%) Keras
7 18 (8.49%) Lambda Expressions
7 18 (8.49%) Metaflow
7 18 (8.49%) YAML
8 14 (6.60%) Spark Streaming
9 11 (5.19%) REST
10 9 (4.25%) React
11 8 (3.77%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (3.77%) boto
11 8 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (3.30%) Hugging Face
12 7 (3.30%) SpaCy
13 5 (2.36%) Google JAX
Miscellaneous
1 51 (24.06%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (16.51%) Cloud Native
3 21 (9.91%) Linux Command Line
3 21 (9.91%) Product Ownership
4 17 (8.02%) e-Learning
5 14 (6.60%) Algorithms
5 14 (6.60%) Data Structures
5 14 (6.60%) FMCG
6 11 (5.19%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.36%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (2.36%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.89%) Mobile Banking
10 4 (1.89%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.42%) Equities
11 3 (1.42%) Robotics
11 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.94%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.74%) Unix
2 11 (5.19%) Linux
3 2 (0.94%) CentOS
3 2 (0.94%) Debian
3 2 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (51.89%) CI/CD
1 110 (51.89%) Data Pipeline
2 101 (47.64%) Machine Learning
3 98 (46.23%) Data Engineering
4 90 (42.45%) Data Science
5 89 (41.98%) Analytics
6 84 (39.62%) ETL
7 80 (37.74%) Data Modelling
8 77 (36.32%) DevOps
9 72 (33.96%) AI
10 59 (27.83%) Software Engineering
11 53 (25.00%) Data Governance
11 53 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 50 (23.58%) Containerisation
13 45 (21.23%) Agile
13 45 (21.23%) MLOps
14 42 (19.81%) Business Intelligence
15 41 (19.34%) Mentoring
16 40 (18.87%) Computer Science
16 40 (18.87%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 179 (84.43%) Python
2 149 (70.28%) SQL
3 57 (26.89%) Java
4 31 (14.62%) Scala
5 8 (3.77%) R
6 6 (2.83%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.36%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.89%) Bash
8 4 (1.89%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.42%) C#
9 3 (1.42%) C++
10 2 (0.94%) PROC SQL
10 2 (0.94%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.47%) C
11 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (19.34%) Degree
2 23 (10.85%) Master's Degree
3 17 (8.02%) PhD
4 16 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.13%) Security Cleared
6 9 (4.25%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.77%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.77%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (23.11%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.96%) QA
3 14 (6.60%) GDPR
4 3 (1.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (28.30%) Docker
2 11 (5.19%) HDFS
3 6 (2.83%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.94%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 63 (29.72%) Kubernetes
2 46 (21.70%) Terraform
3 25 (11.79%) Kubeflow
4 17 (8.02%) Ansible
5 7 (3.30%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.83%) Grafana
7 5 (2.36%) Kibana
7 5 (2.36%) logstash
8 4 (1.89%) Puppet
9 2 (0.94%) Oozie
9 2 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 85 (40.09%) Databricks
2 19 (8.96%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.49%) SAP
4 16 (7.55%) Oracle
5 11 (5.19%) Informatica
6 10 (4.72%) Google
7 8 (3.77%) Talend
8 7 (3.30%) Dell
9 5 (2.36%) BiZZdesign
9 5 (2.36%) Black Duck
9 5 (2.36%) UiPath
9 5 (2.36%) VMware
10 4 (1.89%) Palantir
11 3 (1.42%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.94%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.94%) SaltStack
13 1 (0.47%) Cloudera
13 1 (0.47%) IBM
13 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.47%) Salesforce