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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 437 480
Rank change year-on-year -87 +43 -120
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 252 206 263
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.48% 0.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.83% 5.92% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 125 101 186
10th Percentile £52,350 £51,750 £48,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% +0.46%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +0.46%

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 4,326 3,480 5,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.16% 8.09% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,954 2,509 3,374
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% -6.63% +2.68%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £56,763
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.51% +3.20%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -55 141 £87,500 -5.41% 318
North of England -36 58 £60,000 - 57
South West -44 32 £60,500 +10.00% 23
North East -46 26 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West -8 21 £62,500 -7.41% 31
Yorkshire -48 11 £80,000 +33.33% 16
South East -53 9 £65,000 -1.89% 23
West Midlands -50 4 £60,653 +13.37% 5
Midlands -59 4 £60,653 +13.37% 10
East of England -46 1 £80,000 +11.89% 13
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
1 117 (46.43%) Apache
2 43 (17.06%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (9.13%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.98%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.19%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.19%) SAS
6 2 (0.79%) Luigi
6 2 (0.79%) Tornado
7 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 145 (57.54%) AWS
2 137 (54.37%) Azure
3 73 (28.97%) GCP
4 42 (16.67%) Serverless
5 41 (16.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 40 (15.87%) Amazon S3
7 31 (12.30%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (11.90%) Power Platform
9 28 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
10 23 (9.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 22 (8.73%) Amazon Kinesis
11 22 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (8.33%) Azure Databricks
13 20 (7.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (7.54%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (6.75%) Cloud Computing
16 16 (6.35%) Snowflake
17 14 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
18 13 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
19 10 (3.97%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.78%) AMQP
2 6 (2.38%) BGP
2 6 (2.38%) DNS
2 6 (2.38%) IPsec
2 6 (2.38%) VPN
3 5 (1.98%) Internet
4 1 (0.40%) 4G
4 1 (0.40%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (33.73%) Big Data
2 55 (21.83%) Data Warehouse
2 55 (21.83%) Hadoop
3 48 (19.05%) Data Lake
4 45 (17.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 42 (16.67%) NoSQL
6 31 (12.30%) Metadata
7 30 (11.90%) Power BI
8 23 (9.13%) Delta Lake
8 23 (9.13%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (8.73%) Relational Database
10 21 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
11 19 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (7.14%) Tableau
13 17 (6.75%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (6.75%) Flink
14 13 (5.16%) Spark SQL
15 12 (4.76%) DynamoDB
16 11 (4.37%) Apache Hive
17 10 (3.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (19.05%) Git
2 22 (8.73%) GitLab
3 15 (5.95%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.78%) MLflow
5 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.40%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.40%) ERwin
6 1 (0.40%) JIRA
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 106 (42.06%) Finance
2 74 (29.37%) Social Skills
3 42 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (13.49%) Banking
5 28 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 25 (9.92%) Financial Institution
7 18 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (5.95%) Aerospace
9 14 (5.56%) Law
10 10 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.97%) Military
11 9 (3.57%) Marketing
12 6 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.38%) Retail
13 5 (1.98%) Legal
14 4 (1.59%) Front Office
15 3 (1.19%) Games
16 2 (0.79%) Aviation
16 2 (0.79%) Local Government
16 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 131 (51.98%) Data Engineer
2 80 (31.75%) Senior
3 40 (15.87%) Lead
4 38 (15.08%) Data Scientist
5 35 (13.89%) Senior Data Engineer
6 33 (13.10%) Senior Data Scientist
7 23 (9.13%) Databricks Engineer
8 22 (8.73%) Lead Data Engineer
9 21 (8.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 14 (5.56%) Architect
11 13 (5.16%) Data Architect
11 13 (5.16%) Python Engineer
11 13 (5.16%) Software Engineer
12 11 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.97%) AWS Data Engineer
14 9 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (3.57%) Developer
15 8 (3.17%) AWS Consultant
15 8 (3.17%) Azure Data Engineer
15 8 (3.17%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (32.94%) Kafka
2 59 (23.41%) PySpark
3 50 (19.84%) Terraform
4 25 (9.92%) SpaCy
5 13 (5.16%) Node.js
6 12 (4.76%) REST
7 10 (3.97%) gRPC
7 10 (3.97%) Pandas
8 9 (3.57%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
8 9 (3.57%) React
9 8 (3.17%) Spring
9 8 (3.17%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.78%) Material-UI
10 7 (2.78%) OpenAPI
10 7 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (2.78%) Swagger
11 6 (2.38%) FastAPI
11 6 (2.38%) NumPy
11 6 (2.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.68%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.92%) e-Learning
3 21 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 17 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (6.35%) Data Structures
6 15 (5.95%) Onboarding
7 11 (4.37%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (3.17%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.38%) NHS
10 5 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.59%) CUDA
11 4 (1.59%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.19%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.79%) Blog
13 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.79%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.95%) Linux
2 7 (2.78%) CentOS
2 7 (2.78%) Debian
2 7 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (64.29%) Data Engineering
2 146 (57.94%) Analytics
3 143 (56.75%) CI/CD
4 137 (54.37%) Data Pipeline
5 113 (44.84%) Data Science
6 112 (44.44%) DevOps
7 107 (42.46%) Data Modelling
8 100 (39.68%) Machine Learning
9 84 (33.33%) ETL
10 82 (32.54%) Agile
11 77 (30.56%) Mentoring
12 75 (29.76%) AI
13 58 (23.02%) Infrastructure as Code
14 53 (21.03%) Validation
15 52 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
16 49 (19.44%) Lakehouse
17 45 (17.86%) Natural Language Processing
18 44 (17.46%) Data Governance
19 43 (17.06%) Business Intelligence
20 42 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 209 (82.94%) Python
2 162 (64.29%) SQL
3 53 (21.03%) Scala
4 36 (14.29%) Java
5 12 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.17%) C#
7 7 (2.78%) R
8 6 (2.38%) C
8 6 (2.38%) PHP
8 6 (2.38%) Ruby
9 5 (1.98%) Bash
9 5 (1.98%) VBA
10 4 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.19%) Bicep
11 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.19%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (32.94%) Security Cleared
2 64 (25.40%) SC Cleared
3 59 (23.41%) Degree
4 34 (13.49%) PhD
5 32 (12.70%) Master's Degree
6 20 (7.94%) Azure Certification
7 19 (7.54%) AWS Certification
8 18 (7.14%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.40%) CEH
12 1 (0.40%) CISM
12 1 (0.40%) CISSP
12 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.40%) OCP
12 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (38.49%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.16%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.17%) QA
4 7 (2.78%) GDPR
5 5 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.79%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (23.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 47 (18.65%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.57%) Ansible
3 7 (2.78%) Puppet
4 6 (2.38%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (1.19%) Kibana
6 2 (0.79%) Argo
7 1 (0.40%) Control-M
7 1 (0.40%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 92 (36.51%) Databricks
2 33 (13.10%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.16%) Google
4 9 (3.57%) Oracle
5 8 (3.17%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.78%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.38%) HP
7 6 (2.38%) IBM
7 6 (2.38%) SAP
8 5 (1.98%) Informatica
9 4 (1.59%) Foundry
10 3 (1.19%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.19%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.19%) Palantir
10 3 (1.19%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.79%) Thales
12 1 (0.40%) Confluent
12 1 (0.40%) Refinitiv
12 1 (0.40%) Sparx