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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 435 500
Rank change year-on-year -21 +65 -177
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 289 230 277
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.52% 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.06% 5.91% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 131 126 190
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,875 £50,000
25th Percentile £59,313 £56,250 £60,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.48%
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £113,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -9.38% -3.03%

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 4,094 3,889 6,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.32% 8.84% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,958 2,798 4,664
10th Percentile £29,691 £29,175 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,588 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £53,818
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.45% -4.75%

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 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 17 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% 164
North of England -40 48 £55,000 -4.35% 27
South West -50 29 £67,500 +35.00% 14
North East -46 22 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West -10 16 £55,000 - 16
East of England -9 14 £75,000 +4.90% 9
Yorkshire -39 10 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South East -65 8 £62,500 -3.85% 24
Midlands -41 3 £58,403 -13.48% 6
West Midlands -22 2 £66,805 +10.42% 2
East Midlands -30 1 £50,000 -33.33% 4
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
1 133 (46.02%) Apache
2 92 (31.83%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.57%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.73%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.04%) SAS
6 2 (0.69%) Luigi
6 2 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.69%) Tornado
7 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.50%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 183 (63.32%) AWS
2 142 (49.13%) Azure
3 87 (30.10%) GCP
4 60 (20.76%) Amazon S3
5 51 (17.65%) Power Platform
6 47 (16.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 37 (12.80%) Snowflake
8 36 (12.46%) Serverless
9 35 (12.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 32 (11.07%) OpenShift
11 30 (10.38%) dbt
12 23 (7.96%) Amazon EMR
13 22 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (7.27%) Amazon Kinesis
15 18 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
19 13 (4.50%) Amazon ECR
20 12 (4.15%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.08%) BGP
1 6 (2.08%) DNS
1 6 (2.08%) IPsec
1 6 (2.08%) VPN
2 5 (1.73%) AMQP
2 5 (1.73%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) 4G
3 1 (0.35%) 5G
3 1 (0.35%) Broadband
3 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (32.18%) Big Data
2 70 (24.22%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (23.18%) Data Lake
4 62 (21.45%) Tableau
5 56 (19.38%) Hadoop
6 54 (18.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 53 (18.34%) Elasticsearch
8 50 (17.30%) Power BI
9 42 (14.53%) NoSQL
10 38 (13.15%) Apache Hive
11 34 (11.76%) Spark SQL
12 27 (9.34%) BigQuery
13 26 (9.00%) Parquet
14 25 (8.65%) Delta Lake
14 25 (8.65%) Impala
14 25 (8.65%) Oracle Database
14 25 (8.65%) Relational Database
15 24 (8.30%) Looker
15 24 (8.30%) Snowflake Schema
16 23 (7.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 55 (19.03%) Git
2 30 (10.38%) MLflow
3 25 (8.65%) IBM UrbanCode
4 18 (6.23%) GitLab
5 9 (3.11%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.69%) JIRA
6 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.35%) ERwin
General
1 123 (42.56%) Finance
2 74 (25.61%) Social Skills
3 70 (24.22%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (17.30%) Banking
5 24 (8.30%) Investment Banking
6 21 (7.27%) Public Sector
7 19 (6.57%) Law
8 18 (6.23%) Financial Institution
9 17 (5.88%) Legal
10 15 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (3.81%) Aerospace
12 10 (3.46%) Military
13 9 (3.11%) Marketing
14 7 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (2.08%) Retail
16 4 (1.38%) Games
17 3 (1.04%) Front Office
18 2 (0.69%) Local Government
18 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 122 (42.21%) Data Engineer
2 97 (33.56%) Senior
3 41 (14.19%) Lead
4 31 (10.73%) Senior Data Engineer
5 30 (10.38%) Data Scientist
6 27 (9.34%) Senior Data Scientist
7 26 (9.00%) Analyst
8 24 (8.30%) Lead Data Engineer
9 23 (7.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 23 (7.96%) Systems Engineer
9 23 (7.96%) Transformation Analyst
10 22 (7.61%) Banking Analyst
11 21 (7.27%) Python Engineer
12 18 (6.23%) Architect
13 14 (4.84%) Data Architect
14 13 (4.50%) Business Analyst
15 12 (4.15%) Data Business Analyst
15 12 (4.15%) Developer
15 12 (4.15%) Software Engineer
15 12 (4.15%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (41.18%) Kafka
2 74 (25.61%) PySpark
3 25 (8.65%) PyTorch
3 25 (8.65%) scikit-learn
4 24 (8.30%) LangChain
4 24 (8.30%) Pandas
4 24 (8.30%) pgvector
4 24 (8.30%) TensorFlow
5 23 (7.96%) LlamaIndex
6 19 (6.57%) REST
7 18 (6.23%) SpaCy
8 15 (5.19%) Node.js
9 10 (3.46%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (2.77%) Spring
10 8 (2.77%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.42%) NumPy
12 6 (2.08%) gRPC
12 6 (2.08%) React
12 6 (2.08%) RESTful
13 5 (1.73%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.38%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.34%) Public Cloud
3 23 (7.96%) Clustering
4 18 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (6.23%) e-Learning
5 16 (5.54%) Product Ownership
6 15 (5.19%) Data Structures
7 14 (4.84%) Onboarding
8 12 (4.15%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.42%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.73%) NHS
12 3 (1.04%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.04%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.50%) Linux
2 5 (1.73%) CentOS
2 5 (1.73%) Debian
2 5 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.73%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (63.67%) Analytics
2 181 (62.63%) Data Engineering
3 173 (59.86%) Data Pipeline
4 150 (51.90%) CI/CD
5 126 (43.60%) AI
6 121 (41.87%) ETL
7 120 (41.52%) Data Science
8 119 (41.18%) Machine Learning
9 115 (39.79%) Data Modelling
10 99 (34.26%) Agile
11 90 (31.14%) DevOps
12 88 (30.45%) Data Governance
13 65 (22.49%) Use Case
14 64 (22.15%) Business Intelligence
15 62 (21.45%) Mentoring
16 58 (20.07%) Validation
17 53 (18.34%) Generative AI
18 52 (17.99%) Infrastructure as Code
19 50 (17.30%) Performance Tuning
20 47 (16.26%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 248 (85.81%) Python
2 207 (71.63%) SQL
3 49 (16.96%) Scala
4 39 (13.49%) Java
5 7 (2.42%) C#
5 7 (2.42%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.08%) C
6 6 (2.08%) PHP
6 6 (2.08%) Ruby
7 5 (1.73%) VBA
8 4 (1.38%) Bash
8 4 (1.38%) Bicep
9 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.69%) C++
10 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.69%) R
10 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (22.49%) Security Cleared
2 52 (17.99%) Degree
3 47 (16.26%) SC Cleared
4 25 (8.65%) PhD
5 22 (7.61%) Master's Degree
6 18 (6.23%) Azure Certification
7 16 (5.54%) DV Cleared
8 14 (4.84%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.04%) 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 (38.06%) Data Quality
2 42 (14.53%) GDPR
3 36 (12.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.50%) HIPAA
5 12 (4.15%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.77%) QA
7 3 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.69%) IFRS
8 2 (0.69%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.69%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (18.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (15.57%) Terraform
2 42 (14.53%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.81%) Ansible
4 6 (2.08%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.73%) Puppet
6 3 (1.04%) Grafana
6 3 (1.04%) Kibana
7 2 (0.69%) Argo
7 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 103 (35.64%) Databricks
2 35 (12.11%) Oracle
3 31 (10.73%) Red Hat
4 28 (9.69%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.30%) Cloudera
5 24 (8.30%) Dell
6 8 (2.77%) Google
7 6 (2.08%) HP
7 6 (2.08%) IBM
7 6 (2.08%) Informatica
7 6 (2.08%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.08%) SAP
8 5 (1.73%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.04%) LexisNexis
9 3 (1.04%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.69%) Foundry
10 2 (0.69%) Palantir
11 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.35%) Sparx