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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 418 512
Rank change year-on-year -60 +94 -179
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 275 243 286
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.56% 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.89% 6.23% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 128 139 192
10th Percentile £52,125 £47,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,875 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £98,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £122,125
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%

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 3,989 3,902 6,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.39% 8.98% 9.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,934 2,770 5,155
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,475 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,285 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +2.42% -7.83%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.26% -4.81%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -6 175 £95,000 +2.70% 97
North of England -26 44 £55,000 -4.35% 16
South West -46 22 £67,500 +22.73% 9
North East -39 18 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North West +4 16 £55,000 -18.52% 4
East of England -17 15 £75,000 +4.90% 2
Yorkshire -38 10 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -60 7 £62,500 -3.85% 19
Midlands -49 3 £58,403 -13.48% 4
West Midlands -29 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
East Midlands -32 1 £50,000 -33.33% 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
1 119 (43.27%) Apache
2 97 (35.27%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (6.18%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.82%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.09%) SAS
6 2 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.73%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 174 (63.27%) AWS
2 129 (46.91%) Azure
3 85 (30.91%) GCP
4 57 (20.73%) Amazon S3
5 49 (17.82%) Power Platform
6 46 (16.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (14.18%) Snowflake
8 38 (13.82%) dbt
9 34 (12.36%) Serverless
10 33 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (10.91%) OpenShift
12 22 (8.00%) Amazon EMR
13 21 (7.64%) Amazon Kinesis
14 20 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (4.73%) Cloud Computing
18 12 (4.36%) Microsoft Purview
19 11 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.18%) BGP
1 6 (2.18%) Broadband
1 6 (2.18%) DNS
1 6 (2.18%) IPsec
1 6 (2.18%) VPN
2 5 (1.82%) Internet
3 4 (1.45%) AMQP
4 2 (0.73%) 4G
4 2 (0.73%) 5G
5 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (31.64%) Big Data
2 66 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (22.18%) Tableau
4 58 (21.09%) Data Lake
5 53 (19.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 52 (18.91%) Elasticsearch
7 48 (17.45%) Power BI
8 47 (17.09%) Hadoop
9 38 (13.82%) Apache Hive
9 38 (13.82%) NoSQL
10 34 (12.36%) Spark SQL
11 33 (12.00%) BigQuery
12 26 (9.45%) Metadata
12 26 (9.45%) Parquet
13 25 (9.09%) Impala
13 25 (9.09%) Oracle Database
13 25 (9.09%) Relational Database
14 24 (8.73%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (8.36%) Looker
16 22 (8.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 50 (18.18%) Git
2 29 (10.55%) MLflow
3 25 (9.09%) IBM UrbanCode
4 16 (5.82%) GitLab
5 8 (2.91%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.73%) JIRA
6 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 116 (42.18%) Finance
2 79 (28.73%) Social Skills
3 68 (24.73%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (17.09%) Banking
5 24 (8.73%) Investment Banking
6 23 (8.36%) Law
7 17 (6.18%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.82%) Financial Institution
8 16 (5.82%) Legal
9 12 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.27%) Military
11 8 (2.91%) Marketing
12 7 (2.55%) Aerospace
13 6 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.45%) Games
14 4 (1.45%) Retail
15 3 (1.09%) Front Office
15 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 114 (41.45%) Data Engineer
2 100 (36.36%) Senior
3 36 (13.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 35 (12.73%) Lead
5 26 (9.45%) Analyst
6 24 (8.73%) Data Scientist
6 24 (8.73%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.36%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.36%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.36%) Transformation Analyst
8 22 (8.00%) Banking Analyst
9 21 (7.64%) Lead Data Engineer
9 21 (7.64%) Senior Data Scientist
10 16 (5.82%) Architect
11 14 (5.09%) Developer
12 13 (4.73%) Business Analyst
13 12 (4.36%) Data Architect
13 12 (4.36%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (4.36%) Python Developer
13 12 (4.36%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (44.73%) Kafka
2 72 (26.18%) PySpark
3 25 (9.09%) PyTorch
4 24 (8.73%) Pandas
4 24 (8.73%) pgvector
4 24 (8.73%) scikit-learn
4 24 (8.73%) TensorFlow
5 23 (8.36%) LangChain
5 23 (8.36%) LlamaIndex
6 20 (7.27%) REST
7 16 (5.82%) SpaCy
8 14 (5.09%) Node.js
9 10 (3.64%) Spring
9 10 (3.64%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.55%) Apache NiFi
10 7 (2.55%) NumPy
11 5 (1.82%) gRPC
11 5 (1.82%) OAuth
11 5 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 50 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.45%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.36%) Clustering
4 19 (6.91%) Data Structures
5 16 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (5.82%) e-Learning
6 14 (5.09%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.09%) Product Ownership
7 11 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (2.18%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.18%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.18%) Social Media
9 5 (1.82%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.45%) NHS
11 3 (1.09%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.73%) Linux
2 4 (1.45%) CentOS
2 4 (1.45%) Debian
2 4 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.45%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (64.00%) Analytics
2 172 (62.55%) Data Engineering
3 164 (59.64%) Data Pipeline
4 134 (48.73%) CI/CD
5 116 (42.18%) AI
6 115 (41.82%) ETL
7 114 (41.45%) Data Modelling
8 110 (40.00%) Data Science
9 106 (38.55%) Machine Learning
10 95 (34.55%) Data Governance
11 89 (32.36%) Agile
12 78 (28.36%) DevOps
13 64 (23.27%) Use Case
14 61 (22.18%) Business Intelligence
15 57 (20.73%) Mentoring
16 55 (20.00%) Validation
17 50 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
18 48 (17.45%) Generative AI
19 46 (16.73%) Software Engineering
20 43 (15.64%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 238 (86.55%) Python
2 202 (73.45%) SQL
3 51 (18.55%) Scala
4 41 (14.91%) Java
5 7 (2.55%) C#
5 7 (2.55%) C++
6 6 (2.18%) C
6 6 (2.18%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.18%) PHP
6 6 (2.18%) Ruby
7 5 (1.82%) VBA
8 4 (1.45%) Bicep
9 3 (1.09%) Bash
9 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.73%) R
10 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (19.27%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.73%) Degree
3 40 (14.55%) SC Cleared
4 22 (8.00%) PhD
5 19 (6.91%) Master's Degree
6 16 (5.82%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.73%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.73%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.36%) CEH
11 1 (0.36%) CISM
11 1 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (38.18%) Data Quality
2 39 (14.18%) GDPR
3 35 (12.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.36%) HIPAA
5 7 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.55%) QA
6 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.73%) IFRS
6 2 (0.73%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.73%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (17.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (15.64%) Terraform
2 38 (13.82%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.27%) Ansible
4 6 (2.18%) Grafana
4 6 (2.18%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.45%) Puppet
7 3 (1.09%) Kibana
8 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 96 (34.91%) Databricks
2 34 (12.36%) Oracle
3 29 (10.55%) Red Hat
4 24 (8.73%) Cloudera
4 24 (8.73%) Dell
5 23 (8.36%) Microsoft
6 8 (2.91%) Google
7 6 (2.18%) HP
7 6 (2.18%) IBM
7 6 (2.18%) Informatica
7 6 (2.18%) SAP
8 5 (1.82%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.45%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.73%) Foundry
10 2 (0.73%) LexisNexis
10 2 (0.73%) Palantir
10 2 (0.73%) PeopleSoft
10 2 (0.73%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.36%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.36%) Splunk