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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 431 486
Rank change year-on-year -73 +55 -154
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 266 223 284
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.51% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.50% 5.93% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 128 114 197
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,825 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,782 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.29%
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £110,875 £123,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £72,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -

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 4,095 3,759 6,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.22% 8.59% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,967 2,727 4,345
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -2.39% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -1.79%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -21 166 £95,000 +11.76% 293
North of England -28 50 £55,000 -4.35% 40
South West -53 26 £55,000 +10.00% 29
North East -43 23 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North West -9 17 £55,000 -18.52% 27
Yorkshire -46 10 £80,000 +39.13% 4
East of England -17 8 £77,500 +8.39% 10
South East -61 6 £62,500 -7.41% 29
Midlands -57 3 £58,403 -8.75% 5
West Midlands -28 2 £66,805 +10.42% 2
East Midlands -29 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
1 110 (41.35%) Apache
2 65 (24.44%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (7.14%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.88%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.13%) SAS
6 2 (0.75%) Luigi
6 2 (0.75%) Tornado
7 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 161 (60.53%) AWS
2 146 (54.89%) Azure
3 89 (33.46%) GCP
4 51 (19.17%) Power Platform
5 49 (18.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 37 (13.91%) Amazon S3
6 37 (13.91%) Serverless
7 35 (13.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 35 (13.16%) Snowflake
8 27 (10.15%) dbt
9 24 (9.02%) Amazon EMR
10 23 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (7.52%) Amazon Kinesis
12 19 (7.14%) Azure Databricks
13 18 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (6.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (4.89%) Amazon ECR
18 12 (4.51%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.26%) BGP
1 6 (2.26%) DNS
1 6 (2.26%) IPsec
1 6 (2.26%) VPN
2 5 (1.88%) AMQP
2 5 (1.88%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) 4G
3 1 (0.38%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (34.59%) Big Data
2 70 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (25.94%) Data Lake
4 56 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 56 (21.05%) Hadoop
5 53 (19.92%) Elasticsearch
6 50 (18.80%) Power BI
7 42 (15.79%) NoSQL
8 40 (15.04%) Tableau
9 26 (9.77%) BigQuery
10 24 (9.02%) Delta Lake
10 24 (9.02%) Looker
10 24 (9.02%) Metadata
10 24 (9.02%) Milvus
11 23 (8.65%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
12 21 (7.89%) Relational Database
13 16 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (6.02%) Flink
14 14 (5.26%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 33 (12.41%) Git
2 30 (11.28%) MLflow
3 17 (6.39%) GitLab
4 11 (4.14%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.75%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.75%) JIRA
5 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.38%) ERwin
General
1 104 (39.10%) Finance
2 71 (26.69%) Social Skills
3 55 (20.68%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (11.28%) Banking
5 21 (7.89%) Financial Institution
5 21 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.39%) Law
7 15 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.14%) Aerospace
9 10 (3.76%) Military
10 9 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (3.38%) Marketing
11 6 (2.26%) Legal
11 6 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.26%) Retail
12 4 (1.50%) Games
13 3 (1.13%) Front Office
14 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.75%) Local Government
14 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 120 (45.11%) Data Engineer
2 97 (36.47%) Senior
3 42 (15.79%) Lead
4 34 (12.78%) Data Scientist
5 30 (11.28%) Senior Data Engineer
5 30 (11.28%) Senior Data Scientist
6 25 (9.40%) Lead Data Engineer
7 23 (8.65%) Databricks Engineer
7 23 (8.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.65%) Systems Engineer
8 21 (7.89%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 18 (6.77%) Architect
9 18 (6.77%) Python Engineer
10 13 (4.89%) Data Architect
11 12 (4.51%) Developer
11 12 (4.51%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.76%) Python Developer
13 9 (3.38%) Consultant
13 9 (3.38%) Python Data Engineer
14 8 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (43.23%) Kafka
2 51 (19.17%) PySpark
3 42 (15.79%) Terraform
4 25 (9.40%) PyTorch
4 25 (9.40%) scikit-learn
5 24 (9.02%) LangChain
5 24 (9.02%) pgvector
5 24 (9.02%) TensorFlow
6 23 (8.65%) LlamaIndex
7 21 (7.89%) SpaCy
8 16 (6.02%) REST
9 14 (5.26%) Node.js
10 11 (4.14%) Pandas
11 9 (3.38%) Apache NiFi
12 8 (3.01%) RESTful
13 6 (2.26%) gRPC
13 6 (2.26%) NumPy
13 6 (2.26%) React
13 6 (2.26%) Spring
13 6 (2.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 55 (20.68%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.15%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.65%) Clustering
4 21 (7.89%) e-Learning
5 19 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 18 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (5.26%) Data Structures
7 14 (5.26%) Onboarding
8 11 (4.14%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.63%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.26%) NHS
11 5 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.13%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.13%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.51%) Linux
2 5 (1.88%) CentOS
2 5 (1.88%) Debian
2 5 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (64.29%) Data Engineering
2 161 (60.53%) Analytics
3 148 (55.64%) Data Pipeline
4 128 (48.12%) CI/CD
5 122 (45.86%) Data Science
6 119 (44.74%) Machine Learning
7 115 (43.23%) Data Modelling
8 100 (37.59%) AI
9 97 (36.47%) ETL
10 95 (35.71%) DevOps
11 76 (28.57%) Lakehouse
12 74 (27.82%) Agile
13 66 (24.81%) Data Governance
13 66 (24.81%) Use Case
14 65 (24.44%) Mentoring
15 64 (24.06%) Business Intelligence
16 55 (20.68%) Generative AI
17 49 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
18 47 (17.67%) Data Ingestion
19 44 (16.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 224 (84.21%) Python
2 183 (68.80%) SQL
3 49 (18.42%) Scala
4 37 (13.91%) Java
5 7 (2.63%) C#
5 7 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.26%) C
6 6 (2.26%) PHP
6 6 (2.26%) Ruby
7 5 (1.88%) VBA
8 4 (1.50%) Bash
9 3 (1.13%) Bicep
9 3 (1.13%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.75%) R
10 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.38%) C++
11 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (24.81%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.68%) Degree
3 47 (17.67%) SC Cleared
4 28 (10.53%) PhD
5 25 (9.40%) Master's Degree
6 18 (6.77%) Azure Certification
7 15 (5.64%) DV Cleared
8 14 (5.26%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.38%) CEH
13 1 (0.38%) CISM
13 1 (0.38%) CISSP
13 1 (0.38%) OCP
13 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (32.33%) Data Quality
2 31 (11.65%) GDPR
3 25 (9.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (4.89%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.01%) QA
6 3 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.75%) IFRS
7 2 (0.75%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.75%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (19.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (14.66%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.76%) Ansible
3 6 (2.26%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.88%) Puppet
5 3 (1.13%) Kibana
6 2 (0.75%) Argo
7 1 (0.38%) Grafana
7 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 104 (39.10%) Databricks
2 30 (11.28%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.02%) Cloudera
4 23 (8.65%) Dell
5 12 (4.51%) Oracle
6 8 (3.01%) Google
6 8 (3.01%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.26%) HP
7 6 (2.26%) IBM
7 6 (2.26%) Informatica
7 6 (2.26%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.26%) SAP
8 5 (1.88%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.13%) LexisNexis
9 3 (1.13%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (1.13%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.38%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.38%) Foundry
10 1 (0.38%) Splunk