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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 383 486
Rank change year-on-year -89 +103 -224
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 213 261 368
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.67% 0.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.18% 7.20% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 104 176 257
10th Percentile £52,875 £49,000 £50,819
25th Percentile £69,375 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -10.86%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%

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 3,444 3,627 8,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.14% 9.30% 9.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,562 2,528 6,564
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £37,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -9.16%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £71,438
90th Percentile £93,738 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -50 141 £100,000 -8.05% 72
North of England -30 28 £67,500 +17.39% 35
South West -43 18 £75,000 +50.00% 16
East of England +5 17 £75,000 +4.90% 2
North East -32 10 £56,250 -16.67% 17
North West -13 9 £75,000 +36.36% 17
Yorkshire -45 9 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South East -49 4 £57,500 -11.54% 9
Midlands -38 1 £50,000 -25.93% 5
East Midlands -39 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
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 98 (46.01%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (43.66%) Apache
3 13 (6.10%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.41%) SAS
5 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.47%) Camunda
5 1 (0.47%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.10%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.47%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 140 (65.73%) AWS
2 98 (46.01%) Azure
3 78 (36.62%) GCP
4 52 (24.41%) Amazon S3
5 45 (21.13%) Power Platform
6 40 (18.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (18.31%) dbt
8 34 (15.96%) Snowflake
9 31 (14.55%) OpenShift
10 25 (11.74%) Serverless
11 22 (10.33%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (10.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (7.04%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.69%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (4.69%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (3.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.29%) Broadband
2 5 (2.35%) AMQP
3 2 (0.94%) 4G
3 2 (0.94%) 5G
4 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (33.80%) Big Data
2 64 (30.05%) Tableau
3 60 (28.17%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (22.54%) Data Lake
5 46 (21.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 44 (20.66%) Power BI
7 39 (18.31%) Elasticsearch
8 34 (15.96%) BigQuery
9 32 (15.02%) Spark SQL
10 29 (13.62%) Hadoop
11 27 (12.68%) Apache Hive
11 27 (12.68%) Snowflake Schema
12 25 (11.74%) Impala
12 25 (11.74%) Oracle Database
12 25 (11.74%) Parquet
13 23 (10.80%) Looker
13 23 (10.80%) Relational Database
14 21 (9.86%) NoSQL
15 16 (7.51%) Metadata
16 13 (6.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 42 (19.72%) Git
2 28 (13.15%) MLflow
3 25 (11.74%) IBM UrbanCode
4 12 (5.63%) GitLab
5 6 (2.82%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.94%) JIRA
6 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.47%) Deequ
7 1 (0.47%) JUnit
General
1 84 (39.44%) Finance
2 69 (32.39%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (30.05%) Social Skills
4 38 (17.84%) Banking
5 24 (11.27%) Investment Banking
6 16 (7.51%) Legal
7 13 (6.10%) Law
8 9 (4.23%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.76%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.88%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.88%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.94%) Billing
13 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.47%) Advertising
14 1 (0.47%) Front Office
14 1 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 74 (34.74%) Data Engineer
2 68 (31.92%) Senior
3 26 (12.21%) Analyst
4 24 (11.27%) Lead
4 24 (11.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.80%) Senior Data Engineer
5 23 (10.80%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.80%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.33%) Banking Analyst
7 21 (9.86%) Python Engineer
8 20 (9.39%) Developer
9 16 (7.51%) Architect
10 15 (7.04%) Python Developer
11 14 (6.57%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (6.10%) Business Analyst
12 13 (6.10%) Data Scientist
12 13 (6.10%) Software Engineer
13 12 (5.63%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (5.63%) Technical Analyst
14 11 (5.16%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (45.07%) Kafka
2 59 (27.70%) PySpark
3 29 (13.62%) PyTorch
3 29 (13.62%) TensorFlow
4 26 (12.21%) scikit-learn
5 24 (11.27%) LangChain
6 23 (10.80%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (10.80%) pgvector
7 22 (10.33%) REST
8 21 (9.86%) Pandas
9 11 (5.16%) Spring
9 11 (5.16%) Spring Boot
10 9 (4.23%) Node.js
11 8 (3.76%) NumPy
11 8 (3.76%) SpaCy
12 6 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.82%) React
13 5 (2.35%) AngularJS
13 5 (2.35%) OAuth
13 5 (2.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 45 (21.13%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.27%) Public Cloud
3 23 (10.80%) Clustering
4 14 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.63%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.69%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.69%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.23%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (3.76%) e-Learning
9 6 (2.82%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.82%) Social Media
10 5 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.41%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.94%) Replication
12 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.76%) Linux
2 5 (2.35%) CentOS
2 5 (2.35%) Debian
2 5 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.35%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (63.85%) Data Pipeline
2 134 (62.91%) Analytics
3 130 (61.03%) Data Engineering
4 108 (50.70%) ETL
5 97 (45.54%) CI/CD
6 92 (43.19%) AI
7 88 (41.31%) Data Governance
8 87 (40.85%) Data Modelling
9 78 (36.62%) Data Science
10 75 (35.21%) Agile
11 73 (34.27%) Machine Learning
12 55 (25.82%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (22.07%) DevOps
13 47 (22.07%) Use Case
14 46 (21.60%) Performance Tuning
15 44 (20.66%) Software Engineering
16 38 (17.84%) Computer Science
16 38 (17.84%) Generative AI
16 38 (17.84%) Validation
17 35 (16.43%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 197 (92.49%) Python
2 161 (75.59%) SQL
3 36 (16.90%) Java
3 36 (16.90%) Scala
4 7 (3.29%) C++
5 6 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.88%) Bash
6 4 (1.88%) Bicep
6 4 (1.88%) VBA
7 3 (1.41%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.41%) R
8 2 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.47%) C#
9 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (13.62%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.68%) Degree
3 21 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.16%) Master's Degree
5 11 (5.16%) PhD
6 9 (4.23%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.23%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.29%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.47%) CEH
10 1 (0.47%) CISM
10 1 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (42.72%) Data Quality
2 37 (17.37%) GDPR
3 35 (16.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.63%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.88%) QA
6 3 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.94%) IFRS
7 2 (0.94%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.94%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (15.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (16.43%) Terraform
2 30 (14.08%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.23%) Ansible
4 6 (2.82%) Grafana
5 5 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.35%) Puppet
6 3 (1.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 64 (30.05%) Databricks
2 31 (14.55%) Red Hat
3 27 (12.68%) Oracle
4 24 (11.27%) Cloudera
4 24 (11.27%) Dell
5 10 (4.69%) Google
6 9 (4.23%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.35%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.41%) Informatica
8 3 (1.41%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.94%) Talend
10 1 (0.47%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.47%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.47%) Foundry
10 1 (0.47%) IBM
10 1 (0.47%) Palantir
10 1 (0.47%) Pega
10 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.47%) Splunk