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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 389 409
Rank change year-on-year -63 +20 -168
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 185 285 383
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.67% 0.57%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.88% 7.02% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 97 204 247
10th Percentile £56,000 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £71,750 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £93,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +17.19% -5.88%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -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 3,148 4,058 6,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.13% 9.51% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,259 2,490 5,572
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £69,250
90th Percentile £90,250 £110,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -32 128 £95,000 -13.64% 44
North of England -17 26 £65,000 +18.18% 27
Yorkshire - 17 £65,000 - 12
East of England +17 12 - - 3
North West -10 8 £95,000 +72.73% 10
South West -19 7 £80,000 +3.23% 10
South East -40 4 £65,000 +13.04% 15
West Midlands +10 1 - - 1
North East -10 1 - - 5
Midlands -18 1 - - 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 69 (37.30%) Apache
2 62 (33.51%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.08%) SAS
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.54%) Camunda
4 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (4.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 121 (65.41%) AWS
2 80 (43.24%) Azure
3 64 (34.59%) GCP
4 39 (21.08%) Amazon S3
5 34 (18.38%) Serverless
6 31 (16.76%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (16.22%) OpenShift
8 23 (12.43%) dbt
9 18 (9.73%) Power Platform
10 17 (9.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (8.65%) Snowflake
12 15 (8.11%) Amazon EMR
13 14 (7.57%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (7.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 11 (5.95%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (4.86%) Dagster
18 7 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
18 7 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
18 7 (3.78%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.78%) Broadband
2 5 (2.70%) AMQP
2 5 (2.70%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.54%) 4G
3 1 (0.54%) 5G
3 1 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.54%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (40.54%) Big Data
2 54 (29.19%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (28.65%) Hadoop
4 33 (17.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 33 (17.84%) Data Lake
5 32 (17.30%) Tableau
6 31 (16.76%) Apache Hive
7 20 (10.81%) Spark SQL
8 18 (9.73%) Impala
8 18 (9.73%) Oracle Database
8 18 (9.73%) Parquet
8 18 (9.73%) Power BI
9 17 (9.19%) MySQL
9 17 (9.19%) NoSQL
10 16 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (8.65%) Relational Database
11 15 (8.11%) MongoDB
12 14 (7.57%) BigQuery
13 13 (7.03%) Metadata
13 13 (7.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (18.38%) Git
2 18 (9.73%) IBM UrbanCode
3 6 (3.24%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.16%) GitLab
5 3 (1.62%) MLflow
6 2 (1.08%) Deequ
7 1 (0.54%) JUnit
General
1 83 (44.86%) Social Skills
2 77 (41.62%) Finance
3 48 (25.95%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (16.76%) Banking
5 19 (10.27%) Investment Banking
6 16 (8.65%) Law
7 12 (6.49%) Financial Institution
8 11 (5.95%) Legal
9 9 (4.86%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.16%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.16%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.62%) Front Office
11 3 (1.62%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.08%) Advertising
12 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.08%) Marketing
12 2 (1.08%) Retail
13 1 (0.54%) Billing
13 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (42.70%) Data Engineer
2 49 (26.49%) Senior
3 33 (17.84%) Senior Data Engineer
4 23 (12.43%) Developer
5 19 (10.27%) Analyst
6 18 (9.73%) AWS Data Engineer
6 18 (9.73%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (9.73%) Python Developer
7 16 (8.65%) Transformation Analyst
8 15 (8.11%) Banking Analyst
9 14 (7.57%) Architect
10 11 (5.95%) Principal Engineer
10 11 (5.95%) Software Engineer
11 10 (5.41%) Data Architect
12 9 (4.86%) Business Analyst
12 9 (4.86%) Data Scientist
12 9 (4.86%) Technical Analyst
13 8 (4.32%) Data Business Analyst
14 7 (3.78%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
14 7 (3.78%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (40.54%) Kafka
2 42 (22.70%) PySpark
3 23 (12.43%) REST
4 22 (11.89%) Pandas
5 12 (6.49%) PyTorch
5 12 (6.49%) Spring
5 12 (6.49%) TensorFlow
6 11 (5.95%) Spring Boot
7 8 (4.32%) NumPy
8 7 (3.78%) React
8 7 (3.78%) scikit-learn
9 6 (3.24%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.24%) boto
9 6 (3.24%) LDAP
9 6 (3.24%) Node.js
9 6 (3.24%) OAuth
9 6 (3.24%) OAuth2
9 6 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.24%) Spark Streaming
10 5 (2.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.84%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (11.35%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.95%) Algorithms
3 11 (5.95%) e-Learning
3 11 (5.95%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.86%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (4.32%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.32%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.24%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.24%) Social Media
8 4 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.62%) Equities
9 3 (1.62%) FMCG
9 3 (1.62%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.65%) Linux
2 6 (3.24%) Unix
3 5 (2.70%) CentOS
3 5 (2.70%) Debian
3 5 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (61.62%) Data Pipeline
2 100 (54.05%) Analytics
3 98 (52.97%) Data Engineering
4 91 (49.19%) CI/CD
5 85 (45.95%) ETL
6 70 (37.84%) Data Governance
7 65 (35.14%) Data Modelling
8 62 (33.51%) AI
9 58 (31.35%) Data Science
10 55 (29.73%) Agile
11 53 (28.65%) Machine Learning
12 48 (25.95%) Software Engineering
13 47 (25.41%) DevOps
14 42 (22.70%) Computer Science
14 42 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
16 31 (16.76%) Mentoring
17 30 (16.22%) Data Transformation
18 29 (15.68%) Scrum
19 28 (15.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 169 (91.35%) Python
2 128 (69.19%) SQL
3 57 (30.81%) Java
4 28 (15.14%) Scala
5 9 (4.86%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.32%) C++
7 7 (3.78%) R
8 5 (2.70%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.62%) C#
10 2 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.54%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.54%) Bash
11 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.54%) Ruby
11 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (17.84%) Degree
2 16 (8.65%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.03%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.49%) PhD
6 11 (5.95%) Master's Degree
7 6 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.24%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.24%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.54%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (38.38%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.65%) GDPR
3 9 (4.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (4.86%) HIPAA
4 5 (2.70%) QA
5 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (15.68%) Docker
2 7 (3.78%) HDFS
3 6 (3.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (17.84%) Kubernetes
2 24 (12.97%) Terraform
3 13 (7.03%) Ansible
4 10 (5.41%) Grafana
4 10 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.70%) Puppet
6 3 (1.62%) Kibana
6 3 (1.62%) logstash
7 1 (0.54%) Argo
Vendors
1 42 (22.70%) Databricks
2 32 (17.30%) Oracle
3 25 (13.51%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.49%) Google
5 10 (5.41%) Microsoft
6 8 (4.32%) Dell
6 8 (4.32%) Informatica
7 7 (3.78%) Talend
8 5 (2.70%) Palantir
8 5 (2.70%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.16%) SAP
10 2 (1.08%) IBM
11 1 (0.54%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.54%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.54%) Foundry
11 1 (0.54%) Pega
11 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.54%) UiPath