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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 436 477
Rank change year-on-year -85 +41 -131
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 253 216 270
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.50% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.91% 6.12% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 129 109 189
10th Percentile £52,050 £47,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +0.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £131,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +0.46%

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 4,284 3,530 5,880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.17% 8.24% 8.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,019 2,543 3,608
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +0.99%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £130,446
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -0.27%

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 23 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 23 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 -50 154 £92,500 +2.78% 275
North of England -39 51 £55,000 -8.33% 45
South West -55 26 £58,000 +5.45% 31
North East -50 24 £55,000 +15.79% 11
North West -20 18 £55,000 -31.25% 26
Yorkshire -48 9 £80,000 +33.33% 8
South East -58 9 £61,005 -9.62% 24
Midlands -69 5 £54,500 -14.84% 17
West Midlands -43 4 £60,653 +0.25% 13
East of England -42 1 £80,000 +11.89% 8
East Midlands -42 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
1 112 (44.27%) Apache
2 38 (15.02%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (7.91%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.98%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.19%) SAS
6 2 (0.79%) Luigi
6 2 (0.79%) Tornado
7 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.40%) Confluence
7 1 (0.40%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 140 (55.34%) AWS
2 137 (54.15%) Azure
3 71 (28.06%) GCP
4 42 (16.60%) Azure Data Factory
5 38 (15.02%) Serverless
6 34 (13.44%) Amazon S3
7 30 (11.86%) Power Platform
8 26 (10.28%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (9.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 24 (9.49%) Amazon EMR
10 24 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (8.70%) Azure Databricks
12 20 (7.91%) Amazon Kinesis
13 17 (6.72%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (5.93%) Snowflake
16 13 (5.14%) Amazon ECR
16 13 (5.14%) Microsoft Purview
17 10 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.77%) AMQP
2 6 (2.37%) BGP
2 6 (2.37%) DNS
2 6 (2.37%) IPsec
2 6 (2.37%) VPN
3 5 (1.98%) Internet
4 1 (0.40%) 4G
4 1 (0.40%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (37.55%) Big Data
2 58 (22.92%) Hadoop
3 51 (20.16%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (18.97%) Data Lake
5 44 (17.39%) NoSQL
6 37 (14.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 29 (11.46%) Power BI
8 28 (11.07%) Metadata
9 25 (9.88%) Delta Lake
9 25 (9.88%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (8.70%) Tableau
11 21 (8.30%) Relational Database
12 18 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
13 17 (6.72%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (6.72%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (6.32%) Flink
15 12 (4.74%) Apache Hive
15 12 (4.74%) DynamoDB
15 12 (4.74%) Spark SQL
16 10 (3.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (15.42%) Git
2 16 (6.32%) GitLab
3 15 (5.93%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.77%) MLflow
5 2 (0.79%) JIRA
5 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.40%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.40%) ERwin
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 108 (42.69%) Finance
2 73 (28.85%) Social Skills
3 37 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.65%) Banking
5 24 (9.49%) Financial Institution
6 23 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 16 (6.32%) Law
8 15 (5.93%) Aerospace
8 15 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.95%) Military
10 9 (3.56%) Marketing
11 6 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.37%) Retail
12 5 (1.98%) Legal
13 4 (1.58%) Front Office
14 3 (1.19%) Games
15 2 (0.79%) Aviation
15 2 (0.79%) Local Government
15 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 127 (50.20%) Data Engineer
2 80 (31.62%) Senior
3 42 (16.60%) Lead
4 38 (15.02%) Data Scientist
5 34 (13.44%) Senior Data Engineer
6 33 (13.04%) Senior Data Scientist
7 24 (9.49%) Databricks Engineer
7 24 (9.49%) Lead Data Engineer
8 21 (8.30%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 16 (6.32%) Architect
10 14 (5.53%) Python Engineer
10 14 (5.53%) Software Engineer
11 13 (5.14%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Consultant
12 9 (3.56%) Developer
13 8 (3.16%) AWS Consultant
13 8 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) Azure Data Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (35.57%) Kafka
2 55 (21.74%) PySpark
3 43 (17.00%) Terraform
4 24 (9.49%) SpaCy
5 14 (5.53%) REST
6 13 (5.14%) Node.js
7 11 (4.35%) Pandas
8 10 (3.95%) gRPC
9 9 (3.56%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (3.16%) React
10 8 (3.16%) RESTful
10 8 (3.16%) Spring
10 8 (3.16%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.77%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.77%) Material-UI
11 7 (2.77%) NumPy
11 7 (2.77%) OpenAPI
11 7 (2.77%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.77%) Swagger
12 5 (1.98%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.44%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.49%) e-Learning
3 22 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 17 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.93%) Data Structures
5 15 (5.93%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (3.56%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.77%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.37%) NHS
10 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.58%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.58%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.79%) Blog
13 2 (0.79%) Derivative
13 2 (0.79%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.53%) Linux
2 7 (2.77%) CentOS
2 7 (2.77%) Debian
2 7 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (61.66%) Data Engineering
2 141 (55.73%) Analytics
3 134 (52.96%) CI/CD
4 131 (51.78%) Data Pipeline
5 109 (43.08%) Data Science
6 104 (41.11%) DevOps
7 101 (39.92%) Machine Learning
8 98 (38.74%) Data Modelling
9 79 (31.23%) Agile
10 78 (30.83%) AI
11 77 (30.43%) ETL
12 73 (28.85%) Mentoring
13 53 (20.95%) Lakehouse
14 51 (20.16%) Infrastructure as Code
15 47 (18.58%) Validation
16 45 (17.79%) Software Engineering
17 44 (17.39%) Data Ingestion
17 44 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
18 43 (17.00%) Data Governance
18 43 (17.00%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 210 (83.00%) Python
2 166 (65.61%) SQL
3 54 (21.34%) Scala
4 38 (15.02%) Java
5 12 (4.74%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.16%) C#
7 7 (2.77%) R
8 6 (2.37%) C
8 6 (2.37%) PHP
8 6 (2.37%) Ruby
9 5 (1.98%) Bash
9 5 (1.98%) VBA
10 3 (1.19%) Bicep
10 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.40%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (31.23%) Security Cleared
2 59 (23.32%) SC Cleared
3 58 (22.92%) Degree
4 33 (13.04%) PhD
5 29 (11.46%) Master's Degree
6 21 (8.30%) Azure Certification
7 18 (7.11%) DV Cleared
8 15 (5.93%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.40%) CEH
13 1 (0.40%) CISM
13 1 (0.40%) CISSP
13 1 (0.40%) OCP
13 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (35.97%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.14%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.16%) QA
4 7 (2.77%) GDPR
5 5 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.79%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (20.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (17.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.95%) Ansible
3 7 (2.77%) Puppet
4 6 (2.37%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (1.19%) Kibana
6 2 (0.79%) Argo
7 1 (0.40%) Control-M
7 1 (0.40%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 92 (36.36%) Databricks
2 31 (12.25%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.95%) Google
4 9 (3.56%) Oracle
5 8 (3.16%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.77%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.37%) HP
7 6 (2.37%) IBM
7 6 (2.37%) SAP
8 5 (1.98%) Informatica
9 4 (1.58%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.19%) LexisNexis
10 3 (1.19%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.79%) Thales
12 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.40%) Confluent
12 1 (0.40%) Mapbox
12 1 (0.40%) Palantir
12 1 (0.40%) Sparx