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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 387 414
Rank change year-on-year -81 +27 -169
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 170 281 384
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.66% 0.57%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.45% 6.89% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 96 201 248
10th Percentile £55,625 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £71,313 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £130,625 £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 3,121 4,079 6,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.11% 9.58% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,249 2,475 5,601
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £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 24 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 24 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 -32 122 £95,000 -13.64% 44
North of England -11 26 £65,000 +18.18% 26
Yorkshire - 17 £65,000 - 11
North West -6 8 £95,000 +72.73% 10
South West -20 7 £80,000 +3.23% 10
East of England +10 5 - - 2
South East -39 2 £65,000 +13.04% 15
West Midlands +6 1 - - 2
North East -8 1 - - 5
Midlands -16 1 - - 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 55 (32.35%) Apache
2 48 (28.24%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.18%) SAS
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.59%) Camunda
4 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (1.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.59%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 106 (62.35%) AWS
2 79 (46.47%) Azure
3 63 (37.06%) GCP
4 34 (20.00%) Serverless
5 31 (18.24%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (14.71%) Amazon S3
7 23 (13.53%) dbt
8 18 (10.59%) Power Platform
9 17 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (9.41%) Snowflake
11 15 (8.82%) Amazon EMR
11 15 (8.82%) OpenShift
12 14 (8.24%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (7.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (6.47%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (5.29%) Dagster
17 7 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (4.12%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.12%) Broadband
2 5 (2.94%) AMQP
3 4 (2.35%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.59%) 4G
4 1 (0.59%) 5G
4 1 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.59%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (43.53%) Big Data
2 54 (31.76%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (30.59%) Hadoop
4 33 (19.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 33 (19.41%) Data Lake
5 18 (10.59%) Power BI
5 18 (10.59%) Tableau
6 17 (10.00%) MySQL
6 17 (10.00%) NoSQL
7 16 (9.41%) Apache Hive
7 16 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (9.41%) Relational Database
8 15 (8.82%) MongoDB
9 14 (8.24%) BigQuery
10 13 (7.65%) Metadata
10 13 (7.65%) SQL Server
11 10 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (5.29%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (4.71%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (4.71%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (11.76%) Git
2 6 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.35%) GitLab
3 4 (2.35%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (1.76%) MLflow
5 2 (1.18%) Deequ
6 1 (0.59%) JUnit
General
1 82 (48.24%) Social Skills
2 63 (37.06%) Finance
3 42 (24.71%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.00%) Banking
5 16 (9.41%) Law
6 12 (7.06%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.29%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.94%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.35%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.76%) Front Office
10 3 (1.76%) Legal
10 3 (1.76%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.18%) Advertising
11 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.18%) Marketing
11 2 (1.18%) Retail
12 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (45.88%) Data Engineer
2 48 (28.24%) Senior
3 32 (18.82%) Senior Data Engineer
4 23 (13.53%) Developer
5 18 (10.59%) AWS Data Engineer
5 18 (10.59%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (10.59%) Python Developer
6 14 (8.24%) Architect
7 11 (6.47%) Principal Engineer
7 11 (6.47%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.88%) Data Architect
9 9 (5.29%) Data Scientist
10 7 (4.12%) Lead
11 6 (3.53%) Senior Data Scientist
12 5 (2.94%) Analyst
12 5 (2.94%) Azure Data Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Python Engineer
13 4 (2.35%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (44.12%) Kafka
2 28 (16.47%) PySpark
3 23 (13.53%) REST
4 16 (9.41%) Pandas
5 12 (7.06%) PyTorch
5 12 (7.06%) Spring
5 12 (7.06%) TensorFlow
6 11 (6.47%) Spring Boot
7 8 (4.71%) NumPy
8 7 (4.12%) React
8 7 (4.12%) scikit-learn
9 6 (3.53%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.53%) boto
9 6 (3.53%) Node.js
9 6 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.53%) Spark Streaming
10 5 (2.94%) LDAP
10 5 (2.94%) OAuth
10 5 (2.94%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.94%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.82%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (12.35%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.47%) Algorithms
3 11 (6.47%) e-Learning
3 11 (6.47%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.29%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (4.71%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.71%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.53%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.53%) Social Media
8 3 (1.76%) Equities
8 3 (1.76%) FMCG
8 3 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.59%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.82%) Linux
2 5 (2.94%) CentOS
2 5 (2.94%) Debian
2 5 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.94%) Ubuntu
2 5 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (58.24%) Data Pipeline
2 89 (52.35%) Data Engineering
3 86 (50.59%) Analytics
4 77 (45.29%) CI/CD
5 71 (41.76%) ETL
6 65 (38.24%) Data Modelling
7 57 (33.53%) Data Science
8 56 (32.94%) Data Governance
9 52 (30.59%) Machine Learning
10 48 (28.24%) Software Engineering
11 47 (27.65%) AI
11 47 (27.65%) DevOps
12 42 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (24.12%) Agile
13 41 (24.12%) Computer Science
14 37 (21.76%) Business Intelligence
15 31 (18.24%) Mentoring
16 28 (16.47%) Fintech
16 28 (16.47%) Microservices
16 28 (16.47%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 154 (90.59%) Python
2 114 (67.06%) SQL
3 56 (32.94%) Java
4 28 (16.47%) Scala
5 9 (5.29%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.71%) C++
7 7 (4.12%) R
8 5 (2.94%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.76%) C#
10 2 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.59%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.59%) Bash
11 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.59%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.59%) Ruby
11 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (18.82%) Degree
2 16 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.65%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.06%) PhD
6 11 (6.47%) Master's Degree
7 6 (3.53%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.53%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.53%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.59%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (33.53%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.71%) GDPR
3 5 (2.94%) QA
4 3 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
System Software
1 29 (17.06%) Docker
2 7 (4.12%) HDFS
3 5 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (18.82%) Kubernetes
2 24 (14.12%) Terraform
3 12 (7.06%) Ansible
4 10 (5.88%) Grafana
4 10 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.94%) Puppet
6 3 (1.76%) Kibana
6 3 (1.76%) logstash
7 1 (0.59%) Argo
Vendors
1 42 (24.71%) Databricks
2 18 (10.59%) Oracle
3 12 (7.06%) Google
4 11 (6.47%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 8 (4.71%) Informatica
7 7 (4.12%) Dell
7 7 (4.12%) Talend
8 5 (2.94%) Palantir
8 5 (2.94%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.35%) SAP
10 2 (1.18%) IBM
11 1 (0.59%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.59%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.59%) Foundry
11 1 (0.59%) Pega
11 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.59%) UiPath