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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 420 515
Rank change year-on-year -36 +95 -194
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 261 252 305
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.58% 0.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.70% 6.47% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 123 145 209
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,000 £49,500
25th Percentile £62,376 £56,250 £60,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £102,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £119,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.88%

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 3,893 3,895 7,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.39% 8.99% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,902 2,758 5,754
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.91% -8.43%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +2 169 £100,000 +8.11% 74
North of England -20 39 £57,500 - 15
South West -43 19 £70,000 +27.27% 7
North West 0 16 £55,000 - 5
East of England +1 15 £75,000 +4.90% 1
North East -39 14 £55,000 +15.79% 8
Yorkshire -44 9 £80,000 +39.13% 2
South East -63 7 £65,000 - 21
Midlands -49 3 £58,403 -13.48% 4
West Midlands -25 2 £66,805 +10.42% 1
East Midlands -33 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
1 113 (43.30%) Apache
2 96 (36.78%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (6.13%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.92%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.15%) SAS
6 2 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (4.98%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 169 (64.75%) AWS
2 125 (47.89%) Azure
3 83 (31.80%) GCP
4 55 (21.07%) Amazon S3
5 48 (18.39%) Power Platform
6 45 (17.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 37 (14.18%) dbt
8 34 (13.03%) Snowflake
9 33 (12.64%) Serverless
10 32 (12.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (11.49%) OpenShift
12 22 (8.43%) Amazon EMR
12 22 (8.43%) Amazon Kinesis
13 19 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (4.98%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (4.60%) Microsoft Purview
17 10 (3.83%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.30%) BGP
1 6 (2.30%) Broadband
1 6 (2.30%) DNS
1 6 (2.30%) IPsec
1 6 (2.30%) VPN
2 5 (1.92%) Internet
3 4 (1.53%) AMQP
4 2 (0.77%) 4G
4 2 (0.77%) 5G
5 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (31.42%) Big Data
2 63 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (23.75%) Tableau
4 54 (20.69%) Data Lake
5 51 (19.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 50 (19.16%) Elasticsearch
7 47 (18.01%) Power BI
8 41 (15.71%) Hadoop
9 38 (14.56%) Apache Hive
10 36 (13.79%) NoSQL
11 34 (13.03%) Spark SQL
12 31 (11.88%) BigQuery
13 26 (9.96%) Metadata
13 26 (9.96%) Parquet
14 25 (9.58%) Impala
14 25 (9.58%) Oracle Database
14 25 (9.58%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (8.81%) Looker
15 23 (8.81%) Relational Database
16 20 (7.66%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 46 (17.62%) Git
2 29 (11.11%) MLflow
3 25 (9.58%) IBM UrbanCode
4 16 (6.13%) GitLab
5 8 (3.07%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.77%) JIRA
6 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.38%) Deequ
7 1 (0.38%) JUnit
General
1 108 (41.38%) Finance
2 81 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 69 (26.44%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (17.24%) Banking
5 24 (9.20%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.66%) Law
7 16 (6.13%) Legal
7 16 (6.13%) Public Sector
8 15 (5.75%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.45%) Military
10 8 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.30%) Marketing
11 6 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.92%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.53%) Games
13 4 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.15%) Front Office
14 3 (1.15%) Retail
15 2 (0.77%) Billing
Job Titles
1 102 (39.08%) Data Engineer
2 93 (35.63%) Senior
3 32 (12.26%) Lead
3 32 (12.26%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (9.96%) Analyst
5 24 (9.20%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (8.81%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (8.81%) Transformation Analyst
7 22 (8.43%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (8.43%) Python Engineer
8 20 (7.66%) Data Scientist
9 19 (7.28%) Lead Data Engineer
10 18 (6.90%) Architect
11 17 (6.51%) Senior Data Scientist
12 16 (6.13%) Developer
13 13 (4.98%) Business Analyst
13 13 (4.98%) Python Developer
14 12 (4.60%) Data Architect
14 12 (4.60%) Data Business Analyst
14 12 (4.60%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (45.21%) Kafka
2 71 (27.20%) PySpark
3 25 (9.58%) PyTorch
3 25 (9.58%) TensorFlow
4 24 (9.20%) LangChain
4 24 (9.20%) scikit-learn
5 23 (8.81%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.81%) pgvector
6 21 (8.05%) Pandas
7 19 (7.28%) REST
8 15 (5.75%) SpaCy
9 14 (5.36%) Node.js
10 11 (4.21%) Spring
10 11 (4.21%) Spring Boot
11 6 (2.30%) NumPy
12 5 (1.92%) OAuth
12 5 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.92%) React
12 5 (1.92%) RESTful
13 4 (1.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.16%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.58%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.81%) Clustering
4 18 (6.90%) Data Structures
5 15 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.75%) e-Learning
6 14 (5.36%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.36%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.83%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (2.30%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.30%) Social Media
9 5 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.15%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.15%) NHS
11 2 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.98%) Linux
2 4 (1.53%) CentOS
2 4 (1.53%) Debian
2 4 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.53%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (63.60%) Analytics
2 162 (62.07%) Data Engineering
3 156 (59.77%) Data Pipeline
4 124 (47.51%) CI/CD
5 112 (42.91%) ETL
6 111 (42.53%) Data Modelling
7 107 (41.00%) AI
8 102 (39.08%) Data Science
9 98 (37.55%) Machine Learning
10 96 (36.78%) Data Governance
11 80 (30.65%) Agile
12 71 (27.20%) DevOps
13 61 (23.37%) Use Case
14 60 (22.99%) Business Intelligence
15 53 (20.31%) Mentoring
16 52 (19.92%) Validation
17 50 (19.16%) Performance Tuning
18 47 (18.01%) Generative AI
19 45 (17.24%) Computer Science
20 43 (16.48%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 226 (86.59%) Python
2 197 (75.48%) SQL
3 49 (18.77%) Scala
4 37 (14.18%) Java
5 7 (2.68%) C#
5 7 (2.68%) C++
6 6 (2.30%) C
6 6 (2.30%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.30%) PHP
6 6 (2.30%) Ruby
7 5 (1.92%) VBA
8 4 (1.53%) Bicep
9 3 (1.15%) Bash
9 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.77%) R
10 2 (0.77%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (17.62%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.86%) Degree
3 35 (13.41%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.05%) PhD
5 18 (6.90%) Master's Degree
6 14 (5.36%) AWS Certification
6 14 (5.36%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.21%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.38%) CEH
10 1 (0.38%) CISM
10 1 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (37.93%) Data Quality
2 39 (14.94%) GDPR
3 35 (13.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.60%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.07%) QA
6 4 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.77%) IFRS
7 2 (0.77%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.77%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (15.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (14.56%) Terraform
2 34 (13.03%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.07%) Ansible
4 6 (2.30%) Grafana
4 6 (2.30%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.53%) Puppet
7 3 (1.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 89 (34.10%) Databricks
2 32 (12.26%) Oracle
3 30 (11.49%) Red Hat
4 24 (9.20%) Cloudera
4 24 (9.20%) Dell
5 22 (8.43%) Microsoft
6 8 (3.07%) Google
7 7 (2.68%) IBM
8 6 (2.30%) HP
8 6 (2.30%) Informatica
8 6 (2.30%) SAP
9 4 (1.53%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.77%) Foundry
11 2 (0.77%) Palantir
12 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.38%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.38%) Pega
12 1 (0.38%) Splunk
12 1 (0.38%) Talend