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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 356 430
Rank change year-on-year -98 +74 -190
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 191 277 387
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.70% 0.52%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.16% 7.18% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 92 197 245
10th Percentile £54,125 £53,750 £50,172
25th Percentile £72,313 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £134,375 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £117,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -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 3,099 3,859 7,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.80% 9.80% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,226 2,572 6,163
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,050 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £38,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £88,750
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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -25 135 £95,000 -13.64% 36
North of England -31 23 £65,000 +18.18% 19
Yorkshire -31 14 £65,000 +13.04% 10
East of England +8 13 - - 2
South West -14 9 £80,000 - 11
North West -16 8 £95,000 +72.73% 6
South East -50 4 £65,000 +13.04% 17
West Midlands -7 1 - - 2
North East -17 1 - - 3
Midlands -25 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 77 (40.31%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (38.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.52%) Camunda
3 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 123 (64.40%) AWS
2 80 (41.88%) Azure
3 64 (33.51%) GCP
4 46 (24.08%) Amazon S3
5 37 (19.37%) OpenShift
6 30 (15.71%) dbt
6 30 (15.71%) Serverless
7 29 (15.18%) Power Platform
8 27 (14.14%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (12.57%) Snowflake
10 20 (10.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (8.90%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (6.81%) Amazon EMR
13 11 (5.76%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.71%) Dagster
15 8 (4.19%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (3.66%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.66%) Broadband
2 5 (2.62%) AMQP
2 5 (2.62%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.52%) 4G
3 1 (0.52%) 5G
3 1 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.52%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (34.55%) Big Data
2 56 (29.32%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (24.08%) Tableau
4 43 (22.51%) Hadoop
5 39 (20.42%) Data Lake
6 36 (18.85%) Apache Hive
7 33 (17.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 29 (15.18%) Power BI
9 27 (14.14%) Spark SQL
10 25 (13.09%) Impala
10 25 (13.09%) Oracle Database
10 25 (13.09%) Parquet
11 22 (11.52%) BigQuery
12 16 (8.38%) MySQL
12 16 (8.38%) Relational Database
13 15 (7.85%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (6.81%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (6.81%) MongoDB
14 13 (6.81%) Snowflake Schema
15 11 (5.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (21.99%) Git
2 25 (13.09%) IBM UrbanCode
3 13 (6.81%) MLflow
4 6 (3.14%) GitLab
4 6 (3.14%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.05%) Deequ
6 1 (0.52%) JUnit
General
1 81 (42.41%) Finance
2 79 (41.36%) Social Skills
3 58 (30.37%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (18.32%) Banking
5 25 (13.09%) Investment Banking
6 13 (6.81%) Law
6 13 (6.81%) Legal
7 9 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.19%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.09%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.09%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.05%) Advertising
10 2 (1.05%) Front Office
10 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.05%) Marketing
10 2 (1.05%) Retail
10 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.52%) Billing
11 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 74 (38.74%) Data Engineer
2 53 (27.75%) Senior
3 29 (15.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (13.61%) Analyst
5 23 (12.04%) Developer
5 23 (12.04%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (11.52%) Banking Analyst
7 19 (9.95%) Python Developer
8 15 (7.85%) AWS Data Engineer
8 15 (7.85%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (6.81%) Architect
9 13 (6.81%) Business Analyst
10 12 (6.28%) Data Business Analyst
10 12 (6.28%) Technical Analyst
11 11 (5.76%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 11 (5.76%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.24%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (4.71%) Data Architect
13 9 (4.71%) Python Engineer
13 9 (4.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (41.88%) Kafka
2 49 (25.65%) PySpark
3 26 (13.61%) Pandas
4 25 (13.09%) REST
5 19 (9.95%) PyTorch
5 19 (9.95%) TensorFlow
6 14 (7.33%) scikit-learn
7 13 (6.81%) Spring
8 12 (6.28%) Spring Boot
9 11 (5.76%) LangChain
10 8 (4.19%) LlamaIndex
10 8 (4.19%) Node.js
10 8 (4.19%) NumPy
10 8 (4.19%) OAuth
10 8 (4.19%) pgvector
11 7 (3.66%) React
12 6 (3.14%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.14%) LDAP
12 6 (3.14%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.23%) Cloud Native
2 29 (15.18%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.24%) Algorithms
3 10 (5.24%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (4.19%) Clustering
4 8 (4.19%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.19%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.66%) e-Learning
5 7 (3.66%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.14%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.14%) Social Media
7 4 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.57%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.05%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.38%) Linux
2 6 (3.14%) Unix
3 5 (2.62%) CentOS
3 5 (2.62%) Debian
3 5 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (63.35%) Data Pipeline
2 111 (58.12%) Analytics
3 101 (52.88%) Data Engineering
4 96 (50.26%) ETL
5 91 (47.64%) CI/CD
6 82 (42.93%) Data Governance
7 81 (42.41%) AI
8 69 (36.13%) Data Modelling
9 64 (33.51%) Agile
10 63 (32.98%) Data Science
11 61 (31.94%) Machine Learning
12 49 (25.65%) Software Engineering
13 45 (23.56%) Business Intelligence
13 45 (23.56%) Computer Science
14 41 (21.47%) DevOps
15 39 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (18.85%) Data Transformation
16 36 (18.85%) Scrum
17 29 (15.18%) Performance Tuning
17 29 (15.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 177 (92.67%) Python
2 140 (73.30%) SQL
3 50 (26.18%) Java
4 27 (14.14%) Scala
5 8 (4.19%) C++
6 7 (3.66%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.62%) R
8 3 (1.57%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.52%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.52%) Bash
10 1 (0.52%) Bicep
10 1 (0.52%) C#
10 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.52%) Ruby
10 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (17.28%) Degree
2 17 (8.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (8.38%) Security Cleared
4 13 (6.81%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.24%) PhD
6 9 (4.71%) Master's Degree
7 8 (4.19%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.14%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.62%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (40.84%) Data Quality
2 25 (13.09%) GDPR
3 20 (10.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (6.28%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.57%) QA
6 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (16.75%) Docker
2 6 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (18.85%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.61%) Terraform
3 15 (7.85%) Ansible
4 11 (5.76%) Grafana
4 11 (5.76%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.62%) Puppet
6 3 (1.57%) Kibana
6 3 (1.57%) logstash
7 1 (0.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 46 (24.08%) Databricks
2 37 (19.37%) Oracle
3 32 (16.75%) Red Hat
4 16 (8.38%) Dell
5 12 (6.28%) Microsoft
6 10 (5.24%) Google
7 8 (4.19%) Cloudera
8 7 (3.66%) Informatica
9 6 (3.14%) Talend
10 5 (2.62%) Palantir
10 5 (2.62%) SaltStack
11 2 (1.05%) IBM
11 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.52%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.52%) Foundry
12 1 (0.52%) Pega
12 1 (0.52%) SAP
12 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.52%) UiPath