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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 390 483
Rank change year-on-year -93 +93 -255
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 203 264 378
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.68% 0.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.17% 7.04% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 97 191 266
10th Percentile £54,500 £52,500 £50,172
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%

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 3,288 3,752 8,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.09% 9.60% 10.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,426 2,646 6,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,942 £112,500 £95,000
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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -47 135 £100,000 -9.09% 48
North of England -37 23 £80,000 +39.13% 21
East of England 0 18 £75,000 -7.69%
South West -32 15 £75,000 +50.00% 11
Yorkshire -50 12 £80,000 +39.13% 2
North West -12 8 £85,000 +54.55% 8
South East -37 4 £57,500 -11.54% 9
North East -35 3 £57,500 -28.13% 11
East Midlands -40 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Midlands -45 1 £50,000 -25.93% 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 94 (46.31%) Apache Airflow
2 79 (38.92%) Apache
3 2 (0.99%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.49%) Camunda
4 1 (0.49%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.40%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.49%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 129 (63.55%) AWS
2 97 (47.78%) Azure
3 79 (38.92%) GCP
4 47 (23.15%) Power Platform
5 44 (21.67%) Amazon S3
5 44 (21.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 41 (20.20%) dbt
7 38 (18.72%) Snowflake
8 31 (15.27%) OpenShift
9 24 (11.82%) Serverless
10 22 (10.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (9.85%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (5.42%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (4.93%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (3.94%) Dagster
14 8 (3.94%) GitHub
14 8 (3.94%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) Broadband
2 4 (1.97%) AMQP
3 2 (0.99%) 4G
3 2 (0.99%) 5G
4 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.49%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (32.51%) Big Data
2 64 (31.53%) Tableau
3 62 (30.54%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (24.14%) Data Lake
5 46 (22.66%) Power BI
6 43 (21.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (17.73%) BigQuery
8 35 (17.24%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (14.78%) Hadoop
9 30 (14.78%) Spark SQL
10 28 (13.79%) Snowflake Schema
11 27 (13.30%) Apache Hive
12 25 (12.32%) Impala
12 25 (12.32%) Oracle Database
12 25 (12.32%) Parquet
13 24 (11.82%) Looker
14 21 (10.34%) Relational Database
15 18 (8.87%) MySQL
16 17 (8.37%) NoSQL
17 16 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (20.69%) Git
2 28 (13.79%) MLflow
3 25 (12.32%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (2.46%) GitLab
4 5 (2.46%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.99%) JIRA
6 1 (0.49%) Deequ
6 1 (0.49%) JUnit
6 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (39.90%) Finance
2 72 (35.47%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (31.53%) Social Skills
4 35 (17.24%) Banking
5 24 (11.82%) Investment Banking
6 15 (7.39%) Legal
7 14 (6.90%) Law
8 6 (2.96%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.46%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.97%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.48%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.99%) Advertising
12 2 (0.99%) Billing
12 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Games
13 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 64 (31.53%) Data Engineer
1 64 (31.53%) Senior
2 26 (12.81%) Analyst
3 24 (11.82%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 23 (11.33%) Systems Engineer
4 23 (11.33%) Transformation Analyst
5 22 (10.84%) Banking Analyst
5 22 (10.84%) Senior Data Engineer
6 21 (10.34%) Developer
7 19 (9.36%) Python Engineer
8 17 (8.37%) Architect
9 16 (7.88%) Lead
9 16 (7.88%) Python Developer
10 13 (6.40%) Business Analyst
11 12 (5.91%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (5.91%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (5.42%) AWS Data Engineer
12 11 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (5.42%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 11 (5.42%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (46.31%) Kafka
2 50 (24.63%) PySpark
3 31 (15.27%) PyTorch
3 31 (15.27%) TensorFlow
4 27 (13.30%) scikit-learn
5 24 (11.82%) LangChain
6 23 (11.33%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (11.33%) pgvector
6 23 (11.33%) REST
7 21 (10.34%) Pandas
8 11 (5.42%) Spring
9 10 (4.93%) Spring Boot
10 9 (4.43%) Node.js
11 6 (2.96%) NumPy
11 6 (2.96%) React
12 5 (2.46%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.46%) OAuth
12 5 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.46%) SpaCy
13 4 (1.97%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.21%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.33%) Clustering
2 23 (11.33%) Public Cloud
3 15 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.93%) Algorithms
4 10 (4.93%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.43%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.96%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (2.96%) Social Media
8 5 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.46%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (2.46%) e-Learning
8 5 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.46%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.48%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.99%) NHS
10 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.45%) Linux
2 4 (1.97%) CentOS
2 4 (1.97%) Debian
2 4 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.97%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (64.53%) Data Pipeline
2 129 (63.55%) Analytics
3 116 (57.14%) Data Engineering
4 110 (54.19%) ETL
5 95 (46.80%) AI
6 88 (43.35%) CI/CD
6 88 (43.35%) Data Governance
7 80 (39.41%) Data Modelling
8 75 (36.95%) Data Science
8 75 (36.95%) Machine Learning
9 63 (31.03%) Agile
10 54 (26.60%) Business Intelligence
11 44 (21.67%) Software Engineering
12 43 (21.18%) Performance Tuning
13 42 (20.69%) Use Case
14 40 (19.70%) Computer Science
14 40 (19.70%) DevOps
15 39 (19.21%) Generative AI
16 34 (16.75%) Scrum
17 33 (16.26%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 185 (91.13%) Python
2 152 (74.88%) SQL
3 35 (17.24%) Java
4 28 (13.79%) Scala
5 7 (3.45%) C++
6 5 (2.46%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.97%) Bicep
8 3 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.48%) R
8 3 (1.48%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.48%) VBA
9 1 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.49%) Bash
9 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.49%) Ruby
9 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (12.81%) Degree
2 20 (9.85%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.40%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.93%) PhD
5 9 (4.43%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.94%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.96%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.49%) CEH
11 1 (0.49%) CISM
11 1 (0.49%) CISSP
11 1 (0.49%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (41.87%) Data Quality
2 38 (18.72%) GDPR
3 35 (17.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.91%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.48%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.99%) IFRS
6 2 (0.99%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.99%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.49%) QA
7 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (12.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 28 (13.79%) Terraform
3 10 (4.93%) Ansible
4 8 (3.94%) Grafana
5 7 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.97%) Puppet
7 1 (0.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 64 (31.53%) Databricks
2 32 (15.76%) Oracle
3 31 (15.27%) Red Hat
4 24 (11.82%) Cloudera
4 24 (11.82%) Dell
5 11 (5.42%) Microsoft
6 9 (4.43%) Google
7 6 (2.96%) Informatica
8 5 (2.46%) Talend
9 4 (1.97%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.48%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.48%) Palantir
11 1 (0.49%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.49%) Confluent
11 1 (0.49%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.49%) Pega
11 1 (0.49%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.49%) UiPath