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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 370 477
Rank change year-on-year -99 +107 -240
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 205 275 377
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.73% 0.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.30% 7.48% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 94 200 260
10th Percentile £54,425 £52,500 £50,172
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,865 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.58% +3.58% -10.61%
75th Percentile £128,438 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -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 3,252 3,678 8,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.07% 9.70% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,384 2,666 6,531
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £93,750
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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -43 139 £95,000 -13.64% 42
North of England -70 23 £65,000 +13.04% 18
East of England -9 18 £75,000 -7.69% 1
Yorkshire -58 13 £62,500 +8.70% 1
South West -38 12 £84,000 +68.00% 6
North West -40 8 £95,000 +58.33% 11
South East -61 4 £57,500 -11.54% 9
North East -32 2 £68,750 -14.06% 6
Midlands -47 2 £50,000 -21.88% 4
West Midlands -27 1 - - 4
East Midlands -55 1 £50,000 -33.33%
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 93 (45.37%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (38.05%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.49%) Camunda
3 1 (0.49%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.34%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 133 (64.88%) AWS
2 99 (48.29%) Azure
3 82 (40.00%) GCP
4 50 (24.39%) Power Platform
5 45 (21.95%) Amazon S3
6 42 (20.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 41 (20.00%) dbt
8 38 (18.54%) Snowflake
9 33 (16.10%) OpenShift
10 26 (12.68%) Serverless
11 22 (10.73%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (10.24%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (5.37%) Amazon EMR
13 11 (5.37%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (4.39%) GitHub
15 9 (4.39%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (3.90%) Dagster
17 7 (3.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.41%) Broadband
2 5 (2.44%) AMQP
3 2 (0.98%) 4G
3 2 (0.98%) 5G
3 2 (0.98%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.49%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (31.22%) Big Data
1 64 (31.22%) Tableau
2 63 (30.73%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (23.90%) Data Lake
3 49 (23.90%) Power BI
4 42 (20.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 36 (17.56%) BigQuery
6 34 (16.59%) Elasticsearch
6 34 (16.59%) Hadoop
7 30 (14.63%) Apache Hive
8 29 (14.15%) Spark SQL
9 28 (13.66%) Snowflake Schema
10 25 (12.20%) Impala
10 25 (12.20%) Oracle Database
10 25 (12.20%) Parquet
11 24 (11.71%) Looker
12 22 (10.73%) Relational Database
13 21 (10.24%) MySQL
14 16 (7.80%) NoSQL
14 16 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (20.00%) Git
2 29 (14.15%) MLflow
3 25 (12.20%) IBM UrbanCode
4 6 (2.93%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.44%) GitLab
6 2 (0.98%) JIRA
7 1 (0.49%) Deequ
7 1 (0.49%) JUnit
General
1 81 (39.51%) Finance
2 72 (35.12%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (31.71%) Social Skills
4 34 (16.59%) Banking
5 24 (11.71%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.83%) Law
6 14 (6.83%) Legal
7 7 (3.41%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.44%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.95%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.95%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.98%) Advertising
10 2 (0.98%) Billing
10 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Retail
11 1 (0.49%) Games
11 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (32.68%) Data Engineer
2 64 (31.22%) Senior
3 26 (12.68%) Analyst
4 24 (11.71%) Senior Data Engineer
4 24 (11.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.22%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.22%) Transformation Analyst
6 22 (10.73%) Banking Analyst
7 21 (10.24%) Developer
8 18 (8.78%) Python Engineer
9 17 (8.29%) Architect
9 17 (8.29%) Python Developer
10 14 (6.83%) Lead
11 13 (6.34%) Business Analyst
12 12 (5.85%) AWS Data Engineer
12 12 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (5.85%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (5.85%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (5.37%) Data Architect
13 11 (5.37%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (47.32%) Kafka
2 52 (25.37%) PySpark
3 31 (15.12%) PyTorch
3 31 (15.12%) TensorFlow
4 27 (13.17%) scikit-learn
5 25 (12.20%) REST
6 24 (11.71%) LangChain
7 23 (11.22%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (11.22%) pgvector
8 22 (10.73%) Pandas
9 12 (5.85%) Spring
10 11 (5.37%) Spring Boot
11 10 (4.88%) Node.js
12 7 (3.41%) React
13 6 (2.93%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.93%) NumPy
13 6 (2.93%) OAuth
13 6 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.44%) gRPC
14 5 (2.44%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.51%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.22%) Clustering
2 23 (11.22%) Public Cloud
3 17 (8.29%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.39%) Algorithms
4 9 (4.39%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (4.39%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.41%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.93%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (2.93%) Social Media
7 5 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.44%) e-Learning
7 5 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.44%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.46%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.46%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.98%) IoT
10 2 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.39%) Linux
2 5 (2.44%) CentOS
2 5 (2.44%) Debian
2 5 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.44%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (65.37%) Data Pipeline
2 125 (60.98%) Analytics
3 120 (58.54%) Data Engineering
4 109 (53.17%) ETL
5 97 (47.32%) AI
6 91 (44.39%) Data Governance
7 89 (43.41%) CI/CD
8 83 (40.49%) Data Modelling
9 78 (38.05%) Machine Learning
10 77 (37.56%) Data Science
11 63 (30.73%) Agile
12 59 (28.78%) Business Intelligence
13 46 (22.44%) Software Engineering
14 44 (21.46%) Computer Science
14 44 (21.46%) DevOps
15 43 (20.98%) Performance Tuning
16 39 (19.02%) Generative AI
16 39 (19.02%) Use Case
17 36 (17.56%) Scrum
18 35 (17.07%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 187 (91.22%) Python
2 153 (74.63%) SQL
3 38 (18.54%) Java
4 30 (14.63%) Scala
5 8 (3.90%) C++
6 6 (2.93%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.44%) R
8 4 (1.95%) Bicep
8 4 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.46%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.49%) Bash
10 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.49%) Ruby
10 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (14.15%) Degree
2 21 (10.24%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.83%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.88%) PhD
6 9 (4.39%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.39%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.90%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.93%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.46%) 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 86 (41.95%) Data Quality
2 39 (19.02%) GDPR
3 35 (17.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (5.85%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.98%) IFRS
6 2 (0.98%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.98%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.49%) QA
7 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (13.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (15.61%) Kubernetes
2 29 (14.15%) Terraform
3 12 (5.85%) Ansible
4 8 (3.90%) Grafana
5 7 (3.41%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.44%) Puppet
7 1 (0.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 67 (32.68%) Databricks
2 34 (16.59%) Oracle
3 32 (15.61%) Red Hat
4 25 (12.20%) Dell
5 24 (11.71%) Cloudera
6 14 (6.83%) Microsoft
7 10 (4.88%) Google
8 6 (2.93%) Informatica
9 5 (2.44%) Palantir
9 5 (2.44%) SaltStack
9 5 (2.44%) Talend
10 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
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