Apache Spark Jobs in England

Apache Spark
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Apache Spark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Apache Spark over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 492 233
Rank change year-on-year +52 -259 +12
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 257 382 1,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.43% 1.55%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.58% 4.31% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 179 261 571
10th Percentile £49,600 £52,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £57,000 £63,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £88,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £118,750 £150,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -8.57% +12.90%

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 3,908 8,862 10,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.08% 10.02% 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,583 6,557 6,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,283
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -12.71% +4.15%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,043
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.16% +0.08%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in England.

Salary trend for Apache Spark in England

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 +51 164 £110,000 +22.22% 253
South East +114 38 £65,000 +25.00% 40
North of England +26 27 £57,500 -4.17% 59
Midlands +58 14 £67,500 -7.22% 28
North West -20 14 £55,000 -12.00% 29
Yorkshire +67 11 £57,500 +11.59% 19
East Midlands +40 11 £75,000 +25.00% 11
East of England +42 4 £71,500 -29.38% 19
West Midlands +61 3 £60,500 -17.12% 15
South West +69 2 £50,000 -37.50% 22
North East +49 2 £67,500 -10.00% 11
Apache Spark
UK

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 117 (45.53%) Apache
2 93 (36.19%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.56%) Appian
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.39%) SAS
4 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.17%) Maya
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 157 (61.09%) AWS
2 100 (38.91%) Azure
3 76 (29.57%) Serverless
4 74 (28.79%) AWS Lambda
5 67 (26.07%) dbt
5 67 (26.07%) OpenShift
6 59 (22.96%) Amazon ECS
7 49 (19.07%) GCP
8 42 (16.34%) Power Platform
9 27 (10.51%) Amazon S3
10 25 (9.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (7.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 16 (6.23%) Snowflake
13 13 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (4.28%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (4.28%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (3.50%) Amazon SageMaker
17 8 (3.11%) GitHub
18 7 (2.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) DNS
2 1 (0.39%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (30.35%) Big Data
2 74 (28.79%) Amazon Athena
3 68 (26.46%) Apache Iceberg
3 68 (26.46%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (24.12%) Apache Ignite
4 62 (24.12%) Hadoop
5 59 (22.96%) Apache Arrow
5 59 (22.96%) Dremio
6 44 (17.12%) NoSQL
7 41 (15.95%) Data Lake
8 38 (14.79%) Power BI
9 29 (11.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 23 (8.95%) Tableau
11 21 (8.17%) Apache Hive
12 17 (6.61%) BigQuery
13 16 (6.23%) Delta Lake
14 13 (5.06%) Relational Database
15 12 (4.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (4.28%) Metadata
16 11 (4.28%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 59 (22.96%) Artifactory
2 26 (10.12%) Git
3 13 (5.06%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.11%) Robot Framework
4 8 (3.11%) Selenium
5 6 (2.33%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.95%) CircleCI
6 5 (1.95%) MLflow
7 4 (1.56%) GitLab
7 4 (1.56%) JMeter
7 4 (1.56%) Locust
7 4 (1.56%) Postman
7 4 (1.56%) Snyk
8 2 (0.78%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.39%) ERwin
9 1 (0.39%) Terragrunt
General
1 106 (41.25%) Finance
2 77 (29.96%) Social Skills
3 60 (23.35%) Front Office
4 36 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (12.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (12.06%) Law
6 26 (10.12%) Retail
7 19 (7.39%) Advertising
8 18 (7.00%) Games
9 14 (5.45%) Banking
10 8 (3.11%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.95%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.95%) Marketing
12 4 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.56%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.78%) Automotive
14 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 128 (49.81%) Data Engineer
2 77 (29.96%) Senior
3 70 (27.24%) Python Engineer
4 66 (25.68%) AWS Engineer
5 61 (23.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 59 (22.96%) AWS DevOps
6 59 (22.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 37 (14.40%) Senior Data Engineer
8 25 (9.73%) Lead
9 23 (8.95%) Architect
10 21 (8.17%) Software Engineer
11 19 (7.39%) Data Scientist
12 16 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (4.67%) Senior Data Scientist
14 11 (4.28%) Analyst
14 11 (4.28%) Data Architect
15 10 (3.89%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 9 (3.50%) Lead Data Engineer
16 9 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
16 9 (3.50%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (54.86%) Kafka
2 88 (34.24%) PySpark
3 59 (22.96%) J2EE
4 19 (7.39%) TensorFlow
5 15 (5.84%) PyTorch
6 12 (4.67%) scikit-learn
7 10 (3.89%) Pandas
7 10 (3.89%) Spark Streaming
8 9 (3.50%) REST
9 8 (3.11%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (3.11%) pytest
10 7 (2.72%) YAML
11 6 (2.33%) NumPy
11 6 (2.33%) PyArrow
11 6 (2.33%) React
12 5 (1.95%) Dask
12 5 (1.95%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.95%) Great Expectations
12 5 (1.95%) OAuth
12 5 (1.95%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.34%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.45%) Data Structures
4 13 (5.06%) Algorithms
5 12 (4.67%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.50%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.33%) FMCG
7 6 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.95%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.56%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.78%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.78%) Reinsurance
12 1 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.39%) Mobile Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.72%) Unix
2 6 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (52.53%) Agile
2 125 (48.64%) Data Engineering
3 123 (47.86%) CI/CD
4 106 (41.25%) DevOps
5 101 (39.30%) Machine Learning
6 100 (38.91%) Software Engineering
7 83 (32.30%) Data Pipeline
8 82 (31.91%) ETL
9 77 (29.96%) Analytics
9 77 (29.96%) Data Science
10 74 (28.79%) Data Modelling
11 68 (26.46%) Asset Management
12 65 (25.29%) Open Source
13 60 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
14 59 (22.96%) Artificial Intelligence
14 59 (22.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 58 (22.57%) Data Governance
16 45 (17.51%) Computer Science
17 44 (17.12%) Business Intelligence
18 42 (16.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 217 (84.44%) Python
2 136 (52.92%) SQL
3 96 (37.35%) Java
4 60 (23.35%) Go
5 46 (17.90%) Scala
6 10 (3.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (3.50%) Bash
8 8 (3.11%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.33%) R
10 4 (1.56%) C#
10 4 (1.56%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.17%) C++
11 3 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.78%) C
12 2 (0.78%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.78%) Ruby
13 1 (0.39%) Bicep
13 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.39%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (20.62%) Degree
2 23 (8.95%) Master's Degree
3 18 (7.00%) Security Cleared
4 17 (6.61%) Azure Certification
5 16 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (5.45%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.67%) AWS Certification
8 11 (4.28%) PhD
9 7 (2.72%) DBS Check
10 6 (2.33%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.56%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.78%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (16.73%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.95%) GDPR
3 14 (5.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (3.50%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.95%) QA
6 4 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.17%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 81 (31.52%) Docker
2 12 (4.67%) HDFS
3 6 (2.33%) Apache Flume
4 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (36.19%) Terraform
2 91 (35.41%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.33%) Ansible
3 6 (2.33%) Oozie
4 2 (0.78%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (0.78%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.39%) Bugsnag
5 1 (0.39%) Grafana
5 1 (0.39%) Kibana
5 1 (0.39%) logstash
5 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 73 (28.40%) Databricks
2 46 (17.90%) Google
3 40 (15.56%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.23%) Apple
5 12 (4.67%) Cloudera
6 9 (3.50%) Oracle
7 7 (2.72%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.95%) Informatica
8 5 (1.95%) Palantir
8 5 (1.95%) Talend
9 4 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.56%) Black Duck
9 4 (1.56%) UiPath
9 4 (1.56%) VMware
10 2 (0.78%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.78%) MapR
10 2 (0.78%) SAP
11 1 (0.39%) Foundry
11 1 (0.39%) MicroStrategy