Apache Spark Job Trends in Berkshire

Apache Spark
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire citing Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	136	125	136
Rank change year-on-year	-11	+11	+3
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark	5	7	3
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire	0.13%	0.38%	0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category	3.57%	6.86%	1.84%
Number of salaries quoted	0	0	0
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	-	-	-
South East median annual salary	£65,000	£65,000	£57,500
% change year-on-year	-	+13.04%	-30.30%

All Application Platform Skills
Berkshire

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 citing application platform skills in Berkshire.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing application platform skills	140	102	163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire	3.73%	5.53%	7.43%
Number of salaries quoted	92	68	85
10^th Percentile	£32,850	£29,000	£27,750
25^th Percentile	£38,500	£32,750	£41,263
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£43,750	£47,750	£53,500
Median % change year-on-year	-8.38%	-10.75%	+1.90%
75^th Percentile	£53,750	£61,563	£77,500
90^th Percentile	£70,000	£73,750	£82,500
South East median annual salary	£44,000	£45,000	£49,000
% change year-on-year	-2.22%	-8.16%	+8.89%

Apache Spark Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apache Spark relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Apache Spark Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Apache Spark.

Apache Spark Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 4 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Reading	-	4	-	-	1
Apache Spark South East

Apache Spark Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 4 November 2026, job vacancies citing Apache Spark also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Berkshire region citing Apache Spark.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI	100.0%	5
1	Analytics	100.0%	5
1	Data Quality	100.0%	5
1	Data Science	100.0%	5
1	Machine Learning	100.0%	5
1	Python	100.0%	5
1	SQL	100.0%	5
8	AI Model Optimisation	80.0%	4
8	Artificial Intelligence Engineering	80.0%	4
8	Benchmarking	80.0%	4
8	Code Quality	80.0%	4
8	Computer Science	80.0%	4
8	Computer Vision	80.0%	4
8	Containerisation	80.0%	4
8	Cybersecurity	80.0%	4
8	Data Acquisition	80.0%	4
8	Data Munging	80.0%	4
8	Deep Learning	80.0%	4
8	Degree	80.0%	4
8	Experimental Design	80.0%	4
8	FastAPI	80.0%	4
8	Feature Engineering	80.0%	4
8	Generative AI	80.0%	4
8	gRPC	80.0%	4
8	Hugging Face	80.0%	4
8	LLM	80.0%	4
8	Master's Degree	80.0%	4
8	Mathematics	80.0%	4
8	Matrix Organization	80.0%	4
8	MLflow	80.0%	4

Apache Spark Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Application Platforms

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Jupyter	20.0%	1